Cooks Essentials
Cooks Essentials
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Cooks Recipe Collection $13.96 This stylishly produced journal allows you to keep all your treasured recipes in a safe place and create your own cook’s recipe collection. Whether you are looking for somewhere to store your great-grandmother’s advice about breadmaking or your favorite chef’s ideas on using seasonal ingredients, this is the book for you. Starting with an invaluable section on pantry essentials, Cook’s Recipe Collection is divided into eight tabbed sections, covering everything from Soups to Party Food. It is illustrated with gorgeous photography and irresistibly nostalgic artworks. |
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Cooks Overboard $4.79 Cooks Overboard |
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Food For Cooks $20.96 Food For Cooks |
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Christina Cooks $13.26 Christina Cooks |
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Tools for Cooks $19.76 Tools for Cooks |
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The Cooks’ Book: $9.86 The Cooks’ Book |
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Cooks’ House: $16.96 Cooks’ House |
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Daisy Cooks! $18.86 Daisy Cooks! |
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Hawaii Cooks $14.98 Hawaii Cooks |
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Donatella Cooks: $21.44 Donatella Cooks |
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Madeleine Cooks $9.98 Madeleine Cooks |
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The Winemaker Cooks: $22.05 The Winemaker Cooks |
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Cooks’ Books $10.84 Cooks’ Books |
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Jazz Cooks $12.98 Jazz Cooks |
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Things Cooks Love: Implements, Ingredients, Recipes: $22.34 “The first time I stepped into a Sur La Table store many years ago, it instantly became my favorite kitchenware store, and it still is. Its variety never fails to surprise me. I have always found what I needed or even what I didn’t know I needed until I saw it there.” –Marcella Hazan, godmother of Italian cooking in America and author of Essentials of Classic Italian CookingThings Cooks Love: Implements. Ingredients. Recipes., the first in a series of Andrews McMeel Publishing books by the trusted culinary authority Sur La Table, speaks to the love that cooks of all levels feel for their tools. Whether you’re passionate about the gorgeous copper pot you just received as a gift, a rice cooker you have always wanted to try, or your grandmother’s well-aged cast-iron skillet, award-winning author Marie Simmons provides inspiration to make the best use of your cookware along with delectable recipes to enhance the experience.Since the 1972 opening of its flagship store in Seattle’s Pike Place Market, Sur La Table has become the destination of choice for iconic chefs from Jacques Pepin and Martha Stewart to Mario Batali. A favorite of culinary connoisseurs and gadget gurus alike, Sur La Table sells the A-to-Z of kitchenware and prides itself on teaching how to properly buy, use, care for, and cook with your newfound kitchen additions.Things Cooks Love presents more than 100 satisfying recipes along with 125 detailed descriptions of commonly used and more unusual kitchen implements. Simmons focuses on how to choose basic cookware, and then branches out to an international array of essentials for Asian, Mexican, French, Indian, Iberian, and Moroccan kitchens. Each recipe includes preparation and cooking times, serving portions, and implements necessary to prepare the dish. Alternative cookware is offered for kitchens that aren’t stocked with the exact cookware or tools.Unlike any other tool-focused book on the market, this book celebrates the deep connection between cooks and their treasured tools. Things Cooks Love is more than a reference tool or a cookbook–it is a cook’s book.With a successful direct-mail catalog, e-commerce site, cooking class program, and more than sixty stores coast to coast, Sur La Table shares its passion for the tastes of the world with people who love to cook and entertain, enticing aficionados and curious beginners alike with its amazing selection of cookware and tools.Marie Simmons is an award-winning author of eighteen cookbooks, popular cooking teacher, and established food writer. Her work has appeared in Food and Wine, Cooking Light, and Eating Well, and she has written a fifteen-year monthly column in Bon Appetit |
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Ginsu 04817 International Traditions 14-Piece Knife Set with Block, Natural $21.95 Many associate Ginsu knives with the product’s kitschy infomercial from the â70s that begins with a karate kick to a watermelon and proceeds with a demo of these knives cutting through just about anything in the house. Like the original product, Ginsu’s International Traditions is designed for the home cook who is not attuned to the maintenance required of a more high-end knife. H… |
