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200 Student Recipes
<!--StartFragment-->Good food is essential for good health -- even when you're a student living in college dorm. The Hamlyn All Color 200 Student Recipes cookbook is the ultimate reference for healthy and delicious recipes that are easy enough for a first time cook to follow -- and tasty enough that a cheap takeaway will become a thing of the past. It contains over 200 mouth-watering dishes and includes everything from traditional favorites like Shepherd's Pie to more exotic fare that is sure to impress your friends, plus entire sections on sweet treats and drinks. With clear step-by-step instructions, plus preparation and cooking times, making great food as a student has never been easier.<!--EndFragment-->
240 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2011
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207 books6 followersHamlyn is a UK publishing company founded by Paul Hamlyn in 1950 with an initial investment of £350. His desire was to create "fine books with the common touch" which remains the foundation of its commercial success. It is part of the Octopus Publishing Group, now owned by Hachette Livre.
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February 16, 2016
The student who uses this book on a daily basis sure gets more loans than I do
April 26, 2017
This is actually kind of funny because I'm going through my cook books after college and well I couldn't figure out why I never used this one. Well I'm going to tell you right now why I didn't use it! Prepare for a rant about why this is a terrible student cookbook.
1. This shit is way too complicated!
Ain't no student anywhere have 5 hours on a weekday to make Spiced Lamb and Sweet Potato soup! And what even is "ras el hanout" (Moroccan spice blend) !! F U Sara Lewis! im not going out and trying to find that when I'm studying for midterms!
2. This is not cost effective
Most students are working on a small budget, and most of these recipes call for too many or too costly ingredients. Or exotic ingredients that can't be found in most student pantries. Also it calls for fresh herbs/ spices which are more expensive and spoil quickly, it doesn't even suggest how much you would use if you have the same thing dried.
3. Portions!
The smallest portion size I could find in this book was for 3!! Um hello! Most college students are cooking for one! So at most all of these recipes will need to be halved or that poor person is going to be eating it every night for dinner for 4-6 days.
I think this cook book should be renamed 200 culinary student recipes for people who live at home and have rich parents and maybe a trust fund.
For the rest of you here's one of my fav student recipes and all you need is four ingredients:
Presidents choice white Mac n cheese and tuna, and some vegetables if you want.
Ingredients:
- one package PC white cheddar Mac n cheese
- one can flaked white tuna
- 1 cup mix vegetables (canned or frozen)
- 200 student recipes cook book
Directions:
Throw out your 200 student recipes cook book! Great! Now you're ready to begin real student cooking!
Cook pasta as directed adding your veggies about half way through cook time otherwise make your Mac n cheese as normal.
Open tuna and drain, use fork to flake tuna into your mac n cheese/ veggie mixture.
Stir well.
Voilà!! It's ready to eat. You will probably even have some left overs for your lunch tomorrow, toss it in a Tupperware and microwave at school.
1. This shit is way too complicated!
Ain't no student anywhere have 5 hours on a weekday to make Spiced Lamb and Sweet Potato soup! And what even is "ras el hanout" (Moroccan spice blend) !! F U Sara Lewis! im not going out and trying to find that when I'm studying for midterms!
2. This is not cost effective
Most students are working on a small budget, and most of these recipes call for too many or too costly ingredients. Or exotic ingredients that can't be found in most student pantries. Also it calls for fresh herbs/ spices which are more expensive and spoil quickly, it doesn't even suggest how much you would use if you have the same thing dried.
3. Portions!
The smallest portion size I could find in this book was for 3!! Um hello! Most college students are cooking for one! So at most all of these recipes will need to be halved or that poor person is going to be eating it every night for dinner for 4-6 days.
I think this cook book should be renamed 200 culinary student recipes for people who live at home and have rich parents and maybe a trust fund.
For the rest of you here's one of my fav student recipes and all you need is four ingredients:
Presidents choice white Mac n cheese and tuna, and some vegetables if you want.
Ingredients:
- one package PC white cheddar Mac n cheese
- one can flaked white tuna
- 1 cup mix vegetables (canned or frozen)
- 200 student recipes cook book
Directions:
Throw out your 200 student recipes cook book! Great! Now you're ready to begin real student cooking!
Cook pasta as directed adding your veggies about half way through cook time otherwise make your Mac n cheese as normal.
Open tuna and drain, use fork to flake tuna into your mac n cheese/ veggie mixture.
Stir well.
Voilà!! It's ready to eat. You will probably even have some left overs for your lunch tomorrow, toss it in a Tupperware and microwave at school.
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