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3 comments about Canadian Living Cooks Step By Step.

1. Every cook - beginner or experienced cook should have this in their collection. Guarantee that this book will be used often! Beautiful pages BUT also easy receipes that always turns out great results! I really love the ease, the easy instructions and the nutritional chart that accompanies every receipe. Also, all the receipes are all delicious, hearty, and old fashioned comfort food with healthy ingredients!



2. This is such a great book filled with great step by step instructions and most importantly, really great recipes!!.



3. Planning a mid-week meal? Planning a party? This book will do for both. I have tried almost every recipe in here and everything, I mean everything from birthday cakes to roast beef, turns out great. Of particular note, a spaghetti bolognese my family clamours for, as-good-as-the-noodle-stand Pad Thai, and cinnamon buns to start Saturday night for a laid-back Sunday morning. There are lots of recipes for those days when you have a couple of things in the fridge and are wondering what to do with them. This book has beautiful colour illustrations so you will know how to fold perogies, roll sushi or stuff a turkey. Better than the Silver Palate for everyday cooking.

5 comments about The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most.

1. This is the cookbook that I go to the most (and I collect cookbooks, so I've got a million of them). Every time the recipes are perfect. It's quite like Mark Bittman's How to cook everything, but I seem to go to this one quite a bit more then the Bittmans.
   I use it so much that it's filthy with spilled sauce stains!
   No pictures, but the best basic 'how to cook anything' book.



2. Don't waste your money. If you want to make Thai food, Sushi, or Fetuccini Alfredo then buy a Betty Crocker book. Doesn't have Canadian recipes like I was looking for.



3. i've used quite a few recipes from the book and while a lot of them turned out really great, there have been a few that have turned out pretty bad (like the butter tarts - runny and tasted like corn syrup). some of the recipes in there though are SO good (like the black bean soup, old fashioned chicken pot pie, slow and easy real barbecued ribs, etc).



4. For those who only have a basic collection of cookbooks, consider adding this up there right next the the Joy of Cooking. All these recipes are tried and true, not elaborate, and tested for good results, "Tested Til Perfect", in their test kitchen. Many are basic fare recipes but each recipe delivers an incredibly good dish. Yes, some are more tropical or ethnic in flavour. Canadian Living, with its magazine and television shows, produces & tests over 500 recipes each year. What you have here is a selection of the 350 best. However, this is not just your boring old basic Cooking 101 cookbook. There's a real focus on both regional specialties and ingredients and dishes that celebrate Canada's modern multicultural mosaic.
   
   Re: Comments Below, If you were looking for "Canadian" recipes and didn't like the ethnic ones, then you've missed the point. Canada is as multicultural as it gets, the folks very openminded about ethnic food, so why wouldn't this cookbook have "tiramisu" or curried dishes or fusion dishes? Besides the "truly Canadian" dishes such as saskatoon berry pie would be impossible to reproduce if sasks don't grow in your area.



5. Had a hard time finding this cookbook...which I already knew was excellent. The price at amazon was better than elsewhere...my sister paid more for a used one on ebay...this is simply one of the best cookbooks out there.
   Ellen
   Calgary

2 comments about The Five Roses Cook Book (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series).

1. the book seems to be very intresting and elaborately explains the concept.



2. This is a great book for anyone interested in baking as our ancestors did it, or experienced bakers looking for a general reference book. However, due to its age, a great number of the recipes aren't very specific, or require that the baker know how much 'enough milk to make moist' is, or how hot a 'quick' oven is. Some quantities are a bit odd, too. How big is a tumbler? The recipes from this book that I have tried have all come out well, but that is going to be dependent on the ability to understand them. If nothing else, the book's worth reading to see what people ate, and to see the occasional ads, like the one boasting of all the phosphates and nitrates a certain cereal had!

1 comments about New Cook Book, Special Canadian Edition Pink Plaid: For Breast Cancer Awareness.

1. I have purchased 15 of your Pink Plaid spiral bound cook books for Christmas gifts for my family as I am a breast cancer survivor of 11 years. I work at a Spartan grocery store and would like to sell these cook books and donate all the proceeds to our local Relay For Life which is held every July. Please let me know if there is a special price for ordering a quantity of these books for this purpose. I love mine and thank you for including my recipe in this edition.
   Sincerely,
   Marcia L. King
   Bad Axe, MI

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1 comments about Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking (Classic Canadian Cookbook Series).

1. I have grown up with this recipe book and treasure it. I have probably bought over 100 books and I still go back to this one often. This recipe book is geared more towards bakers and I won't ever look for another butter tart recipe than the one in this book. It was created by the Five Roses flour company and has excellent bread recipes and great black & white photos. An oldie but a very goodie!

2 comments about Open Kitchen: A Chef's Day at The Inn at Bay Fortune.

1. This was one of the finest cookbooks I have come across in years. Mr. Smiths mastery of maritime flavors quickly surfaces and he obviously has a highly refined and developed taste.



2. This is a most useful book and it is easy for the average cook to use. The recipes are understandable and easy to use. A fasicinating read and most interesting.

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