Book Review - "Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook"

 

 

LEARN TO COOK WITH CONFIDENCE WITH THE TASTE OF HOME COOKING SCHOOL COOKBOOK BASED ON THE POPULAR TASTE OF HOME COOKING SCHOOLS ATTENDED BY MILLIONS 

Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook 

ISBN: 978-0-89821-945-6; 

Paperback with French Flaps: $17.99 

ebook: $9.99 

The Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook, is just like having a Cooking School instructor in your very own kitchen,” says Catherine Cassidy, Editor in Chief, Taste of Home. “This essential cookbook captures the highlights of our cooking school lessons and presents them in a way that allows people of all skill levels in the kitchen, to create memorable holiday meal moments in their own homes with family, friends and neighbors.”  

Learn fresh techniques, tips, secrets and entertaining ideas straight from the Taste of Home Cooking School team.  Each chapter builds from simple, beloved classics to spectacular dishes handed down by families from generation to generation that are sure to impress family and friends. Better yet, all of these recipes can be created with affordable ingredients available at your local grocery store. As you move from one recipe to the next, you will enhance your cooking skills and discover new favorites. 

Highlights Include:

 Low-effort “Cheat It” recipes with big rewards like the refreshing Lemonade Icebox Pie, the 10-minute Zesty Salsa and Chocolate Cooking Cupcakes 

 More than 400 simple to spectacular recipes including mouthwatering Gnocchi in Sage Butter, snappy Sweet & Tangy Wings, and Fresh Cherry Pie 

 140 how-to’s, secrets and tips shared by Taste of Home Cooking School experts from how to shape drop cookies to the best techniques for shredding meat for sandwiches and grilling salmon fillets 

 Exciting twists on all-time favorites like burgers, pizza, Chinese takeout and more 

About Catherine Cassidy:

Catherine M. Cassidy is Editor-in-Chief of Taste of Home. She is responsible for driving editorial direction and product strategy across the brand’s media platforms.  They include Taste of Home, the number one food and entertaining magazine in the world; TasteofHome.com; social media; special interest publications; and cookbooks.  She also is responsible for editorial direction for the magazines Simple & Delicious and Healthy Cooking and Enthusiast Brands Birds and Blooms, Country, Country Woman, Farm and Ranch Living, and Reminisce. 

Cassidy has toured the country as the face of Taste of Home for national and local TV, radio, and newspaper interviews in support of the best-selling Taste of Home products, including its cookbooks.

Prior to joining Taste of Home, Cassidy served as Editor-in-Chief of Prevention magazine, at Rodale, Inc. Cassidy joined Rodale in 1986 as an associate editor in the book division, and was later named Executive Editor of Rodale’s Custom Publishing division. She started her career at Runner’s World and Fit magazines in Mountain View, California. Cassidy lives in Mequon, Wisconsin, with her husband and two daughters.

About Taste of Home

Taste of Home is a go-to resource for the holidays and any time of the year for information on food, cooking and entertaining. Each year, thousands of great home cooks from across the United States and Canada submit more than 40,000 recipes, of which 3,000 are published in Taste of Home magazines and online, making Taste of Home one of the largest and most successful practitioners of user generated content. Before being published, every recipe is tested in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen to ensure that it can be prepared with affordable, everyday ingredients from regular grocery stores. Taste of Home content is available in print; online at Tasteofhome.com; in books; via digital download on iPad, mobile apps and Kindle; and Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest. 

For more information please visit http://www.tasteofhome.com , and follow on Facebook  and Twitter

My review:

 

I have always been a fan of Taste of Home magazines ever since my mother subscribed to them years ago; therefore I was thrilled to have the opportunity to review the Taste of Home Cooking School Cookbook! I love trying out new recipes; however some can be intimidating as they include ingredients I have never used before or a cooking style or technique that I am unfamiliar with.  This cookbook included step by step instructions and tips for trying out new techniques! For example, I have never made stuffed burgers, but they sound so appealing to me to try, and there are instructions for this.  Another thing that is included is steps for halving a chicken.  The recipes are a great range of easy, simple recipes to more time consuming and "for company" and entertaining recipes.  The cookbook is also filled with beautiful, colorful pictures of the recipes and I love looking through this and picking out recipes to try! I have made the Baked Ziti that is on page 187, this was an easy recipe and so delicious! I have a long list of recipes to try in the upcoming weeks!  This is a must-have cookbook for every home as it is filled with a wide variety of recipes, filled with pictures of the foods and jam-packed with tips and advice! 

*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for a honest review.*