The Best Light Recipe

The Best Light Recipe

In an ongoing effort to bring readers the flakiest pie crusts and the most tender of meat loafs, the mad scientists at Cook’s Illustrated subject recipes to endless tests in order to find out exactly how much cream the perfect corn chowder requires or how much salt the perfect veal roast needs. In this cookbook, they turn their attention to light versions of their favorite recipes, using the same trial-and-error method to devise healthier finished products. The recipes in this book are middle-American classics such as Chicken Pot Pie, Crab Cakes and Spaghetti and Meatballs. For the most part, these dishes taste as luxurious as their full-fat siblings-the pot pie is tender and creamy, the crab cakes are dense with lump crabmeat and the spaghetti and meatballs are hard to stop eating. Even desserts are terrific, although the authors confess they found it impossible to come up with light versions of apple crisp or yellow cake that would meet Cook’s Illustrated standards, so those recipes were omitted. Still, their efforts were well-rewarded with rich Peanut Butter Cookies and moist Chocolate Sheet Cake. They even worked their miracles on Cheesecake, testing 28 recipes before coming up with a silken, light version as addictive as the real thing.
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The Everyday Low Carb Slow Cooker Cookbook Over 120 Delicious Low Carb Recipes That Cook Themselves

The Everyday Low Carb Slow Cooker Cookbook Over 120 Delicious Low Carb Recipes That Cook Themselves

We all love to eat good, home-cooked meals, but with our busy lifestyles, who has the time or energy to make them anymore? Now, in The Everyday Low-Carb Slow Cooker Cookbook, authors Kitty Broihier and Kimberly Mayone offer you a way to cook hearty, delicious low-carb meals from scratch everyday

Under the Table Saucy Tales from Culinary School

Under the Table Saucy Tales from Culinary School

A deliciously entertaining memoir about one woman’s adventures in the student kitchens of the legendary French Culinary Institute — flavored with celebrity chefs, eccentric characters, and mouthwatering recipes

To anyone who has ever dreamed of life in a French kitchen, imagining days filled with puff pastry and sips of vintage wine, Katherine Darling serves up a savory dose of reality in this funny, fascinating, and altogether delightful account of her time spent slaving over a hot stove, wrestling with veal calves, and cleaning fish heads at the French Culinary Institute in downtown New York City.

As she goes from clueless amateur to certified chef, Katherine and her quirky fellow students learn the secrets behind the art of French cooking and frequently find themselves the objects of scorn and ridicule as their teachers wage psychological warfare over steaming pots of bisque. The kitchen, they soon discover, is no place for soft-hearted romantics. It’s a cutthroat world, and no one ever made a souffl

The Best of Americas Test Kitchen 2009 The Years Best Recipes Equipment Reviews and Tastings

The Best of Americas Test Kitchen 2009 The Years Best Recipes Equipment Reviews and Tastings

There’s only one book that brings the best of the nearly 1,000 recipes we develop each year directly to America’s Test Kitchen fans. The Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2009 is a virtual yearbook of the most interesting work produced by the kitchen, pulled together from every corner of our company: Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines, our bi-monthly special interest publications, our best-selling cookbooks, and our award winning public television shows. Each test cook’s voice comes through clearly in the first-person narratives that accompany each master recipe providing an intimate peek into our testing process.
This year’s collection of more than 200 recipes includes: Southern-Style Skillet Cornbread (from Cook’s Country), Lasagna di Carnivale (The Best International Recipe), and Apricot Almond Bundt Cake (The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book).
Notes from the Test Kitchen accompany each recipe where we keep the home cook on the right path - from ingredient and equipment particulars to techniques. We’ve also created a substantial resource section, complete with six in-depth two-page spreads from Cook’s Illustrated magazine featuring how-to guides like Mastering the Art of Stew; and Stocking a Baking Pantry. This major section also features the year’s best quick tips, as well as the testings and tastings from both Cook’s Illustrated and Cook’s Country magazines.
This popular yearbook has become a holiday favorite for cooking enthusiasts across the country.

User Ratings and Reviews

4 Stars Really good cookbook
I am on occasional cook and this book is just perfect for me. It teaches you the basics and then gives you the related recipes. Love the breakfast stuff esp the omelette’s.

5 Stars From dishes suitable for entertaining to quick weekday fare for working cooks
If you want a cookbook so foolproof that it recipes have been tested time and again to assure consistent quality, paired with high-quality color photos, then you can’t go wrong with Best of America’s Test Kitchen 2009, a gathering of recipes both unique and traditional, simple great comfort food. BEST OF AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN 2009 offers a diverse collection, from dishes suitable for entertaining to quick weekday fare for working cooks.

Diane C. Donovan

California Bookwatch

4 Stars Better each year
The 2009 issue like all prior issues, is a great cookbook recommended for any kitchen library.

5 Stars Great cookbook with food and equipment reviews that pull no punches.
Bought this for my wife for Christmas after reading a very good review in the WSJ. She loves it and I am really impressed as to how honest or” opinionated” they are about kitchen equipment and some of the processed foods available at your store. Terrific hints on how to cook some things a lot easier and delectable choices to serve your family.

Chuck Gates

4 Stars Grab the public library’s copy before you buy (details)
I’m a little hesitant these days on rushing out to purchase each and every America’s Test Kitchen cookbook. Some are spectacular while others are not of much use to everyday cooks like me. Here’s a GREAT one:

The America’s Test Kitchen Family Baking Book

…and here’s a lame one:

Americas Best Lost Recipes: 121 heirloom recipes too good to forget

If you’ve seen the PBS Television Program, “America’s Test Kitchen,” then you’ll know why people are so attracted to their spin-off cookbooks. Program Host Christopher Kimball’s mantra is, “We do the work so you don’t have to.” And they do. Their recipes are quite excellent, (but not necessarily “the very best” in all cases.)

For this cookbook, we’re getting the “cr

Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today New Tenth Edition

Betty Crocker Cookbook Everything You Need to Know to Cook Today New Tenth Edition

The Best Just Got Better

The Most Trusted Cookbook

From foolproof, dependable recipes to reliable how-to advice, the Betty Crocker Cookbook has everything you need for the way you cook today.Whether you’re a new or experienced cook, The Betty Crocker Cookbook

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