false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1172853088m/223349.jpg 223349 1 In its many publications and on TV, <i>Cook's Illustrated</i>/America's Test Kitchen offers exhaustively tested "best" recipes, tips, and product evaluations. Among its cookbooks, <i>The Best Make-Ahead Recipe</i> offers over 300 formulas that can be prepared in advance, held, and finished later. The recipes range widely from pre-prepared oven-ready dishes like Baked Fish Provençal; "double-duty" recipes, such as Mexican-Style Pork and Chorizo Stew, that use leftovers imaginatively; slow-cooker items like Tuscan white bean soup; and desserts, such as a chocolate soufflé that can go from freezer to oven successfully. In addition, the fully illustrated book offers helpful charts like How to Reheat, which provides advice according to portion size and heating method; special-occasion menus that can be started up to a month ahead; and discerning product and equipment advice. <p> As with other <i>Cook's Illustrated</i> projects, <i>Make-Ahead</i> includes recipes that have appeared previously in its other works, though a majority of these have been amended with make-ahead or scaling-up data. Almost all the recipes are prefaced with their trademark testing "diaries," exhaustively detailed accounts of the recipe-making process ("With the onion shells figured out, we focused next on the filling...," gives the flavor), which some readers will find enlightening, but others will think excessive. Of course, certain recipes, or recipe classes, like that for desserts, are necessarily made wholly or partially in advance--but the book's point is to provide formulas designed to yield superior results even when the uncompleted dishes are held, as most can be, in the refrigerator or freezer. Mission accomplished. Readers will find the book a consistently reliable resource for superior make-ahead dishes for everyday and special-occasion cooking. <i>--Arthur Boehm</i> 216302 15 3 2007 The Best Make-Ahead Recipe (The Best Recipe) total:43|5:16|4:21|3:4|2:2|1:0| 43 180 89 12 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Apr 06 11:37:00 -0700 2009 Mon Apr 06 11:37:00 -0700 2009
Every recipe I have tried has been delicious and received rave reviews!
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