The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most [Hardcover]

Elizabeth Baird (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 17, 2001

More than twenty-five years of cooking expertise perfected in the unique Canadian Living Test Kitchen and printed in the food pages of Canadian Living magazine are distilled in this magnificent and completely new cookbook. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen guarantee — “Tested till perfect” — has assured a loyal following among cooks who know that Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipes guarantee success. Beautifully produced with a 2-colour interior and 2 eight-page photo inserts, the book contains more than 350 recipes, including regional specialties, dishes from our heritage communities, and fresh takes on modern classics such as sushi, chocolate fondue and pasta. Experienced cooks will enjoy the challenge of new inspirations such as Thai curries, pot stickers, grilled quail and chocolate confections. With an emphasis on eating for health, as well as nutritional analyses and advice, tips on cookware, food shopping and storage, and much more, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook has everything any home cook will need. It is a guarantee of good food and an investment in good taste and good health.

• Over 350 Canadian Living “tested till perfect” recipes
• Information on choosing and storing fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish
• Find how to select the right cooking equipment for your kitchen
• Tips on shopping, storage and ingredient substitutions
• Glossary of essential cooking and baking terms
• Advice on how to use slow cookers, bread machines and food processors
• Page-top symbols that pinpoint fast, make-ahead, freezable, budget-wise and Canadian Living classic recipes
• Streamlined recipes for easy preparation and clean-up
• Complete nutritional analysis for each recipe
• Cover the basics and challenges experienced cooks
• Highlights regional specialties and ingredients, dishes from our heritage communities and great cooks across the country

Tested till Perfect — The Canadian Living Test Kitchen
The Canadian Living Test Kitchen is the largest media test kitchen in Canada, testing and/or creating more than 500 recipes per year. Sensory evaluation takes place after each recipe is cooked. The challenge for the tester is not simply whether the dish tastes good but how its taste, appearance, healthfulness and method of preparation can be improved so that it will be the best it can possibly be. The recipe is deemed to be “Tested till Perfect” when it satisfies the high standards of the magazine. Canadians have learned to trust Canadian Living Magazine’s recipes because of the rigorous testing and editing process.

A sampling of delicious recipes:
Curried Lamb Phyllo Triangles
Baked Brie with Strawberry Mint Topping
Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad
Red Barn Corn and Bean Salad
Perfect Roast Chicken
Salmon Cakes
Grilled Portobello Burgers
Old-fashioned Beef Stew
Luscious Mushroom Lasagna
Lemon Sponge Pudding
Chocolate Raspberry Ice-Cream Cake
Saskatoon Berry Pie
Apple Pie Muffins
Country Seed Bread
Pear and Apricot Conserve
Spicy Thai Shrimp and Noodle Soup
Asparagus Miso Soup
Glazed Sea Bass with Red Curry Sauce
Smoky Tex-Mex Rib

Editorial Reviews

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More than twenty-five years of cooking expertise perfected in the unique Canadian Living Test Kitchen and printed in the food pages of Canadian Living magazine are distilled in this magnificent and completely new cookbook. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen guarantee ? ?Tested till perfect? ? has assured a loyal following among cooks who know that Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipes guarantee success. Beautifully produced with a 2-colour interior and 2 eight-page photo inserts, the book contains more than 350 recipes, including regional specialties, dishes from our heritage communities, and fresh takes on modern classics such as sushi, chocolate fondue and pasta. Experienced cooks will enjoy the challenge of new inspirations such as Thai curries, pot stickers, grilled quail and chocolate confections. With an emphasis on eating for health, as well as nutritional analyses and advice, tips on cookware, food shopping and storage, and much more, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook has everything any home cook will need. It is a guarantee of good food and an investment in good taste and good health.

