The Classic 1000 Microwave Recipes
September 16, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
The Classic 1000 Microwave Recipes
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars Not for modern microwaves
This book was a great disappointment. First of all, it is written by a British author and calls for many ingredients and has many recipes that are not well suited for the American kitchen. But most important, it is written using 750 watt ovens as the standard. This is such an old standard. I installed a microwave in October and it is 1200 watts. What a difference that makes. I thought the book was recently published, but it turned out that it was really older than I thought, as the paperback edition publishing date Amazon provides is misleading.
What I don’t understand is why there are no recent cookbooks for the microwave. Every book I’ve perused seems to be more than 10 years old. You’d think someone would write an up-to-date book as a comprehensive guide to the many things you can cook in a microwave (believe me, I’ve experimented since I got mine). But that doesn’t seem to be the case.
3 Stars Fancy recipes
Well the book does teach you how to cook everything in the microwave but the reason I wanted to cook in the microwave is to make fast and very simple meals…I wanted easy recipes not recipes with lots of crazy ingredients. If you want to cook gourmet meals with fresh herbs in the microwave then this book is for you but if you want something simple then pick another book.
2 Stars A bit foreign for US cooks
I was looking for a general guide to some easy, quick microwave recipes. What I got was a book that is a bit more European than I can use. The recipes are not geared toward an American palate. Some would see this as an advantage, but I didn’t find it “the only” microwave book I’d ever need. It calls for obscure(to me anyway)ingredients, many I don’t recognise. I think of myself as a somewhat adventurous cook but most of these recipes do not appeal to me at all. A waste of my money.
5 Stars You don’t need another microwave cooking book
This is the A to Z of microwave cooking. Form starters & soups to Sauces, pickles, desserts and ofcourse main dishes. The recipes are well explained and easy to read. It also has a good collection of microwave tips. If I had known about that earlier, I would not have bought another book on microwave cooking tips 
Pick this up..Its a steal !
Best of the Best from Calling All Cooks Cookbook The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Calling All Cooks Cookbooks
September 2, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The Best
This yellow ‘Calling All Cooks’ cookbook is wonderful. My sister gave it to me for my birthday several years ago. Now I am trying to buy the set of 4 for each of my daughters. If they have these they are all they will ever need!!!Calling All Cooks
These books have ingredients that you use on a daily basis, not the kind that you have to go out and buy for one recipe and then never use it again. These are just some good ol’ recipes from some Southern women that REALLY KNOW HOW TO COOK!!! And there are great dishes of all kinds in each book. If you are considering buying them…you better be quick, because I think whatever few that are left will be all there is!
I carry different dishes to church when meet and then eat and I have someone always wanting the recipe. You will be glad you bought one when you get it and see all the yummy recipes that are in it!!
5 Stars Calling All Cooks
If you are looking for a cookbook with old fashioned, time-tested, basic recipes, then look no further. This book is full of recipes handed down from generation to generation. All ingredients are readily available in your neighborhood grocery store with no need for a run to the gourmet or specialty shop.
By purchasing this book, you are also supporting a very worthwhile organization. The Telephone Pioneers of America have been the main volunteer services group within the various companies of the former Bell System for over 125 years. The Pioneers constantly give of their volunteer hours in their local communities helping those in need. I am proud to be a Pioneer and also proud to have worked on the cookbook committee that brought you this book.
I hope you enjoy it!
The Marshall Fields Cookbook Classic Recipes and Fresh Takes from the Fields Culinary Council
July 4, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
The Marshall Fields Cookbook Classic Recipes and Fresh Takes from the Fields Culinary Council
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars ONE OF THE MOST MEMORABLE BOOKS!!!! MUST HAVE FOR ANY COLLECTION!!
This is one of the best cookbooks that I have in my massive collection. There is not a better way than to remember this iconic store by this cookbook. Each beautiful page has both delicious recipes and the rich history that MARSHALL FIELDS will always be remembered for. I have so many of these cookbooks to give away in the future or to keep for myself. THEY ARE JUST SUCH GREAT KEEPSAKES. From the classic recipes to FRANGOS, and then to the newly formed MARSHALL FIELDS CULINARY COUNCIL’s recipes this cookbook will not disappoint. One of the best buys for anyone whether you are a die hard FIELD’S fan or are new to the drama of current times, this is one cookbook that nobody should pass by for any cook or cookbook collector. I MISS YOU MARSHALL FIELDS!!
5 Stars A tribute to a Chicago institution
This cookbook is so much more than a book of recipes. It has so much history and photos of the State Street Marshall Field’s Store. An institution that had stood for many years before being bought out by Macys. The pictures are fabulous and the recipes are ones that can be used in anyone’s kitchen. A wonderful memory of another time and place. Well done, Marshall Field’s!
