The Bloke's Guide to Brilliant Cooking


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The Bloke’s Guide To Brilliant Cooking and how to impress women is a humorous do it yourself guide to two of the most important things in any man’s life, the love of great food and impressing women. This book will show anyone how to impress like a chef by thinking the way a Bloke naturally thinks; like a Bloke. It will take you on a larrikins own adventure into the mysteries of brilliant cooking enabling anyone willing to think differently about cooking to tap into their cooking genius By the time you have finished reading this book you will be able to create unlimited amazing meals all from an idea in your head and you’ll have great laugh as you do it. Brilliant cooking is what happens when the instincts, imagination, and the head get together on the same plate and tell the hands what to do in the kitchen. If you want to learn how to cook brilliant meals using the knowledge, imagination and instincts you already have whilst simultaneously learning how to impress women in your life then read on. If not, it’s ok to go, we won’t tell anyone? The Bloke’s Guide to Brilliant Cooking and how to impress women is perfect for anyone who loves cooking and women, and is looking for something unique.




How to Cook Without a Book


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Recalling an earlier era when cooks relied on sight, touch, and taste rather than cookbooks, the author encourages readers to rediscover the lost art of preparing food and use their imagination in the kitchen.




Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks


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Come meet your new best friend in the kitchen. Introducing the big book of home-cooking secrets, fabulous food tips, simple solutions, and recipes to rave about! Whether you cook a little or a lot, plain or fancy, healthy or hearty, for your family or just for fun, this is the one book that does it all--faster and easier than you ever dreamed! Find out how to choose the juiciest oranges, perk up limp asparagus, chop an onion with no tears, grill a steak to juicy perfection, rescue any oversalted dish, and crack an egg with one hand. Or, if you're simply tired of the same old meals night after night, discover hundreds of easy recipes that put great-tasting food on your table fast. With this book, you can cook anything with skill, confidence, and pleasure--from a moist, juicy Thanksgiving turkey to a healthy chocolate-banana cream pie to your family's favorite chili with a delicious new twist. Brilliant Food Tips and Cooking Tricks is the book to keep by your side whenever you cook. It's your silent partner, your creative inspiration, and your cooking emergency hotline all rolled into one! This indispensable kitchen companion contains all the practical, down-to-earth cooking wisdom that you will ever need. Learn quick new tricks and clever trade secrets. Discover dozens of recipe rescues. Put a new spin on tried-and-true dishes. Most of all, learn how to cook faster, cook smarter, and have more fun in the kitchen. You'll find the following special features and many more in this extraordinary book: * Over 5,000 brilliant tips on buying, storing, and preparing food; boosting flavor; cooking healthfully; saving time; rescuing failed recipes; and much more * More than 900 simple, great-tasting recipes for home cooks * Over 200 helpful boxes such as "How Baking Works" and "Four Ways to Flavor Pork Tenderloin" * 170 step-by-step illustrations that teach you timesaving techniques * More than 150 fascinating food facts and household hints * Over 25 useful charts and tables with emergency substitutions, metric conversions, a guide to pan sizes, and much more * The combined experience of five top cooking experts * Easy-to-use, find-it-fast format




Just a French Guy Cooking


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French Guy Cooking is a YouTube sensation with half a million subscribers. A Frenchman living in Paris, Alex loves to demystify cooking by experimenting with food and cooking methods to take the fear factor out of the kitchen. He wants to make cooking fun and accessible, and he charms his viewers with his geeky approach to food. In this, his debut cookbook, he shares 90 of his absolute favourite recipes, some of which feature step-by-step photography – from amazingly tasty toast and pizza ideas all the way to some classic but super-simple French dishes. Along the way, he offers ingenious kitchen hacks – a cheat's guide to wine, five knives you need in your kitchen, the secret to brilliant ramen – so that anyone can throw together great food without any fuss.




