Easy Gourmet Cookbook eBook. For the Love of Food. Easy Recipes & Chef Secrets
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Tastefully Simple Gourmet Food. Easy Gourmet Cookbook eBook!
Choose the format that works for you: ultra-easy gourmet meals made and served elegantly and effortlessly now on hard copy and eBook! Try delicious and astonishingly easy recipes like Mango Coconut Chicken, Lavender Cherry Brownies and Roasted Balsamic Tomatoes. Feeling hungry already? Get your hands on a Ham and Parmesan Sandwich with Herbed Mayonnaise and Apricot Jam, or experience Angela's Chicken with Dijon Vinaigrette Fennel and Apples with Thyme Potatoes. Even simple Croissant recipes can be glamorized with Strawberries, Mascarpone and Almonds.
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Low in prep time, these delectable recipes are fancy without the fuss and don't sacrifice flavor. There is so much more inside: time saving cooking methods, tips for serving meals beautifully and luxuriously, at any budget!
This Book Features:
Simple ingredients, easy to find
- Clear instruction and practical methods
- Great tips and chef tricks so you can successfully create your own gourmet meals in no time flat even if you've never cooked before!
- Easy entertaining and table setting tips
- Tips for luxuriating and de-stressing
- Measurement and Conversion Resources, indispensible for all kitchens
And so much more!
Imagine preparing an amazing gourmet meal including beverage and dessert, without having to do any cooking at all!
"I was concerned about buying yet another cookbook, where it would sit on my shelf and not be utilized. I worried that it would be overwhelming, difficult to master and would prevent me from spending time with my family. Much to my surprise I was incorrect! Your recipes are delicious, mapped out for easy navigation in the grocery store, and can be prepared in up to 15 minutes to allow time with my family. I am so grateful I decided to give it a try. Now we know that it does a great job and the meals are fantastic! It delivered fast, simple, easy and most of all a delicious meal that my family enjoyed. I highly recommend this cookbook and the use of your website for additional tips and best practices. I realized, mealtime does not need to be stressful, it should be an experience.
- Kristin D
Author, Angela Tunner, is a highly skilled professional cooking expert and lifestyle guru who believes cooking is really easy, great taste should never be sacrificed and appreciation of food and its presentation paramount to the experience of eating at home. She has perfected these techniques and recipes so they taste and look as good as a fine restaurant, and yet are ultra-easy to make and present plus fresh, making them healthier and glamorous like spa meals.
"I got myself a cookbook. It was Simply Summer by Angela Tunner. Summer starts itself off with all sorts of helpful hints and information - how to cook while actually doing less cooking (hint - it involves using precooked items), how doing this is eco-friendly, the most common kitchen tools used in this book, tips on how to buy the best microwave, what ingredients to have as a base around the house, what to place in a picnic basket, how to set a nice table."
These recipes are very basic and truly easy to understand. Every recipe has a list of the tools needed for that dish and helpful explanations of any ingredients which very likely will be our first time using them. The directions are helpful and allow readers and cooks to arrive at a pleasing and tasty destination."
"And so, both because of the quality of food and the quality of the recipe writing, I wholeheartedly (and wholestomachedly) recommend this book."
- Nathaniel Jonet
Angela offers to those of us who want something that tastes a little finer, the ability to make it and serve it without the fuss of being overly perfectionist. This is at-home gourmet cooking and dining at its best. Food meant to be enjoyed and appreciated as a part of a more well-rounded life. More than recipes, it is holistic approach to cooking, eating and serving that looks at the whole picture, not just the kitchen.
"Angela Tunner is a dedicated chef, talented cookbook author, organizational guru and as I like to say, "the female version of Jacques Pepin"; her technique is terrific in the kitchen and so is her ability to share it with others. In Simply Summer, for example, Angela is able to bring her pages alive so that we are all inspired to eat better, fresher meals with those we love. She's a true Renaissance Gourmet."
Mary Luz Meija, Food Writer/Associate Producer/Researcher, Freelance- Food Network Canada
I wish everybody saw life like you did - I think if they did, there would be a lot more happy people living a much more beautiful life.
Virginia M.
The French revere food, its preparation, serving it - celebrating it together. So too can we. Remember, we are the only animal on the planet that can SAVOUR food. Food is much more than 'fuel'. It is one of life's greatest joys and pleasures. Smelling, tasting and sharing good food creates a physical reaction. A great one! It can give you chills and waves of ecstasy. Living a life without good food as an integral a part is a life incomplete. We must give ourselves permission to eat. We must eat together. We must cook as it is a life skill. Angela makes it all ultra-simple so that you CAN partake of the goodness because she has stripped it all down to its essential best so that cooking is not entirely the focus, but is an enhancement for your life.
"What a breath of fresh air. Angela is a gourmet that opens the door and lets you see into her life as mother and family cook without sacrificing her standards. She simplifies and shows you how she manages, making it seem like somehow in my crazy life as writer and mother, I can do it too. She provides an important voice in today's food landscape, where we are all trying to juggle way too much and yet, eat well."
Mollie Cox Bryan, writer and author of Mrs. Rowe's Restaurant Cookbook: A Lifetime of Recipes From the Shenandoah Valley (Ten Speed Press)
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How To Become a Better Cook
Cooking is a life skill. Like eating, it is basic for survival. Cooking is also a great way to reconnect when the food you prepared is shared. I find it interesting that while the act of eating is essential, a necessity to life, that the act of cooking for years, has not been treated with equal importance. It should be but where do you start? Cooking may seem daunting, but take heart, even if you think you are hopeless in the kitchen, there is hope. Like any skill, when you increase your knowledge and practice (which is needed in order for there to be improvement) your abilities are sure to improve, your confidence and sense of satisfaction will rise sky high! Here are some steps to get you feeling more confident and on the road to becoming a better cook.
