America’s Secret Recipes 2: Make Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes at Home [Paperback]

September 3rd, 2010 admin No comments

America's Secret Recipes 2: Make Your Favorite Restaurant Dishes at Home

After 4 years of collective research and testing with members of the Secret Recipe Forum, Ron Douglas emerges with his highly anticipated follow-up cookbook – America’s Secret Recipes 2.
Discover his secret version of dishes from The Cheesecake Factory, Applebee’s, Olive Garden, Outback Steakhouse (plus many more) and learn how to easily make them yourself.
Skip the long lines and re-create your favorite restaurant dishes at home for a fraction of the cost following these easy, (more…)

The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed [Kindle Edition]

September 3rd, 2010 admin No comments

The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed

The Healthy Life Cook Book, 2d ed.by Florence Daniel

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Peach Cobbler Pie Home Kitchen Recipe Cafe Picture Art Print

September 2nd, 2010 admin No comments

Peach Cobbler Pie Home Kitchen Recipe Cafe Picture Art Print

This beautiful art goes well in any room. Artwork is manufactured by Art Prints Inc. using state of the art equipment and quality materials such as premium grade high quality acid free lithograph art paper.

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The Cook’s Book of Intense Flavors: 101 Surprising Flavor Combinations and Extraordinary Recipes That Excite Your Palate and Pleasure Your Senses [Hardcover]

September 2nd, 2010 admin No comments

The Cook's Book of Intense Flavors: 101 Surprising Flavor Combinations and Extraordinary Recipes That Excite Your Palate and Pleasure Your Senses

The Cook’s Book of Intense Flavors is an indispensable guide to exotic and decadent flavor combinations for the advanced chef. Filled with more than 100 extraordinary combinations, The Cook’s Book of Intense Flavors will make you rethink the way you approach food and each exotic flavor is accompanied by an inspired recipe as an example of how to use it. And unlike other flavor references, this book offers a recipe for each combination so you know exactly how to use what you lear (more…)

Practicing Expertise In Gourmet Cooking Is Exciting

September 2nd, 2010 Pia Chef No comments

Going from standard cooking to preparing gourmet meals may seem like quite a stretch. It takes real skill and talent when it comes to cooking gourmet meals.

People fond of gourmet meals are very precise about what they want in their food. At times, they can even be picky about the ingredients. But one thing is for sure, these people are willing to pay big bucks to get the meal that they deserve.

Gourmet cooking can be a really fun activity. It definitely requires a creative eye, a well tuned pallet, and some genuine skill. If you can make your entre look like masterpiece, taste like heaven, and can draw interest from others, then gourmet cooking may be the right thing for you.

If this is the case, attending culinary school may be a good idea. These professional schools will teach you the right way to go about things in the kitchen. Not only will they teach you how to make good food, but they’ll teach you how to make your food look appetizing as well.

Once you’ve spent enough time practicing, soon you will realize that you’re more than ready to come up with a masterpiece of your own.

Also, reputation is very important to gourmet cooks. Especially since word of food reviews travel fast.

Food critics are the people responsible for posting restaurant reviews in newspapers and magazines. These critics make it a point to look as normal as possible in order to do their jobs well.

The primary goal of gourmet diners is to make sure that each customer is satisfied with their meal, up from the first entre, up to dessert.

As a cook, you may find it interesting as well how important it is to keep customers satisfied. At the end of it all, it is your reputation at stake – caring this much is well worth it.

Check out more of this author’s writing on subjects such as gourmet food baskets and healthy gourmet gift baskets.

Basic Information On The Heritage Attached To United States Pizza Pies

September 1st, 2010 Daniel Caliguire No comments

The pizza pie is surely an ubiquitous symbolic representation of each Italian cooking and Americana. The oven baked, thin crust or perhaps pan, round or square, it is a common favorite all over the united states, that has a wide number of local variations.

One of the most traditional pie is the pizza Napolitano, or Neapolitan pizza. This particular pizza’s dough is rolled out flat and thin with a rolling pin once the dough has already been kneaded manually. Then the particular pizza will be then cooked within a wooden fired oven for just about one minute roughly, the pizza is completed once it becomes soft and incredibly aromatic.

