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Busy home cooks can create exciting meals straight from the pantry with this unique cookbook from America’s Test Kitchen.
Cook more, shop less, and improvise like a pro with over 350 recipes and tricks for making the most of ingredients you already have on hand.
Flexibility should be in every cook’s arsenal—sometimes you can’t always get to the supermarket. This invaluable cooking resource from America’s Test Kitchen shows cooks how to make use of their pantry by thinking in categories. The recipe is the blueprint—you focus on what the ingredients do, not just what they are.
Visualize a dish starting with what’s in your pantry, fridge, or freezer. Then substitute, swap, and combine to build the meal up:
• Bulk and bases: grains, beans, and other starchy foods are a solid foundation
• Long storage vegetables: use go-to staples like potatoes and garlic, even frozen veggies
• Proteins: items like eggs, tinned fish, tofu, and cured meat anchor the meal
• Toppings: creamy and rich, or crispy, crunchy, and chewy—these always transform a dish
• Acidic and pickled foods: brighten everything up
• Umami: flavor-enhancing condiments and seasonings add depth to food
• Hot and smoky elements: spices, chiles, and sauces enliven your mea
• Sweet and tart flavorings: balance out anything that’s salty, bitter, sour, or hot
• DIY Pantry items: make your own blends and toppings
Whether you’re a home cook who wants to get more creative, or are budget and waste-conscious, or even just pressed for time on a weeknight, America’s Test Kitchen will show you how to improvise with confidence.
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Publisher : America's Test Kitchen (November 15, 2022)
Language : English
Paperback : 448 pages
ISBN-10 : 1954210167
ISBN-13 : 978-1954210165
Item Weight : 2.55 pounds
Dimensions : 7.92 x 0.94 x 9.66 inches
Reviewer: Diane E. Das
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pictures are good
Review: Like the format, easy to read,
Reviewer: Gail
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great Book
Review: Informative and useful! One of their best books I think!
Reviewer: Kai Roberts
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Lots of creative recipes
Review: I have a number of the America's Test Kitchen cookbooks as I find they have innovative ideas that work well for the busy home cook along with lots of tips and techniques to make things easier and of a dependable quality. What I like most about this latest offering is the variety of the recipes that are featured. Further, they include suggestions on how to adapt the recipes to what one has on hand, or how to substitute some ingredients to please different palates. I have just received this book and haven't made any of the recipes yet, but I have perused the book carefully to select upcoming menus. There are a number of exciting recipes to try out. Given my experience with ATK's previous cookbooks, I am confident that the recipes will turn out well. However, though I am enthusiastic about trying the many international offerings, like nasi goreng, homemade biang biang mian noodles in a spicy chili sauce, and vindaloo sweet potatoes, some of the necessary ingredients are not sitting on my pantry shelves. I certainly do not have kecap manis on hand. Nor have I ever heard of it. To be fair, the book does offer substitutions. Ditto for gim, which I had to Google to discover it is a variety of edible seaweed. I think this is an unrealistic and slightly misleading stretching of the book's mission to show "ways to cook well with what's on hand." For that reason alone, I'm giving it only 4 stars instead of 5. But with some prior planning and sourcing of authentic ingredients, you'll get some delicious dinners. Just be aware that you may not find a recipe to use that can of cream of celery soup that's about to expire.
Reviewer: NewDog
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Really useful!
Review: Really good! There are so many useful ideas in this cookbook, and for a change, America's Test Kitchen formatted the text properly, starting each recipe on its own page.
Reviewer: Marilyn
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Modern pantry book is awesome very helpful
Review: I love book modern pantry.american test kitchen books are so resourseful.i purchased mod.pantry for a family member pursuing culinary art she loved the book.
Reviewer: AWP
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not What I Would Call a Pantry Cookbook
Review: Iâm a huge ATK fan and buy most of their cookbooks. Although this one has many good-looking recipes, I was expecting more that were really creative pantry-only meals. Many of these are just recipes with fresh things you will need to buy in order to make, not really a collection of ingenious ways to cook with dried or canned beans, pastas, canned goods, even canned or dried or smoked meats and fish, and spices/pastes/sauce/etc, which is what I was excited to think this would be. I do have a well-stocked international pantry and already have many things that are used in this book (harissa, gojuchang, miso, etc), so thatâs not the issue. Itâs more likeâhow are ground beef, shrimp, bacon, lots of fresh veggies, and salmon considered âpantry items?â I know dishes that have nothing fresh arenât usually greatâI had thought ATK had taken that as a challenge to really go panty-only and come up with truly creative and delicious ways to cook from your shelves, not your fridge and freezer. Soâ¦if you were hoping for a book that really allowed you to rely only on what you could literally always have stocked on a shelf, this isnât that book. Kind of disappointing.
Reviewer: Kindle Customer
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not what I was expecting
Review: I bought this book for my daughters for Christmas thinking it would be useful to someone just starting out with a basic pantry. One is in college, the other is a nurse was renting a small house so they cook simple meals. I guess America's Test Kitchen has a different idea of what items go in a modern pantry as there are many items I would consider specialty items (seaweed sheets, nutritional yeast, gochujang paste).... but, maybe the unusualness of the ingredients is what makes it "modern". Unfortunately, by the time Christmas rolled around & we realized this wasn't going to work, it was too late to return.
Reviewer: Anna M Hernandez
Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Basic
Review: recipes with the no nonsense ATC style for anyone who can't put ingredients together themselves. Might be good for those starting out cooking.