Chef, restaurateur, and Food Network Iron Chef Geoffrey Zakarian shows you how to use your pantry to jumpstart any meal. Forget exotic condiments and specialty foods. With a working base of 50 readily available ingredients, from oats and honey to almonds and canned chickpeas, you will always have the makings of a delicious home-cooked meal. Whether cooking in his world-class restaurants, on Iron Chef, or judging the offerings on Chopped, Geoffrey knows every great meal starts with a trip to the pantry first for inspiration. And when you bring home your fresh produce and proteins, you’ll have 150 recipes at the ready, and many of these can be made with pantry ingredients alone. You’ll see a simple can of beans as a Smoky Black Bean Bisque or coconut milk as Spicy Coconut Tempura Shrimp. Standard back-of-the-cupboard fare like almonds become crispy crust on a broiled pork chop; peanut butter lends itself beautifully to a spicy slaw, cider vinegar gives great flavor to a chicken main as well as to donuts, and mustard transforms a a pot roast. Throughout, you’ll find quick but ingenious tips for each of the 50 ingredients, like how to use Earl Grey teabags to infuse ice cubes or a syrup for French toast. The Perfect Pantry makes it so easy for your everyday staples to lead, rather than support, the creation of extraordinary meals. Geoffrey gives you the shopping list you need, as well as the road map for making the most of what you have on hand.

Save time, money, and mealtime with the power of your pantry! Any meal is more manageable--and more affordable--when you're well-prepared. The Essential Pantry Cookbook will show you how to stock your cupboard, fridge, and freezer with the necessary ingredients to make quick, flavorful meals, or take your fresh food cooking to the next level. This must-have pantry cookbook has more than 100 recipes and creative adaptations for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus tasty desserts your family will love! The Essential Pantry Cookbook is your guide to: Stocking the basics--This budget cookbook gives you a comprehensive list of essential ingredients, along with shopping and storage tips, for everything from spices to grains to canned vegetables to frozen meats. Stretching your budget--Pantry running low? Try out simple, flexible "blueprint" recipes designed to help you make use of the ingredients you have on hand. Keeping it fresh--Along with pantry staples, this essential cookbook shares the top 15 fresh ingredients to stock for essential recipes and to kick up the flavors of your favorite dishes. Fast and fabulous meals start with a thoughtfully stocked pantry and this indispensable pantry cookbook.

Save time, money, and mealtime with the power of your pantry! Any meal is more manageable—and more affordable—when you're well-prepared. In The Essential Pantry Cookbook, popular cooking vlogger Jen Chapin shows you how to use the ingredients you have on hand to make quick, flavorful meals, or take your fresh food cooking to the next level. This must-have pantry cookbook has more than 100 delicious recipes and creative adaptations for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, plus tasty desserts your family will love! The Essential Pantry Cookbook is your guide to: Pantry staples—This cookbook gives you a comprehensive list of essential ingredients and how they can be used to create new dishes. Plus, you'll learn tips and guidelines for improving ingredient shelf life. Recipe riffs—You'll find 80 easy-to-make recipes and 100 variations or "riffs" designed to incorporate different pantry staples, so dinner is a snap with no unnecessary shopping trips required. Saving time and money—Jen offers tips and tricks for using pantry ingredients that would otherwise be neglected and sit on a shelf well past its expiry date. Fast and fabulous meals start with knowing how to make the most out of the ingredients in your pantry and this indispensable pantry cookbook.

In this collection of essays and recipes, Alice Waters showcases the simple building-block ingredients she uses to create gratifying, impromptu meals all year long. In her most intimate and compelling cookbook yet, Alice invites readers to step not into the kitchen at Chez Panisse, but into her own, sharing how she shops, stores, and prepares the pantry staples and preserves that form the core of her daily meals. Ranging from essentials like homemade chicken stock, red wine vinegar, and tomato sauce to the unique artisanal provisions that embody Alice’s unadorned yet delightful cooking style, she shows how she injects even simple meals with nuanced flavor and seasonal touches year-round. From fresh cheeses to quick pickles to sweets and spirits, these often-used ingredients are, as she explains, the key to kitchen spontaneity when combined with simple grains, vegetables, and other staple items. With charming pen-and-ink illustrations by her daughter, Fanny and Alice’s warm, inviting tone, the latest book from our most influential proponent of simple, organic cooking ensures a gracious, healthy meal is always within reach.

Taste the goodness of Amish life. Bestselling cookbook author and food columnist Lovina Eicher brings together the best of Amish cooking in The Essential Amish Cookbook: Everyday Recipes from Farm and Pantry. Join Eicher as she shares traditional Amish recipes along with her own kitchen tips and secrets. Growing up, Eicher learned to cook and bake at an early age alongside her mother, longtime columnist and Amish cookbook author Elizabeth Coblentz, and has put those skills to use in her own Amish kitchen as she cooks for her eight children. The easy-to-follow, authentic recipes you’ll find in The Essential Amish Cookbook are prepared every day in countless homes in Old Order Amish communities across North America. Many of the more than 100 recipes are richly illustrated with step-by-step photographs to help you learn Amish cooking just as if you were in Lovina’s kitchen. From hearty main dishes to substantial sides—plus a generous sampling of scrumptious cakes, pies, cookies, and other delectable desserts—learn how to make the hearty, simple dishes that the Amish cook together and serve at home, church services, and weddings. In a fast-food, digital world, the book’s colorful photos and conversational tone provide a real taste of Amish life and invite you to slow down. Your family will come to love her Zucchini Chocolate Chip Bread, Rhubarb Juice, Roast Beef with Veggies, Oven Crusted Chicken, pickles, jams, and so much more. Experience the simple joys of Amish life—food, faith and family!

"Claire is a clever cook who writes recipes, which are useful, affordable and practical (not as easy as it sounds). This is a book filled with recipes which you WILL cook, new ideas and twists on old friends. Bravo Claire, a lovely book in every way." – Anna Jones Most of us buy the same ingredients week in, week out, and cook the same old recipes. Cookery writer Claire Thomson wants to encourage people to ditch the boring chicken stir-fry, the all-too-predictable spag bol and dreary fish pie, and enliven their cooking and eating. Claire takes our 10 favourite supermarket ingredients and reinvents them as modern classics. With sections on chicken, tomatoes, eggs, cheese, minced meat, pasta, potatoes, salad, lemon and chocolate, each chapter covers the basics about that ingredient, then offers recipes using each in ways that will brighten up mealtimes. Claire's cooking is simple yet imaginative, and her kitchen expertise and knowledge of flavour combinations mean that these dishes will become your new standby meals. This is the new essential cookbook, a modern solution to the eternal question: "What shall I cook tonight?"