The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen: A Hit-the-Ground Running Approach to Stocking Up and Cooking Delicious, Nutritious, and Affordable Meals

by Kate Payne

Overview

The author of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking shows you how to love your kitchen and learn to make creative, delicious food without breaking your budget.

You can become a confident cook—even if the drawer with the take-out menus is the only part of your kitchen you currently use! Kate Payne shows you how to master basic cooking techniques—boiling, baking, and sautéing—and simplifies the process of fancy ones, like jamming and preserving, dehydrating, braising, roasting, infusing, and pickling. With this straightforward and fun guide, you can stock up your kitchen with the ingredients, tools, and appliances you'll actually use. You'll also learn how to decode recipes and alter them to make them gluten-free, dairy-free, or vegan.

The Hip Girl's Guide to the Kitchen includes advice and instructions on how to make both classic meals and foods that are typically bought, such as yogurt; ice cream; flavored salt; oil and vinegar infusions; kimchi; aioli; jam; granola; bread; and fruit leather—even liqueurs, iced teas, and vegetable juices. With fun line drawings, sidebars full of tips and tricks, and lists of resources, Kate Payne sets you up for success and shows you how to unlock your inner kitchen prowess.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780062255402
Publisher:	HarperCollins
Publication date:	05/20/2014
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Kate Payne is a former nanny, after-hours poet, occasional painter, and writer. She is the founder of the Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking website, author of The Hip Girl's Guide to Homemaking, and a frequent contributor to Edible Austin magazine, AOL's Kitchen Daily, and a number of DIY, décor, and cooking websites. She teaches classes at culinary institutions and Whole Foods Market.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction xiii

Part I Stocking Up: Setting the Stage for Success

chapter 1 equip your ship 3

chapter 2 pantry staples 35

chapter 3 getting fresh 59

Part II Feeding Yourself: Life's Pesky Eating Requirements

chapter 4 methodology and mad skills 97

chapter 5 kitchen kick-ass 133

chapter 6 baking and desserts 167

Part III Feeding Others: Entertaining and Sharing Food with Friends

chapter 7 using stuff up 211

chapter 8 homemade entertaining 255

chapter 9 better together 295

epilogue: a toast to you 313

appendix 1 my essential measures 314

appendix 2 good practices 315

glossary 319

acknowledgments 323

index 325