Second edition.

Offers 90 easy-to-follow weekend make-ahead recipes. This title helps you to prepare bountiful brunches, fun outdoor meals, family feasts, and dinner parties. It features: recipe variations and ideas; tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes; illustrations to demystify trickier techniques; and, menu suggestions for a Lunch Buffet.

Shows you how to prepare great food for different occasions using simple techniques, fresh ingredients, and basic kitchen equipment.

Provides recipes and guidance to help you cook with confidence. This book shows you how to make a good burger or delicious pasta, chicken soup, lasagne, prime rib, and more. It offers easy-to-follow directions; tips to help you shop for, prepare, and cook the recipes; lists of ideas; step-by-step illustrations for tricky techniques; and more.

Includes more than 2,000 recipes and variations. This book covers meatless cooking - including salads, soups, eggs and dairy, vegetables and fruit, pasta, grains, legumes, tofu and other meat substitutes, breads, condiments, desserts, and beverages. It is illustrated with line illustrations and contains advice on things like selecting vegetables.

Presents the author's favorite simple recipes. This book helps you to prepare family-pleasing meals, dinners for friends, and special-occasion feasts. It features: creative recipe variations and ideas; tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes; and, illustrations to demystify trickier techniques.

Presents some of the nation's top chefs in a culinary battle of home-style vs restaurant style.

Presents the author's favorite simple holiday recipes. This book helps you to cook for big feasts and parties from Thanksgiving to New Year's and for other holiday gatherings. It features: recipe variations and ideas; tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes; and, illustrations to demystify trickier techniques.