3 Cooks Illustrated Best Recipe International 30-Minute Start Price USD 25.00 Current Price USD 25.00 Time Left - Bid Count 1 Buy It Now Price USD 35.00 Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 12, 2008 End Time Sunday, October 19, 2008 Location AL See more about '3 Cooks Illustrated Best Recipe International 30-Minute' Description Description There are THREE "Best Recipe" Cookbooks from COOK'S ILLUSTRATED in this group - OVER $100 List VALUE!!! The Best International RecipeList Price: $35.00 hardcover, 600 pages, 16 pages of full color photos, Cook's Illustrated 2007 With the publication of The Best International Recipe, America’s Test Kitchen has put its culinary passport to good use to bring you more than 300 recipes for international favorites– now fool-proofed by theirr test cooks. Whether you want to make spicy pork tacos to rival those found on the street vendors of Mexico or learn how to make a roast chicken as moist and juicy as the French can, The Best International Recipe is your essential guide to the Best cooking from around the world. Cook’s Illustrated tested and retested recipes like Osso Bucco, Risotto Milanese, Indian curries, Asian Noodles, and Enchiladas until they were guaranteed to work in your kitchen. Save time and money with their cookware ratings – and don’t run out to buy expensive pans when you already have everything you need in your kitchen right now. ‘Pantry Spotlights’ will help you find the best ingredients to use, and appropriate substitutions for hard-to-find items. Recipes containing hard-to-find ingredients and unfamiliar techniques have long been roadblocks for the home cook, but the test kitchen has put each recipe through its paces to -ensure that it is sound and accessible. They’ve also cruised supermarket aisles in search of reasonable substitutions for those times when you can’t make it to a specialty market, or if you simply live in an area with limited shopping options. (For example, you can approximate the flavor of tamarind, a key ingredient in pad thai, with lime juice, water, and brown sugar.) Equipment can often be a factor, too, with international cuisines traditionally employing tortilla presses, woks, tagines, and more. Save your money—in most cases you can improvise with a common piece of equipment you probably already own. Simply put, The Best International Recipe is your trustworthy guide to the world’s very best recipes—dishes you’ll really want to know how to make again and again. The Best Chicken Recipes By Cook's Illustrated Magazine (Editor) List Price: $35.00Hardcover: 432 pages Publisher: Boston Common Press (March 1, 2008) Would you roast 40 chickens to find a simple, foolproof method that results in perfectly cooked meat and beautifully browned skin every time? We did. Here are 300 exhaustively tested recipes for America's favorite main course. Chicken is the go-to main course for most Americans, but the same old recipes featuring bland, dry chicken are all too often the norm - resulting in a collective sigh around the dinner table. The Best Chicken Recipes offers 300 foolproof ideas for cooking chicken right - and making dinner interesting again. Whether you're looking for a never-fail recipe for Simple Roast Chicken, classics with a modern twist (Chicken Salad with Fennel, Lemon, and Parmesan or Braised Chicken with Leeks and Saffron), or something entirely new to incorporate into your repertoire (Chicken Tagine or Firecracker Chicken, anyone?), you'll find it all here. In addition, we offer recipes to fit just about any season, occasion, and lifestyle, all divided into easy-to-navigate chapters for easy reference. Our information-packed primer shows you how to take the guesswork out of knowing when a chicken is done and provides tips for boosting flavor, as well as detailed instructions for basic butchering and carving techniques. Whether you're entertaining a group or cooking for two, are health conscious or time-crunched - we've got you covered. With this book in your kitchen, no one will ever be late to dinner again. The Best 30-Minute Recipe: A Best Recipe ClassicBest Recipe Seriesby Editors of Cook's Illustrated MagazineList Price: $35.00 Hardcover: 278 pages Publisher: America's Test Kitchen (2006) Most quick recipes deliver speed but not flavor. They often rely on silly shortcuts (no, you can’t stuff bell peppers with raw ground beef and onions) and second-rate convenience -products (think