Learn to cook well with this Joy of Cooking for the Instagram generation from James Beard Award-winning cookbook studio Canal House, "the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of the food world" (Bon Appetit), with 300 simple recipes to rely on for the rest of your life. Canal House's Melissa Hamilton and Christopher Hirsheimer are home cooks writing about home cooking for other home cooks. From a lifetime of making dinner every single night, they've edited their experience down to the essentials: 300 simple and genius recipes that reveal the building blocks of all good cooking, and are guaranteed to make you a better cook. Each chapter of Cook Something helps you master a key ingredient or powerful technique, moving from simple (a perfect soft-boiled egg, and how to make it uncommonly delicious) to ambitious (a towering chocolate souffle). Recipes for salad dressings, sauces, braises, roasts, meatballs, vegetables, and even perfect snacks and sweets help novice and experienced cooks alike reach for the perfect dish for any occasion. Inside, you'll find:<ul>
<li>Poached salmon with lemon-butter sauce</li>
<li>Fettucine with ragu bolognese</li>
<li>Oven-braised chicken with gnocchi</li>
<li>French onion soup</li>
<li>Canal House's classic vinaigrette</li>
<li>Classic Italian meatballs</li>
<li>Caramelized apple galette</li>
<li>And so much more. </li>
</ul>Filled with step-by-step photographs and indispensable kitchen wisdom, it is a perfect gift for beginners and an ideal reference for confident cooks. Cook. Cook something. Cook something for yourself. Cook something for others. It will satisfy you more than you know.

Canal House: Cook Something: Recipes to Rely On

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Hamilton, Melissa

Hirsheimer, Christopher

Cooking Education & Reference

Voracious

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 2, Fall and Holiday is filled with recipes that will make you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking. It is a collection of our favorite fall and holiday recipes.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 2: Fall & Holiday (Volume 2)

Hamilton & Hirsheimer

Cooking by Ingredient

Canal House

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 3, Winter and Spring is a collection of our favorite winter and spring recipes, ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families all during the cold winter months and straight through the exciting arrival of spring.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 3: Winter & Spring (Volume 3)

Canal House Cooking is a collection of our favorite summer recipes-home cooking by home cooks for home cooks. The recipes in this book are what we make for ourselves all summer long. We are crazy for melons in late summer, we love to cook big paellas outdoors over a fire for a crowd of friends, we make jarfuls of teriyaki sauce for slathering on chickens and tubs of ice cream for our families. All 70 recipes are easy to prepare, and completely doable for the novice and experienced cook alike. There are over 60 beautiful photos and illustrations. We want to share with you our love of food and all its rituals. The everyday practice of cooking and enjoyment of eating are two of the greatest pleasures of life-Christopher Hirsheimer &amp; Melissa Hamilton

Canal House Cooking: 1 (Volume 1)

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 4, Farm Markets and Gardens is a collection of some of our favorite summer recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families. They'll make you want to run straight to the kitchen or out to the grill and start cooking.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 4: Farm Markets & Gardens (Volume 4)

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 5, The Good Life is a collection of some of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families during the fall and right through the holiday season. These are recipes that will make you want to restock your pantry and refrigerator and start cooking.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 5: The Good Life (Volume 5)

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 6, The Grocery Store is a collection of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families, using the best that grocery stores have to offer. It is filled with recipes that will make you want to run straight to the grocery store to stock up and start cooking.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 6: The Grocery Store (Volume 6)

"Great visual writing. And the pictures! Christopher Hirsheimer has long been the gold standard of food photography, but in this book she goes beyond what I thought possible--these pictures aren't food porn, they're art... You don't need an addiction to real Italian cooking to lose yourself in these pages. You can read it as a travel book. As an adventure story. As a sensual experience that yields deep pleasure for the authors--and the reader." --Jesse Kornbluth, Head Butler Canal House Cooking Volume No. 7, La Dolce Vita is a collection of some of our favorite recipes, the ones we cook for ourselves, our friends, and our families during the fall and right through the holiday season. These are recipes that will make you want to restock your pantry and refrigerator and start cooking.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 7: La Dolce Vita (Volume 7)

