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Starting Out: The Essential Guide to Cooking on Your Own [Paperback]

Julie Van Rosendaal (Author), Tom Bagley (Illustrator)
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Publication Date: April 5 2006

The survival guide for first-time cooks, with 250 super-simple recipes.

Designed to help new cooks find independence, Starting Out is filled with crucial tips, basic cooking techniques, and guidelines for stocking cupboards and refrigerator with staples. A first cookbook, instruction guide, and food resource, the book includes easy-to-prepare dishes that any beginner can follow easily. There are even "first aid" tips for fixing food disasters!

Some of the features in this cookbook are:

  • Glossary of common cooking terms
  • Measurements chart
  • Simple menus
  • Party ideas
  • Ingredient resource guide
  • Shopping tips (and even tips for doing laundry).

Starting Out has more than enough delicious and nutritious dishes for the university student or budding executive. Included are simple, quick and effortless recipes for cooking for one, such as Turkey Burgers, Pad Thai, and Basic Curry. There are also more impressive yet still easy-to-follow recipes for entertaining, like Chicken à la King, Chicken Parmigiana, and Curried Peanut Shrimp.

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Cooking at its most basic... also a reminder that a good meal doesn't have to call for 27 ingredients. (Sharon Wootton Olympia Olympian 20061018)

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Julie Van Rosendaal's practical approach and healthy attitude toward food helped her achieve a 165-pound weight loss. She has since become well known for her great recipes and positive outlook on the joy that cooking (and eating) can bring when it's done mindfully. Julie is regularly featured in newspapers and magazines and on TV and radio across North America, teaches cooking classes, writes food articles and is in high demand as a speaker.

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5.0 out of 5 stars A 23 year old Male perspective Dec 15 2007
By Mark Gordon Reid
My mom bought me this book as a going away present (I moved to Toronto with my girlfriend for school). I didn't realise how little I knew about cooking until I started. I had no idea how to cook meat or rice or how long to fry or steam veggies.

The best part about the book are the index tabs to all the different foods with meals attached; and all the little tips from Mom (how to do laundry, get out stains, how to buy fresh produce or meat etc)

If for whatever reason I lose this book, I will buy it again.

Highly Recommend for people just "starting out."
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Everyone needs this book! Dec 8 2009
By K. Whiteman
I got this book as a wedding shower gift, after I'd been cooking for myself for years. This book is my first reference, always. It gives the basics, and then tells you how to make them more elaborate, which is great.

None of my other cookbooks have meatloaf, Jerk chicken, or any muffins under the sun!

A great read for newbies and vets alike.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars My most essential cookbook! Oct 27 2009
By G. Howard
I've got two kids, I've been cooking for a while, and I have scores of cookbooks, so I'm not quite "starting out", but this is the book I use most often when I have a question about the basics. It really is an essential guide; whenever I think I need a specific everyday recipe, it's usually in there. The selection of recipes is a very well-chosen group of "must-haves". In the past week I have needed recipes for squash soup, frittata, and potato pancake, and they've all been there and been fantastic. I even roasted my Thanksgiving turkey using the directions from this book. There are loads of great desserts, side dishes, you name it. Every one of the dozens of recipes I've tried has come out perfectly, and the suggested variations on many of them are also excellent. It's all clearly written and easy to follow.

The only thing I think this book lacks is a basic vegetable cooking chart with times and methods. It does have a paragraph for each vegetable that offers preparation suggestions, but I need to know how long to boil that turnip, too. Even so, I recommend this book heartily for anyone who is starting out at cooking for themselves and others. My copy is already stained, greasy, and dog-eared. It's essential for me!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Starting Out: The Essential Guide to Cooking on Your Own
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