Recipe Please or Special Requests

Recipe, Please: Favorite Recipes from Colorado Restaurants

Author: Marty Meitus

Looking for an appetizer that will wow your party guests? Longing for the ultimate bread pudding? How about a breakfast torte for that special occasion? In Recipe, Please, you'll find 166 ways to please your palate. Gathering from Colorado's best chefs and restaurants, Rocky Mountain News food editor Marty Meitus presents the newspaper's most-requested recipes from the popular weekly column. Whether you want to duplicate the Cheesy Artichoke Dip from the Wynkoop Brewing Company or you're planning to master the intricacies of Potato-Crusted Halibut with Crisp Potato Cake, Creamed Spinach, and Red Wine Sauce from the Kevin Taylor Restaurant, you'll find winning taste treats in this delicious collection. Since 1997, Marty has been "arm-wrestling" Colorado chefs to bring readers the secrets of their favorite restaurant dishes. You'll find recipes from local and national favorites such as Strings, Racines, the Wellshire Inn, California Cafe, Maggiano's Little Italy, Wolfgang Puck's Grand Cafe and McCormick's Fish House. Many of the recipes have become part of her personal repertoire, including Lemon Squares from Pasta, Pasta, Pasta; Baked Summer Squash Casserole from the Black-Eyed Pea; Chocolate Chip Cookies from Palmetto Grille; Green Chili from Chopper's Sports Grill; and Sesame Chicken from the Imperial. Throughout the book, she offers tips to help everyone become a successful home chef. Recipe, Please makes dining-in a food lover's delight!

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Special Requests: 100 Favorite Restaurant Recipes from the Pages of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Author: Judy Evans

Over the past decade, hundreds of local chefs generously have shared their recipes sought by the readers of "Special Request," a column that appears each Wednesday in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. We've gathered 100 favorites here, all tested and adapted for home kitchens. You'll find pasta galore, fitting for a city known for its Italian restaurants. Readers love to replicate restaurant soups at home, so we've included a wide array. Ethnic restaurants thrive in our area, and you'll find specialties from many nations in these pages. Sadly, a few of the restaurants represented here are no longer in business. But their recipes live on. Whether you cook for family, friends or a restaurant full of customers, food is for sharing. Enjoy!

Quick and Easy Vietnamese or Cosmogirl Parties

Quick and Easy Vietnamese: 75 Everyday Recipes

Author: Nancie McDermott

From the author of the popular Quick & Easy Thai come these 75 oh-so-delicious recipes for every level of cook. Though it shares certain culinary traditions with its Asian neighbors, Vietnamese cuisine is entirely distinct, focusing on a bounty of fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs for signature clear, bright flavors with contrasting notes of salty, sweet, sour, and spicy. Creamy chicken curry is paired with the zesty tang of lime juice and the heat from ground pepper and chilies. Crisp, fried fish is served with a puree of pineapple-chili sauce. Delicate, rice paper wrapped summer rolls merit a rich and savory soybean dipping sauce. From snacks and soups to grilled meats and seafood to the essential noodle dishes and desserts, Quick & Easy Vietnamese presents the full spectrum of Vietnamese cooking at its most simply delicious.

Publishers Weekly

This snappy workhorse of a cookbook reveals the blend of tropical ingredients, delicate seasonings and French colonial influences that distinguish Vietnamese cooking and offers recipes easy enough to integrate into one's standard recipe roster. McDermott (Quick & Easy Thai) begins with a primer on elements of Vietnamese cuisine: "Contrasts prevail," "soup is a mainstay" and "[m]eat often stands alone, minimally seasoned." She then reviews the cuisine's central herbs (Asian basil, cilantro), starches (rice noodles, rice paper wrappers) and other foundations (chili-garlic sauce, coconut milk). Throughout, McDermott delivers the history and food information with a sureness indicative of the years she has spent in southeast Asia. Among the book's many notable dishes are Shaking Beef with Purple Onions and Watercress; Chicken Simmered in Caramel Sauce; Cha Ca Fish with Fresh Dill, Hanoi Style; and, for dessert, Sweet Coconut Ribbons, and Creme Caramel, which, McDermott explains, was adopted by the Vietnamese, who had long enjoyed their own version of steamed custard before the French arrived. Stunning color photographs by Caren Alpert illustrate the distinctiveness of Vietnamese cuisine. (Jan.) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

