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College Cooking: Feed Yourself and Your Friends [A Cookbook] Paperback – April 1, 2007

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You have a midterm tomorrow and a fierce growl in your stomach. Your roommate just nabbed your last cup o' ramen. Do you: (A) Ignore your stomach and brew another pot of coffee? (B) Break out the PB&J? (C) Order pizza—again? (D) Make a quick trip to the grocery store? The answer's D, and College Cooking is the only study guide you'll need.

Sisters Megan and Jill Carle know all about leaving a well-stocked kitchen to face an empty apartment fridge with little time to cook and very little money. They practically grew up in their parents' kitchen, but even that didn't prepare them for braving the supermarket aisles on their own. That's why they wrote COLLEGE COOKING—to share the tips and tricks they've learned while feeding themselves between late-night studying, papers, parties, and other distractions.

Starting with kitchen basics, Megan and Jill first cover ingredients, equipment, and other prereqs for cooking a decent meal. They then provide more than ninety simple yet tasteworthy recipes—hearty home-style dishes, study-break snacks, healthy salads, sweet treats, and more (along with low-cal and veggie options). You'll find easy and cheap-to-make dishes, like:

Tortilla Soup • Chili with Green Chile Cornbread • Chicken Salad Pita Sandwiches • Baked Penne Pasta with Italian Sausage • What's-in-the-Fridge Frittata • Peanut Butter Cup Bars • Brownie Bites

You'll also find recipes for feeding a household of roommates, maximizing leftovers, cooking for a dinner date, and hosting parties with minimal prep and cost. Just consider COLLEGE COOKING your crash course in kitchen survival—and required reading for off-campus living.

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“College Cooking is a must-pack, along with the fry pan and the blender, for those going back to college or starting this year.”
—Arizona Republic

“The recipes are quick, easy, and simple.”
—Kansas City Star

“This is reasonable food reasonably fast. I was going too give the cookbook to someone in college, but no way. This is going straight into my collection.”
—Oakland Tribune
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The authors of Teens Cook and Teens Cook Dessert are off to college in their third collection of easy-to-prepare dishes for those still finding their way around the kitchen. Prospective cooks are encouraged to prepare everything from Oven-Fried Chicken to Tres Leches Cake in this compilation of over 60 quick recipes. While dishes like Barbecue Chicken Pita Pizza, in which poached chicken is placed atop pita bread with barbecue sauce, shredded cheese and cilantro, aren't going to win any culinary awards, they're user-friendly and likely to become staples for the book's target audience. In addition, the authors offer tips on stocking a pantry and outfitting a kitchen, as well as a handful of themed menus (Toga Party, Cinco de Mayo). Their common-sense approach will no doubt sit well with novies, though their advocacy of bouillon cubes ("it's cheaper and a lot lighter to carry home from the store") and reliance on canned soup for sauces could kickstart some bad habits. That said, there is enough variety in flavor and cultural influence for most beginners, and it's all preferable to the likely alternative: fast food.
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* A full-color cookbook written by and for college students, from the authors of the best-selling TEENS COOK series.
* Includes more than 90 recipes to help students avoid the frozen-dinner-and-ramen rut, a primer in cooking basics, and kitchen- and pantry-stocking tips.
* Illustrated with 60 full-color photos.
* Theme parties include recipes and ideas for `80s parties, Oktoberfest, toga parties, tapas, and Cinco de Mayo.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ten Speed Press; First Edition (April 1, 2007)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1580088260
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1580088268
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.38 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.53 x 0.45 x 11.25 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars What is very cool for someone who is gonna have to go grocery ...
Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2015
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This book is very well done!
There is an intro where they explain what you should always have in your pantry. What is very cool for someone who is gonna have to go grocery shopping for their apartment for the first time.
I tried few recipes and they were delicious! They are also very cheap. I spend around $10 for each meal and I usually have left over for lunch the next day. It is perfect for college students!
Also, there are tips on each page to stay healthy or even to save money. It is a perfect recipe book for me!
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Maya Mattison
4.0 out of 5 stars Great beginner resource BUT
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2024
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This is one of my favorite cookbooks. It’s great for absolute beginners and to build skills. The variety is great. That being said Some of the recipes instructions are FLAT OUT WRONG. Be wary of the instructions for boiling eggs; it takes at least 8 minutes to hard boil an egg. Not 5.
Find better instructions for testing the doneness of chicken. Read the instructions several times before you make something, and break them into sections that make logical sense to YOU. A lot of the recipes are laid out inefficiently.
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Kelly C
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Cook Book for College Student
Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2013
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Purchased this for my daughter because she is living in an apartment this semester instead of living in a dorm with a meal plan. She has only had the book for a week and has found several recipes she is excited to make!! The book has great photos of the dishes and is written in plain language, easy to understand with recipes that are 'do-able'.
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samwise
3.0 out of 5 stars Really?
Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2013
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This book seems to think that college students are not very smart. Every recipe in here could be found easily online and seriously does not take into account that students that want to cook can follow directions for better recipes and that students who are lazy are just not going to cook in the first place or read a book about cooking.
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azcowgirl
5.0 out of 5 stars great gift for the college "chef".....
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2010
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I gave this cookbook to my college neice as a birthday gift. This is the second cookbook by these authors I have given her. She loves the antecdotes and the photos that accompany each recipe and I have been told the recipes are delicious! She enjoys testing new ones with her roommates and college friends on the weekends. So...it was a huge success!!

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college mom
5.0 out of 5 stars He was happy!
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2011
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I gave this to my son who is just starting to explore cooking on his own. He was pretty excited to get it. I was surprised at his reaction...I figured it would be one of those presents that went in the closet and was forgotten but he was very appreciative! It's nice to get it right!
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nrpsmom
2.0 out of 5 stars Not for real college students
Reviewed in the United States on September 24, 2010
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Since this book was written by two college students, I thought it would be perfect for my daughter who is now living in an apartment off campus. Wrong! Many of the recipes require costly ingredients that are not staples of cost conscious students.
The recipes read like they were written by two girls attending a wealthy private school. The recipes seem more appropriate for young people who have recently started careers, not students who are penny pinching.
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Freakazette
4.0 out of 5 stars Very tasy
Reviewed in the United States on July 18, 2014
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I have tried about half a dozen or so recipes from this book so far and most of them are really tasty. The book can be a little light on directions at times and some of the recipes are pretty time consuming, especially the first go-round. Overall, it's a very good book. There's a nice mix of foreign and domestic dishes, difficulty levels, and price points and the book is pretty well organized. The only major obstacle is that many of the dishes are made for 4-6 or more people and I'm only cooking for 2.
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ATREYU
4.0 out of 5 stars No para cualquier "college student"
Reviewed in Mexico on November 11, 2019
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Muy buen libro de cocina, pero creo que es mejor si se considera para principiantes y para personas que ya tienen toda una cocina equipada. El problema que le veo es que aunque las recetas están dirigidas a "college students", sólo funcionarían para los que tengan cocinas completas, no es un libro práctico de cocina para el resto de los estudiantes.
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