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Lodge Logic L8SGP3 Pre-Seasoned Square Grill Pan $20.97 Lodge L8SGP3 Square Cast Iron Grill PanLodge L8SGP3 Square Cast Iron Grill Pan Features:; Rubbed bottom cast iron grill pan; Lets you keep foods from simmering in fatty drippings; Seasoned and ready to use; Square; 10-1/2″ x 1-3/8″; 8 lbs… |
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T-Fal Initiatives 10-Piece Nonstick Inside and Out $79.00 Nonstick inside and out for easy cleaning, this 10-piece cookware set outfits a kitchen with the basics while permitting healthful, low-fat cooking. The set consists of a 8 inch saute pan, a 9.5 inch saute pan, a 11 inch saute pan, a 1-quart saucepan with lid, a 2-quart saucepan with lid, a steamer, and a covered 5 quart Dutch oven that doubles as a pot for cooking pasta, simmering stock, or makin… |
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Sam Cooke – Greatest Hits $6.31 Now we have Greatest Hits, a 22-song collection of Cooke’s pop hits in addition to the 13-song Best Of collection and the 28-song The Man and His Music. Only The Man comes close to presenting a complete portrait of the legendary soul singer: At least there are examples of Cooke’s gospel and R&B material. (Any collection without “A Change is Gonna Come” is an automatic failure.) Cooke’s melodious v… |
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Live at the Regal $2.62 This seminal blues recording has been digitally remastered and repackaged. This legendary 1964 concert includes “Every Day I Have the Blues,” “How Blue Can You Get?,” “Worry, Worry,” “You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now” and “Sweet Little Angel.”No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: KING,B.B.Title: LIVE AT THE REGALStreet Release Date: 07/29/1997… |
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Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers $17.63 While the pop classics by the grit-and-honey singer reached a broader audience, Sam Cooke’s formative music with the Soul Stirrers, recorded for the Specialty label, ranks with both his best and gospel’s best. Only 19 when he was recruited in 1950 to replace the group’s venerable R.H. Harris, Cooke developed the signature style he would carry into the popular arena while he was still singing churc… |
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The Lotte Berk Method: Basic Essentials, High Round Assets, Hip Hugger Abs, Muscle Eats Fat [VHS] $49.95 The Lotte Berk Method has been called the ultimate body transformation system. For over three decades this no-nonsense, results oriented fitness method has been available exclusively at Lotte Berk Method studios in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York. A best-selling book and hundreds of articles have featured and praised these special exercises, but now for the very first time, the world famous… |
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Air King 6-Inch 2-Speed Circulating Fan #9146 $14.79 Air King 6-inch 2-speed personal fan is great for use in any area where space is limited, such as offices, beauty salons, toll booths, and stores. The 120-volt, 1/300 HP permanently lubricated motor provides a quiet performance and moves air at two levels, for optimal comfort. It comprises a durable front grill with an impact-resistant rear grill and a polypropylene blade for long-lasting durabili… |
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24 BLACK STOVETOP EXTENDER (SET OF TWO)– eliminate the gap between your stove and countertop!! $19.99 Tired of all the grease, crumbs, and spills falling into the gap between your range and countertop? I was. So I decided to create Stovetop Extender. Using a simple magnet, the Stovetop Extender eliminates the gap between your range and countertop. Crumbs simply wipe away clean instead of falling in the gap between the counter and range! The Stovetop Extender is the only product of its kind that in… |
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Home Life Essentials Furniture Sliders – 4 Pc. Use These Incredible Sliders to Move Any of Your Heavy Furniture, Fridge, Bookcase, Sofa, You Name It! Great on Carpets and Floor Tiles, Just Slide in and Push No Adhesive Needed $2.48 Who would have ever thought that moving heavy furniture could be such an effortless task? Home Life Essentials Furniture Sliders make moving heavy items easy! Use these incredible sliders to move any of your heavy furniture, fridge, bookcase, sofa, you name it! Great on carpets and floor tiles, just slide in and push? No adhesive needed. Thick foam conforms to any furniture placed on it. No more h… |
Most essential cooking utensils ?
for a single person with a small kitchen to have ?
Thanks
is rice cooker a must ?
I am in the same situation as you! And I really love a basic setup in the kitchen. I think instead of limiting my cooking, it has made me a lot more free! Having just the basics saves space on gear and I can buy different kinds of food! It also means less to clean and everything is easier to find, and I have more room to work. So I am all about the less is more mantra.
