Best Poultry Cooking
Dripping Thighs, Sticky Chicken Fingers, Vanilla Chicken, Chicken with a Lardon, Bacon-Bound Wings, Spatchcock Chicken, Learning-to-Truss-You Chicken, Holy Hell Wings, Mustard-Spanked Chicken, and more, more, more! Fifty chicken recipes, each more seductive than the last, in a book that makes every dinner a turn-on. A parody in three acts—“The Novice Bird” (easy recipes for roasters), “Falling to Pieces” (parts perfect for weeknight meals), and “Advanced Techniques” (the climax of cooking)— Fifty Shades of Chicken is a cookbook of fifty irresistible, repertoire-boosting chicken dishes that will leave you hungry for more. With memorable tips and revealing photographs, Fifty Shades of Chicken will have you dominating dinner. Ingredients 1 pound boneless, skinless chicken thighs, patted dry with paper towels 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped 1 teaspoon plus pinch coarse kosher salt ½ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper 1 sweet onion, thinly sliced 1 cup white wine 1 bay leaf 1 cinnamon stick 2 tablespoons unsalted butter 1 tablespoon honey. Directions Preheat the oven to 450 degrees F. In a large bowl, toss the chicken, garlic, 1 teaspoon salt, and pepper together. In a small saucepan, simmer together onion, wine, bay leaf, cinnamon stick, and a pinch of salt until most of the liquid has evaporated, 15 to 20 minutes. Bake until chicken is no longer pink and onions are meltingly tender and caramelized, about 25 minutes.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I bought this for a Christmas gift exchange."
"This is a great book to have out on the kitchen shelf, its also good as a gift for the fans of the original book series."
"I purchased this book for my boss at work since she is a fan of the movies and her diet only allows her to eat chicken, but anyway, I looked through it before giving it as a gift and the content is great!"
"Well written recipes, fun pictures and a great cheeky gift."
"The perfect gift for a bachelorette party!"
"I gave this as part of a bridal shower gift."
"This is a funny book with actual pictures of the chicken dishes....it is based on 50 Shades of Grey."
"I wrapped a bow around the book with a note saying to be opened by final recipient only....didnt want to reveal it's juicy contents ahead of time."
425 Bulletproof and rigorously tested recipes for beef, pork, lamb, veal, and poultry provide plenty of options for everyday meals and special occasion dinners and you’ll learn new and better ways to cook favorites such as Pan-Seared Thick-Cut Steak, Juicy Pub-Style Burgers, Weeknight Roast Chicken, Barbecued Pulled Pork, and more. The Cook’s Illustrated Meat Book also includes equipment recommendations (what should you look for in a good roasting pan and is it worth spending extra bucks on a pricey nonstick skillet?). Cook’s Illustrated is a widely renowned America’s Test Kitchen brand that is the work of over 60 passionate chefs based in Boston, Massachusetts, who put ingredients, cookware, equipment, and recipes through objective, rigorous testing to identify the very best.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Again, Cook's Illustrated has provided a user-friendly cookbook, infused with hints to make your cooking experience easier, why for's that answer those questions that come to mind while you are preparing a meal, and efficient and effective recipes for everyday meals to special celebrations."
"Finally a "meat bible" I can refer to when I want the best way to braise, roast, grill, broil, sear, tenderize, freeze, thaw, store, and brine any kind of meat out there (don't think seafood... not in here). They have detailed each type of meat mentioned above by showing you the cuts, price, flavor value for that cut and cooking techniques best to use for that cut of meat. They also discuss storing, freezing, brining, cutting techniques for all of the selections above too."
"Having been my go-to resource for learning new cooking techniques, acquiring kitchen tools to up my cooking game, and a back cover of drool worthy pictures of inspiring recipes, Cook's Illustrated does not disappoint with its new "meat" book."
"If you like to eat meat, cook meat and want to know how to shop for meat more knowledgeably, then this is the book for you."
