500 3-Ingredient Recipes: Simple and Sensational Recipes for Everyday Cooking

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It’s not just a meal, it’s a miracle!
Appetizers * Desserts * Entrees * Side Dishes
Delicious Recipes made quickly and easily with just three ingredients!

Great cooking and delectable meals don’t have to involve extensive recipes and long lists of ingredients. In fact, the best dishes are often made from creative uses of easy-to-find ingredients. A veritable bonanza of more than 500 recipes, Robert Hildebrand, executive chef of The Three Stallions Inn in Vermont, and his sister, Carol, combine a few common and not so common fixin’s and show you how to create more than you’d ever imagined with only three ingredients. Recipes include:

· Chicken Tortellini Soup
· Lobster Stew
· Thai Red-Curry Chicken
· Veal Piccata
· Grilled Tuna with Wasabi Cream Sauce
· Double Chocolate Truffles

So no more staring blankly at a refrigerator full of seemingly disconnected items! 500 3-Ingredient Recipes will show you how to create interesting, healthy dishes from foods you already have on hand, and will also help you shorten your grocery lists for simpler, more enjoyable cooking experiences.

Customer Reviews ::

good for an experienced cook... - Amanda Bremner - Madison, WI
I'm a college student and finally decided to grow up and move away from rice a roni and frozen burritos and start cooking for real, so I got this book thinking that anything with three ingredients has to be simple enough for me to make - especially since it claims to have "simple and sensational recipes for everyday cooking."
Unfortunately this was not the book for me. The recipes are simple enough in their ingredients but not much else. Most of the recipes require expensive specialized equipment such as a dutch oven or food processor which a beginner's kitchen just isn't going to have. and they offer no suggestions for what to do if you don't have all this equipment.
The cooking itself is also very complex and time consuming. While I'm not exactly an experienced chef, I do know my way around a kitchen from helping my mom and two cooking classes I took in high school. But the recipes in this book often require way more skill than the average person is going to have (like making your own pasta noodles), and they generally don't give any explanation of how to go about doing the required tasks so if you don't already know you have to look it up or just wing it.
Also, many of the ingredients are really hard to come by or expensive. The authors refer many times to very specific ingredients that they can get at their local market, but if your area doesn't have the same selection you're out of luck.

I don't want to bash the book too much because the recipes do all sound excellent and if I had the resources and skill to make these I think I would like the book a lot more. Mainly I just think that the title is deceptive because it claims to be simple everyday recipes and I can't imagine anyone making some of these things for anything other than a special occasion.

on a side note - if you happen to love mushrooms this could be a great book for you. however, if you're like me and highly dislike them, I'd avoid this book. The authors are obviously big fans of mushrooms and feature them in a very high percentage of the recipes - and when there are only 3 ingredients you can't really just leave the mushrooms off and still have a complete dish.