Tasty Meals in 20 Minutes

Over 70 delicious dishes you can cook in 20 minutes or less, including Chicken Chow Mein, Five Spice Fish, and Pork Marsala with Juniper. As well as main meals, it has sections on soups, starters and mouth-watering desserts-- to create whole menus that can be ready in 20 minutes . With step-by-step instructions and glorious color photography. You'll be creating meals for all the family within minutes.

Dinner Doctor

The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor, together with over 1.6 million copies in print, does for dinner what she did for dessert--shows how to take common, convenient supermarket ingredients and turn them into meals that taste like they're made from scratch. Making excellent use of the Crock-pot and other labor-saving appliances, incorporating hundreds of shortcuts and tips, and cooking from a pantry of prepared foods--whether canned, frozen, jarred, dried, or fresh from the salad bar--the Dinner Doctor shows how to make over 200 fast and kid-friendly appetizers, salads, soups, sides, and main course. Take, for example, a can of tuna, and think outside the sandwich: Add beans, tomato, and a vinaigrette, and it becomes a Tuscan Tuna and White Bean Salad. Turn that healthy mixture into a pasta salad with the addition of cooked penne. And make a speedy pasta supper by tossing the salad with sauteed zucchini and a generous shower of shredded Parmesan. Or, whip up a tuna Noodle Casserole like mom used to make--but faster and healthier--by lightening the traditional cream of mushroom soup with lemon juice and lowfat milk and using precooked pasta and frozen peas. There are dozens of ways to doctor deli-counter basics into stunning hors d'oeuvres. Five quick casserole toppers. Five zippy garlic breads and 30 ways to dress up frozen peas frozen spinach. And the 15s--15 cold pasta sauces, 15 ways to doctor deli chicken, 15 meals made from summer tomatoes, and more.

Quick and Easy Soy & Tofu Recipes

Shows you how to create delicious and healthy recipes with this versatile, nuritious food. Tofu is high in protein, low in calories, and free of cholesterol. Best of all, tofu can easily be made into any kind of dish you can imagine. Use Quick & Easy Soy and Tofu Recipes to marinate, grill, saute, bake or microwave tofu. Prepare tofu sandwiches, main courses, soups and salads. Learn about tofu's health benefits, history and cooking methods.

Good Housekeeping Step-by-Step Cookbook

Practical, beautiful and really comprehensive. 1,000+ recipes and good info on techniques. Nutrition counts. 1,800 color photos.

Mega Cooking

Mega Cooking is a revolutionary new plan for saving time, money, and energy in the daily task of preparing food for your family. How is this done? By buying in bulk, cutting out many of the repetitive steps of preparing meals, and freezing food into meal-sized portions customized for your family's size. Included are step-by-step instructions for how to actually do a Mega Cooking event; how to make the most of your freezer space; how to freeze servings efficiently; how to thaw and prepare your meals when you are ready to use them; and hundreds of recipes that are great, regardless of whether you're preparing a meal for just one person or eight. All the recipes have been specifically tested for use in the Mega Cooking system by the author's own group of Mega-testers. All meals are included -- breakfast, lunch, and dinner -- even salads, desserts, and snacks. The Mega Cooking system is specifically designed to custom-fit every family's special dietary needs or desires for vegetarian and whole food alternatives. Included are sections on motivation, the science of freezing food, menu planning, and sample forms to help you make the most of the Mega Cooking system. Mega Cooking is a follow-up to Jill's best-selling home management classic, Dinner's In the Freezer! and includes all the updated information that she has gathered as she has perfected her quantity cooking system over the last seventeen years.

Good Food Fast

Today's hectic lifestyle means that most people have less and less time to spend in the kitchen. After a hard day, either at work or at home, few of us feel inclined to spend hours slaving over a hot stove. Using basic store/cupboard ingredients, the recipes in this volume present the ultimate in fast food. The longest recipes in this book can be completed in half an hour, and you can't say fairer than that. With cook's tips and meal planning strategies, this book presents a logical approach to quick meal solutions. Suggestions include mastering a few favorite recipes, mix-and-matching dishes, and suggests techniques for basic recipes that can be endlessly adapted.

Betty Crocker's Quick and Easy Cookbook

Over 300 mostly main course recipes like Orange Teriyaki Beef with Noodles, Alfredo Chicken and Mushrooms, and Skillet Barbecue Pork Chops; plus a selection of simple appetizers/snacks, sides and desserts such as Cheesy Ranch Potato Skins, Warm Caramelized Vegetables and Creamy Caramel-Peach Parfaits. There are tips with every recipe, ranging from how to buy ingredients to save time; to tasty substitutes for ingredients; to suggestions for sides to round out a meal. As with all Betty Crocker titles, prep and cook times are included (none to exceed 30 minutes in total); and complete nutrition information and exchanges are provided. Every chapter has a One-Step Dinner Solutions list of 10 simple variations that provides a slew of ideas to make favorite foods taste great. For example, 10 ideas for all-in-one seasoning mixes to flavor boneless chicken or turkey breasts. Every chapter has Pantry Dinner Solutions that provide great meal ideas for those days when there's no time to shop; in addition, there's advice on how to stock the pantry - including the refrigerator, the freezer and the cupboard - to be prepared, so it's still possible to eat great homemade meals even on those extra-busy days. Chockfull of helpful cooking information such as grilling/broiling times for beef and poultry and lists such as the 10 essential cooking gadgets.

