Anyone Can Cook DVD Edition: Step-by-Step Recipes Just for You (Better Homes & Gardens Test Kitchen) [Hardcover-spiral]

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The ultimate visual guide to cooking for anyone who needs to learn quickly and without a lot of fuss!

No other guide makes learning to cook (or becoming a more accomplished cook) this easy! With nearly 1,000 photographs, Anyone Can Cook brings you right into the kitchen, providing a visual guide to basic cooking skills and showing the appealing finished dish, while 575 recipes show how to create delicious food, from breakfast favorites to savory toasted sandwiches to quick meat main dishes.

This incredibly easy-to-follow guide offers

• An 84-page visual intro to cooking that answers any question you might have about ingredients, tools, and techniques
• A skill level icon that lets you know if a recipe is easy, easier, or easiest to make
• An "Ask Mom" feature at the bottom of every page where you'll find questions you might have about that recipe and a cross-reference to the page with the answer
• Super-easy recipes-from the comfort foods you crave (mashed potatoes and mini meat loaves) to some of the delicacies you enjoy in restaurants (Indian curries and Thai-style wraps)

For anyone who wants to make home-cooked meals but could use a helpful hand in the kitchen, Anyone Can Cook is brimming with useful advice and tips to get you started cooking fabulous meals quickly and with confidence!

Recipe Excerpts from Anyone Can Cook

Barbecue Quesadillas

Shiitake Mushroom-Tomato Bisque

Asian Salmon with Oven-Roasted Sweet Potatoes

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Anyone can cook

Step-by-step recipes just for you

Includes Bonus DVD featuring more than 60 Test KitchenHow-To Videos

See it, do it, nothing to it! Everything you need to know to start cooking now

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Product Details

• Hardcover-spiral: 480 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (September 8, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470500670
• ISBN-13: 978-0470500675
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 8.4 x 1.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,239 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great wedding shower gift, June 3, 2010

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Great cookbook for a bride or college student. Good information on how to select vegetables, preparation/techniques and great recipes.

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Now I can cook - sort of!, October 4, 2009

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J. Bryan Thomson "FumbleThumbs" (Ottawa, ON CDA) - See all my reviews
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I am still going through the book and still learning from it, but it is one of the better purchases I have made recently. I haven't cooked a disaster since it arrived in the mail. Of course, it is just a matter of time before I take on a recipe I am not ready for, and meet my Waterloo - but that is just a guy thing - and, yes, I have had many of those hiccups in my life!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Anyone Can Cook Semi-Home made, February 23, 2010

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I bought this book as I was hoping for easy, quick and delicious meals. Coming up with dinner ideas is very difficult for me and this book has been awesome! I was hoping for more american-styled dishes, but the recipes were delicious. Also, the semi-homemade concept made each recipe incredibly easy.