Mad Delicious : : the Science of Making Healthy Food Taste Amazing!

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"126 crazy-good recipes!"--Cover.
Includes indexes.
Introduction -- Mental mise en place: how to get your kitchen and mind ready for cooking -- Hands on: master basic kitchen skills - Sauces & dressings: how to create sauces with fresh flavors and great texture -- Hot liquids: use steam for sides and main dishes that wow -- Harnessing steam: all about poaching, simmering, and boiling -- Pan cooking: sautéing, frying, braising, and more -- In the over: how to roast anything: nuts, veggies, meat, and fruit -- Playing with fire: recipes for the grill and the grill pan.
Mad Delicious takes the kitchen science genre to the next level: It's not just about chemistry and molecules. Schroeder teaches home cooks about the nature of ingredients, how to maximize texture and flavor with clever cooking techniques (try steaming beef-then soaking it in wine sauce for the most tender steak ever!), smooth moves in the kitchen for better work flow, and how all the sciences-geography, meteorology, chemistry, physics, botany, biology, even human sociology and anthropology-can help home cooks master the science of light cooking.

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Not necessarily for your everyday cook submitted by katieh on June 18, 2016, 2:17pm I usually love Cooking Light recipes, but I was a little underwhelmed by this one. I liked how they were consistent in the way they lowered calories by using smaller amounts of regular foods (like butter and full fat ingredients) rather than over processed low cal foods, but the recipes were all a bit complicated. I cook a lot and have quite a well stocked kitchen, but a lot of the recipes would have required an extra trip to the grocery store. Many of them were time consuming too. Check it out if you want to make something fun on the weekend, but if you are looking for quicker weeknight meals, I'd skip this one.