"Also a great reference book for cuts of meat, cook times, and what cuts are chewy or flavorful and which is best to marinate."
"It has a lot of great recipes in it, and it goes into a TON of detail about how they came up with the final recipe, and the reasons behind the various elements to the dish."
"Just the brisket and short ribs recipes and information alone were worth the price."
"I actually ordered two--one directly from Cook's Illustrated and one from Amazon--both as gifts to my two sons."
Duck, Duck, Goose includes detailed guides on species and breeds, selecting a duck in the market, and plucking and hanging a wild bird. Whether you want to know the difference in taste between certain species or even how to make a duck hot dog, Hank’s book is a perfectly thorough guide on everything you need to know about preparing duck.”. —Daniel Boulud, chef, restaurateur, and author of Braise. I hope it will inspire many more cooks to explore the wonderful flavor of wild and domesticated ducks.”. —Traci des Jardins, James Beard Award-winning chef and owner of Jardinière. If your acquaintance with water fowl is limited to Peking duck and Christmas goose, then, welcome, because you're holding an invitation to a remarkable world of cooking. Hank Shaw's recipes, along with his inimitable prose, lure you into the kitchen, encouraging you to cook everything from whole birds to giblets; dishes smoked and drunken; Chinese, French, Laotian, and German; crispy and braised.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Hank explains each step carefully, so that even if the hunter isn't the full time chef in the house, they can probably pull a recipe off. He goes a step further than lots of cookbooks with some helpful secondary hints, like rendering goose fat for future use and "How to Clean" tips with pictures. Buy this book, along with "Hunt, Gather, Cook" and you've got the perfect Holiday gift set for yourself or the hunter in your house or your hunting buddies!"
"Some of the recipes are a little technical, but the first few duck recipes I tried turned out great!"
"The author has wonderful pictures and discriptions of the birds you can typically get while hunting, as well as great color photographs of many of the recipes."
"This book is one of a handful of books that I've bought in the last year or so (one if the others is another one of your books, Hank!)."
"I can see this book becoming a standard for anyone that wants to prepare waterfowl."
"One difference is I can reach into my pantry and pull out any of Hank's ingredient and start cooking with out going to the specialty store."
"I am also going to be purchasing another one of Hanks books "Hunt Gather Cook" because let's face it there isn't anything quite as rewarding as cooking your harvest."
"Hunters know that you don't place an order out in the field, so strong-flavored braises for divers are just as important as the simple recipes that give the best tasting ducks their due diligence."
Best Gourmet Cooking
learning basics, such as how to use knives correctly and how to cut a flawless julienne; conquering classic recipes, such as crêpes suzette and hollandaise sauce; creating whimsical and elegant decorations, such as olive rabbits and tomato flowers; tackling inventive ways of becoming a culinary superstar, such as turning an old refrigerator into a makeshift smoker; and much more. The publication of Jacques Pepin's Complete Techniques is sure to be celebrated by expert cooks and beginners alike. Here, the man Julia Child has called "not only a renowned chef, a foremost authority on French cuisine, a great teacher and. Braising Beef - Breading Veal Scallopine - Carving Poached Salmon - Stuffing Sausage - Making Chocolate Cigarettes - Cleaning and Boning Trout - Cooking and Presenting Lobsters - Filling Cream Puffs - Filleting Fish - Folding Napkins - Topping Fruit Tarts - Making Green Noodles - Grilling Poultry - Holding the Knife - Using Ladyfingers - Lining Cake Pans - Making Pepper Steak - Rolling Pie Dough - Poaching Eggs - Preparing Mussels - Peeling Onions - Using Fish Stock - Creating Apple Swans - Separating Eggs - Making Sole Meuniere - Stuffing Mushrooms - Trimming and Cooking Meat - Braising Chicken Livers - Frying Parsley - Poaching Salmon - Carving Rib Roast - Baking Country Bread and Baguettes - Making Fruit Cake - Flaming Bananas - Glazing Cake with Fondant - Seeding a Cucumber - Cleaning Salad - Fluting Mushrooms - Coating a Cookie Sheet - Folding in Butter - Icing a Vodka Bottle - Shucking Oysters - Peeling and Preparing Green Peppers - Braising Lettuce - Trussing Poultry .
