Customer Reviews

Cooking Light Cook's Essential Recipe Collection: Chicken: 58 essential recipes to eat smart, be fit, live well (the Cooking Light.cook's ESSENTIAL RECIPE COLLECTION)

5 star:		(8)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(0)

 

 

I am a cookbook junkie, and this is absolutely one of the best cookbooks that I have purchased in a long time. This is a must for anyone trying to eat healthy for the new year. There are wonderful photos of every single recipe.

The recipes take a boring meat (chicken) and make it scrumptious. We haven't found a recipe we don't like yet! Some of the recipes take a long time (chicken dumplings) but others are quick for weeknights. The book is well-organized with one-dish meals, dinner tonight (for faster recipes), on the grill, and recipes to serve company. The nutrition information is always included and the meals (if you stick with the portion size suggested) are "heart healthy" as most of them don't use chicken skin.

I love this book- great family frienly recipes that I actually use. I've made several dishes out of this book and my family loves them. Buy this book ;) if you want something you can make with items in your kitchen that's healthy and tastes good.

I love the size of this book and all of the wonderful pictures that are displayed for each recipe. I also like that Cooking Light includes the nutritional information for each dish.

Beautiful pictures! Easy to follow recipies. The 2-3 things I've made have come out well. I do wish though that it would suggest accompaniments to the chicken dishes. Nice variety of cooking methods and sauces, should be able to please just about any palate.

Cooking Light Cook's Essential Recipe Collection has produced a true stand-out with this volume about preparing chicken. Every single recipe in this book is tested, and illustrated with great photographs of the completed meal. If you are looking for a way to take a simple, basic food beyond the every-day, this is definitely the one for you. The directions are very clear, and you won't find yourself scratching your head wondering about weird and mysterious ingredients. This is good food done well with great imagination!

Highly recommended!

Found it in a friend's kitchen and found a lot of great recipes that I have had the opportunity to try and be quite happy with. Quite handy.

I'm not an expert cook, so I don't feel qualified to comment on the quality of the recipes themselves. But the food tastes great to me, the recipes are simple, and they encourage me to cook with exciting ingredients that I would normally avoid (e.g., what is fennel? Well, tomorrow I'm making the recipe on pg. 100, and I'm really excited about it). By far the best part of the book is the fact that every single recipe has a giant one-page photo of the finished product, and one small photo showing prep work or ingredient selection. This is how _all_ cookbooks should be designed and written. It's so nice.

I was nervous about ordering a 'used' book but this cookbook was in perfect condition!!