The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook: 350 Inspired Recipes from Elizabeth Baird and the Kitchen Canadians Trust Most - Softcover

More than twenty-five years of cooking expertise perfected in the unique Canadian Living Test Kitchen and printed in the food pages of Canadian Living magazine are distilled in this magnificent and completely new cookbook. The Canadian Living Test Kitchen guarantee -- “Tested till perfect” -- has assured a loyal following among cooks who know that Canadian Living Test Kitchen recipes guarantee success. Beautifully produced with a 2-colour interior and 2 eight-page photo inserts, the book contains more than 350 recipes, including regional specialties, dishes from our heritage communities, and fresh takes on modern classics such as sushi, chocolate fondue and pasta. Experienced cooks will enjoy the challenge of new inspirations such as Thai curries, pot stickers, grilled quail and chocolate confections. With an emphasis on eating for health, as well as nutritional analyses and advice, tips on cookware, food shopping and storage, and much more, The Complete Canadian Living Cookbook has everything any home cook will need. It is a guarantee of good food and an investment in good taste and good health.

· Over 350 Canadian Living “tested till perfect” recipes
· Information on choosing and storing fruits, vegetables, meat, poultry and fish
· Find how to select the right cooking equipment for your kitchen
· Tips on shopping, storage and ingredient substitutions
· Glossary of essential cooking and baking terms
· Advice on how to use slow cookers, bread machines and food processors
· Page-top symbols that pinpoint fast, make-ahead, freezable, budget-wise and Canadian Living classic recipes
· Streamlined recipes for easy preparation and clean-up
· Complete nutritional analysis for each recipe
· Cover the basics and challenges experienced cooks
· Highlights regional specialties and ingredients, dishes from our heritage communities and great cooks across the country

A sampling of delicious recipes:
Curried Lamb Phyllo Triangles
Baked Brie with Strawberry Mint Topping
Baby Spinach and Goat Cheese Salad
Red Barn Corn and Bean Salad
Perfect Roast Chicken
Salmon Cakes
Grilled Portobello Burgers
Old-fashioned Beef Stew
Luscious Mushroom Lasagna
Lemon Sponge Pudding
Chocolate Raspberry Ice-Cream Cake
Saskatoon Berry Pie
Apple Pie Muffins
Country Seed Bread
Pear and Apricot Conserve
Spicy Thai Shrimp and Noodle Soup
Asparagus Miso Soup
Glazed Sea Bass with Red Curry Sauce
Smoky Tex-Mex Rib

Elizabeth Baird has been the food editor for Canadian Living magazine since 1987. She has authored or co-authored numerous award-winning and bestselling cookbooks, including most recently Canadian Living Cooks, and was a founding board member of Breakfast for Learning. She lives with her husband, George, in Toronto.

The Canadian Living Test Kitchen is the largest media test kitchen in Canada, testing and/or creating nearly eight hundred recipes per year. A recipe is deemed to be “Tested Till Perfect” when it satisfies the high standards of the magazine, and Canadians trust Canadian Living’s recipes because of this rigorous testing and editing process.