Learn to Love: Cooking | Haltom City Public Library

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Explains cooking techniques, identifies utensils and equipment, and provides recipes featuring a variety of fruits, grains, vegetables, meat, poultry and seafood.

2) Happy cooking: make every meal count...without stressing out

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De Laurentiis, Giada

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"Best-selling cookbook author Giada De Laurentiis is picking up where Feel Good Food left off. Filled with even more fresh recipes and day-to-day living strategies, the Food Network superstar shares her year-round approach to living a healthy and happy lifestyle,"--Amazon.com.

3) The no recipe cookbook: a beginners guide to the art of cooking

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Crowther, Susan

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What has happened to cooking? Where has it gone? For most people, it is left to the experts in restaurants and on television. Thanks to the constant availability of takeout, frozen dinners, and fast food restaurants, for the majority of Americans, cooking has become a spectator sport-an entertaining activity you watch on television, but not something to try at home. The No Recipe Cookbook is a warm and funny instructional guide that addresses this...

4) The starter cook: a beginner home cook's guide to basic kitchen skills and techniques

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Larsen, Linda

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The Starter Cook is the perfect quick culinary reference, a learners manual to that sometimes intimidating room in ones home: the kitchen. With its plethora of helpful tips and a step-by-step guide to every major technique, it helps the beginner home cook connect the dots as he learns his way around the kitchen.

5) How to cook: an easy and imaginative guide for the beginner

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Sokolov, Raymond A

6) The fireside cook book: the classic guide to fine cooking for beginner and expert

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Beard, James

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Rediscover an American food icon with this full-color facsimile edition of Beard's first comprehensive masterwork, originally published in 1949 and still relevant today. The basic recipes and variations presented add up to 1,217 dishes.

7) Small victories: recipes, advice + hundreds of ideas for home-cooking triumphs

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Turshen, Julia

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The acclaimed cookbook author reveals the secrets to great home cooking with this cookbook featuring kitchen tips and 400+ simple recipes and variations.

Go-to recipe developer Julia Turshen is the co-author of best-selling cookbooks such as Gwyneth Paltrow’s It’s All Good, and Dana Cowin’s Mastering My Mistakes in the Kitchen, as well as the author of her own cookbooks Now...

8) Everyone can bake: simple recipes to master and mix

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Ansel, Dominique

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Acclaimed pastry chef Dominique Ansel shares his simple, foolproof recipes for tarts, cakes, jams, buttercreams, and more "building blocks" of desserts for home cooks to master and mix as they please. Dominique Ansel is the creator of beautiful, innovative, and delicious desserts, from the Frozen S'More to the Cronut, the croissant-doughnut hybrid that took the world by storm. He has been called the world's best pastry chef. But this wasn't always...

9) The beginner's guide to edible herbs: 26 herbs everyone should grow & enjoy

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Smith, Charles W. G

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"The Beginners Guide to Edible Herbs helps every vegetable gardener realize the pleasures of becoming an herb gardener. Readers will find complete information on growing, harvesting, preserving, and using 26 of the most popular kitchen herbs, from basil to thyme. There are also food-pairing tips, simple recipes, and basic information on medicinal uses, all enhanced by beautiful, full-color photographs of every plant and many kitchen recipes and projects."--Amazon.com....

10) How to cook in 10 easy lessons

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Sweetser, Wendy

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Super skills (Walter Foster)

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Provides illustrated instruction, safety tips and simple recipes to make learning to cook easy and fun.

11) How to cook everything: 2,000 simple recipes for great food

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Bittman, Mark

12) How to cook everything fast: a better way to cook great food

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Bittman, Mark

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How to Cook Everything

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"The secret to cooking fast is cooking smart--how you choose and prepare your ingredients and make use of your time in the kitchen. In How to Cook Everything Fast, Mark Bittman's latest innovative, comprehensive, must-have culinary reference, he shows how anyone can spend just a little time cooking and be able to make 2,000 innovative recipes that are delicious, varied, exciting, made from scratch, and ready in anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes" --

13) How to cook everything: simple recipes for great food

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Bittman, Mark

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Updated to incorporate the latest tastes and cooking trends, a step-by-step guide to cooking includes more than two thousand contemporary recipes complemented by how-to information, tips on cooking techniques, and an expanded coverage of healthy foods.

14) How to cook: the 100 essential recipes everyone should know

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Allen, Darina

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We all know cooking from scratch is healthier for our waistlines and our wallets, but pressed for time and inspiration, most of us turn to the same meals again and again. In this accessible and streamlined cookery primer, Darina Allen, of Ireland's world-renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, shows how simple it is to rustle up delicious and nutritious meals using 25 of the most popular staple ingredients, from eggs and potatoes to tomatoes, rice and...

15) How to cook: simple skills and great recipes for fabulous food

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Waters, Lesley

16) The Haven's Kitchen cooking school: recipes and inspiration to build a lifetime of confidence in the kitchen

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Cayne, Alison

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Must-have manual contains nine master classes in the fundamentals of cooking.

17) Six seasons: a new way with vegetables

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McFadden, Joshua

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"In 225 simple, inventive recipes that celebrate all the ways to use all the parts of a vegetable at its peak, McFadden shares his passion and expertise as both chef and farmer"--Page 4 of overleaf.

18) 1,000 vegetarian recipes

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Gelles, Carol

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1,000 Recipes

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The award-winning cookbook that's not just for vegetarians Carol Gelles, one of the best-known authorities on the subject, offers hundreds of appetizers, entrees, soups, salads, and more, proving that vegetarian cuisine is anything but boring. The flavor combinations are limitless, drawing on the ingredients and spices from every international cuisine. Discussions of vegetables, grains, beans, and soyfoods are interspersed throughout the recipes,...

19) Simply Ming: easy techniques for East-meets-West meals

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Master chef Ming Tsai is the award-winning chef/owner of Blue Ginger and the author of three cookbooks. He shows how to prepare a variety of Asian-inflected dishes that can be prepared in the home quickly and easily. By using Ming's master recipes, anyone can create a variety of dishes, keeping dining at home interesting and fun - whether you're a beginner or experienced cook.

20) Plant you: 140+ ridiculously easy, amazingly delicious plant-based oil-free recipes

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Bodrug, Carleigh

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Tacos, pizza, wings, pasta, hearty soups, and crave-worthy greens-for some folks looking for a healthier way of eating, these dishes might all seem, well, off the table. Carleigh Bodrug has shown hundreds of thousands of people that that just isn't true. Like so many of us, Carleigh thought that eating healthy meant preparing the same chicken breast and broccoli dinner every night. Her skin and belly never felt great, but she thought she was eating...