Excellent Food and Wine Resources
Submitted by jim on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 09:59
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- China Express by Nina Simonds ~~~ Lots of recipes that are easy enough to make after a long day at work, but that taste terrific.
- Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan ~~~ A classic, and rightly so (actually, I think this edition might be a combination of two books)
- Every Night Italian by Giuliano Hazan ~~~ Fantastic. Great recipes that are very easy, and the time estimates are quite accurate. More user-friendly than his mom.
- Quick From Scratch One-Dish Meals from Food & Wine Books ~~~ This looks like such a bargain bin book, but I'm amazed at how many distinctive, easy, one-dish meals this delivers.
- The Wine Avenger by Willie Gluckstern ~~~ Informative and quite funny.
- Cooks Illustrated ~~~ The only magazine on the list, but it's fantastic. I have made a bunch of their recipes, and not a one has let me down. Very informative and educational. Since you'll want to keep them around, I recommend getting their yearly hardbound collections rather than subscribing to the magazine itself.
Do China Express and One-Dish Meals have recipes that can be adapted to chicken/turkey/veg? My wife is semi-veg (no red meat) and I have a hard time coming up with interesting, healthy meals after working all day. (We end up eating a lot of pasta.)
Yeah, it's easy to find non-red meat recipes in both. I rarely make red meat (although I do lots of chicken and fish), and I use both those cookbooks constantly.
When I received One-Dish Meals as a gift, I thought it was a gimmick cookbook that I'd never touch, but so far everything I've made out of it (probably 5 or 6 recipes so far) has been fantastic, and I have about a dozen more that look equally promising.
Unfortunately, China Express is out of print. However, it looks like there's a few copies for sale over at Bibliofind.
Cool! I will check them both out. Thanks for the Bibliofind link. Btw, check out and .
Whups, that should have been Chicken Santa Fe and Spanish Rice. Sorry.
Last try forSpanish Rice -- and it turns out there's a copy of China Express at Green Apple here in The City.
Thanks! I will give both those a try. And I really have to get off my butt and implement a preview mode. :)