Here is what I have and use everyday.
A skillet will saute, fry, and quick cook a lot of things. Cast iron is really really versatile.
A dutch oven for surface cooking of pasta and rice, soup, or use in the oven as a roaster. I like cast aluminum here.
A nonstick saucepan for smaller amounts of food.
All of these should have lids to make them even more versatile and it also helps if all your pans can be used in the oven. (no plastic or wooden handles)
You also want a cookie sheet, a 9×13 cake pan, and a casserole dish. These will handle most of your baking tasks.
I am getting along quite well with 2 chef knives (different sizes), and a paring knife, a flipper, a whisk, a tong. I also have several each of wooden spoons (made of bamboo) and rubber spatulas (made of bamboo and silicone). I could use a serrated knife for bread and carving meat, but I am in no hurry to get one. I also have about 6 different cutting boards, all are smallish white plastic, and they fit in the dishwasher so there is no need to delegate them for certain foods. I only need about 3 to have one clean at all times but that is why I have more than one. I also have a funnel and a set of measuring cups and spoons, and a glass measuring cup.
I have a colander, a microwave steamer (the parts of which are all versatile on their own) and a couple different sized bowls. They all can do anything: serving, mixing, and storing, so I choose and use based on size that I need. I also use disposable/reusable plastics for leftovers, and for canisters. I also have a couple pitchers, one of which is gallon sized and I make tea in it, and the other is 2 quart and I use it for a supersized glass to drink my iced tea.
I have a microwave, a blender with a food processor attachment, a slap chopper, and a hand mixer, as well as an electric can opener. I was just so tired of buying a new can opener every month. I couldn’t find a manual one that was very durable at all. So far my cheapo electric opener is working well.
I have white bar-type towels, and when I bought multiple color packs of washcloths for the bathroom, I set the white ones aside for kitchen dishcloths and cleaning towels.
My apartment has a dishwasher and I do use it, but I am not convinced that I need it. I have a dish drainer, and when I have a lot (and don’t machine wash), I lay out a small bath towel with my drainer in the corner, so that I have even more draining space, and something to catch the water dripping off my dishes.
EDIT: Regarding rice cooker. Not a must, especially if you don’t love rice or prepare it often. If you are vigilant and have a good saucepan with a lid, you can make rice in that, but rice is one food I have a hard time getting right, so that is why I bought a microwave steamer. I ended up using it more for vegetables, but when I need it it’s there. This steams anything I can fit in it, and helps with pasta and rice, but is also just a microwave safe bowl to reheat things without or without the lid. In a pinch I can use it as a mixing/serving/storage bowl, and the basket inside frequently serves as a small collander, even though I have a larger one. I just love this piece, and it is less than $10.00 at the discount store. Mine is similar to this:
http://www.amazon.com/Progressive-International-Microwaveable-Pasta-Cooker/dp/B00004RDFG/ref=sr_1_9?ie=UTF8&s=home-garden&qid=1262990362&sr=8-9
EDIT 2: I didn’t mention that I do have a slow cooker, don’t use it often but it is the best for beans. I have a cast iron grilling pan. And I also have a peeler, very handy although you can clean vegetables with a clean green scratchy pad that you keep separate from scrubbing pans.
And a word about small appliances, like coffee makers, rice cookers, sandwich or quesadilla makers, foreman grills, popcorn poppers. If you use them a lot for anything, even one task that you rely on being done perfectly by that tool, then it is certainly justifiable to get one. The point is that it is USEFUL to you, and I find that the more versatile an item is, the more useful it is to me. Many small appliances can be really versatile and they often prepare at least one food perfectly!
I have forbidden myself both deep fryers and toaster ovens because of my battle with weight. If I had either it would be way too easy to make my food in a really unhealthy way, or to rely on convenience foods. But they both have their place in a kitchen with more a disciplined cook.
