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Saving Dinner Basics: How to Cook Even If You Don't Know How By Leanne Ely ( Ballantine Books )
Release Date: 2006-08-22
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Product Description
Cooking 101
If you think that folding an egg has something to do with laundry, or that a wok is good exercise, you’ve come to the right place.
Nutritionist and family meal-planner extraordinaire, Leanne Ely knows her way around a stove and a pantry–and she provides everything you need to know, from mincing garlic and barbecuing beef to pulling off your first dinner party. Select chapters feature tasty recipes that can be prepared with the greatest of ease. You’ll find practical and trustworthy advice on
• equipping your kitchen: what you must have, what you don’t need
• stocking your cupboards, fridge, and freezer with the essentials
• selecting fresh produce and high-quality meats, poultry, and fish
• slicing, dicing, sautéing, simmering, and other prep techniques
• whipping up quick, scrumptious dishes with ingredients on hand
• ensuring that your main course and side dishes are ready at the same time
• preparing mouthwatering one-pot meals, from Lemon Tarragon Chicken to Easily the Best Casserole in the World
• baking fast and easy cookies, pies, cakes, and cobblers
Saving Dinner Basics also includes a handy glossary of common food terminology, a spice primer (it’s about time you discovered thyme!), and a troubleshooting guide for various cooking challenges. Let Leanne Ely help you turn your kitchen into what it was meant to be: the place where great meals begin.
Leanne Ely is considered the expert on family cooking and healthy eating. She is a syndicated newspaper columnist (The Dinner Diva), a certified nutritionist, and the host of SavingDinner.com. Leanne has a weekly “Food for Thought” column on the ever-popular FlyLady.net website, as well as her own e-zine, Healthy Foods. She is the author of Saving Dinner, Saving Dinner the Low-Carb Way and Saving Dinner for the Holidays. She lives in North Carolina with her two teenage children.
“Anyone who finds cooking a mystery needs Saving Dinner Basics.”
–Marla Cilley, The FlyLady, author of Sink Reflections
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A Pleaseure to deal with!
I was very pleased with the condition of the book, and it came wrapped, and included a bookmarker as a gift! How thoughtful! I will certainly use this vendor again! Thanks!
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Excellent Book, Fun to Read ( karenshapiro )
This is a fun, entertaining, and informative book. Ms. Ely gives all the basics about how to stock and organize your kitchen -- pots, pans, dishes, food. She also includes lots of simple, tasty, quick and delicious recipes. Highly recommended.
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Courage in the kitchen
Enter the kitchen again with courage and confidence, turn ho-hum dishes into tasty, colorful, healthful meals. Be excited about supper once more! I found all this in the book, "Saving Dinner Basics: How to Cook", by Leanne Ely. I first heard of Leanne Ely from the book "Sink Reflections" by Martha Cilley, the FlyLady. I am so glad I did. Shopping is easier (everything in the cart goes to a delicious new meal), my preparation area is ready (meal prep is smoother with forethought), and clean up flows along with a sink full of soapy water for washing in between. It is learning a new routine for success and I am enjoying this success.
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A Good Place to Start
This is a great basic starting place for those who don't know how to cook. It is also quite useful for those of us who know how to cook but may not have learned all the basics of preparing a meal. I love to cook and I am pretty good at creating my own meals out of ingredients I have on hand but there were many things I never learned how to do correctly. This book helped me to fill in the gaps that were missing from my cooking repertoire.
This book is great for those of us who are growing up in families that don't have time to teach us the basics of cooking. In today's convenience-driven society many lessons that were taught as a natural part of living have been forgotten. This is a great gift for someone just starting out on their own.
If you cook like Martha Stewart then this isn't the book for you. If you could use some lessons in learning how to set up a kitchen efficiently and learn how to chop food quickly then this is a great resource for your kitchen!
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 More basic than I thought but still good ( miltay )
I am actually a better informed cook than I thought. This book has shown me that. I love Leanne and the Flylady. They have really helped me get past the funk I found myself in after having children and all the extra time consuming things that come with them. Clutter and daily dinner cooking (my dh used to do the cooking before kids) really took a tole on me cause I was not trained as a kid to be a "housewife." Thank goodness! However, I am now in a self training program with these ladies and even the most basic book, such as this one, is helping me figure things out. I'm glad I own it and don't have to borrow from the library as it will be much easier to reference.
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