The Basic Cookbook

by Lesley Pagett

Overview

The Basic Cookbook is back with a new retro look and full color photographs throughout. Kitchen know-how is easy to achieve once you know the basics. Practical and compact, The Basic Cookbook is the essential reference to simple home cooking and features all those timeless recipes you grew up with, as well as the modern classics entering our cuisine today. You'll learn everything you need to know to get started in the kitchen-from boiling rice and scrambling eggs - to making stock and baking the perfect roast with gravy-as well as how to cook those traditional dishes your mother and grandmother used to make. With over 300 delicious recipes, The Basic Cookbook covers every meal of the day, in an easy-to-follow format, from soups and sauces to shanks and spaghetti. It will be your kitchen bible before you know it!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781742574660
Publisher:	New Holland Australia
Publication date:	02/03/2014
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	7.70(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Lesley, mother of three, is a passionate home cook who loves making and sharing meals and recipes with family and friends. This collection of recipes is the result of that passion to teach others the basics they'll need in the kitchen so they can prepare budget-friendly, quick and easy weeknight meals or classic family recipes.

Many of Lesley's recipes have been handed down by her mother and her grandmother, and there is a recipe to satisfy everyone’s taste.

With her years of experience fine-tuning her skills as a member of a gourmet-cooking club, she learned how to cook on a budget and feed a family as a working mother.