The Basics: A Really Useful Cook Book

Anthony Telford

Allen & Unwin, Apr 1, 2009 - Cooking - 608 pages

Tired of cookbooks with a mess of complicated instructions, exotic ingredients, and completely unachievable photographs of food that only a chef could prepare?

Then The Basics is for you - hundreds of easy to follow recipes with simple ingredients for fast everyday meals. Includes rescue remedies for when things go wrong, substitute ingredients for those times when the cupboard is bare, and handy explanations of all those obscure or tricky cookbook terms that other cookbooks assume you understand. With recipes ranging from roast chicken to lasagne and baked cheesecake, The Basics is a cookbook for everyone from the beginner just leaving home to the more confident cook who wants daily inspiration and a great collection of delicious everyday recipes.

Contents

• Bircher muesli: 2
• Boiled eggs: 4
• French toast: 5
• Fruit salad: 6
• Hash brown potato: 8
• Omelette: 10
• Scrambled eggs: 12
• Slowroasted tomatoes: 14
• Super fluffy pancakes: 16
• 2 Dips and Accompaniments: 19
• Baba ghanouj: 20
• Caramelised onions: 21
• Chilli jam: 22
• Guacamole: 24
• Hummus: 25
• Mint jelly: 26
• Onion jam: 28
• Pesto: 30
• Pistou: 32
• Quince paste: 33
• Salsa verde: 34
• Tapenade: 36
• Tomato chutney: 38
• Tomato relish: 40
• Tomato jam: 42
• Tzatziki: 43
• 3 Soups: 45
• Cauliflower soup: 46
• Chicken and sweet corn soup: 48
• Chicken soup with matzoh balls: 50
• Crab chowder: 51
• French onion soup: 52
• Gazpacho: 54
• Minestrone: 56
• Miso soup: 58
• Mushroom soup: 59
• Pea and ham soup: 60
• Potato and leek soup: 61
• Pumpkin soup: 62
• Seafood gumbo: 64
• Tomato soup: 66
• Vegetable and barley soup: 68
• 4 Seafood: 71
• Cooking whole fish: 72
• Crab cakes: 74
• Fish fillets panfried: 76
• Fish pie: 77
• Garlic prawns: 78
• Prawn cocktail: 80
• Salmon patties: 81
• Salt and pepper squid: 82
• Seafood crepes: 84
• Tuna bake: 86
• 5 Poultry: 89
• Apricot chicken: 90
• Chicken Kiev: 92
• Chicken liver parfait: 94
• Crispy skin chicken breast: 96
• Peking duck: 98
• Roast chicken: 100
• Roast duck with cherry sauce: 102
• Roast turkey buffet: 104
• 6 Meat: 107
• Baked ham: 108
• Barbequestyle spare ribs: 110
• Beef casserole: 112
• Beef stroganoff: 114
• Bolognaise sauce: 116
• Braised beef brisket: 118
• Braised lamb shanks: 120
• Chilli con carne: 122
• Corned beef: 124
• Cottage pie: 126
• Lasagne: 128
• Meat loaf: 130
• Moussaka: 132
• Osso buco: 134
• Rissoles: 136
• Roast beef: 138
• Roast lamb: 140
• Roast port and crackling: 142
• San choy bao: 144
• Sausages and mash with pepper sauce: 146
• Steak and kidney pie: 148
• Thai beef salad: 150
• Veal schnitzel: 152
• 7 Vegetables: 155
• Baked potato in cream: 156
• Bubbleandsqueak: 158
• Corn of the cob: 160
• Pickled vegetables: 162
• Potato mash: 164
• Ratatouille: 166
• Roasted vegetables: 168
• Vegetables and noodle stirfry: 170
• Vegetarian lasagne: 172
• Zucchini slice: 174
• 8 Salads: 177
• Caesar salad: 178
• Chefs salad: 180
• Coleslaw: 182
• Fattoush: 184
• Greek salad: 186
• Green salad: 188
• Nicoise salad: 190
• Panzanella: 192
• Pasta salad: 194
• Potato salad: 196
• Rice salad: 198
• Tabbouleh: 200
• 9 Grains and Pulses: 203
• Couscous with preserved lemon and saffron: 204
• Fried rice: 206
• Lentil burgers: 208
• Macaroni cheese: 210
• Firm polenta: 212
• Soft polenta: 213
• Risotto: 214
• Spaghetti carbonara traditional no cream recipe: 216
• Spaghetti carbonara westernised creamy version: 217
• Spring rolls: 218
• 10 Dressings Sauces and Butters: 221
• Savoury sauces: 222
• Caesar dressing: 224
• Cocktail sauce: 226
• Garlic butter: 227
• Ginger soy: 228
• Hollandaise: 229
• Mayonnaise: 230
• Mee goring sauce: 232
• Napoli sauce: 233
• Pad Thai sauce: 234
• Red wine sauce: 235
• Plum sauce: 236
• Satay sauce: 238
• Shallot dressing: 240
• Sweet and sour sauce: 241
• Teriyaki sauce: 242
• Thai chilli sauce: 243
• White sauce: 244
• Vinaigrette: 246
• Yoghurt dressing: 247
• Sweet sauces: 248
• Butterscotch sauce: 250
• Caramel sauce: 252
• Chocolate sauce: 254
• Raspberry sauce: 256
• 11 Desserts: 259
