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Taste of Home How to Cook (Just About) Anything: 200+ Easy Recipes, Step-By-Step Instructions & Full-Color Photos by null
Taste of Home How to Cook (Just About) Anything: 200+ Easy Recipes, Step-By-Step Instructions & Full-Color Photos
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Become the confident home chef you've always wanted to be with How to Cook (just about) Anything. Developed by the culinary experts at Taste of Home, this comprehensive cookbook is packed with over 200 incredible recipes, hints & tips to suit every taste and occasion. Whether you're craving classic comfort food, quick weeknight dinners, or indulgent baked goods, this guide has you covered. 200+ Recipes: Explore a wide variety of recipes, from cozy soups and hearty mains to decadent desserts and fresh-baked breads. Full-Color Photos: Each recipe features a full-color photo, so you know exactly what to expect every time you cook or bake. Step-by-Step Instructions: Learn how to master any dish with clear, easy-to-follow directions and helpful how-to guides. Pro Tips & Shortcuts: Benefit from insider tips and time-saving secrets straight from the Taste of Home Test Kitchen experts. Quick & Easy Icons: Includes 30-minute, 5-ingredient, slow-cooker, and Dutch oven icons to help you find meals that fit your schedule. Full Nutrition Facts: Every dish comes with complete nutritional information for informed meal planning. Each recipe comes with a vibrant, full-color photo, helping you see exactly what your finished dish will look like. The clear, step-by-step instructions ensure success, even if you're new to the kitchen. You'll also find helpful how-to photos and plenty of time-saving tips to elevate your cooking game with ease. What sets this cookbook apart? Special icons highlight recipes that fit busy lifestyles, such as dishes prepared in 30 minutes or with just 5 ingredients! Plus, slow-cooker and Dutch oven recipes round out the collection, offering versatile meal-in-one options. The chapters cover everything you need to whip up delicious meals at home, including breakfast, snacks, soups & stews, breads, favorite sides, meats, poultry, seafood, vegetarian mains, and desserts. From cooking juicy roasts to baking perfect pies, this guide will quickly become your go-to resource for every meal. No matter your skill level, How to Cook (just about)Anything promises joyful cooking, delicious results, and lifelong kitchen confidence. Perfect for seasoned cooks and beginners alike, this cookbook is an essential addition to every kitchen.
The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook: Plan and Cook Ahead for Fast, Family-Friendly Meals Using Your Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer by Coco Morante
The Instant Kitchen Meal Prep Cookbook: Plan and Cook Ahead for Fast, Family-Friendly Meals Using Your Pressure Cooker and Air Fryer
by Coco Morante

From cookbook author Coco Morante, a weeknight meal prep guide using your pressure cooker and air fryer to save on time, cooking, and cleanup, with 10 weeks of dinner meal plans, 20 bonus recipes, and inspiration for quick breakfasts and lunches-- Provided by publisher.
Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria by Ozoz Sokoh
Chop Chop: Cooking the Food of Nigeria
by Ozoz Sokoh

A NEW YORK TIMES BEST COOKBOOK OF 2025 * This introduction to classic Nigerian home cooking features 100 delicious recipes by food explorer, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian Native of @kitchenbutterfly fame, Ozoz Sokoh. In Nigeria, the word chop is all about food and feasting and chop chop a nickname given to someone who loves to eat. And it's no surprise Nigeria has an entire vocabulary dedicated to eating--with more than 50 nationally recognized languages and over 250 ethnicities, Nigeria's food is as rich and diverse as its people.This book reflects the foodways' incredibly flavorful complexity, ingredients, and recipes from all six regions, gathered and showcased in a highly photographic cookbook. In Chop Chop, author, culinary anthropologist, and Nigerian native Ozoz Sokoh celebrates classic and traditional Nigerian cuisine to underscore the ingredients, flavors, and textures that make it not only beloved, but delicious and easy for the home cook. Featuring: A COLLECTION OF CLASSIC AND TRADITIONAL NIGERIAN RECIPES: Think smoky spicy beef suya skewers, egusi soup with greens, restorative pepper soup, jollof rice studded with tomatoes, soft puff puff dough bites, and sweet-tart hibiscus drinks, and more from across the country. LEXICON OF NIGERIAN CUISINE: Learn how to shop and cook like a Nigerian and learn about the ingredients integral to Nigerian cuisine, like nuts and seeds, greens, grains, and cereals (especially in the north), roots and tubers (favorites of the south), and proteins that come together on the plate in the form of hearty soups and stews, steamed puddings, salads, rice dishes, fritters, and more. ILLUMINATING CULTURAL AND HISTORICAL EXPLORATIONS: With headnotes and sidebars that give important cultural and historical context, including how Nigerian cuisine travelled the globe leaving its mark, you will learn the deep roots behind dishes and drinks, and global foodways connections. STUNNING PHOTOGRAPHY: With gorgeous photos from Nigeria's landscapes, food markets, and people, as well as beautiful photography of ingredients and finished dishes, Chop Chop is a cookbook to behold. Written through the lens of Ozoz's deep connection to the region, Chop Chop will bring Nigeria's food-loving spirit to home kitchens everywhere, so you can travel, by plate.
Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements] by Jamie Oliver
Eat Yourself Healthy: Food to Change Your Life [American Measurements]
by Jamie Oliver

For more than two decades, Jamie Oliver has been leading the charge on a global food revolution, aiming to improve everyone's health and happiness through food. Now, in response to the changing food environment and industry that is working against us, Jamie puts to use his nutrition diploma and chef experience to help us wrestle back control and build a celebratory relationship with good food, embracing its power to make us healthier and happier. In [this book], he's back with 120 ... recipes sure to energize, satisfy, and nourish. Jamie proves that healthy eating can be joyful, generous, and abundant: this is all about what you can have, not what you can't. Teamed with 50 helpful healthy hacks and a nutrition-packed 2-week meal plan to kickstart your health journey, it's never been easier to make choices that support your well-being--
Virtual Cooking Class
Around the World Bakes with Classy Chef
Calling all culinary enthusiasts who want to learn some international bakes to add to their recipe books! "Travel" with us to the following countries as we explore various ingredients and techniques from the region.
 
These demos will be held virtually on Zoom from 6pm-7pm. 
*Registration is required* 
 
Dates:
January 14 France
February 3 Germany
March 3 Ireland
April 14 Italy
May 13 Mexico
 
For more information and to register click on link below : 
https://oceancity.bibliocommons.com/events/695d84af6724c63d00ea9cff
The Ocean City Free Public Library
1735 Simpson Ave.
Ocean City, New Jersey 08226
(609) 399-2434

https://www.oceancitylibrary.org/