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Le Cordon Bleu: Quick Classics
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Sophisticated but (mostly) easy receipes
  • Good quick recipes and ideas
  • Dont always go by reviews!!
  • Quick and easy impressive meals
  • A great Cookbook
 Le Cordon Bleu: Quick Classics
Jeni Wright , and Le Cordon Bleu Chefs
Manufacturer: Seven Dials
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1841881147

Book Description

Gourmet meals without hours of work? From the famous French cooking school, these sophisticated, delicious dishes take a fraction of the time you'd expect. More than 100 recipes, all developed with the demands of a busy lifestyle in mind, will inspire you to prepare dishes you may have thought beyond your culinary range. Try individual cheese soufflés, salmon fillets with a sesame crust, chicken tagine, coq au vin, roasted Mediterranean vegetables, gratin dauphinois, chocolate vacherin, crepes suzette, and much more. In addition to tantalizing, easy-to-follow recipes, this wonderful cookbook features:
* Tempting full-color photographs
* Serving suggestions, chef's tips, and variations
* Clearly indicated preparation and cooking times
* "Quick and Easy" sections with additional simple ideas
* Menus for weekend entertaining
* Lists of staples to keep on hand in your cupboard, refrigerator, and freezer.
With Le Cordon Bleu's century of culinary excellence as your guide, you'll have all the ideas, inspiration, and know-how you need to prepare tasty, home-cooked meals for yourself, as well as for your family and friends.

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Sophisticated but (mostly) easy receipes.......2002-11-26

I'm a pretty fair cook, but in the country style. If a recipe involves smoked breast of duck or goat cheese, I'll look for something else. Those ingredients, and similar, figure in a number of the admittedly tasty-looking dishes featured here, but there are also a number of others that are surprisingly simple and quite good -- at least, those I tried. Rather than the usual division into chapters by primary component, this book is organized into "Appetizers," "After Work," "Weekend Entertaining," "Vegetables, Salads, & Accompaniments," and "Desserts," plus a final section called "The Basics," which covers roasted garlic, pesto, basil coulis, bouquet garni, etc. I made the "Argula with Sauteed Potatoes & Bacon," which was easy and excellent, and the "Pasta alla Diavola," in which I included rather more dried chiles than called for, with great success. About one-third of the recipes are pictured (mouth-wateringly), and nearly all are accompanied by Chef's Tips and suggested variations. Except for the editors' somewhat boorish assumption that anything cooked in French fashion is better than anyone else's version -- even "Corn & Potato Chowder," which is about as American as you can get -- this is an above-average cookbook which I shall return to regularly.

5 out of 5 stars Good quick recipes and ideas.......2002-04-09

I found this to be a good book, while not necessarily presenting anything that out of the ordinary it did provide good solid recipes that can be prepared in short amounts of time. It's not a tremendous amount of recipe, but some of the recipes offer variations. Another good feature of this book is that it provides two pages of additional suggestions and variations at the end of each chapter. As another reviewer mentioned, the book is written for British audiences, this is a bit annoying but fortunately quantities are listed in ounces as well as grams. I haven't had too much trouble finding any ingredients listed.

In case you buy it here are some translations/substitutions:

aubergines-eggplant
courgettes-zucchini
lardons-crumbled pieces of crispy bacon
fresh coriander-cilantro
rocket-arugula
prawns-shrimp
demara sugar-brown suger
caster sugar-superfine sugar
double cream-heavy cream (not quite the same fat content a double cream, though)

you can search the web for "ingredient substitution" to find others.

2 out of 5 stars Dont always go by reviews!!.......2000-12-01

This book received excellent reviews from other readers and so I ordered it. I was very disappointed when it arrived as this is very much a beginners cookbook which is probably fine for newly marrieds. There are no new exciting recpies - most of them rehashed old ones we are all surely bored of by now...... Secondly this book was obviously written for the UK market ( I come from there! ) as it talks about several ingredients that you either just cant buy here or you have to special order them. Also anyone who has ever eaten precooked vacum packed new potatoes know how truly disgusting they are to anyone one who has even the slightest discerning palate. This book belongs in one of those close out book stores - not Amazon!

5 out of 5 stars Quick and easy impressive meals.......1999-12-19

I love to cook but rarely have the time to fix anything really elegant. This book has been a life safer when I've needed to make something special on short notice (ie when the in-laws drop by).

I've even used this book to teach my husband how to cook. He's usually terrified of the kitchen, but found this book so easy to use that we now cook together every Friday.

5 out of 5 stars A great Cookbook.......1999-12-15

I am an amateur chef and have an abundance of cookbooks. This is the one I use the most. Quick, easy, simple and the dishes are superb. I highly recommend it.
Le Cordon Bleu Quick Classics : Sophisticated Food in No Time at All
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    		Le Cordon Bleu Quick Classics : Sophisticated Food in No Time at All
    Jeni Wright and Le Cordon Bleu Chefs
    Manufacturer: Sterling*+ Publishing Company
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000ORWTGC
    Le Cordon Bleu Quick Classics
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Le Cordon Bleu Quick Classics
      Jeni Wright Le Cordon Bleu Chefs
      Manufacturer: Cassell
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000OS01Q6

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