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Taste of Home Easy Everyday Cooking 2024
ISBN: 979-8-88977-002-2
Publication Year: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: RDA Enthusiast Brand, LLC
Sadly this book is really hard to find online, even though it's a recent publication, so I had to resort to an Ebay listing. I have included other details to help pin down the volume.
We finished reading this cookbook yesterday. It's not huge, but does list 400+ recipes, because there are usually several per page. The Introduction includes a guide to icons for things like fast recipes, healthy ingredients, slow cooker, etc. There is also a 30-day meal planner. The chapters are Appetizers & Beverages, Breakfast & Brunch, Favorite Soups & Sandwiches, Sides & Salads, Cooking for One or Two, 30-minute Dinners, Give Me Five or Fewer (ingredients), Instant Pot & Air Fryer, Make-Ahead Meals, Hot off the Grill, One-Dish Recipes, Delectable Desserts, and Feeding a Crowd. The back matter has a Recipe Index and a very useful Icon Index, but sadly no index for ingredients, techniques, or other topics.
The recipes tend to be straightforward rather than fussy. Some use whole fresh ingredients but others run heavily to "a can of this, a jar of that." Read carefully if you have a preference for one or the other approach. Most recipes have one full-color photo. Cooking time and serving number appear toward the top of each recipe, with some nutritional information at the bottom.
We bookmarked a lot of recipes here. These include Mango Smoothies, Hot Fruit & Sausages (which is really meant to be plantains rather than the bananas listed, so use plantains if you can find them), Cumin-spiced Lentil Burgers, Hearty Red Beans and Rice, Bananas Foster Sundaes, Sweet & Tangy Shrimp, Slow Cooker Banana Bread, Pressure Cooker Lime Cheesecake, Easy Peasy Biscuits, Kashmiri Lamb Curry Stew, Mom's Molasses Ham & Beans, Cheesecake Rolls, Israeli Malabi with Pomegranate Syrup, Frosted Harvest Cake, and Cream Cheese Sheet Cake.
Several recipes are ones I recognize from growing up. Banana Nut Brownies and Devil's Food Snack Cake are hippie recipes. The one for Cinnamon Crackle Cookies is a variation on snickerdoodles (hence the cream of tartar) with the kind of mixed spice blend that was used in my grandmother's neighborhood. I'm always disappointed if something is labeled "snickerdoodle" but is actually just a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon. 0_o So if you feel the same, definitely check out that recipe. These are the three that I'm most intent on making.
This is a good cookbook if you want a nice variety of different kinds of things to make, without getting too elaborate. It's especially useful for large families or potlucks, as the Feeding a Crowd chapter has many excellent recipes that each make 12+ servings. It's also a good third or fourth cookbook once you've learned the basics and wish to expand your repertoire. Highly recommended.
ISBN: 979-8-88977-002-2
Publication Year: 2024
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: RDA Enthusiast Brand, LLC
Sadly this book is really hard to find online, even though it's a recent publication, so I had to resort to an Ebay listing. I have included other details to help pin down the volume.
We finished reading this cookbook yesterday. It's not huge, but does list 400+ recipes, because there are usually several per page. The Introduction includes a guide to icons for things like fast recipes, healthy ingredients, slow cooker, etc. There is also a 30-day meal planner. The chapters are Appetizers & Beverages, Breakfast & Brunch, Favorite Soups & Sandwiches, Sides & Salads, Cooking for One or Two, 30-minute Dinners, Give Me Five or Fewer (ingredients), Instant Pot & Air Fryer, Make-Ahead Meals, Hot off the Grill, One-Dish Recipes, Delectable Desserts, and Feeding a Crowd. The back matter has a Recipe Index and a very useful Icon Index, but sadly no index for ingredients, techniques, or other topics.
The recipes tend to be straightforward rather than fussy. Some use whole fresh ingredients but others run heavily to "a can of this, a jar of that." Read carefully if you have a preference for one or the other approach. Most recipes have one full-color photo. Cooking time and serving number appear toward the top of each recipe, with some nutritional information at the bottom.
We bookmarked a lot of recipes here. These include Mango Smoothies, Hot Fruit & Sausages (which is really meant to be plantains rather than the bananas listed, so use plantains if you can find them), Cumin-spiced Lentil Burgers, Hearty Red Beans and Rice, Bananas Foster Sundaes, Sweet & Tangy Shrimp, Slow Cooker Banana Bread, Pressure Cooker Lime Cheesecake, Easy Peasy Biscuits, Kashmiri Lamb Curry Stew, Mom's Molasses Ham & Beans, Cheesecake Rolls, Israeli Malabi with Pomegranate Syrup, Frosted Harvest Cake, and Cream Cheese Sheet Cake.
Several recipes are ones I recognize from growing up. Banana Nut Brownies and Devil's Food Snack Cake are hippie recipes. The one for Cinnamon Crackle Cookies is a variation on snickerdoodles (hence the cream of tartar) with the kind of mixed spice blend that was used in my grandmother's neighborhood. I'm always disappointed if something is labeled "snickerdoodle" but is actually just a sugar cookie rolled in cinnamon. 0_o So if you feel the same, definitely check out that recipe. These are the three that I'm most intent on making.
This is a good cookbook if you want a nice variety of different kinds of things to make, without getting too elaborate. It's especially useful for large families or potlucks, as the Feeding a Crowd chapter has many excellent recipes that each make 12+ servings. It's also a good third or fourth cookbook once you've learned the basics and wish to expand your repertoire. Highly recommended.