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HomeCookbooksMexican CookbooksThe Everything Stir-Fry Cookbook: 300 Fresh and Flavorful Recipes the Whole Family Will Love (Everything: Cooking) |
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37 of 38 found the following review helpful:
A Good Starting Point for Expanding Your Stir Frying Skills Nov 30, 2007
By Erik J. Malvick
"Erik Malvick"
My wife and I purchased this book because we've become fans of stir frying thanks to a new wok and the relative ease and healthiness of such foods. However, we were getting tired of our own creations, mostly because we lacked the creativity or inspiration to broaden our abilities and capabilities in stir frying.
This book has provided the inspiration we needed. It is full of many recipes that cover a broad range of possibilities. While we made the typical mistake of assuming that stir-frying means Asian food, this book provides more than just Asian cooking. I enjoy seeing ideas for stir fries that have a Middl Eastern, Moroccan, or Latin flare.
I also find the introductory chapters useful as a guide for some of the "theory" behind stir frying. I am a cook that sees recipes as more of a guide and likes to improvise. Some discussion at the intro regarding ingredients and a nice section on stir fry sauces really makes this book endless. Not only do you have the 300 recipes presented, you can create an infinite number of recipes on your own. The limits are only in your imagination. Fortunately, this book provides a lot of inspiration to expand on your imagination and stir fry to your heart's content.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
 Extremely limited Mar 22, 2010
By J. Singer
I am quite disappointed by the extremely limited recipes that this book offers. I was hoping that included would be full stir fry meals- instead it is a bunch of different recipes for single item stir-fry meals (e.g. chickens with a single vegetable). The sauces recommended were thin and bland. Not a fan.
7 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Wok cooking made easy Sep 10, 2009
By TiffanyP
I bought this book shortly after I was given a beautiful electric stand alone wolfgang puck wok. It has been super easy to use. Some of the ingredients may seem a little sketchy at first, but everything I have tried so far has been awesome. I recommend the chicken fajitas recipe. My husband loved it. The only flaw with the book was that it does not have any pictures which would have been nice and also make sure not spill ANYTHING on it. I dumped about a tablespoon of vegetable oil on it and the whole front part of the book seperated from the binding. I recommend this to any first time beginner or even a long time user. Enjoy!
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
Review of the Kindle edition Oct 18, 2010
By RENE VERGARA
I purchased the Kindle edition of this book, and I like it. I am using the recipes, and it does provide a good sense of how stir-frys are made and has varied ideas for making up your own recipes, not just Asian food. Having just started cooking seriously, stir-frying is a simple way of making very tasty food without much cooking skill. Chop, marinate, stir-fry.
There is something I don't like, and this is how the Kindle edition is arranged. I am not sure how much involvement a publisher has in the creation of the Kindle edition, but the recipes are oddly arranged in the digital edition. The ingredient list is sometimes before a recipe, sometimes after the recipe and it can get a bit confusing. The index has links that take you to the recipe's instructions, but then you have to try to find which is the corresponding ingredient list.
I have not seen the print edition, I guess it has a way to separate recipes (two columns per page, perhaps), or relate each recipe to its ingredient list but this is not present in the Kindle edition and it makes it a bit difficult to navigate the book.
5 of 7 found the following review helpful:
great stir fry cookbook Jan 03, 2009
By Workout Girl
Very good stir fry cookbook. I have made several of the dishes and they are all good. It introduced me to using flank steak in my stir fry and it's delicious!
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