Illustrated directions for making simple beverages, desserts, main dishes, salads, and vegetables, for planning menus, and for using kitchen equipment.

Completely revised and updated with a fresh new design. More than 1,400 recipes—tested and perfected in the Better Homes and Gardens Test Kitchen--including 400+ quick and easy ones. All-new 20-Minute chapter, which includes more than 45 fast meal solutions. More recipes on your favorite topics: Cookies, Desserts, Grilling and Slow Cooker. Plus, the Grilling chapter now features recipes for the turkey fryer and more recipes for the smoke cooker. At-a-glance icons identify Easy, Fast, Low-Fat, Fat-Free, Whole Grain, Vegetarian, and Favorite recipes. Simple menu ideas featured in every main-dish chapter. Updated Cooking Basics chapter includes need-to-know kitchen survival advice including food safety, make-ahead cooking, must-have timesaving kitchen gadgets and emergency substitution charts. Essential need-to-know information now conveniently located at the front of each chapter for easy reference helps ensure cooking success. More than 800 full-color photos of finished dishes, how-to demonstrations and food IDs. Hundreds of hints and tips, plus easy-to-read cooking charts. Bonus Material: Exclusive to cookbook buyers, an online menu component offers hundreds of menu ideas and more than 75 bonus recipes.

This new and fully revised edition of the beloved New Junior Cookbook is the perfect way to introduce children ages 6 to 10 to the rules of the kitchen and successful cooking. The book begins with the framework needed for navigating the kitchen––safety is always first. Then recipe chapters that cover breakfast, brunch, supper, snacks, and desserts draw in children with their colorful and whimsical illustrations. All recipes in this edition are new, and are nutritious without sacrificing great taste. Throughout, kids learn the message that good food fuels the body, and the recipes, tips, and hints hone that message. Each recipe is easy to follow, with a simple-to-read ingredient list, a list of tools needed, and a step-by-step method. In addition, there are food swaps in recipes, turning kids from picky eaters into chefs who customize their food as they please. Full nutrition, including grams of sugar, is included in every recipe.

Ideas for giving cookies as gifts accompany timesaving recipes for bar, drop, refrigerator, and rolled cookies

A collection of family recipes from the popular Staunton, Virginia, roadside caf‚ features 175 cherished, home-style recipes for such comfort foods as fried chicken, cherry pie, spoon bread, hot applesauce cake, pumpkin pecan pancakes, chicken and dumplings, and more from the heart of the Appalachians.

This collection of 200 hearty recipes from the kitchens of New York's Fire Department--which sold more than 300,000 copies in previous editions--combines the practical demands of firehouse cooking (each meal must be made to order at a daily cost of no more than $5.00 per person) with great ideas reflecting the ethnic diversity of New York's firefighters. 38 line drawings.

For the first time, over 300 beloved kid-friendly recipes from the real home cooks at Taste of Home are gathered into one beautifully photographed volume. More than a cookbook for kids, and not just a collection of recipes that kids will love, Taste of Home Kid Approved Cookbook offers fun, achievable ways to bring families together and celebrate childhood fun! Recipes include: French Toast Sticks Berry Ba-nanza Smoothies Chicken Alphabet Soup Our Favorite Mac & Cheese Scooter Snacks Veggie Cheese People Pigs in a Blanket Cheeseburger Cups Chocolate Malt Crispy Bars Pink Velvet Cupcakes S’more Ice Cream Pie Icons throughout the book highlight recipe activities for all ages. And a special chapter is devoted to the youngest of cooks. Each recipe is perfect for the whole gang, making your little one a proud contributor to the family meals.