2024 the best egg salad recipe serious eats review
Price: $16.95 - $15.05
(as of Oct 22, 2024 14:25:14 UTC - Details)
Reviews of the previous edition:
"This is a great cookbook for the younger and inexperienced cook. The language used is informal and very conversational.... This book is extremely useful and a great addition to the library of the newly moved out young person."
--Resource Links
"Young adults who like to cook or would like to learn more about cooking will appreciate the abundant information and recipes here ... The author makes a strong case for fresh over convenience and processed food and explains many cooking and kitchen basics ... its basic food message is sensible and the recipes are appealing."
--Booklist
"Wryly humorous collection... substantial basic information on cooking... friendly, tongue-in-cheek tone."
--School Library Journal
Features more than 150 delicious, easy-to-make recipes for students and others on the go.
Clueless in the Kitchen is designed for beginners -- and other time-challenged cooks -- who love good food, cooked from scratch, and have very little time for cooking. Clueless in the Kitchen gives the straightforward instructions needed to put together healthful meals and snacks (without obsessing). There is lots of information on preparing meals for a household, even if it includes vegetarians or young parents with picky eaters. Included are survival tips and useful cooking advice for everyone, including knife skills every cook needs to know.
Now illustrated with 175 color photographs, this revised and updated edition guides the inexperienced cook through a whole new kitchen experience. Every recipe is presented and tested to ensure that it is easy to make in the least amount of time possible.
Clueless in the Kitchen is filled with simple recipes for just about everything. There are recipes for lasagna, chili and fajitas, there are curries and casseroles, hearty soups and lots of great snacks. There are even some truly decadent desserts.
The range of delicious recipes include:
chunky guacamole and other dips creamy pumpkin, minestrone and potato soups authentic Greek salad, cheery carrot and raisin salad pancakes, crepes and scrambled eggs beef stew, nearly normal shepherd's pie and sloppy joes fried rice, stuffed peppers and thermonuclear chicken wings amazing chocolate cake and chocolate chip cookies.
Whether a beginner or short on time, or looking to spruce up an everyday cooking repertoire, Clueless in the Kitchen is the best possible guide to healthy home cooking.
From the Publisher
Clueless in the Kitchen: Cooking for Beginners
Whether you’re a student or short on time, or looking to spruce up your everyday cooking repertoire, Clueless in the Kitchen is the best possible guide to healthy home cooking.
Clueless in the Kitchen is designed for students — and other time-challenged cooks — who love good food, cooked from scratch, but also want to have a life. Clueless in the Kitchen gives you the straightforward instructions you need to throw together healthful meals and snacks (without obsessing). There are recipes for everyone — from preparing meals for a household, even if it includes vegetarians, or young parents with picky eaters. Included are survival tips and useful cooking advice for everyone, including knife skills every cook needs to know.
Packed with simple recipes for just about everything you might ever want to eat, there are recipes for lasagna, chili and fajitas, there are curries and casseroles, hearty soups and lots of great snacks. There are even some truly decadent desserts. Some of the delicious recipes include:
Chunky guacamole and other dipsLentil, Minestrone and Potato soupsAuthentic Greek Salad, Multi-bean and Spicy Asian Asparagus saladsPancakes, Crepes and Scrambled EggsBeef Stew, Nearly Normal Shepherd’s Pie and Sloppy JoeFried Rice and Thermonuclear Buffalo WingsAmazing Chocolate Cake and Chocolate Chip Cookies
Whether you’re a student or short on time, or looking to spruce up your everyday cooking repertoire, Clueless in the Kitchen is the best possible guide to healthy home cooking.
Here are some of the easy, healthful recipes you'll discover:
Authentic Greek Salad
This salad is best in midsummer, when it can be made with perfectly ripe, in-season tomatoes that actually taste like, well, tomatoes. You can easily make a full meal out of it with the addition of some good bread and a little extra cheese. Or you can stuff it into the pocket of a pita bread and have it for lunch on the run.
A Perfect Hamburger
Perfection, hamburger-wise, is in the mouth of the beholder. Some people like to add a lot of stuff to their burger mixture; others like to put lots of stuff on top after cooking. Here’s a basic recipe that you can mess with until you’ve found your own personal burger nirvana.
Minestrone Soup
Old minestrone secret: If you grate your own Parmesan cheese, save the rinds and toss a couple of hunks into the soup as it cooks to add some serious flavor. Fish them out of the pot before serving.
Oven-Roasted Vegetables
Think of this more as a suggestion than an actual recipe. Go ahead and mess with it to use whatever vegetables you happen to have in the house. Substitute chunks of butternut squash for sweet potatoes, or invite some broccoli, cauliflower or carrots to the party. Just make sure you cut everything up into similar-size pieces so they cook evenly.
Whole Wheat Blueberry Yogurt Pancakes
Eat these pancakes and you’ll feel so healthy it’s scary. Loaded with good stuff — they’re a perfect way to start your day.
