The Better Homes and Gardens test kitchen presents a hundreds of illustrated time-saving tips and flavor-enhancing techniques to complement one's everyday cookery, along with 140 delicious recipes for poultry, fish and seafood, meats, salads, pasta, vegetables, grains and beans, eggs and cheese, breads, baked goods, and desserts. 50,000 first printing.
Better Homes and Gardens Simple Secrets to Better Everyday Cooking serves a banquet of suggestions to beginners and veteran cooks alike. Each section indexes a generous helping of simple secrets (boxed tips) for such challenges as thickening soups, roasting garlic and making great risotto. This book features such recipes as Wild Mushroom Toss, Wasabi-glazed Whitefish, Tequila New York Strip and Irish Coffee Meringues. Photo charts highlight many varieties of foods, such as lettuce and mushrooms. A section on equipment, menus and a glossary enhances this reference.
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The latest cookbook/reference from Better Homes & Gardens includes 150 recipes and close to 200 boxes and sidebars providing all sorts of useful information. The recipes are easy and diverse, from Middle Eastern Fresh Fava Bean Salad to Thai Rice Noodles to Grilled Beef Tenderloin with Mediterranean Relish. The "tips," many of which include mini-recipes as well, cover a wide range of topics, from roasting garlic to using a mandoline to frenching a rack of lamb. And dozens of color photographs illustrate recipes, techniques, and ingredients: those dubbed "Identifying Foods" ("Mushrooms Beyond the Basics," "Know Your Chiles," etc.) are particularly useful. For most collections.
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