Simmer or Sizzle or Everyday Cooking for Beginners Break Tha

Simmer or Sizzle: Cooking with Your Slow Cooker or Contact Grill

Author: Kathryn Moor

Simmer or Sizzle: Cooking with your Slow Cooker or Contact Grill provides new and inventive ways to bring great food to the table. Dinner can be a nightly challenge and most families are desperately in need of a realistic, creative guide that allows them to win this culinary battle. This book is unique in that it combines great cooking and creative recipes with two time saving appliances: the slow cooker and the contact grill. Slow cookers, known for simmering rich stews and comforting soups, strike a flavor balance against the contact grill that sears burgers and creates crisp sandwiches. Most importantly, both of these electric marvels empower you to get dinner on the table. Slow cookers are different from other cooking techniques and far too frequently cookbooks did not address this difference. Many cooks enjoyed the convenience of the slow cooker yet found that foods weren't appealing or flavorful. This book combines the convenience of a slow cooker with great flavor, and demonstrates the tremendous versatility of the contact grill. Each chapter conveniently presents general recipe mainstays like beef, chicken, pork, soups, stews, and burgers. Sometimes a pot roast or slow simmered beef ragout is appropriate but the next day you might enjoy an Asian flavored steak. Each recipe quickly guides you, via a distinctive icon, to a cooking style and appliance that fits the day: slow cooker or contact grill. Just turn to the traditional food category and find the recipe and timing that fits your schedule, and get ready to enjoy great food!

Table of Contents:

Simmer or Sizzle-The Answer to What's For Dinner? Confessions of test kitchen home economists Stock Up Our Top Ten Quick Tips Dress Up The Dinner Table Trade Secrets
Part I: Slow Cookers Simmering Recipes for your slow cooker Slow and Steady
What is a slow cooker? What Do They Do? What Don't They Do? Tips for Success Slow Cookers - Our Best Advice Appetizers
Pasta and Sauces

Soups, Stews and Chilies
Beef

Pork

Chicken and Poultry

Vegetables and Sides

Beans, Grains Rice

Breads

Desserts

Part II: Grill Sizzling recipes for your contact grill Quick Sizzle What Is a Contact Grill? What Do They Do? What Don't They Do? Tips for Success Grills - Our Best Advice Appetizers
Sandwiches Panini Explored
Burgers
Pizza
Pizza Toppings Pizza Creativity
Beef

Pork and Lamb
Sauces and Marinades

Chicken and Poultry
Fish and Seafood

Vegetables and Side Dishes
Salads
Breakfast
Desserts

Interesting textbook: Food Drying Techniques or Cholesterol

Everyday Cooking for Beginners Break Tha

Author: Vineeth Subramanyam

Everyday Cooking for Beginners: Break your kitchen in! is a simple and practical cooking guide with a refreshingly new approach. This book is not just a recipe list -- it provides help both inside and outside the kitchen and helps novice cooks cross those initial barriers of setting up a basic functional kitchen, shopping for groceries, buying kitchen ware, etc. The book then explains a simple 3-step cooking process that applies to most dishes and contains 40 recipes organized by meal course (breakfast, lunch, dinner, soups, etc.). For a person who is interested in cooking and does not know where to start, this book is a must-have.