Enjoy Chinese Cuisine or Joseph C Piscatellas Healthy Heart Cookbook

Enjoy Chinese Cuisine (Quick and Easy Series)

Author: Judy Lew

Quick & Easy Enjoy Chinese Cuisine will guide even the most novice cook through the necessary techniques for preparing these delicious, easy-to-follow recipes-all of the recipes have been developed and tested in Chinese cooking classes. Additionally, this accessible volume includes some of the authors personal favorites, which have been handed down in her family for generations.

With recipes that are inexpensive and use readily available ingredients, step-by-step color photographs for each recipe, suggestions for substitutions, and a unique menu chart, Quick & Easy Enjoy Chinese Cuisine makes Chinese cooking both simple and enjoyable.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Judy Lew lives in Seattle and is the Director of the Uwajimaya Cooking School. She is well known for her cooking classes and her appearances on local radio and television programs.

Shirley Reis - KLIATT

This is a great book for beginning cooks who want to learn the basics of Chinese cooking. Every recipe is accompanied by several color illustrations that show exactly how to prepare the dishes in exquisite detail. All recipes feature ingredients readily available in grocery stores. Sample recipes: Fried Won Ton, Hot & Sour Soup, Fried Rice, Seafood Chow Mein, Almond Breaded Chicken, Black Bean Sauce Spareribs, Stuffed Mushrooms, Prawns with Lobster Sauce. A special section includes metric conversion tables along with cutting and cooking methods in addition to menu planning, customs, basic equipment and a glossary. This book really demystifies Chinese cooking. (Quick and Easy). KLIATT Codes: JSA-Recommended for junior and senior high school students, advanced students, and adults. 2003, Kodansha, 120p. illus. index., Ages 12 to adult.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword	3
	Acknowledgment	4
	Basic Tips	5
	Metric Tables	8
	Dim Sum and Appetizers
	Fried Won Ton	10
	Sweet and Sour Sauce	11
	Egg Rolls	12
	Shrimp Dumpling	14
	Pot Stickers	16
	Steamed Barbecued Pork Buns	18
	Baked Barbecued Pork Buns	20
	Chicken Rolls	22
	Curry Turnovers	24
	Siu Mai	26
	Soups
	Basic Soups	28
	Basic Chicken Stock (from bones or whole chicken)	29
	Won Ton Soup	30
	Sour and Hot Soup	32
	Corn Soup	34
	Seaweed Soup	36
	Rice and Noodles
	Fried Rice (long grain)	38
	Steamed White Rice	39
	Tomato Beef Chow Mein	40
	Pan Fried Noodles	41
	Pork Chow Mein	42
	Seafood Chow Mein	44
	Mandarin Pancakes	46
	Meats and Poultry
	Basic Sauce Meats or Vegetables	48
	Basic Sauce	49
	Bon Bon Chicken	50
	Steamed Chicken	51
	Sweet and Sour Chicken	52
	Spicy Fried Chicken	53
	Almond Breaded Chicken	54
	Miniature Drum Sticks	56
	Hot Spiced Chicken	57
	Glazy Sauced Chicken	58
	Oyster Sauce Chicken	59
	Hoisin Sauce Chicken	60
	Barbecued Spareribs	61
	Sweet and Sour Spareribs	62
	Black Bean Sauce Spareribs	63
	Barbecued Pork	64
	Spicy Ground Pork	66
	Spicy Beef	67
	Broiled Ginger Steak	68
	Ginger Beef	69
	Oyster Sauce Steak	70
	Seafoods
	Fish with Soy Bean Paste	72
	Steamed Fish with Ginger	73
	Sweet and Sour Fish	74
	Crab with Black Bean Sauce	76
	Poached Whole Fish	78
	Stir-Fried Clams	79
	Stir-Fried Geoduck with Vegetables	80
	Deep-Fried Prawns	82
	Spicy Prawns	83
	Prawns with Lobster Sauce	84
	Spicy Shrimp Salad	86
	Vegetables, Eggs and Tofu
	Chicken Maifun Salad	88
	Chicken with Almonds	89
	Pea Pods with Beef	90
	Broccoli with Beef	91
	Chinese Greens with Chicken	92
	Stuffed Mushrooms	94
	Prawns with Vegetables	96
	Pork with Scrambled Eggs	98
	Egg Fu Yung	100
	Deep-Fried Stuffed Tofu	102
	Spicy Tofu	104
	Information
	Cutting Methods	106
	Cooking Methods	108
	Menu Planning	110
	Customs	112
	Basic Equipment	113
	Glossary	116
	Index	119

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Joseph C. Piscatella's Healthy Heart Cookbook: Over 700 Recipes for Every Day and Every Occasion

Author: Joseph C Piscatella

Joseph C. Piscatella's five ground-breaking books on eating and health have sold nearly 2 million copies collectively. At long last, he has combined his hundreds of diverse, easy-to-follow and good-for-you recipes into this one new volume. And as a smart cook is a well informed one, this generous collection includes nutritional information with every recipe, plus an extensive nutritional guide featuring fat grams, calories, and other information about the widest array of foods and ingredients.

This mammoth cookbook has mouthwatering surprises on every page, and is a great step toward a longer, healthier, and happier life.