The Essential Rice Cookbook offers hints and notes on unusual ingredients, while step-by-step photographs guide the reader through many tricky culinary techniques. Included is a comprehensive pictorial guide to essential equipment with detailed instructions on the best ways to use and maintain them. Preparation pages with step-by-step photographs and easy-to-follow instructions explain different methods that make this book perfect for cooks of all ages and abilities. Beautifully photographed glossaries show unusual ingredients and food varieties with their common and not-so-common names. Snippets of history related to the dishes add interest while colorful double-page features provide a wealth of information on buying, storing and preparing some of the more unusual ingredients. Over 500 full-color photographs are featured.
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Rice lovers REJOICE!,
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I love rice, but I didn't know how to cook it. Oh, I knew the standard stuff, but thats dull. Some cookbooks have a few recipies but they were the same old standard stuff. Then I bought a copy of this book and I have to say it was worth every penny.
I am a HUGE rice lover and when I got this book I was blown away. The directions are easy too follow (thank God becuase I can't cook!) and the pictures are nice, though I do wish there were more. I've me a lot of different dishes and only one turned out poorly. I will say this; some of the ingredients maybe tricky to find. For example, I couldn't find Saffron threads. But all in all this is my favoriate cookbook because it has so many different recipies from a range of places: India, America, China, Japan etc. A must have for rice lovers who are tired of the same ol' same ol'.
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Essential Series,
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This is absoultely one cookbook that everyone should own. We own the entire series and there is no other cookbook like it. There are beautiful pictures for every recipe and the recipes are very unique, interesting, and delicious. Several recipes will suggest ingredients that may be difficult or expensive to find but the recipes can also be simplified. My husband loves to cook and looooves this entire series of cookbooks. This cookbook will help any chef tap into their creativity and explore their passion for cooking and take it to a new level.
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I really like this cookbook!
I really like rice! I didn't like rice once upon a time and grew up eating only potatoes. Then one day, I married a man who is crazy about rice and the Minute Rice just wasn't going to cut it. This cookbook is fantastic. First of all, the color photographs are wonderfully inspiring, they are large and in color and make you want to try the recipes. And along the side of the recipe page are smaller photos that walk you through the recipe with 'how to' photos. The book explains the vast variety in rices: Jasmine, long-grain, Basmati, Japanese short-grain, etc. and how to cook them. A couple favorite recipes are Chicken Biryani and Coulibiac. Biryani is a wonderful Indian dish that I first learned to make from woman visiting from India. Her recipe used 2 cups of oil!! Way too much for me, though the recipe was excellent. The one in this book uses only 1/2 cup, which is much, much better. The Coulibiac is a wonderful recipe with salmon, rice, mushrooms and onions in a puff pastry. It takes a few simple ingredients and makes them heavenly! I highly recommend this rice cookbook if you love to eat rice.
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In this chapter we visit the Middle East and the sunny shores of the Mediterranean and surrounds-Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
back bacon rashers, tin chopped tomatoes, tomato passata, teaspoon natural vanilla extract, thick natural yoghurt, chicken thigh fillets, red capsicum, large wide saucepan, chilli flakes, flameproof casserole dish, roasting tin, raw prawns, green capsicum, risotto rice, paella rice, squid tubes, adding more stock, hot chicken stock, cover loosely with foil, crumpled paper towels, puy lentils, chopped oregano, adding more liquid, paella pan, soft brown sugar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, Southeast Asia, New Year, Nil Makes New!
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In this chapter we visit the Middle East and the sunny shores of the Mediterranean and surrounds-Italy, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Portugal and Morocco. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
back bacon rashers, tin chopped tomatoes, tomato passata, teaspoon natural vanilla extract, thick natural yoghurt, chicken thigh fillets, red capsicum, large wide saucepan, chilli flakes, flameproof casserole dish, roasting tin, raw prawns, green capsicum, risotto rice, paella rice, squid tubes, adding more stock, hot chicken stock, cover loosely with foil, crumpled paper towels, puy lentils, chopped oregano, adding more liquid, paella pan, soft brown sugar Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Middle East, Southeast Asia, New Year, Nil Makes New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Middle East Since 1900 (Modern times sourcebooks) by K.A. Rice on 4 pages
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