Get Cooking: 150 Simple Recipes to Get You Started in the Kitchen by Mollie Katzen

  • Roasted garlic paste

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    • Categories: Dips, spreads & salsas; Cooking ahead; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: garlic; olive oil
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  • Eat Your Books

    Take a look at Mollie's website for this book at get-cooking.com

    This cookbook was listed in Cooking With Amy's Best Cookbooks of 2009.

  • Wlow on November 20, 2017

    Want to like this book more than I do. Color of photographs oddly off-putting.

Notes about Recipes in this book

  • Parmesan fricos

    • Globegal on January 28, 2024

      These accompany the Creamy tomato-basil soup. This was way too salty for me & there is only the cheese in this recipe. While they were easy to make, could never really tell when I was supposed to turn over. So, ended up over-cooking some then undercooking others.

  • Taco salad with cumin-lime-cilantro dressing

    • Wlow on August 17, 2022

      Blast from the past (1970s)! Very good with approximate amounts of salad ingredients, dressing exact and delicious. Added cooked Soy-Rizo sausage, pepitas, salsa. Nice on a hot summer night.

  • Spaghetti alla carbonara

    • Wlow on November 17, 2025

      9/2016 Very nice, but T (age 10) not interested, N (7) didn’t like! 11/2025 liked using turkey bacon, with garlic broccolini on the side. Try variation with mushrooms…

  • Linguine with spinach and peas

    • Wlow on August 01, 2013

      Kids loved it with linguine 3/13, brown rice fusilli 5/13; but T wouldn’t try it with w/w elbows 1/19 and N and I found no-hum. Needed full amount of peas and spinach, probably would be best with white pasta. Added toasted pine nuts.

    • Wlow on December 27, 2017

      Delicious, both kids liked. Use more spinach. Aleppo pepper is good, brown rice fusilli or whole-grain shells (Barilla), pecorino. Have also topped with pine nuts instead of cheese and another time with feta.

  • Chinese-style peanut noodles

    • Wlow on March 31, 2023

      Kids, FiL & I loved this.

  • Vegetable-tofu stir-fry with orange-ginger glaze

    • Wlow on November 17, 2025

      Very good using broccoli, green beans, red onion, red bell pepper

  • Stir-fried broccoli beef

    • wester on October 19, 2015

      This was very good, somehow it tasted just right. However, the broccoli needed four minutes instead of the given two. There was still plenty of crunch, with two minutes it would have been practically raw. With all her emphasis on taking the cooking times literally I thought that was too big a difference. And she could have told us that seasoned vinegar is only seasoned with salt and sugar, so it's easy to do it yourself.

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  • ISBN 10 0061732435
  • ISBN 13 9780061732430
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  • Published Nov 01 2009
  • Format Paperback
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
  • Imprint William Morrow Cookbooks

Publishers Text

Take a look at Mollie's website for this book at get-cooking.com

The first in a series of cookbooks geared toward beginners, by the author of the bestselling Moosewood Cookbook.

  • These simple recipes are perfect for the novice cook who may also be eager to save time and money.
  • Do you want to eat really well--not just once in a while, but all the time--yet you don't know where to begin?
  • Are you tired of pizza, much as you like it, and broke from buying take-out?
  • Do you love good food--the straightforward homemade kind--but feel challenged to set up a kitchen, shop for decent groceries, and tap into a few basic skills that can put a simple roast chicken or vegetarian casserole on your dinner table?

If your answers to these questions are "yes," then Get Cooking is for you, the first in a series of cookbooks for beginners of all ages from Mollie Katzen, the bestselling author of The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. Here are 125 foolproof , basic recipes for soups, homemade pasta, roast chicken, burgers, vegan specialities, chocolate chip cookies--and more--that anyone can enjoy making, no matter how inexperienced in the kitchen.

Get Cooking will be accompanied by the launch of a companion website that will offer cooking lessons via a series of state-of-the-art videos. Instructive and entertaining, the videos will cover everything from knife-sharpening to tofu-grilling (and many, many chocolate pudding variations).

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