cover image Simple Secrets to Better Everyday Cooking: More Than 500 Recipes, Tips, and Photos for Faster, Easier, Tastier Meals

Simple Secrets to Better Everyday Cooking: More Than 500 Recipes, Tips, and Photos for Faster, Easier, Tastier Meals

. Better Homes and Gardens Books, $29.95 (240pp) ISBN 978-0-696-20752-5

Better Homes and Gardens Simple Secrets to Better Everyday Cooking serves a banquet of suggestions to beginners and veteran cooks alike. Each section indexes a generous helping of simple secrets (boxed tips) for such challenges as thickening soups, roasting garlic and making great risotto. This book features such recipes as Wild Mushroom Toss, Wasabi-glazed Whitefish, Tequila New York Strip and Irish Coffee Meringues. Photo charts highlight many varieties of foods, such as lettuce and mushrooms. A section on equipment, menus and a glossary enhances this reference. ( Mar.)