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Find Best Price at Amazon"While the "nuclear science" sort of cook will find Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques helpful, it really was written for those of us who belong to the "guidelines" group. And then one day I happened across a show that Jacques Pepin and Julia Child did together - a holiday Cooking in Concert show where they produce a boneless stuffed turkey. Essential Pepin made my short list of the books I would grab on the way out the door in case of fire almost immediately and when Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques was announced I immediately put in my preorder. Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques is divided into a number of sections - Basics, Vegetables, Eggs, Fish & Shellfish, Poultry, Meat, Offal & Charcuterie, Carving, Bread & Pasta, Pastry & Dessert and Presentation - with each section clearly delineated by a band of color at the outer edge of the pages - convenient for finding the section you want quickly and easily. While Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques is not exhaustive (you'll find no techniques common to Asian cooking for example), it is extensive and strongly reflects Pepin's background & training. Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques is heavy on techniques not often covered by other authors - trimming your own meat, dividing a large cut into smaller portions, cutting up & boning your own poultry, (a great way to save money!). If you would like to learn to really cook well, then Jacques Pépin New Complete Techniques will be a treasured addition to your library."
"This is one of those books that i would choose if I had to only pick 5 books from my HUGE cookbook collection."
"Love it love jack pepin!"
"A must for all chefs and home cooks."
"I have a good collection of Jacques Pepin cookbooks."
"Jacques is one of the great chefs of our time."
"Classic in every way..If you are serious about cooking, this is a must."
"Pepin will always be the master."
Best Tailgating Cooking
Recipes in this smoker cookbook include: Beer Can Chicken, Hickory-Smoked Pork Belly, "All Day Long" Smoked Beef Brisket, Beach Barbecue Lobster Tails, Coffee-Rubbed Buffalo Steak, and so much more! Previously, he served as a web producer for Bon Appétit and Epicurious, and as an editor at The Daily Meal, where he ran the test kitchen.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"My favorite part of the book is Part One which is Smoking Fundamentals. Once you get pass Part One then here comes the good part: Part Two: Let's Smoke Meat."
"Not only does it have tons of great recipes for all kinds of meats, sauces, rubs and fish but it actually teaches the reader how to smoke protein and vegetables the right way."
"This book would make a great gift for any family member you feel would love to try their hand at real BBQ cooking."
"After sharing the different types of smokers, what the process of smoking does to meats, the cuts that are best for smoking, and types of woods, Real BBQ dives into a collection of recipes that are gathered by meat type they pertain to."
"I am also a pretty picky eater... but everything in this book sounds amazing and I cannot wait to try!!! I don't usually purchase cookbooks - because I find everything on the internet and save the space books take up around my house.. but that's the beauty of Kindle Editions!"
"My family loves BBQ, but we could never seem to get quite the same taste at home, that we did at BBQ restaurants and now I know why!"
Best Cooking by Ingredient
Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-over barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)—and Franklin is the winner of every major barbecue award there is. “I used to think Aaron Franklin was a genius: There was his rise from backyard dabbler to king of Texas pitmasters; his mind-altering brisket that made normally rational people (myself included) wait hours for the chance to eat it; and his insistence that game-changing barbecue doesn’t come from miracles but rather elbow grease. And instead of just listing ingredients and rattling off generic recipes, these pages tell the story of a place and a barbecue tradition steeped in history. In it, he exposes the sacred insights of a top pitmaster—information that can otherwise only be learned from long nights spent staring at a fire, shovel in hand, constantly prodding and pinching your meat to figure out that ‘just perfect’ point of doneness.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"He had a passion, he tinkered, he produced some really bad BBQ but persevered, he paid attention to the details, tweaked some to experiment, found out what worked and what didn't and then, over time, became an expert with a well-developed sense of intuition. The truth is that formula has worked for hundreds of people, great writers, radio hosts, businessmen, programmers and other professionals uses that exact same set of steps to become masters, read their biographies and listen to their interviews, it's the same story. It's hard work, it's not because Aaron uses pickle juice blessed by a New Orleans witch doctor during an eclipse as an injection precisely 14.373581 hours before it goes on the grill. You won't buy this book and then suddenly be able to cook the best BBQ on the planet, but you'll have a deeper understanding of the craft and you'll know where you should experiment and where you should learn from his mistakes."
