Cake Mix Doctor
Author: Anne Byrn
The Cake Mix Doctor is in! And the prescription is simple: By doctoring up packaged cake mix with just the right extras--a touch of sweet butter here, cocoa powder there, or poppy seeds, vanilla yogurt, sherry, eggs, and grated lemon zest for the Charleston Poppy Seed Cake--even the least experienced baker can turn out luscious signature desserts, time after time. The proof is in the taste, and the taste never stops--from Toasted Coconut Sour Cream Cake to Devilishly Good Chocolate Cake; from a to-die-for Caramel Cake and a Holiday Yule Log to cheesecakes, coffee cakes, sheet cakes, pound cakes, bars, brownies, and those all-important frostings, here are 175 fast, foolproof recipes that will transform the art of home baking in America.
Who could believe these cakes came out of a box? Moist, tender, rich, deep, and complexly flavored, without a hint of artificiality, each cake stand up and delivers. But without any of the fuss of baking from scratch. Anne Byrn, an award-wining food writer and self-described purist, creates recipes that employ a cake mix's strengths---convenience, ease-of-use, dependability, and almost imperviousness to overbeating, underbeating, overbaking, and underbaking.
In addition to the recipes are the Cake Mix Doctor's Q&A's, extensive "Doctor Says" tips, lists--15 Beautiful Birthday Cakes, 15 Cakes That Will Cash in at a Bake Sale--and more, all illustrated in a full-color photographic insert.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Doctoring Cake Mixes
Cake Mix 101
How to Use This Book
Chocolate Cakes
Cakes with Fruit
Strike It Rich Cakes
Cake-Mix Classics
Special Occasion Cakes
Cheesecakes and Gooey Cakes
Coffee Cakes
Cakes with Spirit
Incredible Bars and Comforting Cookies
This Can-t Contain Cake Mix
Lighter Cakes
Just the Basics
Frostings, Glazes, and One Compote
Conversion Table
Bibliography
IndeX
How to Cook Everything
Author: Mark Bittman
Today's Favorite Kitchen Companion--Revised and Better Than Ever
Mark Bittman's award-winning How to Cook Everything has helped countless home cooks discover the rewards of simple cooking. Now the ultimate cookbook has been revised and expanded (almost half the material is new), making it absolutely indispensable for anyone who cooks---or wants to. With Bittman's straightforward instructions and advice, you'll make crowd-pleasing food using fresh, natural ingredients; simple techniques; and basic equipment. Even better, you'll discover how to relax and enjoy yourself in the kitchen as you prepare delicious meals for every occasion.
Ten years after the first edition, here is the second edition of How to Cook Everything, completely revised with over 50ew recipes and other material, fully updated in keeping with how we eat now, and presented in a navigable, even-more-user-friendly layout.
What's new? More opinionated writing: Mark's advice, which has helped millions of readers cook with confidence, is even more present in HTCE 2e in countless sidebars and tips (like "Is Brining Worth the Effort?" and "What to Expect from Whole Wheat Pasta"). Most importantly, he begins each chapter with Essential Recipes--recipes Mark thinks you should know because they're building blocks or that you'll want in your repertoire because they're so easy or popular. Recipes like Roast Chicken Parts in Olive Oil or Butter are disarmingly simple and endlessly variable. You'll also find:
• Nearly 400 drawings of how-to techniques (many new), from how to chop an onion to how to use a pastry bag.
• All-new recipes, like Chicken Pot Pie, Warm Spicy Greens with Bacon and Eggs, and Jim Lahey's No-Work Bread.
• Loads of helpful sidebars, such as "18 Variations on Vinaigrette."
• Icons flagging Fast, Make-Ahead, Vegetarian, and Essential recipes, plus listings in the back for each.
• New charts help you customize recipes with a variety of flavors and ingredients, such as "6 Ways to Flavor Grilled or Broiled Shrimp," or "Improvising Hot Sandwiches."
• Chapter-At-a-Glance listings that x-ref all the mains sections of the chapter ("Appetizers" haslistings for Essential Recipes, Finger and Toothpick Food, Dips and Spreads, Crispy Starters, Wrapped Finger Foods, and More Formal Appetizers).
• A comprehensive index that makes finding what you need a snap.
Publishers Weekly
Ten years have brought many changes to the U.S. culinary landscape, and Bittman's new edition of his contemporary classic reflects that, with hundreds of recipes added, out-of-date ones banished and few lines from the holdovers left untouched. The opening chapter offers invaluable new tips on basic kitchen equipment and techniques, and in the wake of the recent vegetarian version of the book, produce and legumes are now featured earlier and with more inspired meatless recipes. Overall, Bittman's globe-trotting palate shows even better than it did in the already quite international first edition, with intriguing recipes from every corner of the world. Considering these expansions, the most important change has been to the book's user-friendliness: a proliferation of charts, lists and boxes makes much more information immediately available-hardly a page goes by without an eye-catching sidebar about technique, a handy table organizing the basics of an ingredient or dish or the myriad suggestions of variations and new ways to think about a recipe that make it the best-value all-in-one volume available. At-a-glance coding to indicate what is fast to make, what can be made ahead and what is vegetarian, plus highlighted recipes that Bittman considers essential, help ensure that even with more of everything to cook, this massive tome is navigable. Whether the first edition is on their shelves or not, home cooks of all skill levels will want to get this one. (Oct.)
Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.Library Journal
Bittman's How To Cook Everything , originally published in 1998, became an almost instant classic and has sold close to two million copies. This new edition has been reorganized and includes 500 new recipes and many more step-by-step illustrations. Each chapter now opens with "essential recipes" that should be in every cook's repertoire, and there are dozens of new charts and lists throughout. Vegetarian recipes are marked with a special icon, and quick recipes-Bittman also writes "The Minimalist" column for the New York Times -and those that can be made ahead are similarly denoted; prep times are also given for all recipes. Since he wrote the first edition, Bittman has published The Best Recipes in the World and How To Cook Everything Vegetarian ; in this tenth anniversary edition, there are more recipes from cuisines around the world and more vegetarian recipes than in the original. Valuable as both a reference and a cookbook, this is an essential purchase.
What People Are Saying
"A week doesn't go by where I don't pull How to Cook Everything down from the shelf, so I am thrilled there's a new, revised edition. My original is falling apart!"
---Al Roker
"This new generation of How to Cook Everything makes my 'desert island' cookbook choice jacked up and simply universal. I'll now bequeath my cookbooks to a collector; I need only this one."
---Mario Batali
"Mark Bittman has done the impossible, improving upon his now-classic How to Cook Everything. If you need know-how, here's where to find it."
---Bobby Flay
"Mark Bittman is a great cook and an incredible teacher. In this second edition, Mark has fine-tuned the original, making this book a must for every kitchen."
---Jean-Georges Vongerichten
"Throw away all your old recipes and buy How to Cook Everything. Mark Bittman's recipes are foolproof, easy, and more modern than any others."
---Isaac Mizrahi
"Generous, thorough, reliable, and necessary, How to Cook Everything is an indispensable reference for both experienced and beginner cooks."
---Mollie Katzen, author of the Moosewood Cookbook
"I learned how to cook from How to Cook Everything in a way that gives me the freedom to be creative. This new edition will be my gift to new couples or for a housewarming; if you have this book, you don't really need any others."
---Lisa Loeb, singer/songwriter
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