Your Shirt Is Not an Oven Mitt!: A Kitchen Survival Manual with 150+ Foolproof Recipes - Softcover

Debbie Puente

9780312331245: Your Shirt Is Not an Oven Mitt!: A Kitchen Survival Manual with 150+ Foolproof Recipes

Softcover

ISBN 10: 031233124X ISBN 13: 9780312331245

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004

Fast, cheap, and in control

This uncomplicated and enormously informative manual is all the culinary novice or klutz will need to cruise the kitchen like a pro, shop efficiently, cook delicious meals for one, or whip up impressive gourmet spreads for a party of friends using accessible, cost-friendly ingredients.
Featuring over 150 savory and sweet recipes that include incredible party dips and hors d'oeuvres, enticing entrees, and decadent desserts, alongside shopping tips, safety dos and don'ts, a glossary of cooking terms, and so much more, Your Shirt Is Not and Oven Mitt! is the indispensable kitchen tool (next to that oven mitt!) that provides the most painless approach to cooking.

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About the Author:

Debbie Puente is the author of Elegantly Easy Cr�me Brulee, Elegantly Easy Liqueur Desserts, and Deceptively Simple. A recipe consultant and food writer, she has been featured on Food TV's Food Finds, and makes regular appearances on HGTV's Smart Solutions. She lives with her husband and three sons in Southern California.

From Publishers Weekly:

Puente all but explains how to boil water in this cookbook for the culinarily challenged. Aimed squarely at recent graduates, newlyweds and "kitchen novice single bachelors," the book provides hints, lists and recipes for cooks willing to branch out beyond corn flakes and milk. Puente (Elegantly Easy Cr�me Br�l�e) assumes her audience knows nothing (witness such lines as "Never put... your hand inside a working blender or mixer" and "The shell protects the egg and if it is cracked or damaged, the contents will deteriorate rapidly"). Her recipes rely on such pre-made items as unbaked piecrusts, cans of condensed cream of mushroom soup and boxed cake mix, and encourage the use of microwave ovens and slow cookers. However, her book will be a godsend for brand-new chefs. Generally healthy and economical, the recipes vary from simple (Fluffy, Soft Scrambled Eggs) to inspiring (Asian-Style Mini-Drumsticks) and classic (Beef Stroganoff with Buttered Noodles) to frightening (Italian Ramen).
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