canned soup). No wonder most "quick" recipes are fast but forgettable. In The Best 30-Minute Recipe, America’s Test Kitchen turns its crew of test cooks loose on the world of quick cooking in an effort to find flavor, not just convenience. Many dishes are naturally quick—stir-fries, hearty salads, skillet sautés, and simple pasta dishes—but they also need to be full-flavored and foolproof. We have streamlined these -dishes, subtracting an ingredient or shortcutting a cooking method, to make them memorable and dependable. But some recipes seem impossible to make in a mere 30 minutes. How about a richly flavored chicken stew that typically takes more than an hour at best? Parcook chicken thighs in the microwave to jump start the cooking. Meatloaf? Downsize one large meatloaf into four individual servings and brown them in a skillet. Baked ziti? Make the entire dish in a skillet, where the pasta cooks in a richly seasoned tomato sauce instead of a big pot of boiling water. And forget about second-rate supermarket shortcuts. Once you try our Quick and Crunchy Breaded Pork Chops, you’ll never be tempted by a store-bought breading mix again. Our recipe has all the convenience of the shake-and-bake version, but it tastes worlds better. We also discovered that many "quick" recipes fail to include prep times. In The Best 30-Minute Recipe, every test cook used a timer to be sure every recipe really can be prepared, cooked, and on the table in 30 minutes or less. And if a recipe was cutting it close, we looked for acceptable shortcuts. When we couldn’t make a creamy chicken and rice casserole in 30 minutes, we turned to instant rice (sautéed in butter to improve the rice’s texture and flavor) with excellent results. Special features include "Got Extra Time?" which provides suggestions and recipe alterations that will make a good dish even better if you have a few extra minutes to spend in the kitchen. Other features like "Making the Minutes Count" and "Kitchen Shortcuts" help you prep and cook more efficiently, -giving you skills you can use for a lifetime of cooking. Organized around the most logical ways to think about quick cooking, The Best 30-Minute Recipe will lead you right to the type of dish you feel like making. Want to make an entire meal in a skillet? Turn to "Skillet Suppers" for dishes like -Skillet Steak Fajitas and Skillet Paella. Feel like preparing a simple, flavorful sauce while your pasta boils? Choose from dozens of options in "While the Pasta Cooks." You can also check out "Skillet Pasta," recipes that cook the pasta right in the -skillet with the sauce, saving you time and leaving you with just one pot to wash. -Another chapter, "Starting with Leftovers," offers -appealing ideas for turning last night’s dinner into a -completely new meal, such as Asian Spicy Noodles with Beef and Spinach or Curry in a Hurry. The test kitchen also evaluated dozens of popular -convenience foods important to quick cooking, from ready-to-use minced garlic and jarred tomato sauce to pre-shredded cheese, precooked bacon, and more. If a product didn’t make the cut, you won’t find it in our recipes. Put disappointing quick recipes behind you. The Best 30-Minute Recipe will help you get dinner on the table -quickly—a dinner that you can really enjoy! Fast food isn’t good food -unless you use just the right ingredients and the right combination of techniques. So don’t sacrifice flavor. Don’t sacrifice the pleasures of the table. Let America’s most trusted test kitchen show you how to cook both quickly and well. With The Best 30-Minute Recipe, satisfying, home-cooked meals really are just minutes away. I do NOT use "Stock Photos". Every item I sell has an individual scanned picture so you can see what you are REALLY getting. "30-Minute" has NO dustjacket and because the cover is plain white, it shows a little dirt. The "International" has a boxcutter slash right along the edge of the back cover (farthest from the spine). This is strictly a cosmetic flaw and doesn't harm the binding of the book. The "Chicken" book is in very good condition. I have several COOKBOOKS up for bids as well as other books and will happily combine shipping to reduce postage costs for the bidder. I combine shipping. Check out my auctions, maybe you'll find something you didn't know you needed. Victoria's Auctions. I sell books on Half.com too. Please check them out! 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