Appetizers & soups -- Breads, pizza, & sandwiches -- Desserts -- Eggs & cheese -- Meat, poultry, fish -- Pasta, grains & beans -- Vegetables & salads.

A collection of over 1,400 recipes each featuring step-by-step instructions, including 900 color photographs of finished dishes.

This handy book is filled with irresistible Italian entrées-- all for 400 calories or less per serving! Includes suggestions for tempting sides and desserts, to help with your meal planning.

This stunning cookbook is as practical as it is beautiful with 1,000 recipes and 1,800 color photographs that make cooking step-by-step simple pleasure. With tasty recipes ranging from traditional family favorites to new innovative dishes, The Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook covers scores of basic to advanced cooking techniques. From appetizers to meat and poultry, from pastas to flatbreads, from vegetables to desserts, every section begins with how-to photographs of a basic cooking technique as well as photographs of finished dishes and recipes that build on the technique. Preparation and cooking times as well as nutritional information are provided with every recipe. Know-How sections throughout are packed with essential information about food safety and storage, entertaining and menu-planning, food history, gadgets and equipment, ethnic ingredients, and cooking charts. Most appealing of all - and at the heart of the book - are the recipes!

On the menu: everybody’s favorite meal, deliciously prepared by the Good Housekeeping food pros, whose recipes are always triple-tested to perfection. Open this cookbook, with its stay-open hidden spiral, and you’ll find 100 mouthwatering ways to cook noodles that go way beyond spaghetti and meatballs! One look at the appealing color photographs will make you hungry to sample every dish, whether the pasta’s in a soup or salad; combined with meat, poultry, or vegetables; baked in an oven, or topped with cheese. Dig into Pesto Ravioli and Peas, Orzo with Shrimp and Feta, Hearty Vietnamese Noodle Soup, or Eastern European Pierogis—tasty dumplings made with caramelized onions. Plus: the best cooking techniques and useful descriptions of every pasta shape and size.