Just a French Guy Cooking

Just a French Guy Cooking: Easy Recipes and Kitchen Hacks for Rookies

by Alexis Gabriel Ainouz and Jamie Olive

Quadrille Publishing | September 2018 | ISBN-10: 1787132234 | ePUB | 27.29 MB

https://www.amazon.com/Just-French-Guy-Cooking-Recipes/dp/1787132234

https://www.youtube.com/user/FrenchGuyCooking



French Guy Cooking is a YouTube sensation with half a million subscribers. A Frenchman living in Paris, Alex loves to demystify cooking by experimenting with food and cooking methods to take the fear factor out of the kitchen. He wants to make cooking fun and accessible, and he charms his viewers with his geeky approach to food. In this, his debut cookbook, he shares 90 of his absolute favourite recipes, some of which feature step-by-step photography - from amazingly tasty toast and pizza ideas all the way to some classic but super-simple French dishes.

Along the way, he offers ingenious kitchen hacks - a cheat's guide to wine, five knives you need in your kitchen, the secret to brilliant ramen - so that anyone can throw together great food without any fuss.



About the Author

Alexis Gabriel Ainouz is French Guy Cooking - a former engineer and self-confessed geek who turned his hand to making coking videos in 2014. His YouTube channel has 340,000 subscribers who love his mad-scientist experiments with food and inspirational recipes that make cooking fun and easy.



CONTENTS

Introduction

Eggs

#HACK – Wine pairing for dummies (aka normal people)

Soups

#HACK – A crash course in ramen

Salads

#HACK – 6 fresh herbs and 6 dried herbs

Snacks

#HACK – 12 dried spices that will make you a chef

Pizza & quiche

#HACK – A crash course in making Neapolitan pizza

Carbs

#HACK – 6 French cheeses & 21 alternatives from around the world

Pancakes

#HACK – How to fool everyone into thinking you’re a French chef

Meat & fish

#HACK – Chef vs street – how do you chop an onion?

Veggies

#HACK – The 5 essential kitchen knives you need

Sweet!

#HACK – 6 magical microwave winners… & 1 epic failure

Index