The Complete Idiot S Guide To Cooking Substitutions

Accept all substitutions! In anyone's kitchen-from that of a chef to an amateur cook-there comes a time when an essential ingredient is missing, or perhaps a substitution is needed for a special dietary requirement. That's where this book comes in handy, offering replacements for everything from milk, flour, and eggs to seasonings, sweeteners, and wine, as well as handy conversions for weights and measures used in antiquated family recipes. * Includes vegetarian and vegan substitutions for meat-free dishes * Kitchen-friendly with wipe-clean paper over-board cover * Easy-to-use dictionary-style format * Low-fat and trans-fat substitutions

Accept all substitutions! In anyone's kitchen-from that of a chef to an amateur cook-there comes a time when an essential ingredient is missing, or perhaps a substitution is needed for a special dietary requirement. That's where this book comes in handy, offering replacements for everything from milk, flour, and eggs to seasonings, sweeteners, and wine, as well as handy conversions for weights and measures used in antiquated family recipes. * Includes vegetarian and vegan substitutions for meat-free dishes * Kitchen-friendly with wipe-clean paper over-board cover * Easy-to-use dictionary-style format * Low-fat and trans-fat substitutions

"The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Basics helps you find your way around the kitchen and create tasty and nutritious meals on an ordinary budget. You get simple steps to all the basic kitchen skills, plus friendly advice in an easy-to-understand, easy to enjoy format. Tips, definitions, warnings, and substitutes help you save time and effort, and easy recipes guarantee you'll impress your friends and your taste buds!--p. [4] of cover.

The healthy vegan diet-made easy. Vegans face their own special challenges when it comes to nutrition and this book provides answers. There are about one million vegans in the U.S. and about 50,000 new ones every year. A growing number of physicians advocate a completely plant-based diet for many of their patients who suffer from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer. In The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Plant-Based Nutrition, readers will find: ? Where to get nutrients that others get from meat and dairy. ? How to avoid the vegan pitfall of overfed but undernourished. ? How to spot hidden animal ingredients in packaged foods. ? Tips for eating at restaurants. ? Special considerations for children and seniors.

You're no idiot, of course. You've often thought that cooking is a lot like a science experiment: There's lots of measuring and mixing involved-and you're never quite sure how it will turn out. Do not settle for burned biscuits and soggy spaghetti! To get better results in the kitchen, you need a solid understanding of how recipes work-and that's exactly what The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking Techniques and Science offers you. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you get: Foolproof facts about what makes bread rise-and how to help the process along; Time-saving tips for making a great white or brown sauce; Simple advice on how to handle meat safely-and cook it so it tastes great; What to do when you're out of an ingredient-substitutions you can make in a pinch.

Sugar is verboten for diabetics, detrimental to dieters, and a bad idea for kids. Yet our culture bombards us with refined sugars that raise blood-sugar levels, pack on the pounds, cause behavioral problems, and are suspected to be the culprit behind a host of other serious diseases and disorders. Thanks to more natural and healthy sugar substitutes, people can enjoy sweet-tasting meals and baked goods without worrying about the ills associated with refined white sugar. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Sugar-Free Cooking and Baking gives readers the tools they need to serve their families tasty food without guilt or serious health effects.

In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guys, chef and author Tod Dimmick brings a guy's perspective to dozens of recipes from Sloppy Joe's, Chili, Nachos, and Wings to Beer Can Chicken, Skillet Ham and Eggs, Crock Pot Kielbasa, and Garfield's Lasagne. Whether it's for a large crowd ("Firehouse Cooking"), the kids ("Recipes Even Kids Will Eat"), date night ("Food for Love"), or Appetizers ("Food for the Big Game"), men of all ages will find something to love in this unique, "guy's only" cookbook. Complete with chapters on vegetables, pasta, desserts, leftovers, nice dinners, picnics, grilling, entertaining, and Mexican food, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guysalso features chapters and recipes to go with specific appliances including the oven, stovetop, broiler, and slow cooker. It also covers basic cooking terms and methods as well as spices, rubs, and secret sauces.

What do you do when you want to make a great meal for your spouse, but all your recipes say "serves 4 to 6"? You've tried to cut down recipes-simple grade-school fractions, right?-but what do you do for a recipe that requires one egg? And did you know that liquid measurements require a different division system? But don't go rushing back to school yet. Award-winning author and chef Ellen Brown has the answer- The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Two! This book offers familiar favourites and new dishes to tempt your taste buds... all specially developed to serve two, without dealing with leftovers for the next week. Each recipe is created to maximize your ingredients and minimize your spending, so you buy only what you need, and use all of what you bought! Also included are recipes for small-batch baking, geared toward satisfying two, so you're walking past the brownies sitting around on the counter for the next several days.