"Franklin Barbecue: A Meat Smoking Manifesto. This is not a cookbook. ;) He walks you through the smoking of 4 meats, then goes on to recipes for a few sauces and a few sides."
"It is a great book on how Aaron Franklin does his BBQ, his history and the path of an individual to obtain goals."
"Not a ton of recipes but so much information on technique, philosophy, food prep, seasoning, equipment and smoke it will make your head spin."
"I have followed his instruction for brisket to the letter and even though I've never eaten at Franklin Barbecue (yet), it was the best brisket I had ever eaten."
"I bought this as a gift for my BBQ smoker friend."
"Giving the reasons to why makes it a truly helpful book for learning the art of BBQ."
"If you want to try something totally simple, yet totally awesome, try cooking beef ribs first if anything else -- it's simple and just pain good."
Best Kitchen Appliance Cooking
From America’s “master griller” ( Esquire ), a step-by-step guide to cold-smoking, hot-smoking, and smoke-roasting, and a collection of 100 innovative recipes for smoking every kind of food, from starters to desserts. As someone who has been smoking meat his whole life, even I found new ground covered in this smart, accessible book.”. --Myron Mixon, author and host of BBQ Pitmasters, Smoked, and BBQ Rules. “If your version of heaven has smoked meats waiting beyond the pearly gates, then Project Smoke is your bible.”. --Tom Colicchio, author, chef/owner Crafted hospitality, and host of Top Chef. Project Smoke is both an indispensible guidebook to mastering smoking techniques and a cookbook billowing with innovative recipes, from the usual suspects like appetizers and meats to the more surprising desserts, cocktails, and condiments.”— Taste of the South. There’s hot smoking and cold-smoking, smoke-braising, tea-smoking, “caveman” smoking direct on embers, and stovetop smoking. Bible® cookbook series, which includes the new Barbecue Sauces, Rubs, and Marinades; Project Smoke; The Barbecue Bible ; and How to Grill . His TV shows include the PBS series Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke (currently in its 3rd season); Primal Grill; and Barbecue University , and the French language series Les Incontournables du BBQ and Le Maitre du Grill.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"PS: Unlike some self-loving "I am the best, buy my books because they tell you how good I am" super BBQ champions, these two authors provide complete recipes and techniques that actually work and produce amazing results."
"I have been wanting to make smoked deviled eggs for a long time but couldn't think of a way to make it worth without overlooking the egg, and this book has the perfect solution."
"From the Martha Stewart of grilling comes Raichlen's new book which features recipes from his latest PBS series."
"I've made a few of the recipes in this book so far and everyone has complemented me on how delicious everything is."
"Really high quality pictures with easy to follow instructions."
"This guy has some great recipes."
"I like to try new things in my smoker."
"great addition to the back yard barbecue... Superbly written with tons of interesting side facts."
Best Parody
" Go the F*** to Sleep challenges stereotypes, opens up prototypes, and acknowledges that shared sense of failure that comes to all parents who weary of ever getting their darling(s) to sleep and briefly resuming the illusion of a life of their own." Seriously, Just Go to Sleep, a children's book inspired by Go the F*** to Sleep and appropriate for kids of all ages, is also available, as well as Seriously, You Have to Eat for finicky ones everywhere! Adam Mansbach's novels include The End of the Jews, winner of the California Book Award, and the best-selling Angry Black White Boy, a San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2005.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was shocked to find that some reviewers, apparently completely forgot to read the title of the book before purchasing. For those parents who do have a sense of humor and who may not find profanity particularly offensive and who live in the real world. It's real, overworked, frustrated beyond belief, about to loose your mind at 3am, inner parent monologue. Samuel L. Jackson should narrate a book for every single stage of life, from being born to the grave. This book is one that will be shared from one exhausted, fed up, delusional, red eyed, sleep deprived parent to another."
