The Woman's Day Cookbook: Great Recipes, Bright Ideas, and Healthy Choices for Today's Cook

by Woman's Day Magazine and Kathy Farrell-Kingsley

Book Overview

The first major, lavishly illustrated cookbook from the nation's top women's magazine offers more than seven hundred recipes--from quick dishes to elaborate dinners--along with the magazine's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0670858765
• ISBN13: 9780670858767
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Viking
• Length: 640 Pages
• Weight: 3.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 7.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

useful variety

This cookbook offers challenges for the cook, as well as encouragement for the reluctant cook and refreshment for the cook in a corner. I have appreciated the nutrition information especially, as we struggle to control calories, and the extra commentaries help make me a more knowledgeable cook. I like the philosophical viewpoint of this cookbook, that there is not always time and money to cook every bite from scratch. Judicious use of convenience foods works well for health of the cook as well as the others at the table. Even though it is not hot off the press any more, it is a valuable book in my kitchen with helpful tips and an excellent index.

Great for the dessert lover...

I a dessert fanatic, and this cookbook meets my approval! I haven't made too many of the recipes yet, but I have made the one on the cover, Triple-Lemon Layer cake, along with the filling & frosting recipes that follow. This cake was a spectacular display and an even better flavorful experience. I just got an ice cream maker, so I'm looking at the chapter on frozen desserts, and there are two pages devoted to ice cream sauces alone! Some of the chapters include cookies & bars, ice creams & frozen desserts, Pies & tarts, pudding, custards, & mousses, cakes, fruit desserts, and more! There are pictures scattered thruought the book, and very good ones with a lot of detail. There are some very good looking cheesecake recipes and so many others. I just don't know which one to make next!

May be the best all-purpose cookbook on the market today.

As a general cookbook, this one is hard to beat. Geared to the needs of a wide spectrum of users, the book has a huge variety of well-seasoned recipes reflecting many different kinds of ethnic cookery. Each recipe carries a stated range of difficulty from complex to simple, a complete guide to preparation, and an introductory note describing interesting facts about the recipe or its ingredients, the amount of preparation time, and the amount of cooking time. Divided into the usual sections--such as Grains and Beans, Desserts, Chicken and Turkey--this cookbook has an unusual feature that will delight the busiest cook. At the front of each section is a complete list of the recipes in that section, with individual recipes classified as Easy, 30 Minutes, 60 Minutes, Microwave, Make Ahead, Low Fat, One Pot, and Classic. If a recipe falls into more than one category, it is listed more than once, so that someone looking for Coq au Vin, listed here as Chicken in Red Wine, a classic recipe, will find it under Classics, but also in the Easy, Lowfat, and One Pot categories. Long boxes on each page, adjacent to the binding, offer helpful tips for cooking, recipe variations, microwave adaptations, and useful trivia (the number of shrimp per pound, depending on size, how to carve a roast, how to get perfectly rounded muffins, for example). Several longer inserts, almost a page long, appear in green boxes and offer the "how-to's" of basic cooking--everything from grilling vegetables to making perfect pie crusts. The most helpful feature for those who are health-conscious or on special diets is that every recipe provides the counts of calories, carbs, protein grams, fat grams, cholesterol, and sodium, taking the guesswork completely out of planning healthy, nutritious, good-tasting meals. Sections at the end of the book provide menus for a year, special recipes for entertaining and celebrations, and information on herbs, cheeses, and wines. I initially selected this cookbook to give at a bridal shower, but when I had a chance to get it home and really look at it carefully, I bought a copy for myself. I had used and enjoyed the Joy of Cooking and the Fanny Farmer Cooking School Cookbook for years, but I have now found that this newer cookbook offers so many more features that I use it nearly all the time, in preference to my old standbys. The recipes, very well seasoned, are terrific--I haven't found a single dud!--and I now have many new favorites with fewer calories and fat grams! Recommended without reservation. Mary Whipple

Women's Day Cookbook

This is the best (and I mean best) cookbook on the market today. There are few "fancy" ingredients and 99% of the recipes can be made with what you have on hand. If you don't have something, it's easy to substitute. Need something elegant, look here. No nonsense, easy to use, and better yet, great recipes!

Added to my private library

I checked this book out of the public Library and liked it so much after using it for several soups, I decided I needed it for many other reasons, such as the investment cooking section. I never thought I would need another cook book, but I just couldn"t pass "The Woman"s Day Cookbook.