The Ultimate Cook Book: 900 New Recipes, Thousands of Ideas

by Bruce Weinstein, Mark Scarbrough

Here's the ultimate of nine hundred new recipes from Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough, the authors of the Ultimate cookbook series. With a quarter million books already in print, their series has followed a simple recipe to Give cooks hundreds of solid, basic recipes with thousands of ways to vary them, shake them up, and personalize them so that everyone can be an ultimate cook! With The Ultimate Cook Book , Weinstein and Scarbrough tackle everything from breakfast to barbecue, stir-fries to steaks, chilis to curries, and paellas to puddings. Pick your favorite, cook it as a solid basic, or vary it in hundreds of ways to make the dish your own. You've got years' worth of dishes and a world of cooking experiences ahead of you. What could be more fun? Take chicken, that ubiquitous blank canvas. Roast a whole bird to perfection. Bake it under a salt crust for a dramatic presentation. Roast chicken halves atop winter squash. Prepare a Greek-style casserole with leeks, pine nuts, and raisins. Stuff chicken breasts with a Moroccan-inspired mixture of couscous and spices. There are more than thirty ideas for preparing boneless, skinless chicken breasts. And ten things to do with a leftover roast chicken or that rotisserie bird purchased on the way home. Get the idea? This comprehensive, easy-to-use compendium is the ultimate in inspiration, the ultimate in possibilities. Start your Ultimate cookbook collection today—or round it out with The Ultimate Cook Book .

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference

704 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough are QVC favorites with five sell-out appearances. They've appeared on everything from the Today show to corporate-sponsored events, making ice cream, gelati, sherberts, and sorbets. They're also experts on the desserts that pair with these frozen treats, having written bestselling brownie and cookie books and all-purpose cookbooks with desserts aplenty and countless features for Fine Cooking, Eating Well, and The Washington Post. Their cooking podcast, Cooking with Bruce and Mark, is available on iTunes. They've written numerous cookbooks, including A la Mode and The Turbo Blender Dessert Revolution (11/1/16). They live in Connecticut.

Reviews

[Carrie · Rating 1 out of 5]

What good are 900 recipes with no pictures?!

[Tannya · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have used several of Bruce Weinstein's recipes out of cooking light magazine as well as out of gourmet so I got this cookbook and it is fabulous. It is a good mix of hard recipes that are challenging, as well as super easy and yummy. They do almost as good as a job as 1000 best recipes which is my favorite cookbook ever. Happy cooking.

[Tgaylord · Rating 4 out of 5]

Despite the uninspired (read: crap) title, this is currently my 2nd fave all-purpose cookbook, after 75th anni Joy of Cooking.

[Steven Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Seems like a textbook or cooking reference book to me. But it's very good at what it does.