The Food Lover's Guide to Paris


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The book that cracks the code, from the incomparable Patricia Wells. An acclaimed authority on French cuisine, Ms. Wells has spent more than 30 years in Paris, many as former restaurant critic for The International Herald Tribune. Now her revered Food Lover’s Guide to Paris is back in a completely revised, brand-new edition. In 457 entries—345 new to this edition, plus 112 revisited and reviewed classics—The Food Lover’s Guide to Paris offers an elegantly written go-to guide to the very best restaurants, cafés, wine bars, and bistros in Paris, as well as where to find the flakiest croissants, earthiest charcuteries, sublimest cheese, most ethereal macarons, and impeccable outdoor markets. The genius of the book is Ms. Wells’s meritocratic spirit. Whether you’re looking for a before-you-die Michelin three-star experience (Guy Savoy, perhaps, or Restaurant Alain Ducasse au Plaza Athénée) or wanting to sample the new bistronomy (Bistrot Paul Bert, Le Comptoir du Relais) or craving something simple and perfect (L’As du Fallafel, or Breizh Café for crêpes), Patricia Wells tells you exactly where to go and why you should go there. You no longer have to rely on the iffy “reviews” of Yelp or Trip Advisor. Included are 40 recipes from some of her favorite chefs and purveyors and, of course, all the practical information: addresses, websites, email, hours, closest métro stop, specialties, and more.




The Blokes Book of Cooking


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WHO WAS IT WRITTEN FOR?The Blokes Book of Cooking is for guys (and gals too, for that matter) who have never cooked before. It would make a great gift for those sons who are leaving home, for partners who are no great shakes in the kitchen, fiancés, ex-husbands who have to cook for the kids or just for friends.IT'S NOT AN ORDINARY BOOK ON COOKINGWhile most cookbooks seem to be written for people whose mothers trained them from the cradle in the basics, or maybe cooking was just genetically encoded, this book is for those who have never really paid much attention to the kitchen before.There are lots of recipes for sure, but this book is also about HOW to cook. How do you boil, scramble, poach or fry an egg? How do you grill, fry or barbeque a sausage or a chop? How do you cut veggies for a salad? How do you boil, mash, or bake a potato? How do you cook pasta?What do you need in the way of equipment and supplies to set yourself up in the kitchen for the first time?How do you set a table if you've got a hot date and want to make a good impression, or if you're one of those partners or fiancés who want to make a romantic dinner for two (you get lots of brownie points for that one!)?All of these questions and lots more are answered in The Blokes Book of Cooking.




The Curious Cook


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Examines the biochemistry behind cooking and food preparation, rejecting such common notions as that searing meat seals in juices and that cutting lettuce causes it to brown faster




Basic to Brilliant, Y'all


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A follow-up to the author’s acclaimed Bon Appétit, Y’all, featuring 150 recipes that combine Southern flavors with time-honored French technique, and include a sophisticated variation that kicks each dish up a notch to make it brilliant. Virginia Willis has a knack for giving French recipes a downhome Southern feel. In Basic to Brilliant, Y’all, she builds on her signature style by offering 150 dual recipes: a soul-satisfying basic recipe accompanied by a technique, garnish, additional step, or short recipe that transforms a wonderful dish into a show stopper. A weeknight classic like Mama’s Chicken Pot Pie becomes sophisticated dinner party fare when it’s baked in a winter squash, and Old Fashioned Stove Top Low-Country Broth can be transformed into a Bouillabaisse-style broth with just a few simple changes. Throughout the book, Virginia paints a vivid picture of her Southern upbringing, drawing readers in with her vibrant tales of food and friends.




Short Order Dad


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“The perfect give for all fathers looking to up their cooking game!”—The Daily Meal There is a new kind of dad, and he’s doing far more domestic duty than at any time in history, including cooking. Although it’s written with a sense of humor, this book is a serious resource for dads and anyone else interested in upping their game to make great tasting food at home, even if they have never used a chef’s knife or a roasting pan before. Learn how to make: Breakfast Pizza Pigs in Blankets MVP Rigs Roast Chicken with a Lotta Lemon and Garlic Sauce Game Day Turkey Meatballs Fish in Foil Potato Leek Soup Baked Potato Fries Blueberry Crumble Classic Martini and so much more! Author Robert Rosenthal teaches basic techniques and presents a playbook of simple recipes that achieve the most taste with the fewest ingredients and the least effort.™ The dishes are sophisticated enough for entertaining, yet family table tested as well. Short Order Dad covers all the essentials, from shopping ingredients and cooking tools to appetizers, soups and salads, snacks, entrees, sauces and dressings, sides, desserts, cocktails and more, to make anyone a successful chef. Good cooking doesn’t have to be complicated to be great. In fact, it’s just the opposite. So whether you’re clueless in the kitchen, pan-fry phobic, or already a skilled cook, Short Order Dad is here to help turn your kitchen into a place to play.




The Man Who Changed the Way We Eat


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Originally published in hardcover in 2012.