Cooking with Spices for Dummies or Entertaining

Cooking with Spices for Dummies

Author: Jenna Holst

Americans are craving more authenticity, more heat, and more FLAVOR in their foods - and that all comes from spices. With 100 simple recipes and accessible cooking details, this book shows how easily, affordably, and healthfully cooking with spices can add pizzazz to every meal!

This is an easy guide to flavorful, spicy food inspired by classic dishes from the US and around the world. It includes descriptions of the most common whole and ground spices, spice blends, fresh spices, aromatic spices, aromatics and spicy condiments. You'll learn basic spices every kitchen needs and how to select and store spices. It offers quick fixes and damage control for common spice mishaps, and how to effectively combine spices and complementary ingredients when cooking different ethnic cuisines. The book features 100 recipes plus variations for spice rubs and mixes, marinades, salsas and salads, main courses, vegetables, sides, breads, beverages and much more. 16 page color insert and line drawings throughout.

Author Jenna Holst is a native of New Jersey but now lives in South Africa. She is also the author of Stews and of Cooking Soups for Dummies.

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Entertaining

Author: Martha Stewart

With 500 glorious full-color photographs, 300 original recipes, and hundreds of innovative ideas, Entertaining is the book that revolutionized the way people entertain today. 500 full-color photographs.

Table of Contents:

	Preface	ix
	Introduction: Of Kitchens and Learning	1
Chapter 1	Entertaining with Style	10
Chapter 2	Cocktails and Hors d'Oeuvres	30
	Cocktails for Eight to Twelve: Oriental	39
	Cocktails for Twenty-five: Many Tastes	43
	Cocktails for Fifty: A Festive Occasion	48
	Cocktails for Two Hundred: Country Fare	53
Chapter 3	The Crudite, Fruit, and Cheese Party	63
Chapter 4	The Omelette Party	80
	Sunday Omelette Brunch for Eight to Ten	87
	Midnight Omelette Supper for Thirty	90
	Summer Omelette Brunch Outdoors for Sixty	94
Chapter 5	The Kitchen Party	100
	A Kitchen Salad Party for Thirty	103
	Tempura Party for Sixteen	108
	Winter and Summer Soup Parties	112
	A Chinese Banquet for Ten to Twelve	121
Chapter 6	The Buffet	126
	A Country Buffet Breakfast for Forty	130
	Clam Bake for Thirty	135
	Italian Buffet for Fifty	138
	Russian Buffet for Twenty-four	146
	Hawaiian Luau for Twenty	152
Chapter 7	The Dinner Party	161
	A Spring Dinner for Six to Eight	165
	A Light Summer Dinner for Four to Six	170
	A Neoclassic Dinner for Eight to Ten	173
	Bouillabaisse for Twelve to Sixteen	176
	A Formal Dinner for Twenty-four	180
Chapter 8	The Holiday Party	184
	Our Farmhouse Thanksgiving for Eight	186
	Thanksgiving Medley for Twenty-four	190
	Christmas Presents and Decorations	198
	A Children's Christmas Party	207
	Christmas Open House for Fifty	212
	Christmas Day Dinner	218
	Valentine's Day Dinner for Two	222
	Easter Lunch for Fourteen to Twenty	225
Chapter 9	Just Desserts	230
	A Small Dessert Buffet for Twenty	238
	A Country Pie Party for Fifty	242
	Desserts for Forty: Soiree Dansante	249
Chapter 10	The At-Home Wedding	263
	Afternoon Cocktail Reception for Fifty	271
	Sit-Down Country Luncheon for One Hundred Seventy-five	279
	A Catered Wedding Luncheon for Two Hundred Seventy	289
	Sources	301
	Index	304