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	• The Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes Ted Allen Clarkson Potter, 2005 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 24 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Food You Want To Eat

Love the book, great recepies and the ones I've tried are tasty and easy. Book has a cover that wipes clean - always a plus.

Cannot wait to try more recipes

This book arrived a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it looked great as I read through it. The recipes are mostly simple (although not necessarily easy) and look quite tasty, and Ted Allen includes several bonus asides, about issues as diverse as "How to Make a Chicken Stew" to "On Cheeses and Pizza" to "Separating Yolks from Whites." Additionally, the recipes have suggested wine pairings; many recipes also include several possible variations after the recipe. All of these extras are a really nice feature, and I appreciated them.

The book covers a wide range of foods, which means there isn't a ton of depth on any one subject (and honestly, the sections on cocktails, desserts, and breakfasts are so sparse as to make me wonder why he bothered with them at all). On the other hand, that does make the book accessibly slim -- personally, I hate buying a cookbook, only to feel as though I'm only likely to make a small percentage of the recipes. I always feel like I've wasted my money!

So on first read-through, I liked the book, but I didn't want to write a review until I had cooked from it. Tonight, I used it to make fried chicken, stovetop macaroni and cheese, and southern-style green beans. All were delicious and well-liked by my whole family. The recipes were clear and easy to cook from and tolerated modifications well (such as using boneless chicken breasts for frying and frozen green beans instead of fresh).

I can now safely recommend this book highly, and I suspect I will be cooking many more dishes from it in the future.

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Great gift for a grad!

When my son was a college junior, he started to get interested in cooking, so when my brother asked for a gift idea for him, I suggested "Joy of Cooking." But instead he got him this, and he was so right. This was a better idea for a first cookbook, because rather than just recipes and information on how to cook them, tells the new cook how to LOOK AT cooking and being a good host. For example, he says something like, "I wrote basil in this recipe, but if you have parsley in the refrigerator, for heaven's sake, try that instead rather than running to the store for basil -- it will be fine, and maybe you will love your new creation better anyway."

Best of all is the way he starts the book with 10 basic recipes from different categories, like a "quick start" to cooking and entertaining. That was a great idea. Right out of the box, the new cook feels confident and able to entertain.

And by the way -- the recipes are really good! I've been cooking for many years, but I learned a few things from this book, too. A lot is very basic, but if you buy this for a gift for a novice and look through it first, I bet you'll find something you didn't already know.

For the next occasion, I bought my son "Joy of Cooking," and he loved it. I don't think he would have appreciated or understood it as well if he hadn't gotten this book first, which made him WANT to learn the information in "Joy" -- like learning to drive somewhere cool before learning how to change a tire or parallel park. "Joy" is of course a much better all-purpose kitchen reference, but I see now that it may well be better to start out with something that lets the new kid get started right away cooking delicious, exciting things so that s/he will be motivated to continue.

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Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?s food-and-wine connoisseur, Ted Allen, presents a quick-reference cookbook?giving you the food you really want to cook and eat, and the know-how to pull it off with ease.

"With most cookbooks, you could plow through 134 pages of complicated hors d?oeuvres, salads, and the author?s philosophical musings about food before you get to the stuff you actually want to eat. Not here. I?m going to save you the trouble and get to the point right up front.? These first sentences of the book sum up what Ted Allen?s The Food You Want to Eat is all about?the tempting, delicious, satisfying fare you really want on your dinner table tonight, without the fuss and the formalities. Chapters include:

?I Know What You Want to Eat: the essentials of steak, chicken both fried and roasted, warm caramel brownie sundaes, and a luscious mac and cheese that will have you thinking outside the box?way outside.

?Happy Hour: for the kind of parties real people actually throw; no engraved invitations or seating charts, just easy, delicious recipes like crostini, a simple tuna tartare that kicks, the crowd-pleasing spicy Cajun ?pigs? in much nicer ?blankets? than you?re used to, four incredible pizzas (one for each season), and of course ten perfect cocktails.

?The Cookout: fulfilling everyone?s desire for great barbecued ribs, plus the more adventurous (but even easier) rosemary grilled leg of lamb, and Ted?s secret to the ultimate hamburger.

?Poultry: whether baked, braised, or sautéed, chicken is often what?s for weeknight dinner, and here?s everything from soy-and-honey-glazed roast chicken to ?around the world on a chicken breast? with superb ways to liven up those boneless, skinless, tasteless cutlets. Plus a simple (really!) duck, and a turkey that doesn?t demand the traditional Thanksgiving heroics.

Ted also delves into chapters on an array of fantastic salads that are a far cry from rabbit food; pastas featuring Italian classics like a great ziti with sausage and your basic pasta with red sauce, as well as easy Asian adventures such as cold soba noodles with sesame-peanut sauce; seafood for everyone who?s afraid to cook fish; meats that range from an amazing marinated grilled pork tenderloin and killer chili to a classic pot roast and osso buco; vegetable recipes that will make you love broccoli in a whole new way; and desserts for after dinner?and breakfasts for after after dinner.

This is the debut cookbook from one of the most engaging, most entertaining people ever to wield a spatula, filled with the incredibly simple, delicious real-life recipes for The Food You Want to Eat. In a word, mmmm.

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