Product Description

Cuisine Canada Cookbook of the Year 2000

Developed, tested and perfected in the Canadian Living Test Kitchen, Canadian Living™ Cooks Step-by-Step introduces home cooks of all levels to a world of flavours, techniques, methods and ingredients. This one-of-a-kind cookbook contains a selection of fabulous new recipes, fully illustrated cooking lessons, entertaining ideas, nutritional tips, recipe analysis, menu plans, short-cuts, charts, substitution boxes and a glossary.

With diverse and flavourful recipes such as Mushroom Red Pepper Puffs and Gazpacho, Smoky Tex-Mex Ribs, Salmon Strudels and Easy Garden Risotto, you'll find dishes for everything from quick family suppers to elegant dinner parties -- and a spectacular array of dessert recipes such as Orange Crème Brulee, Tarte Tatin and Chocolate Banana Cake.

Each of the 80 cooking lessons is illustrated with carefully selected step-by-step photographs, invaluable for novice cooks, but useful too for experienced cooks who will delight in having difficult techniques demystified. Master the art of rolling sushi, piping choux pastry or folding phyllo. Find out the difference between grilling and broiling, braising and poaching.

A Canadian Living™ cookbook is always a delight and this one is no exception.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #95366 in Books
• Published on: 2001-04-24
• Released on: 2001-04-24
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 9.98" h x .65" w x 9.12" l, 2.27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Amazon.ca
Suppertime, and the Canadian Living is easy. Not to mention “breezy,” in Canadian Living Cooks Step by Step, the illustrated crudités-to-croquembouche multi-course collection of easy-to-follow recipes and professional techniques designed for both novice cooks and gourmets-in-training. Culled from more than 10 years of monthly culinary lessons appearing in Canadian Living magazine, this lavish, lively, and lucid compendium, edited by former CL test kitchen manager Daphna Rabinovitch, is kitchen-ready with its pliable cover, full-colour photo instruction, and open-faced display--obviating the need to flip pages mid-recipe. From sushi to salsa verde, from paella to proper knife technique, it’s all here, and then some, in a Cuisine Canada Award-winning collection of more than 150 dishes encompassing appetizers, desserts, and everything in between. The glossy pages are liberally seasoned with hints and tips in sidebars covering topics ranging from the difference between “2 cups flour, sifted” and “2 cups sifted flour” to conversion ratios for fresh and dried herbs (Rabinovitch and her staff use an unusual 3:1). All recipes offer both imperial and metric measurements for ingredients, as well as a complete nutritional analysis: carbs and calories, fibre and folate (folic acid). Refreshingly, the authors aren’t above allowing a few shortcuts: Chicken Breast Parmesan will be just as successful whether the marinara is homemade or Hunt’s, though it is a bit odd to see a recipe calling for bottled mayonnaise in the same cookbook that teaches you how to make pasta from scratch. It’s been a long time, too, since we’ve seen a culinary tome that had anything good to say about salted butter; here, its use is assumed unless otherwise noted. Elegantly instructive, encouraging, and informative, Canadian Living Cooks Step by Step sometimes marches to the beat of a different whisk. --Tony Mason

Review
"the perfect partner to consult when you want to be walked through the classics or crave some ethnic specialties…author Daphna Rabinovitch gives anyone interested in cooking an opportunity to spread their wings." -- The Calgary Sun

"dependable, tested recipes…an easy to follow collection of the magazine's popular cooking lessons." -- National Post

"…Our [Vancouver] Sun home economists swear by [Canadian Living tested recipes]… dependable …" -- Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun

" …the next best thing to cooking school…" —Canadian Press

"This is a big, beautiful work of art with step-by-step photos that help everyone from the beginner chef to the real McCoy. Author Daphna Rabinovitch makes you want to live solely in the kitchen." -- Rita DeMontis The Toronto Sun

“Since we all know a picture is worth a thousand words, this lavishly illustrated book is worth millions!” -- Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 1/99

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"the perfect partner to consult when you want to be walked through the classics or crave some ethnic specialties…author Daphna Rabinovitch gives anyone interested in cooking an opportunity to spread their wings." —The Calgary Sun

"dependable, tested recipes…an easy to follow collection of the magazine's popular cooking lessons." —National Post

"…Our [Vancouver] Sun home economists swear by [Canadian Living tested recipes]… dependable …" —Mia Stainsby of the Vancouver Sun

" …the next best thing to cooking school…" —Canadian Press

"This is a big, beautiful work of art with step-by-step photos that help everyone from the beginner chef to the real McCoy. Author Daphna Rabinovitch makes you want to live solely in the kitchen." —Rita DeMontis The Toronto Sun

“Since we all know a picture is worth a thousand words, this lavishly illustrated book is worth millions!” —Ottawa Citizen, Dec. 1/99