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The Ultimate Student Cookbook: From Chicken to Chili
More than 100 easy recipes for terrific food on a student's budget. Written by a chef who lived away from home on a limited budget while she was a culinary arts student, The Ultimate Student Cookbook enables college and university students to enjoy fresh and healthy food every day. Recognizing the pressures and realities of student life, these more than 100 delicious
160 pages, Paperback
First published January 22, 2010
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January 20, 2018
Easy to follow and infused with an overall relaxing vibe.
However, taste-wise it’s advisable to try out different recipes on the same dish. I do find the resulting tastes a bit bland if you’re simply following the cookbook.
However, taste-wise it’s advisable to try out different recipes on the same dish. I do find the resulting tastes a bit bland if you’re simply following the cookbook.
August 24, 2013
Such a great book. I loved the overall very relaxing chill theme of the book. Great recipes too!!
July 24, 2022
i can now make things :)
December 20, 2010
SOOOOOO EASY!!! I bought this book when I moved into my first flat (at 30, but shhh don't tell anyone that!). As a spoilt brat I've never done any cooking, but this taught me all the basics. It covers things from cooking a hard-boiled egg properly, to Veggie Pasta Heaven (very recommended!!). Is easy to follow and the pictures really help.
September 4, 2013
I rented this book from the library and LOVED it. I love that it is so simple and that it has images with each step. WARNING: It'll make you soooooo hungry! I'm going to have to buy myself a copy but you can bet I'll be holding the library's copy hostage for as long as possible (or until mine arrives) So yummy looking I can't wait to try my first recipe..... I may just do that now
May 16, 2011
I only saved a handful of recipes from this book, but I want to own it and cook every recipe. The instructions are ridiculously simple, and the ingredients are unpretentious. Everyone should have a basic cookbook like this in their kitchen.
May 8, 2015
So many delicious recipes, all easily doubled to share with my fiancee, and lots of variations to fit what's in my fridge (great for a student on a budget too). Please come out with more cookbooks, I'd love to try more recipes from you.
May 6, 2017
I really enjoyed this cookbook because it was simple and budget friendly. I am not a college student, but I felt like this is one of the most comprehensive cookbooks with few ingredients. I would recommend this for people that want quick, simple, tasty food that is easy to make.
January 10, 2013
There is a risotto in this book that I'm just in love with, I make it with a novel in one hand and the spoon in the other. Most relaxing way to cook ever.
June 20, 2015
Great simple recipes with pictures of every cooking step. I found these great to follow knowing what the finished product should look like. Glad I picked this one up.
April 8, 2021
Reading a book like this is more than a little bit disappointing. This book is aimed at a college audience, but the author herself is someone who writes this from a post-college point of view. Judging from the photos and text in the book, there are a lot of unkind things that can be said about the author, who appears to have used her cooking skills to make friends and influence people. That is not to say that there are not some good recipes here--there are quite a few tasty recipes that are well worth trying--it is just that this cookbook tends to fall in a bit of an uncanny valley in terms of what it offers the reader. The foods are often a bit too basic to excite foodies, a bit too exotic to appeal to those who like basic foods, and a bit too unhealthy or unclean in various ways to appeal to those with more fussy dietary requirements. To be sure, this book is a former student's cookbook, but it is nowhere near an ultimate cookbook, not least because many students will simply not have fancy equipment or large budgets when it comes to their foods.
This book is a relatively short one at a bit more than 150 pages. The book begins with an introductory section that contains "basic" kitchen equipment, pantry ingredients, and food hygiene. After that there are nine chapters containing different foods. We move from the author's interest in breakfast foods (mostly smoothies, egg dishes, and crepes, as well as fruit salad) (1) to fast food (pasta, risotto, toast, sandwiches, omelets, and a couple of chicken dishes) (2), and then to food on the movie (including pitas, sandwiches, and salads) (3). This is followed by "healthy" food for the girls (including, oddly, shrimp, soups, and various noodle dishes as well as salads) (4), dishes aimed at the boys (including potatoes, sandwiches, Mexican dishes, as well as burgers and fries and lamb curry) (5). There are chapters that deal with weekday dishes (including pizza, pasta, garlic bread, shepherd's pie, fish pie, fishcakes, and baked chicken) (6) and weekend dishes (including roast chicken, gravy, potatoes, vegetables, beef stew, casserole, curries, and some rice dishes) (7). The book then finishes with some food for house parties (including cocktails and cocktail food) (8) as well as desserts (9), followed by an index and acknowledgements.
