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Collected Cookbook Recipes and Chef Recipes

   

 

 

Our bookshelves burst with with cookbooks, each one the result of the author's passion and each a source of inspiration to the home cook. On our cookbook review pages, you can find these recipes, but we've assembled them here for convenience.  Most are chef recipes, --culinary delights-- and the highest of gourmet recipes. On each recipe page you will find the name of the book and it's author with a link to the book review. We hope this will help you make good selections for your own library.  At the bottom of this page we will explain our standards for selecting the books we review. We have specified low-carb or diabetic if the recipe came from that particular source.

All of these recipes are also listed on the main ingredients pages.

 

Breakfast, Brunch & Breads Recipes from Chefs and Cookbooks

One of our favorite meals for that something extra.  Sunday breakfast or brunch, when everyone is relaxed, becomes a family tradition.

 

Starters & Appetizers Recipes from Chefs and Cookbooks

They can be substantial, almost a main course, or the most delicate of tidbits.  They wake the appetite.

 

Jams, Preserves & Butters Recipes from Chefs and Cookbooks

Flavor comes in sweetness and buttery richness.

 

Soups Recipes from Chefs and Cookbooks

When you find a favorite, double it, triple it, and have it there for those hectic moments.  A friend in need, a lifesaver.

 

Seafood Recipes from Chefs and Cookbooks

The goodness of the sea.  Human civilizations began wherever there was water and we gravitate to seafood still.

 

 

 

What is a good cookbook?  What makes one cookbook recipe better than another?  Is it only chef recipes that satisfy?  This is an interesting question.  We are generally drawn to the books with the most beautiful pictures and a photo can be a guide to serving food.  Presentation is an art of its own, called plating in chef circles.  But a photo is not all.  What we want is good writing:  we want clarity, clarity, clarity.  We want a tricky step to be properly explained so we aren't scratching our heads, wondering what the author means.  We want to be able to find the ingredients in our larder or, if the ingredients are exotic, we want  a list of resources to advise us where to find a legitimate source of the ingredients. All the cookbook reviews are discriminatory.  We review only those books that we fulfill these standards.  A good cookbook is also an inspiration and once we have given the recipe a chance to become our own it changes. 

 

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