Canal House: Cook Something : Recipes to Rely On

**Learn to cook well with this *Joy of Cooking* for the Instagram generation from James Beard Award-winning cookbook studio Canal House, 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:

- Poached salmon with lemon-butter sauce - Fettucine with ragu bolognese - Oven-braised chicken with gnocchi - French onion soup - Canal House's classic vinaigrette - Classic Italian meatballs - Caramelized apple galette - And so much more.

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 is "the 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue of the food world." -*Bon Appetit***