From Storebought to Homemade

Everybody would like to sit down to a delicious homemade meal with family and friends, but these days no one seems to have the time or energy. Southern hostess extraordinaire and best-selling author Emyl Jenkins will show you how it's just as easy-and twice as tasty-to fix a homemade meal as it is to get takeout. In her charming voice, Emyl shares her top-secret collection of fast, fabulous recipes that explain how to doctor up store-bought food-from canned soup to precooked chicken-so it tastes like you slaved over a hot stove all day. From Storebought to Homemade covers all your cooking needs: From time-saving ingredients to keep stocked in your kitchen, to planning full menus for great weekday meals or impress-the-guests weekend dinners. Recipes include Tell Me It's Homemade Clam Chowder, Navy Wives Shrimp Curry, Easy Chicken Tetrazzini, Incredibly Quick Cheese Biscuits, Lazy Woman's Peach Cobbler, Easy Pumpkin Cheesecake, and Chocolate Fudge Pie.

Great Meals in Minutes

Over 90 delicious, nutritious, easy-to-make recipes from appetizer to dessert that can be prepared in 30 minutes or less. Each recipe is accompanied by a beautiful four-color photograph, and the recipes are designed with accessible and nutritious ingredients for all levels of cook.

Cooking to Beat the Clock ;

Busy professionals and harried parents don't have time after a long day to spend an hour preparing dinner, but no one wants to settle for cold pizza or cheese sandwiches everyday either. How does Provencal Mushroom Ragout over Polenta sound? Or Pork Medallions with Cider and Mashed Sweet Potatoes? In 15 minutes? Including the time it takes to chop the vegetables! James Beard Award-winning food journalist Sam Gugino has devised a host of secret strategies for getting organized so cooking dinner is quick and painless. He approaches the overall kitchen scene with four key principles in mind: flavor, organization, focus, and creativity. To this he adds clever time-saving techniques that drastically cut the preparation time for a meal-sized entrZe serving two or four. In all, Cooking to Beat the Clock offers an entirely new way of thinking about any recipe, and just may change the way you cook. It's amazing but true—a delicious dinner can be ready in 15 minutes, start to finish!

Gourmets Quick Kitchen

200 quick-and easy dishes that can be made in 45 minutes or less, including 40 recipes for leaner and lighter fare. Oven-Roasted Eggplant Crostini...Chicken and Shallots with Riesling and Grapes...Tiramisu Chocolate Wafer Cake...you won't be disappointed.

Betty Crocker's Quick and Easy Cookbook

Ready to get to work in the kitchen, this is the book that answers the question, What’s for dinner tonight? To get dinner done fast and still have a meal the whole family will enjoy, here are more than 300 delicious recipes for everything from appetizers to main dishes to desserts--all ready in thirty minutes or less. Readers will love innovative dinner solution ideas like Pantry Recipes and 1-Step Recipes that provide cooking options even when there’s no time to shop. For those who are really time-pressed, more than half of the recipes are Super Express, ready to eat in twenty minutes or less. With excellent choices for meat-lovers, vegetarians, and fish fans, the cookbook’s easy recipes combine familiar ingredients and convenience foods into creative dishes that are short on time but long on flavor. From shopping made easy to great tips and ideas for speeding up cooking, this cookbook is Betty Crocker at her best.

Cooking With Three Ingredients

There's magic in the number three. And when it comes to cooking, the number three can create culinary magic in your kitchen. In this fabulous, original collection, three ingredients add up to much more than the sum of their parts. Choose a simple starter, such as Smoked Salmon Mousse, Very Cheesy Nachos, Mustard-Cured Shrimp, or Chunky Corn Chowder, or go for the main event with Lemon Pepper Chicken, Balsamic-Glazed Sirloin, or Grilled Honey Mustard Pork. There are three-ingredient pasta sauces, delectable vegetables and sides, and even almost instant desserts. Using only three ingredients means less shopping, less preparation, less cleanup -- and best of all, less time. And with the many creative ways author Andrew Schloss has put these together, no one will guess that you haven't slaved for hours in the kitchen. You'll find these recipes exceptionally easy -- and unbelievably delicious.

30-Minute Meals 2

New collection of recipes, many featured on her popular show on the Food Network, capture the fun of home-cooking. As her fans know, Rachael Ray loves to cook because meals bring people together, and that experience she believes, is as important as the meal itself. Gathering around a table at home is great, but, you may ask, who has time to cook? We all do, says Rachael, if you've got 30 minutes to spare, and she believes that the rewards of spending quality time with family and friends can last a lifetime. So in her words, Just do it, It's only dinner! Color photographs of Rachael at work, cooking simple, fabulous meals that readers will come back to time and again, illustrate the book.

101 Money Saving Meals

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.