Cook Great Food

Creating healthy and delicious home-cooked meals is always a challenge. How do you make sure that the lunch or dinner you have prepared not only tastes wonderful but is nutritionally sound and part of a well-balanced diet? Cook Great Food satisfies these requirements and more. With 450 delicious recipes and an abundance of nutrition-related information written by practicing dietitians, Cook Great Food will provide you with an education in food preparation and healthy eating, while satisfying your desire to create appetizing meals for every occasion. Cook Great Food is jam-packed with tasty ideas for breakfast, snacks, lunches and delicious dinners. There are even recipes for entertaining the most discerning guests -- including mouthwatering desserts. Cook Great Food features: 450 delicious recipes 32 pages of color photography Nutritional analysis for every recipe Recipes accompanied by tips and messages from dietitians Kids and food Guidelines for a well-stocked pantry Great family meals Suitable for entertaining Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating Here are some of the tempting recipes: Lunch Box Chili Banana Berry Wake-Up Shake Curried Chicken Salad Wraps Creole Tomato Soup Cedar-Baked Salmon Meat Loaf "Muffins" with Barbecue Sauce Grilled Vegetable Lasagna Light Tiramisu White Chocolate Raspberry Pie

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.

No matter how busy you are, at the end of the day you want fresh, flavorful meals that are easy to prepare. And you want lots of choices and variations—recipes that call for your favorite foods and take advantage of excellent (and readily available) ingredients. In the first book from the award-winning magazine Everyday Food, you’ll find all of that: 250 simple recipes for delicious meals that are quick enough to make any day of the week. Because a change in weather affects how we cook as much as what we cook, the recipes in Everyday Food are arranged by season. For spring, you’ll find speedy preparations for main-course salads, chicken, and poached salmon that minimize time spent at the stove; summer features quick techniques for grilling the very best burgers and kabobs as well as no-cook pasta sauces; for fall, there are braised meats and hearty main-course soups; and winter provides new takes on rich one-dish meals, roasts and stews, and hearty baked pastas. Finally, a chapter on basics explains how to make year-round staples such as foolproof roast chicken, risotto, couscous, and chocolate sauce. Designed in a contemporary and easy-to-read format, Everyday Food boasts lush, full-color photography and plenty of suggestions for substitutions and variations. With Everyday Food, even the busiest on-the-go cook can look forward to meals that bring freshness, nutrition, and a range of flavors to dinner all week long.

Recipes for Canadians, by Canadians Everyone wants healthy, delicious, home-cooked meals. But faced with the demands of a busy day, it's hard to resist the convenience of takeout or commercially prepared foods. The Dietitians of Canada would like us to return to the pleasures of cooking and to family gathering around the table, so they have given us a cookbook that will help us achieve these goals. Here are just a few of the tempting recipes: Big-Batch Buttermilk Pancakes Strawberry Orange Flax Smoothie Asian Stir-fried Noodles with Shrimp Minestrone with Turkey Sausage Best-Ever Chocolate Cookies Simply Great Food features 250 outstanding recipes and an abundance of nutrition-related information written by practicing dietitians. You'll enjoy breakfasts, lunches, snacks and dinners that taste wonderful, yet can be prepared in surprisingly little time. You'll receive an education in food preparation and healthy eating while satisfying your desire to create appetizing meals for every occasion. As you'd expect from the Dietitians of Canada, these recipes are nutritionally balanced, but never at the expense of great taste and pure eating pleasure.

In this authoritative cookbook from Britain's favourite cookery magazine, you will discover over 650 recipes divided by ingredient and occasion to help you find the perfect recipe with ease. But this is more than just a recipe collection - this book also includes Good Food's expert knowledge of ingredients and cooking hints and tips, to make it an invaluable source of inspiration and advice. This is an essential reference guide, including easy-to-follow instructions on topics such as how to cook different cuts of meat, knife skills and how to entertain without stress. There are also step-by-step masterclasses in techniques such as preparing squid, making fresh ravioli from scratch and making bread and pastry. With hundreds of recipes for everyday meals as well as weekend feasts, for when you have a little more time to spend in the kitchen, sections focused on making special occasions stress-free, a whole chapter on Christmas cooking and a chapter dedicated to feeding crowds all with step-by-step methods, nutritional breakdowns and full-colour photography, The Good Food Cook Book is the perfect gift and a book to treasure and return to, year after year.

Whitewater Resorts in the Canadian Rockies is noted for its scenery and the fine quality of the food served in the Fresh Tracks Cafe. This book allows the home cook to recreate Chef Shelley Adams' signature dishes.

The ultimate kitchen companion, completely updated and better than ever, now for the first time featuring color photos For twenty years, Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything has been the definitive guide to simple home cooking. This new edition has been completely revised for today’s cooks while retaining Bittman’s trademark minimalist style—easy-to-follow recipes and variations, and tons of ideas and inspiration. Inside, you’ll find hundreds of brand-new features, recipes, and variations, like Slow-Simmered Beef Chili, My New Favorite Fried Chicken, and Eggs Poached in Tomato Sauce; plus old favorites from the previous editions, in many cases reimagined with new methods or flavors. Recipes and features are designed to give you unparalleled freedom and flexibility: for example, infinitely variable basic techniques (Grilling Vegetables, Roasting Seafood); innovative uses for homemade condiments; easy-to-make one-pot pastas; and visual guides to improvising soups, stir-fries, and more. Bittman has also updated all the information on ingredients, including whole grains and produce, alternative baking staples, and sustainable seafood. And, new for this edition, recipes are showcased throughout with color photos. By increasing the focus on usability, modernizing the recipes to become new favorites, and adding gorgeous photography, Mark Bittman has updated this classic cookbook to be more indispensable than ever.

If you’re ready to take your cooking skills up a notch, we’re here to help. With this book as your guide, you’ll become more confident in the kitchen as well as seriously up your cooking game, while having tons of fun along the way. This inspiring and helpful cookbook encourages you to leave any kitchen fears behind—and create fabulous food with ease. Throughout these pages, we walk you through key basic cooking techniques and show how to make recipes you’ll enjoy both cooking and eating: easy eggs Benedict with blender hollandaise; simple Pad Thai; homemade French fries with spicy ketchup; warming short rib ragù; garlic-braised chicken; gorgonzola-stuffed potatoes; butterscotch pudding; and many more fresh and flavorful dishes. Each chapter features a single cooking technique accompanied by step-by-step directions and photos, so it’s easy to learn. You’ll master sautéing, stir-frying, frying, braising, simmering & poaching, and steaming with just a basic set of pots and pans on hand—no fancy equipment is required. The lessons also reveal secrets to success, detail any tools needed, demystify confusing terms, and outline essential dos and don’ts. Think of this book as a personal cooking class, working your way through each lesson and the subsequent recipes, to gain more confidence in the kitchen. After reading the technique primers, move on to try the easy, modern recipes that are equally suited for everyday meals or to showcase your cooking to friends and family. Each of the 60 recipes includes bonus information such as how to make the dish into a complete meal; ideas for vegetarians; and tips for buying the right ingredients. No matter what the occasion, whether you’re hosting a party or just trying to get dinner on the table, this book will guide you through real-life cooking situations. Whether you’re a cooking novice who wants to learn the basics, or you’re looking for a new collection of great recipes to hone your skills, this book is for you. The combination of crave-worthy dishes and detailed lessons guarantees renewed confidence—and delicious, homemade meals. Anybody can learn to cook good food!