• Apple and rhubarb crumble: 260
• Apple pie: 262
• Apple Strudel: 264
• Baked cheesecake: 266
• Baked quince: 268
• Baked ricotta cheesecake: 270
• Banana split: 272
• Brandy snaps: 274
• Bread and butter pudding: 276
• Bread and butter pudding with soy: 277
• Chocolate mousse: 278
• Chocolate selfsaucing pudding: 280
• Christmas pudding: 282
• Crepes: 284
• Junket: 286
• Lemon delicious: 288
• Lemon meringue pie: 290
• Lemon tart: 292
• Pannacotta: 294
• Pavlova: 296
• Peach melba: 298
• Pecan pie: 300
• Pumpkin pie: 302
• Queen of puddings: 304
• Raspberry fool: 306
• Stewed rhubarb: 307
• Rice pudding: 308
• Sticky date pudding: 310
• Summer pudding: 312
• Syrup pudding: 314
• Tiramisu: 316
• Trifle: 318
• Yoghurt and lemon mousse: 320
• Zagaglione: 322
• 12 Cakes Biscuits and Pastries: 325
• Almond bread: 326
• Anzac biscuits: 328
• Baklava: 330
• Bacon and egg pie: 332
• Banana bread: 334
• Banana cake: 336
• Basic biscuits: 338
• Biscotti: 340
• Carrot cake: 342
• Cheese twists: 344
• Chocolate brownies: 346
• Chocolate crackles: 347
• Chocolate fudge 1: 348
• Chocolate fudge 2: 349
• Coconut ice 1: 350
• Cupcakes: 352
• Devils food cake: 354
• Flourless chocolate cake: 356
• Flourless orange cake: 358
• Friands: 360
• Fruit cake: 362
• Fruit mince pies: 364
• Gingerbread people: 366
• Hedgehog: 368
• Honeycomb: 369
• Hot cross buns: 370
• Hummingbird cake: 372
• Lumberjack cake: 373
• Macaroons: 374
• Marshmallows: 376
• Melting moments: 378
• Meringues: 380
• Muffins: 381
• Nanaimo bars: 382
• Peanut brittle: 384
• Pecan biscuits: 385
• Pikelets: 386
• Praline: 387
• Quiche Lorraine: 388
• Raspberry cheesecake: 390
• Sausage rolls: 392
• Scones: 394
• Spanakopita: 396
• Sponge cake: 398
• Swiss roll: 400
• Tea cake: 402
• Toffee: 403
• Vanilla slice: 404
• 13 Toppings: 407
• Basic icing: 408
• Cream cheese frosting: 409
• Devils chocolate frosting: 410
• Custard: 411
• Italian meringue: 412
• Lemon curd: 414
• Pastry cream: 415
• Marmalade: 416
• Strawberry jam: 418
• 14 Drinks: 421
• Banana Smoothie: 422
• Eggnog: 423
• Hot chocolate: 424
• Lemon and ginger tea: 425
• Lemonade: 426
• Punch: 427
• 15 Basic Recipes: 429
• Apple prune and spice stuffing: 430
• Beer batter: 432
• Blini: 434
• Chicken stock: 436
• Clarified butter: 438
• Club sandwich: 440
• Creme fraiche: 442
• Croutons: 443
• Curry powder: 444
• Dashi stock: 446
• Fish stock: 447
• Fondue: 448
• Frittata: 450
• Garlic bread: 452
• Garlic confit: 453
• Lavosh: 454
• Nachos: 456
• Pasta dough: 458
• Sweet pastry: 460
• Sweet shortcrust pastry: 461
• Shortcrust pastry: 462
• Quick puff pastry: 463
• Choux pastry: 464
• Pizza dough: 466
• Preserved lemons: 468
• Sugar syrup: 470
• Vanilla syrup: 471
• Vegetable stock: 472
• The Really Useful Information: 475
• Avocados: 476
• Cheese: 479
• Chillies: 480
• Corn: 484
• Eggs: 486
• Fats: 490
• Fish: 491
• Flour: 493
• Herbs: 497
• Lemons: 500
• Mushrooms: 505
• Onions: 507
• Pasta: 508
• Pastry: 509
• Potatoes: 510
• Poultry: 511
• Quinces: 515
• Salt: 519
• Sauces: 521
• Seafood: 523
• Spices: 527
• Sugar: 532
• Tomatoes: 536
• Food allergies intolerances and food additives: 537
• Basic Pantry Essentials: 545
• Essential Kitchen Equipment: 546
• Cooking techniques: 549
• Basic preserving: 558
• Conversion charts: 561
• The Indexes: 573
• Recipe index: 575
• General index: 579

About the author

Anthony Telford is the author The Kitchen Hand. He has been a regular guest on Australian commercial TV and radio. He was the host of RRR's Chewing the Phat, a regular contributor to the Herald Sun's food pages, and the on screen chef for Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. He is currently presenter on Channel 10's 9AM with Dave + Kim and Ready Steady Cook. Anthony is a trained chef and at the age of 21 was the executive chef at Rydges hotel in Melbourne. He is the father of seven children and he lives in Byron Bay.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Basics: A Really Useful Cook Book
• Author: Anthony Telford
• Publisher: Allen & Unwin, 2009
• ISBN: 1741762413, 9781741762419
• Length: 608 pages
• Subjects: Cooking / General