Binding: Spiral-bound Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5 EAN: 9780764124952 ISBN: 0764124951 Label: Barron's Educational Series Manufacturer: Barron's Educational Series Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 160 Publication Date: March 01, 2004 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Release Date: December 03, 2003 Sales Rank: 52082 Studio: Barron's Educational Series
Product DescriptionCollege kids living on their own for the first time are startled to realize that now they have to cook for themselves. This attractive spiral-bound book is exactly what they need, serving up easy recipes and basic cooking methods for beginners. The resulting meals are nutritious and appetizing, more healthful and less expensive than relying on the local pizza parlor or Burger King every time hunger pangs strike. Practical advice and helpful tips instruct busy college kids on everything from food and equipment shopping and sharing a kitchen to scrambling an egg and preparing a complete, well-balanced meal. Recipes are divided into these general categories:
Munchies * Breakfast * Main Courses * Pasta and Rice * Soups * Veggies and Salads * Desserts *
Munchies include a great array of snacks and finger foods, from garlicky humus to pizza-flavored popcorn. Breakfast recipes include egg dishes, French toast, pancakes, and others. Main courses range from simple grilled sandwiches to more ambitious entrees like roasted chicken with lemon and herbs. Vegetarian dishes include tasty Portobello mushrooms with garlic mayonnaise, pan-fried Asian dumplings with dipping sauce, couscous and veggie salad, and many others. Among the dessert recipes are instructions for making brownies, cookies, chocolate cake, apple crisp, and a remarkably easy pumpkin pie. Recipes come with a special trouble-shooting and mistake-avoiding feature called Don't Let This Happen to You. Attractive line illustrations and a handy index help make this book a godsend for hungry college kids. Makes a good high school graduation gift!
What Others Say
cookbook review
This is a great book for college students. There are recipes they will actually make and eat
For beginners? Not really.
This visually appealing book - the coil binding is great - has some great recipes, but not for beginners. Real beginners will not be making Asian Dumpling Soup or Fettuccine Alfredo, unless it comes frozen on a microwavable dish covered in plastic. Beginners want to know how to scramble and boil eggs, make buttered noodles, and BLTs. Beginners tend to buy their ingredients at the Gas N' Sip on the way home from class. So, change the book's audience description to the sophisticated, middle level cook, who is now ready to throw dinner parties for her future in-laws or her fellow book club members. Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student gets higher marks as an intermediate cookbook and, in that context, it is quite nice.
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Practically useless for the average student!
I bought this for my daughter who has almost no time to cook and is on a tight budget. What college student just happens to have a bag of avocadoes, asian dumplings, or fresh basil leaves lying around? The recipes in here are strong on the hippie vegetarian San Francisco side rather than the "top ramen" quick fix side. What a college student really needs is ideas of what to do with NORMAL ingredients and items that can be stocked without going bad. Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student may be better for someone who actually has some interest in the "art" of cooking rather than just getting something on the healthy side in your stomach quickly. I guess I will keep looking for a true college student cookbook.
not for serious cookers...
if you already know your way around the kitchen, Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student is not for you. Its for dumb college kids who have never cooked for themselves before. If you already know how to make grilled cheese sandwiches and egg mcmuffins you can spring for something more advanced.
A simple guide to getting you on your way towards being a master chef.. well maybe
I didn't get this when I went away to college. I'm going on my third year and this is also the first year I have to start cooking all my meals. I got Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student for the how-to on simple everyday things that I think every kid/teenager/young adult should know about cooking. I've used it a few times already, mostly just to consult with and build off of. I do think it will always serve as a good reference or for those nights when I want something different I know I can always open it up and find something new that isn't complicated and doesn't call for too many ingredients. Overall I would definitely recommend Cooking Outside the Pizza Box: Easy Recipes for Today's College Student. For once I'm not reading a recipe and going "what's that ingredient?" I'm more comfortable being able to check things like whether ... Read More
