Making It Easy

by Food Network Kitchens (Editor)

The finest chefs from the kitchens of Food Network share more than 120 tasty and easy-to-prepare recipes for dozens of appetizers, main courses, side dishes, and desserts for any occasion, along with helpful tips, tricks, and shortcuts for quick and easy meal planning and preparation. 50,000 first printing.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

224 pages, Hardcover

First published August 17, 2004

About the author

Food Network Kitchens is a unique group of talented food professionals who cook, taste, shop, prep and write recipes while having a whole lot of fun along the way.

Reviews

[Maryalene · Rating 4 out of 5]

This early Food Network cookbook hearkens back to the days before it was celebrity chef-everything and cooking competitions galore. There is a bit of sweet nostalgia in the introduction when the book suggests keeping your core shopping list on a PDA.

I made the Chicken Breasts with Balsamic and Garlic. The chicken was just chicken -- seared and then baked -- but the sauce was delicious and elevated the meal. This recipe is also the first time I've come across instructions to mash softened butter with flour rather than melting butter and adding flour to make a roux. This method worked well, and I am curious to see if it can be substituted in other recipes.

Overall, a solid cookbook for everyday use.

[Scrabbitscrap]

This is a great book to have in your kitchen. I bought this years ago and everything I try, the whole family likes. The chicken fingers dish and risotto dish are great. The chicken, spinach, gnocchi soup is a staple in our home, with or without the gnocci. There are many I have yet to try, but I look forward to more recipe adventures within this book because the ones we've tried have been so good.

[Brianne P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

nice cook book but only ended up actually marking about only 3 recipes to make.

[Amy the book-bat · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was at the local library book sale and saw this book among the offerings. I saw that it was Food Network related and snapped it right up. I like some of the tips and suggestions given to make food preparation faster and easier. Some are just common sense, but we don't think about it until someone says something and then it's like "oh, yeah, I knew that." The pictures look so tasty that there are several dishes I want to try, even though I am not crazy about some of the ingredients (like eggplant) but they look so good that I'm willing to try it. I like how the recipes are coded to help speed things along. And the recipes do seem pretty easy, hence the title of the book.

[Carolyn · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was more of a cookbook than a how-to book, but the tips and tricks at the end were quite useful, especially for someone new to cooking who is looking for tips on how things work and what to keep in the pantry.