Weeknight : Food Made Fast

Designed for the busy home cook, Food Made Fast is the latest collectible series from Williams-Sonoma. Using a straightforward approach to everyday cooking, Food Made Fast is about delicious food, simply prepared, with easy-to-follow recipes and tips. Each book emphasizes keeping a well-stocked pantry, planning ahead, and using fresh ingredients as the keys to cooking delicious meals with a minimum of time and effort. Dedicated to a single subject--from Soup to Pasta to Weeknight--each volume makes it simple to plan, cook, and enjoy great-tasting food throughout the week. The recipes are both simple and inspired, making quick cooking a truly satisfying experience.

What to Cook When You Think

More than 175 recipes and meal ideas. If you like to eat well but don't relish the thought of going to the supermarket on a rainy afternoon or are too tired to shop after work, this is the cookbook for you. This book puts your pantry to work, showing you how pasta, beans, canned tuna, eggs, and cheese can form the basis of nutritious, tasty, and easy meals.

Easier You Make It, Better It Tastes

Sale! Gourmet quality without gourmet fuss in 140 easy-to-follow recipes. Nutrition info. Color photos. 240 pgs. Hard

Once-a-Month Cooking

Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You dont have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect todays healthier diet, this new edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at the supermarket, cut down on prep time, group similar kitchen tasks together to get them all done at once, make kitchen clean-up more manageable, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals.

Sunset: Quick Cuisine

Create nutritious meals with fresh ingredients for daily family dining or company entertaining. Choose from 150 triple-tested recipes for easy entrees, full-meal soups, main-dish salads, quick-to-fix side dishes and no-fuss desserts.

Healthy College Cookbook

Written by students and for students, this collection of more than 200 simple, inexpensive, nutritious recipes encourages college students and recent graduates to use time, otherwise spent waiting for pizza delivery, preparing more satisfying homemade meals.

Blue Moon Soup

Using tasty ingredients and winning combinations, chef Gary Goss proves that even beginning cooks can create scrumptious soups. The thirty basic recipes in this collection are easy to follow and chosen to appeal to every member of the family.

Betty Crocker 4-Ingredient Dinners

Betty Crocker makes fast, delicious dinners a snap with high-flavor, low-fuss recipes With today’s busy lifestyles, many cooks want to prepare wholesome dinners, but simply don’t have lots of time to spend on shopping and prepping. Now Betty Crocker comes to the rescue with a terrific collection of tasty, easy-to-prepare recipes and tips for making fast and fabulous dinners that the whole family will love. Focusing on the main dishes that form the heart of a meal, each recipe requires just four ingredients and some simple preparation to create dinners that are both palate-pleasing and nutritious. Glazed Turkey Tenderloins . . . Skillet Apple Butter Pork Chops . . . Mustard Lamb Chops . . . these are just a few of the delectable offerings that cooks will love. Illustrated with mouthwatering color photographs of finished dishes, Betty Crocker 4-Ingredient Dinners is proof positive that being in a hurry doesn’t mean having to sacrifice home-cooked meals.

Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen

2005 James Beard Award Nominee - Vegetarian As a husband, father of two young children, cookbook author, magazine and book editor, and cast member of the highly successful PBS show America’s Test Kitchen, who also does all the cooking for his family, Jack Bishop is an expert at making appealing vegetarian meals that work in real time. Cooking with seasonal produce, says Bishop, is the best way to bring a welcome variety to dinners. In A Year in a Vegetarian Kitchen, Bishop guides cooks through the seasons with 248 simple recipes that draw from many traditions. For spring, there’s Garlicky Greens in Soft Corn Tacos; for summer, Penne with Pan-Roasted Garlic, Sautéed Cherry Tomatoes, and Basil; and for fall, Pizza with Caramelized Onions and Thyme. In winter, when farmers’ markets are a distant memory in most parts of the country, dinners include Pan-Glazed Tofu with Thai Red Curry Sauce and Grilled Cheese Sandwiches with Mushrooms. In concise sidebars that accompany each recipe, Bishop gives readers the benefit of his ten years of experience at Cook’s Illustrated, covering everything from choosing winter squash, preparing fennel, and making perfect fried rice to buying the best grater.

Easy Menus for Dining In

Each chapter is a menu so developing a complete meal plan is easy Plan ahead and make ahead tips simplify time in the kitchen Easy-to-follow recipes reduce preparation time A variety of cuisines and themes offers plenty of entertaining choices Step-by-step color photography helps cooks create visually stunning meals Glossary of cooking terms guides the novice, as well as the more seasoned, cook

101 Low-Fat Feasts

These quick and easy recipes have been specifically chosen to help even the busiest people enjoy delicious, fresh, home-cooked food. Each recipe is written with simple step-by-step instructions and is accompanied by a nutritional analysis and a color photo, so you can cook with complete confidence.

Quick Home-Cooked Meals: Letting Your Microwave Work for You

Enough pre-packaged dinners. Enough fast-food and carry-out dishes. You want more control over your own and your family's eating. But you still have only limited time for cooking. You'll be tempted to return to your old practice of picking up pre-cooked food on the way home — unless you can find recipes and hints that match your schedule. This is a cookbook that will show you how to manage it all. It is a collection of recipes that are simple, tasty, nutritious and fast. Most can be made in 30 minutes or less. The recipes require little time, but they offer foods' finest flavors. Pork and Rice a L'orange (prep time—20 minutes) Fresh Catch Yogurt Fillets (prep time—8 minutes) Broccoli and Cauliflower Italiana (prep time—15 minutes) Fruit and Spice Muffins (prep time—80 minutes) Denver Pockets (prep time—11 minutes) Hearty Onion Bake (prep time—20 minutes) Peach Crumb Pie (prep time—20 minutes) Chocolate Mousse (prep time—6 minutes) Swiss Cheese Fondue (prep time—15 minutes) Cranberry Glazed Loaves (prep time—22 minutes) Learn how to let your microwave make meals, not just heat leftovers. Follow the Menu-Planning Guide for balanced, full meals—in minutes.

Vegetarian Express

When you need a high-energy snack or meal, you don't need to pile on the pounds with sugary carbohydrates. Instead, try some of the 100 recipes that highlight fresh fruit and vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains, using organic ingredients wherever possible.

Fast & Simple Cookbook

An inspirational split-page menu planner and recipe book for today's time-pressed cook. Over 100,000 menu combinations for quick cooking and easy entertaining during every season of the year. All-new collection of more than 150 sensational recipes organized into 10-minute, 20-minute, and 30-minute time bands. Uniquely practical split-page format enables you to compose super-easy menus with style for after-work stress-free meals.

New Food Fast

Wish you could have a home-cooked meal every night? New Food Fast is your answer. Donna Hay dazzles home cooks with easy-to-prepare dishes that can be made in ten, twenty, or thirty minutes. In the same format as her previous books, New Food Fast is a guide to eating well, without spending hours on complicated preparations. Complete with a guide to essential cooking tools, basic recipes for stocks, batters, and dough, and tips on how to stock your kitchen for fast cooking, New Food Fast is a must have in today's busy world.