"I purchased this book as a 21st birthday gift for my best friend."
"If you have a child that fights sleep, this book may be for you."
"Then they said their baby wouldn't need it - that they knew how to make babies sleep really well."
"Nor should you purchase this book if you do not have a sense of humor."
"I gave this book to my best friend who is due any day now and she could not stop laughing."
"If you have had children, you have said and or thought what is written in this book."
"It is cleverly written in a tone that only the most desperately tired mom or dad could understand."
Best Eastern European Regional Cooking
Robust meat dishes include Ginger Roast Beef, Braised Beef with Vegetables and Sour Cream, Beef Goulash, Tartar Beefsteak, Mutton with Marjoram, Veal Cutlets with Mushrooms, Stuffed Breast of Veal, Veal Paprika, Roast Pork with Capers, Braised Sweetbreads, and a variety of pates. The Czechs are particularly fond of meals centered around egg dishes and dumplings, for instance Baked Eggs with Chicken Livers, Farina Omelet, Noodle Souffle with Cherries and Nuts, Noodles with Farmer Cheese, Napkin Dumplings, Dumplings with Smoked Meat, and Sour Cream Pancakes.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"it is quite authentic -- which is surprising because it is so simple in instructions----also it is great because it uses American cups and TBS and ounces -- all that I made from this tasted great and like my mom's (and we are from Czech republic)."
"The book is informative and probably difficult to find when dealing with regional cuisine."
"I now have 2 editions of this cookbook."
"This book is a direct translation to the one my mother has from Czech Republic."
"A really nice book to own and cook from."
"Great book."
"This was a gift and he loves it."
Best Culinary Arts & Techniques
The #1 bestselling author and Food Network personality at last answers that age-old question—“What's for Dinner?”—bringing together more than 125 simple, scrumptious, step-by-step recipes for delicious dinners the whole family will love.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I love The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Recipes from an Accidental Country Girl for straight comfort food. Ree’s books have photos of both the finished dish and photos of the process making the dish, which makes her books terrific to empower teenagers to get going independently, and feel really proud bringing those yummy dishes to smiling people at the table. Pictured below: 1) Huevos Rancheros – p6, with Enchilada Sauce – p8, and Pico De Gallo – p23. She has you make them in those cute little disposable tins if you’re going to freeze them. One is to add a red bell pepper, and my husband had just brought one in from the garden, so that went in, too. I am embarrassed to say that I was wondering what sort of bowls Ree had that these 4 servings could fit in. It's a make ahead and just needs 40 minutes in the oven when you're ready."
"There is also several sections on different types of side dishes and even desserts so readers can mix and match main dishes with the sides and desserts they like to make a complete meal. I was especially pleased with the section on freezer meals. While basic and certainly not an attempt to be a treatise on the subject, this section gives readers the opportunity to prepare staples to keep frozen and then provides several different ways that those frozen staples can be used to make different meals."
"The purpose of the cookbook is tactile: Some of us just like holding a book of lovely recipes in our hands, flipping the pages and attaching sticky notes all over it.. Well, I've flipped the pages of this book and I give it five stars."
"So I have been a stay at home mom for 15 years, and I have been working full time now for 5 months. (cook, bake, take care of kids, grocery shopping, etc) Now that I'm working, I don't want my family eating the crap from fast food or pre made food from the stores (too many add ins that aren't good for you). I have bought cook books before (none of hers) and was disappointed because the ingredients were either too expensive or there was only a couple of recipes that my family would actually eat."