Starting Out!: The Essential Guide to Cooking on Your Own by Julie Van Rosendaal

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  • ISBN 10 1552857069
  • ISBN 13 9781552857069
  • Published Apr 01 2006
  • Format Paperback
  • Page Count 256
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Whitecap Books
  • Imprint Whitecap Books

Publishers Text

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.

  • A glossary of cooking terms
  • A measurement chart
  • Menu and party ideas
  • Fixing cooking disasters
  • Shopping tips
  • Ingredient resource guide.


    • From breakfasts to baking, the book has more than 250 delicious, nutritious and simple recipes for cooking for one person. Such dishes as Turkey Burgers and Basic Curry are quick and effortless to prepare.


    Julie also provides more sophisticated yet still easy-to-follow recipes that will have the most inexperienced cooks easily handling favorites such as Pad Thai, Curried Peanut Shrimp, Chicken à la King and Chicken Parmigiana.


    Chapters such as Beef 101, Chicken 101, Eat Your Veggies and Away from Home for the Holidays teach all the basic skills for culinary confidence and success.



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