Cooks Essentials
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Ginsu 04817 International Traditions 14-Piece Knife Set with Block, Natural $21.95 Many associate Ginsu knives with the product’s kitschy infomercial from the â70s that begins with a karate kick to a watermelon and proceeds with a demo of these knives cutting through just about anything in the house. Like the original product, Ginsu’s International Traditions is designed for the home cook who is not attuned to the maintenance required of a more high-end knife. H… |
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Lodge Logic L8SGP3 Pre-Seasoned Square Grill Pan $20.97 Lodge L8SGP3 Square Cast Iron Grill PanLodge L8SGP3 Square Cast Iron Grill Pan Features:; Rubbed bottom cast iron grill pan; Lets you keep foods from simmering in fatty drippings; Seasoned and ready to use; Square; 10-1/2″ x 1-3/8″; 8 lbs… |
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T-Fal Initiatives 10-Piece Nonstick Inside and Out $79.00 Nonstick inside and out for easy cleaning, this 10-piece cookware set outfits a kitchen with the basics while permitting healthful, low-fat cooking. The set consists of a 8 inch saute pan, a 9.5 inch saute pan, a 11 inch saute pan, a 1-quart saucepan with lid, a 2-quart saucepan with lid, a steamer, and a covered 5 quart Dutch oven that doubles as a pot for cooking pasta, simmering stock, or makin… |
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Sam Cooke – Greatest Hits $6.31 Now we have Greatest Hits, a 22-song collection of Cooke’s pop hits in addition to the 13-song Best Of collection and the 28-song The Man and His Music. Only The Man comes close to presenting a complete portrait of the legendary soul singer: At least there are examples of Cooke’s gospel and R&B material. (Any collection without “A Change is Gonna Come” is an automatic failure.) Cooke’s melodious v… |
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Live at the Regal $2.62 This seminal blues recording has been digitally remastered and repackaged. This legendary 1964 concert includes “Every Day I Have the Blues,” “How Blue Can You Get?,” “Worry, Worry,” “You Done Lost Your Good Thing Now” and “Sweet Little Angel.”No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: CDArtist: KING,B.B.Title: LIVE AT THE REGALStreet Release Date: 07/29/1997… |
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Complete Recordings of Sam Cooke with the Soul Stirrers $17.63 While the pop classics by the grit-and-honey singer reached a broader audience, Sam Cooke’s formative music with the Soul Stirrers, recorded for the Specialty label, ranks with both his best and gospel’s best. Only 19 when he was recruited in 1950 to replace the group’s venerable R.H. Harris, Cooke developed the signature style he would carry into the popular arena while he was still singing churc… |
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The Lotte Berk Method: Basic Essentials, High Round Assets, Hip Hugger Abs, Muscle Eats Fat [VHS] $49.95 The Lotte Berk Method has been called the ultimate body transformation system. For over three decades this no-nonsense, results oriented fitness method has been available exclusively at Lotte Berk Method studios in Manhattan and Bridgehampton, New York. A best-selling book and hundreds of articles have featured and praised these special exercises, but now for the very first time, the world famous… |
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Air King 6-Inch 2-Speed Circulating Fan #9146 $14.79 Air King 6-inch 2-speed personal fan is great for use in any area where space is limited, such as offices, beauty salons, toll booths, and stores. The 120-volt, 1/300 HP permanently lubricated motor provides a quiet performance and moves air at two levels, for optimal comfort. It comprises a durable front grill with an impact-resistant rear grill and a polypropylene blade for long-lasting durabili… |
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24 BLACK STOVETOP EXTENDER (SET OF TWO)– eliminate the gap between your stove and countertop!! $19.99 Tired of all the grease, crumbs, and spills falling into the gap between your range and countertop? I was. So I decided to create Stovetop Extender. Using a simple magnet, the Stovetop Extender eliminates the gap between your range and countertop. Crumbs simply wipe away clean instead of falling in the gap between the counter and range! The Stovetop Extender is the only product of its kind that in… |
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Home Life Essentials Furniture Sliders – 4 Pc. Use These Incredible Sliders to Move Any of Your Heavy Furniture, Fridge, Bookcase, Sofa, You Name It! Great on Carpets and Floor Tiles, Just Slide in and Push No Adhesive Needed $2.48 Who would have ever thought that moving heavy furniture could be such an effortless task? Home Life Essentials Furniture Sliders make moving heavy items easy! Use these incredible sliders to move any of your heavy furniture, fridge, bookcase, sofa, you name it! Great on carpets and floor tiles, just slide in and push? No adhesive needed. Thick foam conforms to any furniture placed on it. No more h… |
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