? Over 350 Canadian Living ?tested till perfect? recipes
? Information on choosing and storing fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish
? Find how to select the right cooking equipment for your kitchen
? Tips on shopping, storage and ingredient substitutions
? Glossary of essential cooking and baking terms
? Advice on how to use slow cookers, bread machines and food processors
? Page-top symbols that pinpoint fast, make-ahead, freezable, budget-wise and Canadian Living classic recipes
? Streamlined recipes for easy preparation and clean-up
? Complete nutritional analysis for each recipe
? Cover the basics and challenges experienced cooks
? Highlights regional specialties and ingredients, dishes from our heritage communities and great cooks across the country

Tested till Perfect ? The Canadian Living Test Kitchen
The Canadian Living Test Kitchen is the largest media test kitchen in Canada, testing and/or creating more than 500 recipes per year. Sensory evaluation takes place after each recipe is cooked. The challenge for the tester is not simply whether the dish tastes good but how its taste, appearance, healthfulness and method of preparation can be improved so that it will be the best it can possibly be. The recipe is deemed to be ?Tested till Perfect? when it satisfies the high standards of the magazine. Canadians have learned to trust Canadian Living Magazine?s recipes because of the rigorous testing and editing process.

A sampling of delicious recipes:
Curried Lamb Phyllo Triangles
Baked Brie with Strawberry Mint Topping
Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad
Red Barn Corn and Bean Salad
Perfect Roast Chicken
Salmon Cakes
Grilled Portobello Burgers
Old-fashioned Beef Stew
Luscious Mushroom Lasagna
Lemon Sponge Pudding
Chocolate Raspberry Ice-Cream Cake
Saskatoon Berry Pie
Apple Pie Muffins
Country Seed Bread
Pear and Apricot Conserve
Spicy Thai Shrimp and Noodle Soup
Asparagus Miso Soup
Glazed Sea Bass with Red Curry Sauce
Smoky Tex-Mex Rib

About the Author

Elizabeth Baird, food editor of Canadian Living Magazine since 1987, oversees all the food features and recipes, working with the Test Kitchen staff, two associate food editors, senior editors and food writers from across Canada. From 1991 to 1999, she was editor of all the Canadian Living cookbooks produced, including the 20 volumes in the Canadian Living Best series. The Canadian Living Cooks Step-by-Step was the winner of the Cuisine Canada Cookbook Award 2000. She has been honoured by the Toronto Culinary Guild with its first Silver Ladle award, with a National Magazine Award for food writing in Canada and the Ontario Hostelry Institute’s Gold Award, Media Category.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 416 pages
• Publisher: Random House Canada (September 17, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0679311173
• ISBN-13: 978-0679311171
• Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 8.3 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,333,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A terrific All-Round General Cookbook!, September 26, 2005

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Tumnus "Tumnus_of_Narnia" (Beautiful British Columbia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most (Paperback)

For those who only have a basic collection of cookbooks, consider adding this up there right next the the Joy of Cooking. All these recipes are tried and true, not elaborate, and tested for good results, "Tested Til Perfect", in their test kitchen. Many are basic fare recipes but each recipe delivers an incredibly good dish. Yes, some are more tropical or ethnic in flavour. Canadian Living, with its magazine and television shows, produces & tests over 500 recipes each year. What you have here is a selection of the 350 best. However, this is not just your boring old basic Cooking 101 cookbook. There's a real focus on both regional specialties and ingredients and dishes that celebrate Canada's modern multicultural mosaic.

Re: Comments Below, If you were looking for "Canadian" recipes and didn't like the ethnic ones, then you've missed the point. Canada is as multicultural as it gets, the folks very openminded about ethnic food, so why wouldn't this cookbook have "tiramisu" or curried dishes or fusion dishes? Besides the "truly Canadian" dishes such as saskatoon berry pie would be impossible to reproduce if sasks don't grow in your area.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Favorite Favorite Favorite Favorite Cookbook!, January 30, 2003

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This review is from: The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most (Hardcover)

This is the cookbook that I go to the most (and I collect cookbooks, so I've got a million of them). Every time the recipes are perfect. It's quite like Mark Bittman's How to cook everything, but I seem to go to this one quite a bit more then the Bittmans.
I use it so much that it's filthy with spilled sauce stains!
No pictures, but the best basic 'how to cook anything' book.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars BEST COOKBOOK, December 25, 2009

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The best recipes for great eating. Not for simple or easy or fast cooking.