The very first pizza shop in the USA was initially opened up in New York in 1905 by Gennaro Lombardi, it was opened in Little Italy. And also the New York style pizza has dominated the north eastern portion of the United States ever since it had been introduced back in 1905. It’s thin crusted, and is made by using a small coating of sauce along with grated mozzarella. You could have observed men and women throughout motion pictures spinning the dough through the air, that is New York style pizza. Because of this, it is offered cut into triangular pieces, usually eight, which are often eaten once the slice has been folded in half. It could be served with numerous toppings, or maybe as a “white pizza”, consisting of simply no tomato sauce and is made with a number of cheeses, for example mozzarella and also ricotta.

Chicago, IL is likewise home to a leading selection of pizza. Your Chicago-style pizza is pan pizza, which means it really is made in a pan while the crust forms up the sides, or even it can end up being made together with 2 crusts and sauce between them, a so-called “stuffed” pizza. With regards to preparing a Chicago pizza things are performed just a little differently, the particular cheese is going to be the ingredient you use first then the sauce will go on top of the particular cheese.

And lets certainly not overlook the St. Louis style pizza which is so popular inside the Midwest. This is certainly a very popular thin crust pizza which is normally constructed along with provel cheese rather than the regular mozzarella, and the crust is very thin as well as incredibly crispy. Seriously seasoned together with oregano and other spices or herbs, with a slightly sweet sauce, it is difficult to fold the pizza because of the thin as well as crispy crust and is typically cut into squares, rather than being dished up in slices.

And of course just how could we forget about the Hawaiian pizza, although this pizza was not conceived in Hawaii, this pizza gets its identify mainly because the primary component is actually pineapple. The pineapple will be put atop the pizza, in addition to Canadian bacon, giving a fairly sweet taste very different from pizzas nearer to the Italian original. Hawaiian pizza is incredibly common within the Western United States.

While every one of the different sorts of pizzas is probably not obtainable where you live, you could try making all of them yourself. The numerous kinds of pizza available in America is nearly endless, needless to say I prefer making my own, personal pizza, it usually tastes better once you make the pizza on your own.

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Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories [Paperback]

September 1st, 2010 admin No comments

Sweets: Soul Food Desserts and Memories

From Publishers Weekly

In this sweetly sentimental cookbook, Pinner shares “plain old down-home confections” and her childhood memories of the lively women who created them: Mama, “My My” (her grandmother), “Aints” Lula and Pinky, “Cud’n” Flossie and more. In addition to the standard pound cakes, fruit cobblers and cookies of most home-baking books, she relates some truly original recipes, like Cud’n Bertise’s Mashed Potato Fudge and Cud’n Merle’s Mississippi Bean Fudge, which “d (more…)


Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking [Paperback]

September 1st, 2010 admin No comments

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow: The Big Book of Everyday Slow Cooking

Make It Fast, Cook It Slow is the first cookbook from Stephanie O’Dea, the extremely popular slow cooking blogger: affordable, delicious, nutritious, and gluten-free recipes to delight the entire family. In December 2007, Stephanie O’Dea made a New Year’s resolution: she’d use her slow cooker every single day for an entire year, and write about it on her very popular blog. The result: more than three million visitors, and more than 300 fabulous, easy-to-make, family-pleasing (more…)

Peach Cobbler Pie Home Kitchen Recipe Cafe Picture Framed Art Print

August 31st, 2010 admin No comments

Peach Cobbler Pie Home Kitchen Recipe Cafe Picture Framed Art Print

This beautiful framed art goes well in any room. Artwork and frame are manufactured in the United States by Art Prints Inc. using quality materials such as premium grade A solid hardwood, tempered picture frame glass, and high quality acid free lithograph art paper.

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How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart [Hardcover]

August 31st, 2010 admin No comments

How to Cook Without a Book: Recipes and Techniques Every Cook Should Know by Heart

Amazon.com Review

Learn what makes a recipe tick, says How to Cook Without a Book author Pam Anderson, and you’ll serve great food fast. Recognizing that most cooks feel challenged in the face of daily meal making, Anderson provides a game plan: prepare dishes based on available ingredients and simple cooking techniques you’ve mastered–not on recipes you’ve got to look up and ingredients you’ll need to shop for–and you maximize the potential of kitchen ease. Cooks lo (more…)