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Student Cookbook For Dummies

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Student Cookbook For Dummies by Oliver Harrison is a practical guide aimed at students who want to eat well without spending a fortune. It offers easy-to-follow recipes, tips on budgeting and shopping, and advice on kitchen essentials, making it perfect for newcomers to cooking. This book empowers students to create simple, satisfying meals with minimal fuss and equipment.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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If you're looking to whip up easy, budget-friendly meals as a student, this book is perfect for you. It provides straightforward recipes and cooking tips tailored for busy students who want to eat well without spending hours in the kitchen or breaking the bank.

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A guide that takes students through the essential skills, techniques and ingredients they need to make over 160 delicious, healthy meals on a budget and on the go. It includes tips on frugal shopping, diet maintenance, healthy-microwave cooking, hosting dinner parties, and choosing wines and mixing cocktails.

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Are you a student who's fed up with making do with greasy food and monotonous ingredients? A parent who worries about your son or daughter's mounting tendency to nip to the fast-food van at all times of the day? Then look no further!

Taking into account the pressures and stresses of university life – the work, the exams, the parties – this entertaining guide takes students through the essential skills, techniques and ingredients they need to make over 160 delicious, healthy meals on a budget and on the go. Packed with top tips on frugal shopping, diet maintenance and healthy-microwave cooking, as well as the low-down on hosting dinner parties, choosing wines and mixing cocktails, baked-bean-living will become a thing of the past!

Student Cookbook For Dummies includes:

Part 1: Getting Started

  • Chapter 1: Saying β€˜Hello’ To Your Kitchen
  • Chapter 2: Going Shopping
  • Chapter 3: Knowing What You’re Eating

Part 2: Breakfast, Lunch & Snacks

  • Chapter 4: Bigging up Breakfast
  • Chapter 5: Making great Lunches
  • Chapter 6: Snacks

Part 3: Bring On The Main Course

  • Chapter 7: Cooking For One
  • Chapter 8: Eating the Right Food To Get You Going
  • Chapter 9: Mastering Microwave Cooking
  • Chapter 10: Making the Most of Time and Money
  • Chapter 11: Decadent Desserts and Treats

Part 4: Entertaining

  • Chapter 12: Lads and Girls Nights’ In
  • Chapter 13: Pulling Together a Sunday Roast
  • Chapter 14: Food To Impress: Cooking for a Date
  • Chapter 15: Getting into the Party Spirit

Part 5: The Part Of Tens

  • Chapter 16: Ten Tips For Cooking At Uni
  • Chapter 17: Ten Ways to Eat On The Cheap
  • Chapter 18: Ten Replacements for Expensive Ingredients

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470747117

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 August 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: For Dummies

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 19.0mm

Width: 138.0mm

Height: 217.0mm

Weight: 422g

Pages: 352

About the Author

Oliver Harrison is the presenter of StudentCooking.tv, a video- and recipe-based website that shows students how to create tasty and nutritious meals on a budget.

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