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This book is really good. The recipes are pretty simple but really good. There are also a lot of pictures (about the dishes and sometimes about how to cut meet). I use the book at least once a week.

This is a great book full of interesting dishes! Pretty much anything that you could ask for is represented in here. The recipes are delicious and easy to understand. There are little tutorials for recipes and ingredients that may be unusual, IE how to strip and cut lemongrass.... Not all of the recipes have pictures( I wish that they did)but I'd say that half do. If you are looking for a good "beginner" book, you should try Food Networks "How to boil water"! It is AWESOME!

First off, this is a very nice cookbook. One might well expect such a solid collection of recipes from the Food Network. Second, some recipes get more complex than I am interested in, but most look eminently doable. And, third, a handful that I have tried since I received this book are quite tasty when they get on the table! Many of the dishes are accompanied by color photos, which give a good sense of the dish's appearance (I'm not as big on photos as some others are). The book is organized in a pretty standard manner--breakfast and brunch, appetizers and salads, soup and stews, sandwiches and pizza, main dish salads, pasta and noodles, beans and grain, meats (beef, pork, and lamb), poultry, fish and shellfish, veggies and side dishes, baked goods, and "sweets." A few examples to illustrate. A cook breakfast dish: Baked eggs with farmhouse cheddar and potatoes. Ingredients are pretty simple--eggs, red skin potatoes, parsley, garlic, kosher salt, pepper, some butter, and farmhouse cheddar. Tasty stuff! Lamb burgers with Feta cheese. I haven't made this one yet, but, boy, does it look good (The photo going with the recipe is mouth watering). Begin with 2 pounds of ground lamb for the burger. Then, many ingredients are assembled, such as yogurt, savory, garlic, lemon zest, and so on--with pita bread pockets instead of a standard bun. Then, the tzatziki sauce, with yogurt, cucumber, kosher salt, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice, and mint. This is going to take some work, but the end result promises to be delicious. Fairly easy to make--and tasty: Penne with pesto. Make your own pesto (with basil, garlic, pine nuts, olive oil, salt and pepper). Then, cook up the penne and add the pesto sauce. A quick dish to make. And so on, from Grilled soy and ginger chicken to pork rib roast with cranberry-apricot stuffing to cheese risotto to lamb chops with rosemary-orange gremolata to. . . . Anyhow, a very nice cookbook from the Food Network.

the night i bought this cookbook i rushed home & & made the steak recipe w/ garlic aioli on page 190 & & matched it w/ the home fries on page 7. it was devoured by the family & & they all went back for another serving! the breakdown of the cookbook is simple & & the recipes r extremely easy to follow, as well as to mix & & match. they'll make u look like a master chef no matter how experienced u might be. i'm more than pleased w/ my purchase & & would recommend this cookbook to just about anyone, whether it's for urself or purchased as a gift.