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The Complete Cookbook for Beginners: Essential Skills and Step-by-Step Techniques
Learn how to cook almost anything!
If you’ve never spent much time in the kitchen, preparing a whole meal can seem like a daunting task—but here’s the You only need to learn a few basic principles to get cooking. The Complete Cookbook for Beginners is your all-in-one reference for mastering the essential skills you need to cook and bake 101 easy, everyday recipes.
What sets this book apart from from other cookbooks for
Tips for a working kitchen—Learn how to set up your kitchen quickly and affordably, with the tools and ingredients you’ll actually use.The secrets of success—Find beginner’s cookbook tips with advice such as when to flip your pancakes, how to melt chocolate evenly, or how to choose the best canned tomatoes.Opportunities to practice—Explore a wide range of recipes that are designed to help you try out your new skills, like sauteing and stir-frying.
Say goodbye to take-out and hello to homemade favorites with the ultimate guide to cooking for beginners.
If you’ve never spent much time in the kitchen, preparing a whole meal can seem like a daunting task—but here’s the You only need to learn a few basic principles to get cooking. The Complete Cookbook for Beginners is your all-in-one reference for mastering the essential skills you need to cook and bake 101 easy, everyday recipes.
What sets this book apart from from other cookbooks for
Tips for a working kitchen—Learn how to set up your kitchen quickly and affordably, with the tools and ingredients you’ll actually use.The secrets of success—Find beginner’s cookbook tips with advice such as when to flip your pancakes, how to melt chocolate evenly, or how to choose the best canned tomatoes.Opportunities to practice—Explore a wide range of recipes that are designed to help you try out your new skills, like sauteing and stir-frying.
Say goodbye to take-out and hello to homemade favorites with the ultimate guide to cooking for beginners.
330 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 22, 2022
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About the author
Katie Hale
19 books31 followersBorn in Cumbria, Katie is the author of a novel, My Name is Monster (Canongate, 2019), and two poetry pamphlets: Breaking the Surface (Flipped Eye, 2017) and Assembly Instructions (Southword Editions, 2019), which won the Munster Fool for Poetry Chapbook Competition. In 2019, she was awarded a MacDowell Fellowship, and was Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth Trust.
She has recently won the Buzzwords Poetry Prize, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Ware Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Review, The North and Interpreter’s House, among others. In 2017, Katie was mentored by Penguin Random House on their inaugural WriteNow scheme. Her musical, The Inevitable Quiet of the Crash, co-written with composer Stephen Hyde, premiered at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2017.
She has recently won the Buzzwords Poetry Prize, the Jane Martin Poetry Prize and the Ware Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for the Manchester Poetry Prize, the University of Canberra Vice Chancellor’s International Poetry Prize and the Ballymaloe International Poetry Prize. Her poetry has been published in Poetry Review, The North and Interpreter’s House, among others. In 2017, Katie was mentored by Penguin Random House on their inaugural WriteNow scheme. Her musical, The Inevitable Quiet of the Crash, co-written with composer Stephen Hyde, premiered at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2017.
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April 17, 2022
Perfect book for any level, not just beginner!
This was an easy cookbook, but packed with loads of easy, yet flavorful recipes. Some of these will be added to my routine recipes for family meals.
I love that every recipe in here was simple, listed ingredients found in any common US grocery store, and had extra tips/suggestions to make the recipe better or varied dependent on cook's desires. It had just enough pictures to show the delicious outcome, but did not overwhelm or detract from the recipes or the layout. Also no major spelling or other errors found in some cookbooks. I got this through Kindle Unlimited, but I am going to buy it now so I don't ever lose it if I cancel my membership.
I recommend this book.
This was an easy cookbook, but packed with loads of easy, yet flavorful recipes. Some of these will be added to my routine recipes for family meals.
I love that every recipe in here was simple, listed ingredients found in any common US grocery store, and had extra tips/suggestions to make the recipe better or varied dependent on cook's desires. It had just enough pictures to show the delicious outcome, but did not overwhelm or detract from the recipes or the layout. Also no major spelling or other errors found in some cookbooks. I got this through Kindle Unlimited, but I am going to buy it now so I don't ever lose it if I cancel my membership.
I recommend this book.
May 6, 2022
It has a lot of good tips in the beginning of the book and has measurements at the end to help. However, for a book that is for beginners I believe there should be more pictures of the recipes and the finished product but there are only a few throughout. It might be because they go into detail on how to prepare the meals and advice at the end of each recipe to make the meal better but I think it would benefit new cooks if there were more pictures of the actual recipe once its done being prepared.
October 7, 2022
This contains a lot of tips and tricks for beginners. I feel like maybe it could have been expanded on a bit, the recipes are pretty basic. For a beginner, this may work well. For those just looking for new recipes (like myself), look elsewhere.
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