Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.589 EAN: 9781580086592 ISBN: 1580086594 Label: Ten Speed Press Manufacturer: Ten Speed Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 122 Publication Date: 2005-10 Publisher: Ten Speed Press Sales Rank: 59975 Studio: Ten Speed Press
Product DescriptionThe follow-up book to the best-selling Gourmet Slow Cooker (60,000 copies) featuring simple yet sophisticated meals for the toaster oven.
What Others Say
Toaster oven cookbook
I received the book yesterday and must say I am disappointed. Many of the recipes are not very specific regarding amounts, weights, etc., something that should be basic information available in every cookbook. For instance, the author writes about baking a chicken, to cut a chicken in half (or quarters), to bake it, but as everyone knows chickens can range from 3 to 5 or 6 pounds or more. So which it is? This might not be critical information for a conventional oven but is crucial for the small size of a toaster oven. There are too many dessert recipes, in my opinion. Overall, I find The Gourmet Toaster Oven: Simple And Sophisticated Meals for the Busy Cook to be very amateurish and a very disappointing purchase for me, as an avid cookbook collector and experienced cook.
A Gem!
"Gourmet" and "Toaster Oven" in the same title? You bet! I usually don't review cookbooks unless I feel they are special enough to encourage others to purchase them, and this one I recommend highly.
My family has downsized but my cooking enthusiasm has not and I am entertaining more often but with smaller guest lists. Heating up a gas oven for a small quiche to feed four seems a waste of energy (the planet's and my own) and time (my large toaster oven takes four minutes to reach 400 degrees: my oven, almost 15.) Also, with most recipes in the book serving 2-4, there is not the problem of reducing larger recipes and the resulting dreaded calculations. Quality ingredients well combined and engagingly presented replace long grocery ... Read More
Simple and sophisticated indeed!
Excellent set of sophisticated recipes downsized for small servings & simple execution. If you take the next year to practice each recipe you'll be well on your way to gourmet-hood! For example: Authentic English "High tea" scones.
I wish there were more photos
I love using my toaster oven to make things, and was extremely excited about The Gourmet Toaster Oven: Simple And Sophisticated Meals for the Busy Cook. But I'm a visual person and it's hard to be motivated to try out these recipes because most of them do not have photos. So if you like to see what you're about to make, I don't recommend this cookbook.
long overdue
As an empty nester and avid cook, The Gourmet Toaster Oven: Simple And Sophisticated Meals for the Busy Cook is perfect. Very tasty recipes without making huge quantities. The author has done her research and deserves credit for filling a rare niche
in this cookbook category. Shhh, don't tell my away-at-college children, but they will be receiving a copy of The Gourmet Toaster Oven: Simple And Sophisticated Meals for the Busy Cook along with a nice toaster oven for Christmas. This is a cookbook everyone could use for fresh ideas, from Anzacs to Yogurt Baked Chicken with wine pairings suggested for many dishes. I wish I had thought of it first.