One wonders how it is that the author got to write a book on this subject. The author does not appear to be anyone particularly famous, so it is not as if there is a lot of name recognition with this book. Nor is this book aimed at the audience of people enjoying the ramen life, for whom most of these dishes will be well out of the range of such people. One gets the feeling that the author probably had contacts with the publisher, who thought that it would be a good book for the college fraternity and especially sorority market among those who wanted tasty and relatively straightforward but not extremely healthful food, because it is that sort of food that is provided here. I found a few dishes of interest, and appreciated the approach, which focused on photographs of the cooking, and so this book is certainly not a waste. It just not quite the book it wishes it was or that it purports itself to be, which means that a reader must approach this book with a sense or rational stating and moderation of the book's claims to be an ultimate student cookbook, when it is merely an interesting and generally competent one.
This book is a relatively short one at a bit more than 150 pages. The book begins with an introductory section that contains "basic" kitchen equipment, pantry ingredients, and food hygiene. After that there are nine chapters containing different foods. We move from the author's interest in breakfast foods (mostly smoothies, egg dishes, and crepes, as well as fruit salad) (1) to fast food (pasta, risotto, toast, sandwiches, omelets, and a couple of chicken dishes) (2), and then to food on the movie (including pitas, sandwiches, and salads) (3). This is followed by "healthy" food for the girls (including, oddly, shrimp, soups, and various noodle dishes as well as salads) (4), dishes aimed at the boys (including potatoes, sandwiches, Mexican dishes, as well as burgers and fries and lamb curry) (5). There are chapters that deal with weekday dishes (including pizza, pasta, garlic bread, shepherd's pie, fish pie, fishcakes, and baked chicken) (6) and weekend dishes (including roast chicken, gravy, potatoes, vegetables, beef stew, casserole, curries, and some rice dishes) (7). The book then finishes with some food for house parties (including cocktails and cocktail food) (8) as well as desserts (9), followed by an index and acknowledgements.
One wonders how it is that the author got to write a book on this subject. The author does not appear to be anyone particularly famous, so it is not as if there is a lot of name recognition with this book. Nor is this book aimed at the audience of people enjoying the ramen life, for whom most of these dishes will be well out of the range of such people. One gets the feeling that the author probably had contacts with the publisher, who thought that it would be a good book for the college fraternity and especially sorority market among those who wanted tasty and relatively straightforward but not extremely healthful food, because it is that sort of food that is provided here. I found a few dishes of interest, and appreciated the approach, which focused on photographs of the cooking, and so this book is certainly not a waste. It just not quite the book it wishes it was or that it purports itself to be, which means that a reader must approach this book with a sense or rational stating and moderation of the book's claims to be an ultimate student cookbook, when it is merely an interesting and generally competent one.
May 16, 2018
While this cookbook presents many easy-to-follow recipes for the student away from home, there is little consideration for nutritional foods and nutrition approximations in the collection. Good habits in post high-school life make for good lifestyle choices in the long-run, but unfortunately, this is not one of those books that instills good habits at a young age.
October 4, 2024
This is my go to cookbook and has been for years. Not just for students (though I got it when I was one). It’s an excellent introduction to home cooking and a great resource for when life gets busy and you need quick, simple, good meals.
March 12, 2021
This is such a great cookbook!, I realized that this cookbook is actually great for any one who just wants some simple, delicious and fast recipes for busy weeknights.
December 28, 2015
The British author of this book is a university student who shares how to eat cheaply, but well. Using just a few basic cooking utensils, she pares down dishes to just their basic ingredients. The recipes given in step-by-step photographs so even a beginning cook can understand the processes. The food is simple, yet delicious. Well done.
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