5 Stars Marshall Field’s Cookbook!!
Marshall Field’s Walnut Room is remebered as THE place to have a “grown up” little girl birthday party. And, as I grew older, it became a favorite restaurant to have luncheon on shopping days in Chicago. However, I never thought they would relinquish the recipes for their wonderous dishes, but her they are and more. Marshall Field’s Cookbook, besides having recipes for all the favorites, is beautifully llustrated, and has interesting narratives that make this book “a good read” too.
New Orleans Classic Seafood Classic Recipes Series
June 5, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
New Orleans Classic Seafood Classic Recipes Series
In New Orleans, it has often been said that people don’t eat to live - they live to eat. Famous for its culinary delights, especially its seafood, and the pride it takes in its cooking heritage, New Orleans is a city of food and a city for food lovers.”New Orleans Classic Seafood” is a lavishly illustrated cookbook that celebrates the city’s legendary love of seafood in all its forms. It features 45 mouthwatering, and authentic, New Orleans recipes - including Crabmeat Cheesecake, Stewed Shrimp, Pecan Encrusted Trout, and Crawfish Roban.Accompanied by full-colour photographs, legends, lore, and anecdotes, this volume makes cooking New Orleans-style an unforgettable experience.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Simply delicous to read and use!
The seafood dishes I’ve made are delicious with easy directions to follow, and wonderful flavors of New Orleans. The photographs are fabulous and let you see what the dish should look like - something I really appreciate. The little stories with each recipe about the restaurant and the chef make it fun reading even if you’re not cooking. I bought one as a gift and enjoyed looking at it so much, I went back and bought one for myself.
5 Stars The Very Best
My New Years resolution was to learn to cook the wonderful foods of New Orleans. I have purchased many cookbooks and tried many recipes. This is the greatest New Orleans cookbook ever. Kit gives the history of many restaurants and chefs before and after Katrina. You will find it fascinating. The recipes are wonderful. Pictures beautiful. This is a must if you enjoy New Orleans and New Orleans food.
5 Stars A Fresh New Look at Seafood
Chefs from iconic restaurants - uptown, downtown, back of town - daily elevate fish and shellfish from basic boiled beauties to traditional (and untraditional) classics. Trout Meuni
The Classic 1000 Indian Recipes Classic 1000 Cookbook
June 4, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
The Classic 1000 Indian Recipes Classic 1000 Cookbook
In most people’s minds, there’s a lushness to the flavors of India: all that spiced curry sauces that smell like incense when they’re cooking and thick, flavorful chutneys in an amazing variety of colors, tastes, and textures. Foulsham’s series brings the many moods of Indian cuisine to European and American cooks. Recipes use ingredients you don’t have to order from Bombay and utensils you already have in the kitchen.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Easy to follow, but it doesn’t taste authentic..
I tried three classic Indian recipes off if this book and none of them tasted “great.” Of course, it was good but I didn’t think it was great. They do recommend adjusting amount on some of the ingredients to your taste, but it is extremely hard to do when you are using over 10 spices. I was just a little disappointed in the results.
5 Stars A lot of recipes in this little book!
I own several Indian Cookbooks but I couldn’t resist this one. What the other books don’t cover in recipes - this one will! Pretty simple to use - some pics throughout. (can’t expect 1000 pics in a book). I’ve tried 5 or 6 recipes now and it’s the one I turn to first when I want to try a new dish. So far, everything I’ve made turned out good!
5 Stars Great Indian Cook Book!
I bought this book for my wife, well actually she asked me for the book. Anyway, she has been cooking a lot of recipies from it, and all I can say is WOW! The food is great! GET THIS BOOK!
5 Stars Great all around Indian cookbook
I was looking for a recipe that matched something I had in a restaurant and it was in this book. I love Indian food and this book has it all.
5 Stars Excellent for those who know Indian cooking techniques!
This cookbook is ideal for those who’ve watched their Indian mothers prepare meals but need some help in determining “exact measurements”. The book does not describe technique very well, but after having seen my mother fix meals hundreds of times, I didn’t need much instruction in technique. I needed help in ingredients and amounts. I modify the recipes in the book a little to more closely mimic my mother’s cooking and have learned some new things along the way. I’ve found that many of the foods I grew up with in the cookbook turn out very well!
The index is a little difficult to sort through since various Indian foods have different names. Be patient!
Best of the Best from Bells Best Cookbook The Most Popular Recipes from the Four Classic Bells Best Cookbooks Best of the Best Cookbook Best of the Best Cookbook
June 1, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
Bell’s Best cookbooks, with over 6,000 outstanding recipes, have been condensed into one cookbook, with 429 of the most exceptional recipes to be found anywhere! Included among the recipes are fascinating facts and illustrations that show the development of the telephone.
