The no recipe cookbook
Subtitle: a beginners guide to the art of cooking
By: Susan Crowther ; foreword by Master Chef Roland G. Henin ; photography by Julie Fallone ; paintings and drawing by Maisie Crowthers and The Brattleboro Senior Center Water-based Media Group, and Marcia Fagelson
Contributors: Fallone, Julie, photographer; Crowther, Maisie, artist; Fagelson, Marcia, artist
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9781620876169
Subjects: Cooking; Handbooks, manuals
Description: " ... The No Recipe Cookbook is a commonsensical and creative approach to preparing delicious meals, focusing on principles, intuition, and integrity. Cooking is also explored holistically, incorporating aspects such as local ingredients and "green cooking." Each page explores culinary virtues of patience, adaptability, and love next to principles, utensils, and procedures ... " -- publisher description.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Why no recipe cooking? ; Let's get cooking; title: The basic philosophies. Mise en place ; Seven virtues of cooking ; Top ten tips in the kitchen; title: The Basic Ingredients. What's in a recipe? ; Top ten lists ; To meat or not to meat? ; Top ten ingredients ; Seasoned with accomplishment; title: The Basic Procedures. Three basic steps ; Salads : the tip of the iceberg ; The vegetable rainbow ; Amazing grains and simple sugars ; Cooking grains ; The magical fruit ; Stone soup ; Making soup from scratch ; Dancing, swinging, poetry... marinade ; Sauces and spreads and dips : oh my!; title: The Basic Beverages. The good, the bad, and the smoothie ; Coffee, tea, or me? ; The non-milk of human kindness; title: Beyond The Basics. Mish mash ; Wild things ; Rosemary; title: How to follow a recipe.