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Starting from Scratch: Cooking & Entertaining Made Simple features 78 recipes including appetizers, salads, soups, sides, main courses and desserts.
Whether you’re new to the kitchen and planning your first dinner party or looking to mix it up with new recipes, author Merle Rosenbloom has written and organized this cookbook as a toolkit for the at-home chef.
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“There are many cookbooks on the market which go back to basics to explore easy cooking and entertaining strategies, but Starting From Scratch Cooking and Entertaining Made Simple is a standout written by a culinary professional who had no background in cooking when she began. She didn’t grow up in a family of accomplished home cooks and her first forays into the kitchen were less than successful, but she learned to become a good hostess and cook, and Starting From Scratch Cooking and Entertaining Made Simple is the starting point for anyone who would emulate her accomplishments.
There are 78 recipes in this culinary journey; but what makes them exceptional is a combined focus on very simple yet elegant-looking, foolproof results and a back-to-basics approach that covers what may seem obvious to more experienced cooks: “Whether you’re a master chef or beginner cook, the same rule applies: preparation is everything. Read the recipe, make your grocery list, and shop smart. Save time by preparing your ingredients ahead of time and measuring everything out.”
There’s an overview of kitchen equipment, from pots and pans to prep devices, a review of pantry staples, and a chart of measurement equivalents. The recipes themselves are faced with full-page color photos of finished results and can be as complex-sounding as a Lobster Bisque to as easy as a quick vegetable soup made with frozen soup vegetables and carrots and boxes of low-sodium chicken broth.
This is the second big lesson: good food needn’t require time-consuming preparations. Shortcuts that include boned chicken breasts, packaged sliced mushrooms, or canned ingredients pair with fresh fare to streamline a beginner’s time and efforts.
The result is the kind of cookbook that should accompany any teen out of the home and into the world of easy cooking and entertaining: a fine-looking hardback that invites bare-bones beginners into a world of successful culinary accomplishment with no prior assumption of skills, knowledge, or time.
Starting From Scratch Cooking and Entertaining Made Simple is very highly recommended.”
November, 2018 ~ Midwest Book Review by D. Donovan