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Best of the Best…
This cookbook is everything that I wanted and more…I like the fact that the recipes are easy to follow and most of the ingredients are either already in your pantry or not hard to find at your local grocery stores…Good old fashion recipes for those who like down home good cooking…
5 Stars Little cookbooks are good, too
Since I have most of the original ‘Bell’s Best’ cookbooks, I wondered if I needed this ‘Best of the Best’. I do need this cookbook. It’s so easy to find the recipes and so much easier to handle. Really am glad I got this one.
5 Stars Dishes to grace any dining occasion, please any palate, and satisfy any appetite
The TelecomPioneers of Mississippi have published a series of four volumes of cookbook recipes, beginning with “Bell’s Best” in 1981, followed by “Bell’s Best 2″; “Savory Classics”; and “Bell’s Best IV”. The accumulative total of these four previously published cookbooks adds up to more than six thousand recipes! Now available from Quail Ridge Press is their fifth cookbook volume, “Best Of The Best From Bell’s Best Cookbook” which is a distillation and compilation of 429 recipes taken from the previous four volumes of the ‘Bell’s Best Cookbook’ series and presented along with informative and fascinating historical facts and illustrations showing the development of the telephone over the years from its inception with Alexander Graham Bell’s initial transmission over a telephone line to his assistant Thomas Watson, down to the touch tone and cell phones present day. This outstanding compendium include recipes for beverages and appetizers; breads and breakfasts; soups, stews and chilies; salads; pastas and rice dishes; meats; poultry; seafood; cakes; cookies and candies; as well as pies and other desserts. Of special note is the chapter devoted to equivalents and substitutions. From an Almond-Bacon Cheese Dip; to Chicken Tortilla Soup; to Fruit Salad with Apricot Dressing; to a Sausage Rice Casserole; to Barbequed Shrimp; to Crushed Pineapple Cream Cake; to Old-Fashioned Chocolate Fudge, these are dishes that would grace any dining occasion, please any palate, and satisfy any appetite. “Best Of The Best From Bell’s Best Cookbook” is a welcome and recommended addition to both personal and community library cookbook collections!
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
5 Stars Mississippi girls know how to cook!!
I grew up in Mississippi and have since traveled and lived all over the world. Trust me, unless you are a total foodie (heck, even if you are- I am and I STILL like these recipes) you will adore this cookbook. If you are trying to master regional southern cookery this is a WONDERFUL place to start. Real recipes from real people- this is the everyday food of Mississippi. If you want some of the more refined food order this (because it’s great) but also order Southern Sideboards from the Junior League of Jackson, Mississippi. Together they make a wonderful set as a gift!
4 Stars Best of the Best
Okay, when I saw this Cookbook, I just had to have it. I have the Original Bell’s Best cookbook. I was thrilled to see a compilation of all 4 cookbooks combined. I bought copies for some relatives of mine as well. The Bell’s Best are well known here in the south (at least I think they are). I only wish there were more recipes added. It could easily been made a much bigger cookbook, esp. since the other Bell’s Best cookbooks are hundreds of pages in length. I guess this will leave room for sequels so others can enjoy these recipes as much as I have!
The best cookbooks for the summer and two new vegetarian recipes
June 1, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
Betty Crockers Classics 55 Recipe Cards
May 18, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
Betty Crockers Classics 55 Recipe Cards
Our secret guilty pleasure that would most likely be mocked by true foodies. The Betty Crocker Classics Cookbook is one of our favorite cookbooks to go to when we crave simple comfort foods. This collection includes a generous helping of the best-loved recipes from the original 1950 edition of the Betty Crocker Picture Cook Book. From Fluffy Pancakes and Blueberry Pie to Pigs in Blankets and Pioneer Macaroni and Cheese Betty Crocker’s Classics presents easy-to-follow instructions for dishes just like Grandma used to make. The vintage appeal makes it the perfect gift for Mom Grandma and daughters of all ages. The Betty Crocker brand name has stood for convenient delicious meals and great desserts for more than 80 years. The Betty Crocker Cookbook in all of its 10 editions has sold millions of copies. 6-3/4 x 4-7/8 x 2 in; includes 50 4 x 6 cards and 5 tabbed divider cards
The Best Vegetable Recipes Best Recipe Classics
May 17, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
The Best Vegetable Recipes Best Recipe Classics
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars The best Vegetable Recipes
This is a great book. It has not only recipes but other information on how to select, freeze, can, and cook so many vegetables. I have already made about 18 of the recipes and each one was very good. The authors took a lot of time testing various methods and it shows.