Maple Glazed Salmon
Seriously — what part of that doesn’t sound amazing? Marinate the fish while you make a salad or cook some potatoes.
Publisher : Firefly Books; Third Edition, Expanded with Full Color Photos (July 30, 2017)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 1770859330
ISBN-13 : 978-1770859333
Item Weight : 2.31 pounds
Dimensions : 6.4 x 0.5 x 8.9 inches
Reviewer: M.C.
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Best cookbook
Review: A great book, with a lot of good and useful information⦠and NOT just for beginners !
Reviewer: Bry-Rit
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: What a fun cookbook
Review: I've been cooking for over 50 years, so I'm not a newbie, but I am really enjoying this cookbook.
Reviewer: Pamela Guevara
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: More like Advanced Beginners 101.
Review: This is a decent enough book for people with some basic knowledge on cooking already but this particular edition (I have all three) has given in somewhat to the modern trend of cookbooks being more gourmet than everyday, with weird stuff you'd never fix if you came home from work tired and had to scrape together something quick and easy for supper. I've been cooking for a half century and wouldn't be interested in much of what is in this book as much of it is now into the "Braised Yak with Leeks and Cumquat Sauce" category with ingredients I don't usually have on hand or wouldn't know where to locate in the local supermarket, if they even have it on hand. If you really can't successfully boil water and need to follow short recipes with common ingredients, here's my suggestion - hunt up some old cookbooks from between 1930 and 1945. Between the Depression and WWII people couldn't splurge on weird foods, they kept it very basic and had to stretch every dollar. You can find such very basic cookbooks online, dirt cheap. They will be more help to you if you really ARE clueless in the kitchen. Don't get me wrong - if you are a newbie cook and you are out to impress your girlfriend with your culinary skills, this particular book will result in impressing her. But if you are next to broke and don't know squat about cooking, go with the vintage cookbooks as they will be more useful until you get your sea legs in the kitchen.
Reviewer: Andrea N Smith
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Straightforward & Delicious!
Review: I actually bought this book even though I own the previous version, because it is a little cheaper and I need multiple copies for a teen cooking class. The addition of color photos is wonderful. The recipes are only slightly different than the previous edition. This cookbook is a bit unique because while it really is appropriate for true beginners, it doesn't use shortcuts like canned soup and packaged food (recipes include "Pancakes Not From a Box," "Macaroni and Cheese Not From a Box," and "Frosting Not From a Can"). These recipes use REAL food - lots of fresh veggies, homemade dressings & marinades, etc. The recipes are familiar, things that the reader will have eaten before or at least seen on menus. I haven''t seen any hard-to-find ingredients or expensive spices either. It's everything I want in a beginner cookbook - the only thing better would be if it had a spiral binding. 😉
Reviewer: Cristi
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Been having fun using this with my 8 year old!
Review: My son got this from the library at his school. He wanted to cook with me so often, and the recipes are so easy and yummy, I decided to buy a copy to keep!
Reviewer: Ed Michigan
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for new cooks
Review: Bought for a new cook. Is a great book to start with. Endless information to help in the kitchen and the recipes are not intimidating. Will get the basics established.
Reviewer: Beckie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great first cookbook
Review: I borrowed this book from the library and loved it, so I added it to my wishlist. Can't beat the price and I will pass it along to my son when he is older.
Reviewer: AmaCustmor
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Ehhhh
Review: I bought this as a gift for a beginner in the kitchen. While I do advocate the use of fresh ingredients and dishes made from scratch, the recipes contained within are, in my opinion, a bit above the entry level tween chef wanna be.
Reviewer: Gwen Settle
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bought this cookbook for my granddaughter's birthday present. It is the most up-to-date version of one that both her mother and I have. It is absolutely excellent for someone starting out on their own or even if they have never done much cooking before. Covers all the basics in a fun informative way. Has lots of delicious easy to make recipes. (I'm 79 and I still use some of these recipes!) Teaches to make things from scratch, which is more economical and often tastes even better than store-bought. Plus this newer version is chock full of great pictures. Definitely a 5 star!!!!
Reviewer: Cinders
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bought as a present for someone who just moved into their own flat from living at home. They were very pleased with it and tried a recipe out the next day which they said was "Amazing"
Reviewer: rebecca
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: I got this for myself and a friend who has little cooking experience I remembered having the teen edition when I was in my 20âs and so many good easy recipes as well as pantry starter tips
Reviewer: Jeff
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Your book is good but not what I wanted. I need to learn how to defrost meat in the microwave? How to cook meat, fish, veg etc ? Your brilliant book explains complicated menus. I was hoping for a really basic cooking book. Please help 'cause I'm getting hungry? I'm 63 & never needed to cook before my wife ran off with a farmer! Warmest regards Jeff.
Reviewer: Dee
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title:
Review: Bought the book as a gift. It arrived in great condition enclosed in a shipping envelope, and the book wrapped in plastic.