Seriously Simple: Easy Recipes for Creative Cooks

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Summary: Finally, a cookbook that works!
Review: First of all, I am not a cook but now there is hope for me using this wonderful new cookbook. My family likes to eat in restaurants and these recipes let me prepare that kind of food.
The recipes are as the title states: serious and simple. I particularly loved the section on setting up a pantry. If you want to cook, eat, and learn about high quality, healthy, fresh, food, run out and buy this book. ps Try the scallops!

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Summary: Seriously delicious!
Review: I love this cookbook! The recipes ARE simple, the flavors are wonderful. They're easy enough for everyday cooking, and delicious enough for guests.

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Summary: Turn Yourself Into a Super Cook
Review: I love this cookbook. It has become my favorite and is nearly always on the kitchen counter at our house. It is easy to follow, provides great suggestions for stocking a kitchen (equipment, pantry, refrigerator, herb garden), instructions for staples (like her "seasoning salt"), and includes interesting recipes that are fun to share with family and always a hit with guests. The recipes are truly SIMPLE to follow, and make you look like a SERIOUS cook, even mid-week after a day at work - - hence, the title is apt. Try the ribs with hoisin sauce, the fish stew with chipotle sauce, lamb with goat cheese and spinach, the pasta with sausage and tomatoes, the dense, gooey chocolate cake cooked mostly on the stovetop, and many others.

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Summary: Diane Rossen Worthington's Seriously Simple
Review: I own all of this author's cookbooks and love them all. But this one reaches a new height. The author understands what it means to live in a house where all cooking adults work but where no one is satisfied with restaurant or take-out food. She provides recepies that are in fact simple: marinades that are easy to make; combinations of ingredients that are immediately accessible; good healthy food that all members of the family are likely to enjoy. The recepies are for the most part easy, but they are also extremely elegant. Kids will love the simplicity and the great taste. Gourmets will admire the subtlety. A user-friendly, teriffic book.

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Summary: Turn Yourself Into a Super Cook
Review: My sister bought this book for me, knowing that with two small children I don't have much time to prepare gourmet meals. This book gives some great ideas on how to prepare fabulous meals easily and with little time required. I especially love how the author includes "the clever cook could" section to most of the recipes which gives ideas on how one could serve any leftovers or jazz up the meal. The photographs are beautiful as well. I think this book would make a wonderful gift to anyone who loves to cook or just wants a change from what they usually prepare at mealtime.

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Summary: Seriously Easy
Review: My sister bought this book for me, knowing that with two small children I don't have much time to prepare gourmet meals. This book gives some great ideas on how to prepare fabulous meals easily and with little time required. I especially love how the author includes "the clever cook could" section to most of the recipes which gives ideas on how one could serve any leftovers or jazz up the meal. The photographs are beautiful as well. I think this book would make a wonderful gift to anyone who loves to cook or just wants a change from what they usually prepare at mealtime.

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Summary: This book delivers on its title
Review: Simple, extremely flavorful, and easy to modify recipes to personal tastes. You end up with dishes that look and taste like you ordered them from some nouvelle cuisine restaurant. I haven't made anything in here that didn't simply rock. Flavors actually sparkle. Wonderful attitude about cooking.