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Teens Cook: How to Cook What You Want to Eat

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Great book for teens who don't know how to make anything and love to eat or teens who think they know how to make it all. The books s just as it's sub-title, "how to cook what you want to eat." It has great recipe alternatives to eating in instead of dining out--and learning something new while you're at it!

Receipes include sections of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, desserts. Most food that you go out to eat, you can find the receipe in here!

Very well written. Easy to follow recipes with great illustrations. Tasty meals, wide range for all taste buds. The best cookbook by far I have ever used. For teens and anyone alike. Great buy totally recommended.

I purchased this book for my 11 year old daughter to help cultivate her growing interest in cooking and to inspire her to broaden her palate and eat healthier. I'd say it has accomplished both objectives. Most of the recipes she can prepare herself with very little help from me so she feels very independent and is enjoying being an active participant in our family meal planning. She is so happy about being in the kitchen and cooking she actually enjoys doing the dishes too!!

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I LOVE this book! As a college student living in her first apartment, I find these recipes so easy and fun. I even got my roommates to start cooking too. Also, I've found this book is a great move-in gift for my fellow students learning how to live on their own. What better way to help out a college student then helping them forgo pizza everyday?!

My daughter checked out this book from our puplic library,she was sooooo excited when she was able to cook the things in the book without much help from me. When she would finish,it would be GREAT!!!!! I will defiantly be purchasing this book.

My 12 year old pre-teenage son (who is already pretty handy in the kitchen) found this at our local library and has been going on and on and on about all the neat recipes and how easy they were for him to understand. He asked if he could start cooking some dinners for our family (using these recipes). I was like, "Uuuggh...Okay, I'll let you. If you promise to clean up." (You can never look anxious to a teen - or it ruins their fun. But inside I was doing a cart wheel - I do not enjoy cooking.) I looked through the book myself. The recipes look yummy and simple and there are all kinds of tips along the way. I like the recipes because all of the ingredients appear to be things that I can pick up at our local market. I'm buying my own copy and will buy more as gifts for teens.
UPDATE: The son I mentioned (above) is now turning seventeen and he and his sister and younger brother still turn to these books (same authors) for dinner and desserts. They are great!

The recipes in this book are time-consuming and taste mediocre at best, although they look nice. Just today I made the eggplant parmesan, and though I cooked it for 15 minutes instead of the ten called for in the recipe, it still came out undercooked and no one ate it. It took me an hour to make. Another time I made the banana cream pie, which ended up looking and tasting like banana pudding made from a box. And those are only two of all the recipes I made. I would not recommend this book to anyone.

I am having a back to school program for my teens at the Library teaching them how to make easy and delicious after-school snacks. This is a great book. Just looking at the flyers I have up, they are psyched that we will be making snacks created (and taste approved) by teens. The recipes are easy, the ingredients are easy to find, and the best part is these will be healthier for them than microwavable, perservative-riddled frozen "snacks." I also like that there is a section on breakfast food since many teens tend to skip this very important meal. The cool thing is that a lot of the breakfast recipes (like the scones and even the breakfast casserole) can be made in advance and grabbed when their scurrying out the door.

This recipe book gives such a wide assortment of recipes for young people to use almost everyday. The recipes are easy to understand, ingredients are everyday items, and there are plenty of hints and tips to help the novice chef. My niece (high school)and daughter (college) both received copies from me and both are enjoying their cooking experiences from this book. I have even used some of the recipes since they are great for working women who need to put something together quickly and still feel like they are putting on a "home-cooked" meal.

This book is the most phoenomenal, most exceptional, most INSPIRING book I've read all year. I bow down before Jill and Megan Carle. They are the most excellent cooks to ever walk the face of the earth. Thank you for your your beans and rice. Thank you for your goat cheese dip. Thank you for your foccacia bread. Thank you for being my friends.