Make Every Dish Delicious: Modern Classics and Essential Tips for Total Kitchen Confidence by Lesley Chesterman

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    • Categories: Egg dishes; Quick / easy; Vegetarian
    • Ingredients: eggs; white vinegar
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  • Chocolate chip cookies

    • averythingcooks on March 06, 2026

      The chocolate chip cookie lover in the house raved about these. Next time I'll try her oatmeal chocolate chip variation. I chose to make the smaller size (26 g gave the expected yield) and I pulled them at the minimum time given.

  • Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies

    • averythingcooks on March 23, 2026

      We like these cookies! 25 g gave me 13 cookies & 13 minutes seemed about right.

  • Vegetable stock

    • averythingcooks on March 02, 2026

      Q: why tie the seasonings/herbs into a cheesecloth packet when it is also strained through cheesecloth at the end? I went ahead and did that & decided that my finest mesh strainer with no cheesecloth would be good enough at the end (and it was). Browning the veg 1st in olive oil worked well & the addition of whole allspice berries was a new idea for me.

  • Ranch dressing

    • averythingcooks on March 02, 2026

      I like the combo of yogurt, mayo & buttermilk + lots of fresh herbs but we did like the finished dressing a little more after adding fresh lemon juice for a little more zip.

  • Blue cheese dressing

    • averythingcooks on May 30, 2026

      This is basically additions into her herby ranch dressing (which we loved with a good squeeze of fresh lemon), so I was pretty sure we would love this which calls for the lemon, a generous handful of blue cheese + some Lea & Perrins. I was right.

  • Honey dressing

    • averythingcooks on May 08, 2026

      I feel like the title of this recipe doesn't do it justice. With cider vinegar, fresh lemon juice, Dijon, shallot & parsley, it is so much more than just honey. Granted I often add honey to dressings for better balance as I seldom use the full amt of oil called for...I used 1/2 the oil here AND we thought this was delicious over a green salad.

  • Roast potatoes

    • averythingcooks on March 02, 2026

      Not surprisingly, these were crispy and delicous.

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  • ISBN 10 1982196378
  • ISBN 13 9781982196370
  • Linked ISBNs
  • Published Oct 18 2022
  • Format Hardcover
  • Page Count 320
  • Language English
  • Countries Canada
  • Publisher Simon & Schuster

Publishers Text

Recipes, perfected. A repertoire of reliable, classic recipes and fundamental techniques that deliver gorgeous results, every time, for cooks of every ability, in the tradition of Genius Recipes and Barefoot Contessa Foolproof.

Stop searching the web for what to cook for dinner. From the best roast chicken to the most sumptuous brownie, Lesley Chesterman’s perfected recipes have you covered—tonight, and always.

When Montreal’s favorite food critic, Lesley Chesterman, was approached ten years ago to write a cookbook, she laughed and said: “The last thing the world needs is another recipe for carbonara.” She never forgot the editor’s reply: “True. But I think they might like your recipe for carbonara.” That comment resonated, because carbonara, like so many dishes, is a recipe Lesley has worked tirelessly to get just right. Returning again and again to recipes and making small tweaks or big overhauls is what Lesley loves to do. And the result of a lifetime of tinkering is Make Every Dish Delicious, a cookbook that offers a repertoire of foolproof modern classics and a wealth of cooking knowledge to give everyone a helping hand in the kitchen.

Make Every Dish Delicious begins with deeply informative chapters on how to set up your kitchen and pantry, and how to work with fundamental ingredients and basics such as eggs, butter, stocks, and vinaigrettes. Lesley effortlessly demystifies multiple technical challenges (how to make an omelet, how to deep fry without fear, how to use—and not misuse—the all-important salt, and many more). From there, she takes you on a savoury and sweet journey of recipes encompassing modern classics such as her super simple carbonara, perfect pain de campagne?, show-stopping salt-baked bass, crowd-pleasing standing rib roast, stunning black forest cake, and gorgeous Gascogne apple tart.

Every recipe here is reliable, repeatable, and irresistible. Homemade no-knead bread and pizza dough? Yes, you can! Chicken Kiev (the easy way)? Of course! Cote de boeuf for two? Why not? Chocolate megamousse for a dessert sensation? Lesley’s got you. These are dishes to cook with total confidence for friends and family, every day. Let Lesley’s collection of perfected recipes become your very own.

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