Monday, December 15, 2008

Food You Want to Eat or Home Creamery

Food You Want to Eat: 100 Smart, Simple Recipes

Author: Ted Allen

Queer Eye for the Straight Guy's food-and-wine connoisseur, Ted Allen, presents a quick-reference cookbook--giving you the food you really want to cook and eat, and the know-how to pull it off with ease.

"With most cookbooks, you could plow through 134 pages of complicated hors d'oeuvres, salads, and the author's philosophical musings about food before you get to the stuff you actually want to eat. Not here. I'm going to save you the trouble and get to the point right up front." These first sentences of the book sum up what Ted Allen's The Food You Want to Eat is all about--the tempting, delicious, satisfying fare you really want on your dinner table tonight, without the fuss and the formalities. Chapters include:

• I Know What You Want to Eat: the essentials of steak, chicken both fried and roasted, warm caramel brownie sundaes, and a luscious mac and cheese that will have you thinking outside the box--way outside.

• Happy Hour: for the kind of parties real people actually throw; no engraved invitations or seating charts, just easy, delicious recipes like crostini, a simple tuna tartare that kicks, the crowd-pleasing spicy Cajun "pigs" in much nicer "blankets" than you're used to, four incredible pizzas (one for each season), and of course ten perfect cocktails.

• The Cookout: fulfilling everyone's desire for great barbecued ribs, plus the more adventurous (but even easier) rosemary grilled leg of lamb, and Ted's secret to the ultimate hamburger.

• Poultry: whether baked, braised, or sautéed, chicken is often what's for weeknight dinner, and here's everything from soy-and-honey-glazed roast chicken to "around the world on achicken breast" with superb ways to liven up those boneless, skinless, tasteless cutlets. Plus a simple (really!) duck, and a turkey that doesn't demand the traditional Thanksgiving heroics.

Ted also delves into chapters on an array of fantastic salads that are a far cry from rabbit food; pastas featuring Italian classics like a great ziti with sausage and your basic pasta with red sauce, as well as easy Asian adventures such as cold soba noodles with sesame-peanut sauce; seafood for everyone who's afraid to cook fish; meats that range from an amazing marinated grilled pork tenderloin and killer chili to a classic pot roast and osso buco; vegetable recipes that will make you love broccoli in a whole new way; and desserts for after dinner--and breakfasts for after after dinner.

This is the debut cookbook from one of the most engaging, most entertaining people ever to wield a spatula, filled with the incredibly simple, delicious real-life recipes for The Food You Want to Eat. In a word, mmmm.

Library Journal

Allen is known as the food and wine expert on Queer Eye for the Straight Guy; he's also a contributing editor to Esquire. His approachable cookbook offers simple yet sophisticated recipes, e.g., Roasted Cod with Red Peppers and Green Herb Sauce, and comfort food like meat loaf (though his version comes with a mushroom-walnut sauce). The first chapter, "What You Want To Eat," is intended to get even hesitant cooks into the kitchen, with Simplest Roast Chicken with Lemon and Herbs, Saucepan Macaroni and Cheese, and Caramel Brownie Sundaes. Many of the recipes include variations, and there are explanations and tips on everything from cuts of meat to the fact that "Parmesan Cheese Does Not Come from a Green Can." Allen has a relaxed, conversational style, and color photographs add to the book's appeal. For most collections. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.



Interesting textbook: Strategic and Competitive Analysis or In Praise of Empires

Home Creamery: Make Your Own Fresh Dairy Products - Easy Recipes for Butter, Yogurt, Sour Cream, Creme Fraiche, Cream Cheese, Ricotta and More!

Author: Kathy Farrell Kingsley

Butter, yogurt, ricotta, and other fresh dairy products have been made in home kitchens around the world for centuries. They are not difficult to make, require no complicated aging techniques, and offer the home cook a wonderful range of tart, sweet, nutty, silky, creamy, melty textures and flavors. With the growing availability of local, organic milk and the soaring popularity of raw milk, now is the perfect time to bring fresh dairy products back to the home kitchen.

Author Kathy Farrell-Kingsley begins with simple, step-by-step instructions for making sour cream, buttermilk, créme fraîche, mozzarella, fresh goat cheese, and 10 other fresh milk products. Home cooks will be thrilled with the simple but magical process of turning milk or cream into cultured dairy products and soft, unripened cheeses. There's nothing quite like watching cream turn into butter or tasting the slightly chewy tang of homemade mozzarella.

Following the dairy instructions are 75 delicious cooking and baking recipes developed to showcase products from The Home Creamery. Cheese Blintzes, Herbed Goat Cheese Bites, Mozzarella Panini, Spinach Ricotta Pie, Coleslaw with Buttermilk Dressing, Chocolate Sour Cream Cake, and Tiramisu are that much sweeter when made with the rich creamy goodness of homemade dairy items.

Judith Sutton - Library Journal

Farrell-Kingsley is a food writer and author of several other cookbooks. Here, she provides easy recipes for making cultured dairy products, such as yogurt, butter, and sour cream, and soft unripened cheeses, such as cream cheese and mozzarella, at home. There are also recipes based on these homemade dairy products, from Buttermilk Pancakes to Italian Ricotta Tart. Sidebars and boxes offer culinary history, nutrition information, and useful tips and hints. Farrell-Kingsley's thorough but unintimidating recipe instructions will enable any reader to make a variety of dairy products, and many home cooks will be eager to try them. For most collections.



Table of Contents:
Introduction: Setting Up Your Home Creamery     1
Cultured Dairy Products
Yogurt     14
Kefir     21
Butter     26
Piima Butter     33
Buttermilk     36
Creme Fraiche     42
Quark     46
Sour Cream     49
Soft, Unripened Cheeses
Cream Cheese     58
Cottage Cheese     63
Ricotta     68
Goat Cheese     74
Mozzarella     82
Mascarpone     89
Recipes from the Home Creamery
Coffee and ...     94
No Forks Required     112
Not Just for Lunch     128
The Main Event     142
Super Sides     162
Desserts Galore     176
Glossary     206
Sources     209
Index     211

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