No Recipe? No Problem!: How to Pull Together Tasty Meals Without a Recipe - Paperback

by Phyllis Good (Author)

Cook anything without a recipe--just let the ingredients lead the way Author Phyllis Good of Fix-It and Forget-It fame and her circle of friends who love to cook are here to help. No Recipe? No Problem offers tips, tricks, and inspiration for winging it in the kitchen. Each chapter offers practical kitchen and cooking advice, from an overview of essential tools and pantry items to keep on hand to how to combine flavors and find good substitute ingredients, whether it's sheet pan chicken, vegetables, pasta, grain bowls, or pizza for tonight's dinner. Freestyle Cooking charts provide a scaffolding for building a finished dish from what cooks have available; Kitchen Cheat Sheets lend guidance on preparing meats, vegetables, and grains with correct cooking times and temperatures; and stories from Good's Cooking Circle offer personal experiences and techniques for successfully improvising for delicious results, such as how to combine flavors that work well together or how to use acid to draw out the sweetness in unripened fruit. Like being in the kitchen with a trusted friend or family member who delivers valuable information in a friendly, encouraging way, this book will inspire readers to pull ingredients together, dream up a dish, stir in a little imagination, and make something delicious take shape.

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The Last Cookbook You'll Ever Need!

Learn how to create delicious meals of all kinds - without a recipe - using the ingredients that are in your kitchen right now! Renowned cookbook author Phyllis Good, along with her group of experienced improvisational cooks, provides easy-to-use cheat sheets, mix-and-match charts, and essential know-how so that you can confidently combine what you have on hand. You'll find expert-but-easy techniques that can be applied to everything from soups and sauces to pizza, pasta, and more, plus more than 250 tried-and-true tips and tricks to provide inspiration and reassurance.