Product Description

An illustrated step-by-step guide to perfect sauces with tomatoes, herbs, vegetables, seafood, meat, and cheese.

How to Make Pasta Sauces investigates the best methods for preparing pasta sauces in an American home kitchen. Filled with over 90 pages of well-tested recipes, hand-drawn illustrations, and in-depth instructions, How to Make Pasta Sauces shares the time-tested techniques for preparing a variety of recipes, ranging from simple, fresh tomato or pesto sauces to variations using ingredients such as braised fennel, seared scallops, and broccoli. You will also find advice on choosing the best type of pasta to complement your sauce and tips on preparing shellfish, skinning tomatoes, and roasting vegetables.

Generously illustrated and handsomely bound, How to Make Pasta Sauces is sure to be one of the most useful and attractive additions to your cookbook library this year.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1494785 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 96 pages

From Amazon.com
How to Make Pasta Sauces is a small treasure. In fewer than 100 pages, it presents illustrated, step-by-step instructions for preparing pasta sauces with tomatoes, vegetables, seafood, meat, and cheese--basic recipes, tips, and information that all cooks can use.

Following an enlightening section of pasta basics (American dried pasta is just as good as the imported kind, the authors assert), the book offers "master" sauce formulas with interesting variations and related recipes. Bolognese Sauce, Quick Meat Sauce, Meatballs in Smooth Tomato Sauce, and Carbonara Sauce comprise a typically brief but to-the-point chapter. Readers will also want to make Escarole and White Bean Sauce and Portobello Mushroom Ragu, among other unusual recipe variations. Underlying techniques are explored and illustrated throughout (bearding mussels is one) and sensible tips abound (for example, use scissors to cut knife-resistant pancetta).

A true primer, the book is part of the Cook's Illustrated Library, a modest yet consistently authoritative series from the editors of Cook's Illustrated magazine. Like the magazine, the books are dedicated to presenting tried-and-perfected recipes and cooking techniques in a concise, approachable way. --Arthur Boehm

About the Author

Cook's Illustrated, Home of America's Test Kitchen producesthe very popular America's Test Kitchen Public Television series that is seen inboth the US and Canada by over 1 million viewers. Additionally, it is associatedwith Cooks Illustrated Magazine, a leading and highly respected foodpublication that is available throughout Canada.

Cook's Illustrated and America's Test Kitchen titles includingThe New Best Recipe - revised and expanded from the classic, The BestRecipe, which has sold over 350,000 copies, companions to the America's TestKitchen Public Television series, and many other bestselling and award-winningcookbooks such as Baking Illustrated, Cover and Bake and TheBest Kitchen Quick Tips.