Throw away that take-out menu and turn to one of the recipes in this wonderful new cookbook. Using readily available ingredients and a few simple techniques, Quick & Easy Chinese brings the delicious flavors of Asia into anyone'skitchen. Included are many familiar restaurant classics like Cashew Chicken, Hot and Sour Soup, and even Fortune Cookies—all simplified for easy home cooking. With a wide range of appetizers, soups, entrees, drinks, and desserts, Quick & Easy Chinese will bring everyone good fortune and good eating.
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Nancie McDermott is a food writer and cooking teacher specializing in the cuisines of Southeast Asia. She lives in North Carolina.
Maren Caruso is a photographer based in San Francisco.
Maren Caruso is a photographer based in San Francisco.
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Nancie McDermott is a North Carolina native, born in Burlington, raised in High Point, and educated at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her three years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand gave her a lifelong love for the cuisines, history and cultures of Asia, and she has spent the last twenty years cooking, reading, traveling, writing, and teaching about Asian food. Her ten cookbooks focus on Asian kitchens, but since moving back home to North Carolina in 1999, she has taken time to look at the foods of the American South, the place she fell in love with cooking in her grandmother's dairy farm kitchen. Now living with her family in Chapel Hill, NC, she writes, researches, and teaches about both her beats, while serving as a contributing editor for Edible Piedmont magazine. Visit her blog at: nanciemcdermott.wordpress.com, to keep track of it pie by pie.
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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase
This is the book on Chinese cooking that I have been looking for. All the dishes you love to eat in the restrauants, and for take out. Wonderful for those of us with no take out worthy of eating. Easy and flavorfull. The cover recipe is delicious... Kung Pao Chicken. Mongolian Beef is divine, but you need to double or triple the sauce. Lemmon Chicken is easy and fantastic as is the Shrimp with Zucchini and Sweet Red Peppers. They are all here..Orange beef, Pepper Steak, Chicken with Cashews, Moo Goo gai Pan, Pot stickers, Mu Shu Pork, and all are tasty and easy to make in an American kitchen. No pretenses to be authentic. Just extremely good American Chinese.... Like P.F.Chang's... I can't reccomend it highly enough.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This cookbook is for those who love Chinese food made the American way. There are 70+ recipes and it is all your favorites. This would make a great wedding present combined with a wok.
I made the soy sauce chicken wings on page 27 and they were fabulous. I needed to increase the sauce because the suggested amount was not nearly enough. I also had the hot and sour soup. It was still a good soup, just different then I've had before.
It had the Kung Pao, Szechuan, 5 spice, etc...all the typical American favorites. The picture on the cover is the Kung Pao Chicken, it's not a very appetizing picture but the dish itself was very good. There are pictures of some of the dishes, the pages are thick and glossy, you'd be able to wipe off spills easy enough.
The chapters are divided into beef, pork, chicken, fish and then vegetables and rice chapters. The fried rice with shrimp and peas was very good.
I made the soy sauce chicken wings on page 27 and they were fabulous. I needed to increase the sauce because the suggested amount was not nearly enough. I also had the hot and sour soup. It was still a good soup, just different then I've had before.
It had the Kung Pao, Szechuan, 5 spice, etc...all the typical American favorites. The picture on the cover is the Kung Pao Chicken, it's not a very appetizing picture but the dish itself was very good. There are pictures of some of the dishes, the pages are thick and glossy, you'd be able to wipe off spills easy enough.
The chapters are divided into beef, pork, chicken, fish and then vegetables and rice chapters. The fried rice with shrimp and peas was very good.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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After making several recipes from this cookbook, I am very happy that I purchased it. My first try was sweet and sour pork and we really enjoyed it. That was followed by orange beef which was also a big hit. Some might complain that these recipes are not completely authentic. For example, neither the sweet and sour pork nor the lemon chicken are breaded and deep fried. Instead they are sauted in the wok, but I found the result delicious. I think the goal is to make preparation simpler and the result healthier and I prefer them this way so it really isn't a negative for me.
Though there are only 70 recipes, they include good suggestions for beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, fish, and vegetable side dishes. The recipes are illustrated with beautiful color photograpy and most of the ingredients can be found in a good chain grocery store with an international aisle. A few things, for example Asian vegetables such as bok choy, will be found more easily or more cheaply at an Asian grocery if you have one nearby. If you don't, substitute napa cabbage for bok choy and young string beans for long beans and the result will still be very tasty.
Though there are only 70 recipes, they include good suggestions for beef, chicken, pork, shrimp, fish, and vegetable side dishes. The recipes are illustrated with beautiful color photograpy and most of the ingredients can be found in a good chain grocery store with an international aisle. A few things, for example Asian vegetables such as bok choy, will be found more easily or more cheaply at an Asian grocery if you have one nearby. If you don't, substitute napa cabbage for bok choy and young string beans for long beans and the result will still be very tasty.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
5.0 out of 5 stars
WUUUUHHHAAAH!!!
I was recently in Chicago. Ate at "Big Bowl" and had Peanut Noodles. (YUM) Wanted to take some Chinese cooking home with me. We went to Crate and Barrel. Read more
Published 1 month ago by victoria escamilla
5.0 out of 5 stars
Quick and Easy Chinese
My sister in-law had wanted to learn to cook chinese food and we have both enjoyed making the recipes in this cookbook. It has an easy to follow instructions.
Published 2 months ago by Helene Quinn
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as her Thai book
My wife and I have owned the author's "Quick and Easy Thai" for quite a while and really like it, so we were excited to buy this book. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Kenneth Cognoscente
4.0 out of 5 stars
A winner for me
I have had this book for over a year and I am very happy with it. Admittedly, I usually make the same recipes--kung pao chicken, orange peel beef, fried rice. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Zippy
5.0 out of 5 stars
Good for my cookbook collection.
My husband loves Chinese food, but I don't like indulging in the high calorie dishes sold in restaurants all the time. Read more
Published 14 months ago by atlmichelle
4.0 out of 5 stars
Not as good as "Chinese Cooking for Dummies"
The book has lots of recipes, but most are more authentic Chinese whereas I'm used to eating in American Chinese places and that's where my taste buds lay (unk if that's a proper... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Francisco Almaraz-mendoza
5.0 out of 5 stars
an excellent cookbook
This is an excellent cookbook and an excellent value for the money. We have given it many times as a gift, and strongly recommend it.
Published 20 months ago by David
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Cookbook
I have made just a few recipes from this cookbook so far, but I've really enjoyed them. I tried a great asparagus recipe and and the lemon chicken is fabulous! Read more
Published on February 6, 2011 by Fun Cooking
5.0 out of 5 stars
Chinese made simple.
Taste is a personal issue. One can follow a bland method of using spices, etc or otherwise. I like my food very spicy.
This cookbook really makes making meals a breeze. Read more
This cookbook really makes making meals a breeze. Read more
Published on February 4, 2011 by Mike Phillips
5.0 out of 5 stars
AWESOME
LOVE this cookbook - typicall chinese dishes, so easy to make! Tried soups, dumplings, main dishes, all turned out delish. Highly recommend.
Published on October 22, 2010 by Gabby
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