RELAX
Take a deep breath and give yourself permission to try. It is not rocket science, it is just cooking! Not everyone is going to be a five-star chef ... and that is OK. You get big points for simply making an effort. Even if you make a mistake, just toss it and try again. You will be happy to know that with experience, you may be able to save your mistakes and those happy accidents can sometimes make for a fantastic dish!
BIGGEST COOKING MYTH DEBUNKED
One of the biggest untruths about cooking is keeping tons of people out of the kitchen and away from daily meal making is the "TIME" myth. THE MYTH: I don't have the time/it takes too much time. THE TRUTH: While many recipes are time consuming, contain many ingredients, and require a lot of preparation, this is not true of the act of cooking itself! Cooking is merely taking a raw food and bringing it to a cooked state and adding flavor. Fresh and healthy meals are a snap when you stick to basic food prepared simply and it will be a ridiculously easy to prepare and fantastically delicious every time.
KNOW YOUR INGREDIENTS
Whether you are seasoned chef or a complete cooking novice, ingredient knowledge is key. It was the first thing I studied even before introduced to cooking methods or techniques. Many people are stuck in an ingredient-rut and this is easily eliminated. Reading through a food encyclopaedia and learn about basic foods. Buy one from your local bookstore, used bookstore or borrow one from your local library. There are many out there. Be sure to look for one that describes the foods and shares how that food is best prepared and cooked.
KNOW BASIC COOKING METHODS
Simply put this is the how foods are cooked. Some are better than others depending on particular foods. Here in a nutshell are some of the basics: STOVE TOP: Frying, sauteéing, poaching and boiling. OVEN Roasting, baking and broiling. Knowing how and when to cook using these methods and doing them well, goes a long way to improving your cooking skills.
TOOL KNOWLEDGE
Same as with ingredients, tools are essential to a cooks results. They need not be expensive, but they do need to be good in order to be used safely and well. A dull knife or tool that is hard to use increases your chance of injury, which in the United States, kitchen injuries result in about one million injuries that arrive at hospitals yearly. This can be avoided with the use of good tools, used well. Practice using them and you will greatly increase your skills as a cook. Some of your basic tools needed are a good kitchen knife (a large chef knife is NOT necessary, especially if you are inexperienced with knives. Even with all my years of knife skills, I still use a small knife for best control and most of my food preparation. It is a sharp knife the size of a steak knife, and it is my favorite, most used and ideal for those new to the kitchen). Other basics are a sharp swivel head vegetable peeler, a melon baller, a spreader knife, wooden spoons is various sizes, whisks in various sizes and flexible rubber or silicone spatulas plus stiff ones for used pancakes and thin flexible ones for taking cookies off baking sheets.
BE STOCKED
Being unprepared adds to the 'time' and too-much prep' myth. Sure, if you had to shop each time you cooked, that would be really time consuming. Even the best chef in the world cannot cook if he/she does not have ingredients. Well, like the Boy Scouts say...Be Prepared... this really applies when it comes to your kitchen. To be prepared means stocking your Pantry cupboards, Fridge and Freezer. This is a must. It does not mean you have to spend a fortune either! When a kitchen is appropriately stocked it is a huge step in taking the time-crunch and stress out of cooking because you will have stores of what you need. With increased practice, you are even able to make terrific meals completely out of the pantry that taste great and are not all casseroles!
KEEP IT SIMPLE
Now you have knowledge of ingredients, you are stocked, have your tools and know your basic cooking methods, it is time to cook. The cardinal rule is 'Keep it Simple' Even in France, one of the biggest food-focused nations where cooking at home is a daily occurrence for the smallest of kitchens and families... simplicity is always on the menu! Focus on flavor and just cooking food to the best of your abilities will go a long way to making you a better cook each time you make a meal. Happy cooking!
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byComplimentary Simple Gourmet Recipe: Apple & Pear Compote
Tastefully Simple Gourmet Food
-ingredients-
6 Apples, peeled, cored and sliced
2 pears, peeled, cored and sliced
1 tablespoon margarine
2 tablespoons Cinnamon
¾ cup granulated sugar
¼ cup brown sugar
1 tablespoons Vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon sea salt
-method-
Peel and core apples. Cut apples in half, slice the halves into 6 or eight slices lengthwise. Cut pears in half, core and slice lenthwise into 6 or 8 slices.
Heat up medium sized pot on stove on medium heat. Add in margarine and let it melt until it starts to foam. Add in apples, pears and toss into margarine
Let apples cook for about 2 minutes then add in the sugar, sea salt, vanilla and cinnamon and stir till well combinedTurn heat down to low and let slowly cook for about 30 minutes.
Cool and store in refrigerator. Best stored in a litre sized Mason Jar.
Angela's Tips: Choose apples that will retain some shape like Gala or Fuji apples. Do not use Macintosh as they will turn into applesauce when cooked. Don't let the apples dry out. If they look a little dry, add in a tablespoon of water. To core the apple easily, use a melon baler to take out the core and seeds.
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How To Make Roasted Mangos with Nutmeg
How to Make Roasted Mangos with Nutmeg (made in the toaster oven!). From the award winning Easy Gourmet Cookbook eBook, Simply Summer, by Angela Tunner The Renaissance Gourmet. http://www.angelatunner.com/books/ebooks.htm If you want this recipe and others like it, buy her eBook.
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