Pillsbury Best Of The Bake-off Cookbook: Recipes From America's Favorite Cooking Contest, New Edition With A Quick & Easy Main Meals Chapter! - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0764588583 ISBN 13: 9780764588587

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2004

Synopsis

THE $1,000,000-WINNING RECIPE
Chicken Florentine Panini

You'll find it in the new Quick & Easy Main Meals chapter, along with other winning recipes from 2002 Bake-Off? Contest. This newly revised edition of Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off? Cookbook offers nearly 400 delicious prizewinning recipes--from family-pleasing main dishes to irresistible desserts. Filled with inspirational stories about the winners, this cookbook celebrates more than 50 years of America's favorite Bake-Off? Contest.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

For over 50 years, people have looked to one contest for the most delicious, the most exciting and the most uniquely American recipes this country's home cooks have to offer. The Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest presents the very best of what people today are cooking for their families and friends. Now, nearly 400 prizewinning recipes from this famed event are gathered in one book, complete with gorgeous color photographs and personal profiles highlighting the people who created the recipes.

The first Bake-Off® Contest, in 1949, celebrated the culinary trends of the times--recipes were made from scratch, the ingredient lists and steps were lengthy and breads and desserts comprised the bulk of the entries. Today's Bake-Off® entries mirror the changing trends in home cooking with recipes that are quicker and easier to prepare. The use of convenience products has increased and flavors from around the world are featured, as reflected in a brand-new chapter: Quick & Easy Main Meals. Chicken Florentine Panini, the 2002 Grand Prize winner, is an Italian sandwich that gets its fresh-baked goodness from refrigerated pizza-crust dough. Bow-Thai Chicken takes a frozen stir=fry meal starter and combines it with the wonderful flavors of a Thai peanut sauce.

Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook illustrates how home cooks have captured their ethnic heritages in dishes adapted from their grandparents' countries to modern kitchens and busier times. The stories are as inspiring as the recipes themselves, from 1996's Grand Prize winner, Kurt Wait, a single parent who developed his $1,000,000-winning recipe, Macadamia Fudge Torte, with the help of his son, to a 2002 winner for her Gnocchi Alfredo Casserole, Kelly Lynne Baxter, who remembers learning to cook alongside her mom and aunts.

All the recipes are organized by easy-to-use chapters: Soups, Sandwiches and Snacks; Main Dishes; Side Dishes and Salads; Breads; Sweet Rolls and Coffee Cakes; Cookies and Bars; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; and Other Desserts; as well as the new chapter, Quick & Easy Main Meals. Each chapter is filled with wonderful and often humorous behind-the-scenes stories from the Bake-Off® Contest events.

The recipes are sensational; the stories are uplifting. Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook invites you into the kitchens and lives of the many people who have made the Pillsbury Bake-Off® Contest the most loved and respected showplace for everyone to share their creative cooking talents.

About the Author:

Pillsbury has been pleasing home cooks with its cookbooks for almost 100 years. The Pillsbury cookbook line includes a full collection of titles, ranging from the general all-purpose Pillsbury Complete Cookbook to specially themed books like Pillsbury Appetizers, Pillsbury Doughboy ™ Slow Cooker Recipes and Pillsbury Dough Magic!

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0764588583
• ISBN 13: 9780764588587
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Pillsbury Company