"What to Cook and How to Cook It" is the ultimate cookbook for beginners, showing how to cook easy, delicious meals for every day of the week. With a winning combination of clear step-by step-photographs, and authoritative, foolproof recipes, it takes 100 favourite everyday dishes and guides the reader through every step of the cooking process with recipes that absolutely anyone can follow. Each ingredient and stage of the cooking process is illustrated with a clear colour photograph, and the striking, simple design will encourage anyone who lacks confidence at cooking to have a go at producing nutritious, home-cooked food for their family and friends. Every stage is clearly explained, with no prior knowledge taken for granted. Even common terms such as 'finely chopped' are explained in an illustrated glossary. The recipes are written by a highly experienced food writer with years of expertise in creating simple, foolproof recipes, and each one has been tested several times to ensure that it is easy to follow. Additional hints and tips are provided on how to choose ingredients, how to rescue a recipe if things go wrong, and how to adapt the dish with different ingredients. Unlike most beginners' cookbooks, this one does not attempt to teach techniques, such as pastry and breadmaking: it focuses purely on creating straightforward, enjoyable meals that are easy to cook. The recipes are extremely practical, using ingredients available in any market or supermarket, do not require specialist equipment, and are economical and nutritious. To make it simple to decide what to cook, the recipes are divided into chapters on breakfasts and brunches, light weekday meals and lunches, dishes for sharing, quick and easy suppers, weekend main meals that take longer to cook, and desserts and baking. What to Cook will equip any novice cook with a repertoire of simple, crowd-friendly dishes that they can cook to perfection with confidence.
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'a chunky hardback packed with good illustrative photographs - a great gift for beginner cooks and students who want to cook well for themselves.' Irish Examiner, 1 October 2010 'One of the most heavily illustrated cookbooks of all time - Nothing's left to chance and everything is beautifully explained - It could just be the best book for novice cooks ever.' Shannon Denny, Westside, October 2010 'The kind of book that should be on standby in every kitchen.' Tesco Real Food, October 2010 'Jane Hornby likes to think of a recipe as a story with a beginning, middle and happy ending, and her aim in her new book [ - ] is to show her readers how to produce their own happy endings every time.' Taste Italia, November 2010 'makes cooking a doddle' Sunday Times, Style, 21 November 2010
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Jane Hornby is an experienced food writer and cook. After training as a chef, she worked as Cookery Writer and Food Editor on the BBC's bestselling Good Food magazine for five years. The magazine is renowned for its clear, step-by-step style and for its totally foolproof recipes which are tested many times. She has also edited several of the BBC Good Food's bestselling 101 recipe books.
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By marymary
Format:Hardcover
Amazing. My son (19) has just gone off to live away from home. As a parting shot at parenting, I gave him this book to make up for the fact that I rather failed in 'teaching him to cook' department . He is neither a reader nor a cook - and now he is both. His comment on his first meal was "well whats all the cooking fuss about - that was pretty straightforward". He found the layout and recipes easy to navigate and understand. For instance why should he know what "sautee some onions" means? But the book explains all the terms in a neat glossary at the back. Reportedly the meal was delicious and he's just carried on and really enjoys his new found 'talent'! So congratulations Jane and a huge thank you. I will now give this book to everyone I know who needs a bit of hand holding in the kitchen department.
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By Peter
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My dad got this book for Christmas and I really love it! The title should be "Cookbook for men", because it assumes you know nothing about cooking. Since my mother died last year we've been struggling to cook and all the cookbooks we have are really complicated, hard to follow and assume you have a degree in cooking. But this book is fool proof. I haven't done a single thing wrong so far.
The layout is perfect. It's step-by-step and all the key steps have pictures of what it should look like, including pictures of what all the ingredients should look like. But the best thing is that it has smart tips, for example, how to fold. No one tells you these things otherwise!
This isn't just a cookbook of fancy things that take 3 attempts to get right, although some dishes do look very tasty. It also has things like how to cook fish and steak; real basic stuff, because (again) no one tells you these things otherwise. I think I even saw how to cook scrambled egg!
So far I've cooked a very yummy stew and very very yummy brownies. I liked the bit in the brownies recipe where it says "cut with a large knife". Saved me washing a spoon.
The layout is perfect. It's step-by-step and all the key steps have pictures of what it should look like, including pictures of what all the ingredients should look like. But the best thing is that it has smart tips, for example, how to fold. No one tells you these things otherwise!
This isn't just a cookbook of fancy things that take 3 attempts to get right, although some dishes do look very tasty. It also has things like how to cook fish and steak; real basic stuff, because (again) no one tells you these things otherwise. I think I even saw how to cook scrambled egg!
So far I've cooked a very yummy stew and very very yummy brownies. I liked the bit in the brownies recipe where it says "cut with a large knife". Saved me washing a spoon.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
By FussFreeFlavours
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Format:Hardcover
Jane Hornby is a trained chef and has spent many years working for the BBC Good Food Magazine and has edited several of the Good Food series of 101 recipe books. Published by Phaidon this book is beautifully laid out and perfectly photographed. Every step of every recipe is clearly photographed, from a line up of ingredients (which makes a long list look far less daunting) to how to chop and prep to the finished dish. It is the visual equivalent of having Jane at your side in the kitchen. Coupled with the ultra clear and well written directions I believe that anyone provided with an equipped kitchen could cook anything from this book.
All the recipes can easily be created from ingredients exclusively bought from the supermarket. For the novice cook there is a handy shopping guide, glossary and preparation photos.
There are 100 recipes in the book, divided into sections to cover all eventualities including Breakfast and Brunch, Light Lunches, Simple Suppers to Desserts and Baking. Recipes cover British classics such as a full English breakfast, simple soups, sausages & mash, all manner of roasts, to apple crumble & custard. Also included are lots international dishes such as Pad Thai, Mediterranean fish stew and key lime pie, and of course the carbonara recipe! I think that the book covers the vast majority of dishes that people in Britain would name as their favourites.
I am thrilled to have a copy on my cookbook shelves, and I think that due to the outstanding photography and unambiguous instructions it is also a perfect present for any novice or unconfident cook (how many other cookbooks actually clearly explain how to separate an egg for example?) I am already looking forward to Jane's next book.
All the recipes can easily be created from ingredients exclusively bought from the supermarket. For the novice cook there is a handy shopping guide, glossary and preparation photos.
There are 100 recipes in the book, divided into sections to cover all eventualities including Breakfast and Brunch, Light Lunches, Simple Suppers to Desserts and Baking. Recipes cover British classics such as a full English breakfast, simple soups, sausages & mash, all manner of roasts, to apple crumble & custard. Also included are lots international dishes such as Pad Thai, Mediterranean fish stew and key lime pie, and of course the carbonara recipe! I think that the book covers the vast majority of dishes that people in Britain would name as their favourites.
I am thrilled to have a copy on my cookbook shelves, and I think that due to the outstanding photography and unambiguous instructions it is also a perfect present for any novice or unconfident cook (how many other cookbooks actually clearly explain how to separate an egg for example?) I am already looking forward to Jane's next book.
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