4 Stars Lots of Breadth, Questionable Depth
I love this book! I tend to cook my favorite veggies over and over. Besides, it’s hard to buy something you don’t know how to cook. Well, this book eliminates my fear of experimenting.
This book covers 53 vegetables. I can’t even name 53 vegetables. I was tying to think of a supermarket veggie that’s not in this book, but I couldn’t come up with one. This book has the produce aisle covered.
Some of the recipes in here are repeats of the annuals and other CI books. You’ll get that with any CI Best book. However, I like having a book that organizes everything by type of veggie, as opposed to having to hunt through the other books for veggie recipes.
This book departs a little from the CI format. There is no extensive background info for each recipe. There is a background section on each each veggie.
Here is my constructive criticism: some of the veggies have only one or two recipes! Lastly, I really would have liked this in a hardcover. With that said, I would still recommend this book to others.
4 Stars Many of these recipes are found in other CI books
I gave the book 4 stars because, although the recipes are excellent, many are re-hashed. I’m a CI fan and have 11 of their cookbooks and all the annuals since 2000. For those like me who have most of the other books, you may be disappointed that so many of these vegetable recipes are repeats. (Also note that this is a paperback and is slightly smaller in format than the hardbound CI cookbooks.) If your holdings are less extensive, buy the book.
5 Stars Awesome Yams
OK, I bought this book because I hate vegetables. I really REALLY don’t like them, and I needed to like them. So here comes this book, and the first thing I make is baked yams. Oh man, I LOVED them! Then I tried the leeks. I’d never had leeks before, and had no idea how to cook them. They were amazing!
I love to read through the description of the process they took for each vegetable, trying to find the ideal way to cook them; I can see what I have tried and didn’t work, WHY it didn’t work, and what WILL work.
Not a lot of pictures in this book, but I have enjoyed everything I’ve tried.
4 Stars The Best Vegetable Recipes
Fun to read, recipes don’t always turn out even when you follow directions explicitly. Not very health conscious (lots of butter) Illustrations fantastic. Product review very helpful. All in all I am glad I bought this cookbook.
Simply Classic A Collection of Recipes to Celebrate the Northwest
May 16, 2009 by Classic Recipes · Leave a Comment
Simply Classic A Collection of Recipes to Celebrate the Northwest
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars A Must-Have
This is a really wonderful cookbook which I have owned for years. I often go back to it to discover new recipes, as well as my tried-and-true favorites. Add it to your cookbook library! A+
5 Stars Best Cookbook EVER!
I’ve had this cookbook for years, and it remains at the very top of all the cookbooks I own for being used again and again. I can’t even count all the recipes I make regularly from this book (we’re talking weeknight meals!): Mount Rainier Chili, Harvest Bisque, Spinach Salad with Warmed Shallot Vinaigrette, Blue Cheese Potato Salad, (extensive salad section - all amazing), Tortellini Picnic Salad, Pasta with Grilled Chicken and Peanut Sauce, Salmon and Salmon Chowder, Salmon with Cilantro Pesto, Rosemary Walnut Chicken, Apple Blackberry Crisp… I could go on and on, and I just picked a few of the recipes we use all the time. Rarely is there a cookbook where you actually cook most of the recipes in it. The recipes are all sophisticated and unique and so yummy. They are not full of difficult ingredients, just good basic stuff with a better twist. This is pretty much my desert island cookbook - if I could only take one cookbook with me to a desert island, this would be it. The only problem is that around here, almost everyone I know owns and worships this cookbook. I once brought Tortellini Picnic Salad to a potluck lunch, and someone else brought it too!
Bottom line: Amazing, amazing cookbook. You will never regret having it. I predict it will become your favorite!
(By the way, it is much better than Celebrate the Rain, the Seattle JL’s next cookbook - which is good, but I don’t think anything could live up to Simply Classic.)
5 Stars My all time favorite cookbook…
I grew up in the Northwest and live in Arizona. I love this cookbook and decided to share it with friends this year so I purchased 3 for gifts. Every recipe I have tried has been a hit with my family and friends. Simply Classic - The perfect title.
5 Stars Simply the Best
If there is a bad recipe in this book, I’ve yet to find it. You can always count on whatever you make being a hit. I’ve given this cookbook to several friends. They agree. The recipes are easy to follow with results you can depend on. This book should be a basic in every cook’s kitchen. A perfect gift, too.
5 Stars My favorite cookbook
This is a GREAT cookbook. I have had it for 5+ years, and I still use it all the time. I can vouch for the salads, soups, and entrees especially. I have not made many of the desserts, but I would not hesitate since everything else I have made from the cookbook has been so successful.
