Your Shirt Is Not an Oven Mitt!: A Kitchen Survival Manual with 150+ Foolproof Recipes Review

Posted by Juanita Avenue on Sunday, March 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment

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(More customer reviews)I ordered this book as a birthday gift for my son for two reasons: one, he's a disaster in the kitchen, and two, if not for Ramen noodles, the child would starve.

The book includes more than 150 recipes, only 14 of which are for Ramen. Chapters include recipes for drinks, sandwiches, and surprisingly sophisticated--but still simple to prepare--entrees, salads and desserts. These recipes will work as well for cooks-in-a-hurry as for culinary novices. Microwave and crock pot dishes will not only be life-savers, but may very well become the favorite dishes novice chefs feed their own kids someday.

Author Deb Puente (Elegantly Easy Creme Brulee) includes such vital basics as how long different foods can be stored, cooking terms, and lists of basic kitchen equipment and suggested items for stocking pantry and fridge. She even offers safety tips such as how to avoid food poisoning and how to check pots of boiling things without scalding the skin off your face.

This is a great book for fledglings fresh from the nest, newlyweds, and people whose children think the smoke alarm is a dinner bell.

But my darling son will have to get his own copy. I'm keeping this one!

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Product Description:
Fast, cheap, and in control

This uncomplicated and enormously informative manual is all the culinary novice or klutz will need to cruise the kitchen like a pro, shop efficiently, cook delicious meals for one, or whip up impressive gourmet spreads for a party of friends using accessible, cost-friendly ingredients.
Featuring over 150 savory and sweet recipes that include incredible party dips and hors d'oeuvres, enticing entrees, and decadent desserts, alongside shopping tips, safety dos and don'ts, a glossary of cooking terms, and so much more, Your Shirt Is Not and Oven Mitt! is the indispensable kitchen tool (next to that oven mitt!) that provides the most painless approach to cooking.