Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes To Get You Started In The Kitchen (2009) - Plot & Excerpts
This book really does have a lot of simple recipes, and a lot of different kinds (not just 300 ways to make pasta). What's even better, most of the recipes have a sidebar that tells you simple variations on the recipe (like "You an add such-and-such on step whatever" or "substitute y for x").My only complaint is that just about everything in this book is 4-6 servings. I wish they had some that could be prepared for someone living alone or with only one other person. Get Cooking takes the beginner through all the steps, clearly and briefly, from how to study a recipe to make sure that you have all the ingredients and tools and to understand the whole process of preparing the food to getting it on the table on time.Each chapter begins with the essential facts about the type of food, the tools and ingredients that you will most often use, and even an assessment when the inexpensive or moderately priced tools and ingredients will suffice and the times when the added expense is worthwhile.Katzen describes the cuisine as "'Big Tent,' accommodating a broad base of tastes and needs, vegetarian, meat-loving and everything in between." Most of the dishes are familiar - the items that you'd find at a party, picnic, or enjoy at home. We've made the teriyaki chicken thighs and the poached salmon - which were both easy and tasty! I am eager to try the recipes for carmelized balsamic-red onion soup with cheese-topped croutons, linguini with clam sauce, linguine with spinach and peas, green pea and feta quiche, and deeply roasted cauliflower.The three bean salad, mac and cheese, spaghetti with meatballs, pasta with tuna, white beans, and artichoke hearts, chinese-style peanut noodles, chocolate-chip mint cookies and intensely chocolate brownies are sure to become regulars at our home.Get Cooking would be excellent for someone just learning to cook - it gives you the essentials of cooking in simple steps and offers tasty rewards for your effort.Publisher: HarperStudio (October 13, 2009), 288 pages.Review copy provided by the publisher.
What do You think about Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes To Get You Started In The Kitchen (2009)?
I normally love Molly's books but this was really basic (as I'm sure was the intent) and not for me
—Kenz
I really liked this book as an all-purpose cookbook. Recipes were very easy to follow.
—Furrbecca96
