The best ice-cream cookbooks on the planet
As a simple treat on a hot summer afternoon, or an elegant finish to a special meal, ice cream is a versatile dessert. I present to you a handpicked collection of the best ice-cream cookbooks that every ice cream lover should own. Highly recommended for your cookbook collection / library, you'll be using these books for years to come. Must have cookbooks for your kitchen, these books are a great resource for every summer event. Go ahead, wow your friends with unique frozen desserts, sweet, creamy, indulgent, and homemade.
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1. Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book
Ben and Jerry, in this cookbook show you how to make their most popular, scrumptious ice creams, including 11 of their greatest hits. These are great tasting recipes, specially adapted to make at home, of ice creams made with fresh ingredients - fruit, chocolate, candies and cookies. Almost all the recipes require no cooking at all. The author's sense of humor makes it a very enjoyable read. The recipes are excellent, easy-to-use, simple to make, they are the stars of this cookbook. This is a great ice cream book for your family, with recipes that can be adapted to your particular tastes, and that come out perfect on your very first try.
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2. Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones - 90 Recipes for Making Your Own Ice Cream and Frozen Treats from Bi-Rite Creamery
San Francisco’s Bi-Rite Creamery, an artisanal ice cream shop, share their recipes for making delicious ice creams. The step-by-step instructions are clear, accompanied by beautiful, clear photographs. Helpful explanations and tips are there throughout the recipes. The book is well organized and new techniques are introduced with in-depth instructions and photos before being referenced by the recipes. The recipes are surprisingly simple, straight-forward, easy to understand, easy to make. And the ice creams - delicious and flavorful.
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3. Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home
Winner of the James Beard Award, this cookbook helps you create perfect, creamy, silky smooth, firm, scoopable ice cream at home, that's full of flavor. It presents 100 of Jeni’s delicious signature recipes, with no-egg ice cream base, and interesting flavor combinations. The recipes are well written, the instructions are clear and easy to follow. Follow the recipes exactly and you'll get ice cream that has the right texture and depth of flavor. The photography is beautiful, and you get a good feel of what the finished ice cream is supposed to look like.
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What do college students need from a cookbook?
With very little time and on a tight budget, they need easy, quick recipes, with easy-to-follow steps. That require minimum kitchen utensils and appliances - just a hot plate or a microwave. And use few, economical, easily available ingredients. Meals that are not costly, are easy and quick to prepare, and are healthy, tasty to eat.
I present to you a hand-picked list of the best cookbooks, chosen to meet each of the above needs. Some of these cookbooks have been written by college students themselves. There are loads of recipes and varied tastes within, to help students make everything they crave.
The best top 8 cookbooks for college students
1. The Healthy College Cookbook
A cookbook written by college students, for college students. The recipes in this book are quick, easy-to-make, cheap, and healthy. Includes several vegetarian dishes as well. The recipes cater to varied tastes - lots of good hearty American fare, along with Chinese, Indian, and Italian. Has everything from breakfasts, salads, sandwiches to main dishes and desserts. Includes nutritional analysis of each recipe, advice on stocking a kitchen, and handy cooking tips. A good cookbook for the college student who lives in a dorm and has access to a kitchen or simple hot plate cooking.
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2. College Cooks - Simple Ingredients, Easy Recipes, Good Tasting Food
Written by a college student who learned to prepare food during his college years, this book is easy to relate to for students. Has a good collection of simple, easy to follow, inexpensive, delicious recipes for everything from breakfast, sandwiches, salads, soups, pastas, dinner entrees, roasted chicken, side dishes and vegetables, deserts, basic salad dressings, dips and spreads, sauces, and marinades. The cookbook has a section with helpful information such as how long it's safe to keep certain foods, how long to cook meats, the basics of what every kitchen should have in it, how to choose the kitchen utensils - appliances, what cooking terms like broiling - simmering - steaming - sautéing mean, basic insight into food shopping for beginners, and much more.
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3. The $5 a Meal College Cookbook - Good Cheap Food for When You Need to Eat
A good beginners cookbook, it has more than 300 hassle-free, cheap, easy, and delicious dishes, to not only satisfy your hunger, but your meagre bank account too! Students will find ideas for everything they crave, and there is enough of a selection to keep them happy. Perfect for college kids and anyone on a budget as well.
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The best cookbooks on Mexican cuisine - home and street food
I present to you a handpicked list of the best cookbooks on Mexican food, written by some of the best chefs and food writers specialising in Mexican cuisine.
This collection covers everything from awesome Mexican street food to comforting home-style dishes, traditional old-world recipes to Mexico's regional specialities, tacos - tortas (Mexican sandwiches) - and hearty tamales to refreshing margaritas - paletas - and aguas frescas.
1. Gran Cocina Latina - The Food of Latin America
Covers vast culinary landscape of the Latin world, from Mexico to Argentina and the Spanish-speaking countries of the Caribbean - Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic. Has more than 500 recipes for the full range of dishes, from foundational adobos and sofritos to empanadas and tamales to ceviches and moles to sancocho and desserts such as flan and tres leches cake. The recipes have good substitutions for ingredients that you may have difficulty procuring outside of their native regions. A first, good, informational, authentic, comprehensive collection of recipes from this region.
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2. Pati's Mexican Table - The Secrets of Real Mexican Home Cooking
The dishes in this book fit perfectly into the everyday family cooking schedule, are great to revitalize your daily repertoire, and use a handful of ingredients, most of which are already in your pantry. Many are homey specialties that Pati learned from her mother and grandmother, some are creative spins on classics, while others are not well known outside of Mexico. Pati also shares exciting dishes for the holidays and special occasions. Good cookbook with Pati's lively, fresh, level headed approach.
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3. Muy Bueno - Three Generations of Authentic Mexican Flavor
Siéntate a comer, esta muy bueno! {Sit down and eat, it s very good!} Muy Bueno's flavorful Mexican recipes have been contributed by 3 generations of women - a grandmother, mother, and 2 daughters. Muy Bueno offers over 100 recipes which include traditional old-world northern Mexican recipes, comforting south of the border home-style dishes, and innovative Latin fusion recipes. Every recipe has a little story in the beginning that tells you how it is important to their family culture/tradition. Great cookbook with beautiful, colorful photographs.
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