75 Fast, Easy, Fresh, Italian Recipes for All Seasons. The Canal House Cooking seasonal cookbook series is home cooking by home cooks for home cooks. From James Beard award-winning authors Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton, comes the newest volume in the beloved Canal House Cooking series, Pronto! Pronto! is a handsome, 128-page book with 75 recipes and lush photographs collected in a highly covetable package. It’s home cooking at its best—by home cooks, for home cooks—and it’s pure Canal House. The delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes celebrate the practice of cooking Italian food, and the enjoyment of eating it. Using the best seasonal ingredients available, their recipes combine the rich tradition of Italian cooking with quick and easy execution. This instant classic includes recipes for dishes such as Pasta with Radicchio &amp; Pancetta, Grilled Pizza with Raw Ripe Tomato Sauce, Chicken Alla Diavola, and Fig Gelato. Canal House Cooking has previously been featured for its inspiring recipes, friendly and knowledgeable voice, and drop-dead gorgeous photographs in a variety of publications including O, the Oprah Magazine, Bon Appétit, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Christopher and Melissa’s daily blog, Canal House Cooks Lunch, has thousands of daily followers interested in what these two women have cooked up that day. This wide fan base will be pleased to see the release of this dynamic duo's newest cookbook with accessible and easy recipes for home cooks.

Canal House Cooking Volume No. 8: Pronto (Volume 8)

Andrews McMeel Publishing

From the award-winning authors of the Canal House Cooking series, their first comprehensive collection of recipes by home cooks for home cooks. This magnificent compilation celebrates the everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating—two of the greatest pleasures in life. From the award-winning authors of the beloved Canal House Cooking series comes Christopher Hirsheimer and Melissa Hamilton’s Canal House Cooks Every Day. This magnificent cookbook, inspired by Christopher and Melissa's popular daily blog Canal House Cooks Lunch, offers a year of seasonal recipes for the home cook. Canal House Cooks Every Day, the 2013 James Beard Foundation Award winner for General Cooking, is a handsome, red cloth-covered, 384-page book with nearly 250 recipes and over 130 lush photographs and illustrations. It’s home cooking at its best—by home cooks, for home cooks—and it’s pure Canal House. Regardless of the experience level of readers, Canal House Cooks Every Day will have them running to the kitchen to start cooking. The delicious, easy-to-prepare recipes celebrate the everyday practice of simple cooking and the enjoyment of eating. Christopher and Melissa use the best seasonal ingredients available to cook every day. Their recipes reflect the seasons, their appetites, their cravings, the occasions, and/or the demands of feeding their own busy families. This instant classic includes recipes for dishes as simple as a lunch of splendid summer tomato sandwiches or crackers spread with preserved lemon butter with smoked salmon and fresh chives to more complex meals like braised chicken with wild mushrooms and fine egg noodles. In addition to the recipes, this wonderful cookbook includes menus for all the great holidays throughout the year, plus twelve intimate essays—on picking a ripe tomato, making your own pasta, or foraging for wild mushrooms—that introduce each month and capture the feeling and vibe of that special time of the year. Cooking through this book, readers will become better cooks and gain an increased appreciation for the wonderful flavors and aromas of a home-cooked meal. Canal House Cooking has previously been featured for its inspiring recipes, friendly and knowledgeable voice, and drop-dead gorgeous photographs in a variety of publications including O, the Oprah Magazine, Bon Appétit, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal. Christopher and Melissa’s daily blog, Canal House Cooks Lunch, has thousands of daily followers interested in what these two women have cooked up that day. This wide fan base will be pleased to see the release of this dynamic duo's newest cookbook with accessible and easy recipes for home cooks.

Canal House Cooks Every Day

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