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CosmoGIRL! Parties: How to Throw the Best Bash Ever

Author: Lauren A Green

Party on, CosmoGIRLs! It’s easy, because your favorite magazine has created this fun and fabulous guide—the only one geared to party-throwing, party-loving teenage girls—to give you everything you need to throw the best bashes ever.
From an award-winning Oscar® Night celebration to a pampering Spa-tacular Pre-Prom gathering for your best girlfriends, from a glittering Snow Ball in winter to a cool Pool Party when it’s warm, there are 20 different themes for all types of occasions. You’ll want to try them ALL—and why not? Special sections walk you through the party planning, help you be the hostess with the mostest, and even provide hints on throwing a spontaneous party when the mood strikes. Plus, don’t forget those all-important after-party details; they’re here, too.
Nothing’s left to chance, because each party description comes complete with instructions for invitations, menus (with recipes), decorations, and activities and games to get the party started. You’ll even find play lists for party soundtracks that’ll have everyone getting into the dancing groove, and suggestions for great goodie bags.
With its super fun design, clever planner format, and tried-and-true tips from party-planning CosmoGIRL! readers, CosmoGIRL! Parties is sure to be the talk of your town…and maybe the next town over, too!

The Real College Cookbook or Taste of China

The Real College Cookbook: 50 Essentials For All College Students -

Author: G P McDonald

Finally! College Cuisine for every student.

This book is for every student, in every college, all across the world. G.P. McDonald has taken his time in collecting and putting down on paper every recipe and side dish he has lived on during his ten-year odyssey known as "higher education." Share in the wonderful delight of such delicious meals as Noodles ala Maize, Burrito Hash, and his personal favorite - Nappy's with Cheese. These fifty recipes are guaranteed to please and keep the penniless college student's belly full.

See also: Pregnancy CookbookRevised and Expanded Edition or Little Herb Encyclopedia

Taste of China: The Definitive Guide to Regional Cooking

Author: Ken Hom

In this seminal cookbook by one of the foremost authorities on Chinese cooking, the genuine food of the Chinese people is offered up with passion and authority.

Ken Hom is one of the world's top authorities on Chinese cooking; among his best-sellers are Ken Hom's Quick Wok, Ken Hom's Top 100 Stir-Fry Recipes, and Ken Hom's Hot Wok.

Baking Recipes from the Wives and Mothers of our Founding Fathers or Let the Merry Making Begin

Baking Recipes from the Wives and Mothers of our Founding Fathers (Pelton Historical Cookbook Series)

Author: Robert W Pelton

*A unique collection of recipes covering everything from biscuits and rolls to coffee cakes and pies as they were enjoyed by every Signer of the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

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Let the Merry Making Begin: Christmas with Mary Engelbreit Volume 1

Author: Mary Engelbreit

Christmas is Mary Engelbreit's favorite time of year. For Mary, this season of celebration, of spending time with family and friends, of cookies and carols, is a fitting culmination of each year. Now in Christmas with Mary Engelbreit: Let the Merrymaking Begin, she gathers all that she loves most about Christmas in a single glorious book that will entice and delight her legions of fans. Throughout this book, you'll find 80 color photographs, recipes, and instructions on how to decorate for and celebrate this glorious holiday. With chapters showing how to decorate with garland and bows, how to cook with apples and cranberries, and how to make jewel-toned window stencils and tinsel crafts, this book certainly will grab, and keep, the attention of any devoted Mary Engelbreit fan!