Quick Food

In a hurry? Take some time to check out the quick and easy food in this book. Tailored to help you find a little breathing space in a hectic day, each recipe is designed to create a delicious meal with minimum preparation. Some dishes can be left to simmer or bake, while others are ready to eat in no time.

Quick from Scratch Soups & Salads Cookbook

Soups that simmer for minutes, not hours, and salads that know no season: all of these 75 inviting recipes will revolutionize the way you think about this familiar hot-and-cold combo. Soup's on! will become everyone's favorite words when you serve up luscious Creamy Asparagus with Mushrooms and Gruyere Croutes. Coconut milk flavors a substantial Brazilian Shrimp soup--and it will keep you coming back for more. Or enjoy Chicken Avogolemo (a Greek specialty), Mexican Pozole, or a hearty Minestrone with White Beans and Italian Sausage. And want a salad that's not just lettuce? Then how about Grilled Scallops over Mixed Green and Herb Salad, or chicken with cucumber and red pepper, tossed in honey mustard dressing? Warm yolks cascade over a Curly Endive Salad with Bacon and Poached Egg, while Mixed Greens with Smoked Ham, Black-Eyed Peas, and Roasted Red Pepper Dressing is a real winner!

Sunset : Quick, Light, and Healthy

The quickest of Sunset's flavorful low-fat recipes are brought together for the first time in this great collection. These easy-to-make dishes are perfectly suited to the needs of busy cooks today. From appetizers to desserts, here are more than 250 kitchen-tested recipes that can be on your table in 20 to 45 minutes.

Can Opener Gourmet

In the tradition of the bestselling Cake Mix Doctor, Laura Karr turns your routine dinners into delicious, nutritious, and easy-to-prepare gourmet meals. How many times have we thought to ourselves, I'd love to cook a great meal, but who has the time? Laura Karr understands this universal dilemma and has discovered a great way to cook up our favorite dishes in half the time, and often for half the price, using the convenience of foods from cans and jars. Reminding us that canned food is nutritious, preservative-free, and available year round, Karr shares over 175 of her coveted family recipes, including Curried Chicken and Artichoke Salad, Fettuccine with Pumpkin Cream Sauce, and Turkey Tetrazzini -- all delicious and all prepared quickly, with the flip of a lid! Laura Karr learned the basics of cooking by helping her family cater weddings. Her skills were further advanced when her grandmother accepted a position as head chef at a Northern California college. After completing her B.A., Laura pursued her love of writing through her work at several magazines and ad agencies. Now she combines her two passions in her first book. She lives in Lakewood, California.

Seriously Simple

The subtitle says it all. One of the biggest challenges for the good home cook is creating delicious, healthy meals using just a few ingredients and simple steps. And good cooks know that Diane Worthington is an expert at finding the one strong flavor component that will turn a ho-hum dish into something memorable--t spending the whole day in the kitchen. In Seriously Simple: Easy Recipes for Creative Cooks she does it again. Here are over 90 recipes for everything from Butternut Squash Soup with Chipotle Creme to Lemon-Lime Pound-cake that come together in a snap. Gorgeously photographed, Seriously Simple is full of practical tips for saving time without sparing the savor, such as advice on developing a busy cook?s pantry, making one-pot meals, and creating sauces, rubs, and marinades that will spice up any dish in a flash. Guaranteed to cut down on the prep time, streamline techniques, and pump up the flavor, here?s a new kitchen standby that?s seriously fast, seriously delicious... Seriously Simple.

Reader's Digest 30-Minute Cookbook

New in paper! Redefines the meaning of fast food in recipes that cut down on time and rev up flavor and nutritional value. Serving delicious, healthful, flavorful meals doesn't have to mean spending hours in the kitchen. The experts at Reader's Digest have gathered together 300 recipes that take no more than 30 minutes from start to finish, added smart, time-saving tips, and wrapped them in a package full of colorful photographs and informative, how-to illustrations.

Simple Cafe Food

Prepare to be seduced by sumptuous salads, sublime soups, simple and imaginative seafood, seasonal vegetables, sweet and succulent desserts, and out-of-this-world mains with simple garnishes. This book takes the mystery out of many products and provides simple, flavor-oriented, cafe-style recipes.

Cool Food : 200 Easy and Refreshing Recipes for Lazy Days

Light, refreshing, and totally satisfying, the recipes in Cool Food provide relief when the temperature soars and hot, heavy food is not an option. Starters include Hummus and Tzatziki; main dishes range from Lamb with Roasted Potatoes to Minced Pork and Noodle Salad; sides feature Greek Salad and Mushroom and Goat's Cheese Salad; and desserts could be anything from Berries in Champagne Jello to a Macaroon Berry Trifle. Each fast and easy recipe calls for a short list of everyday ingredients and satisfies a range of tastes.

30-Minute Meals For Dummies

The fun and easy way to make tasty meals in minutes. Now everyone can make delicious home-cooked meals without spending hours in the kitchen–with 30-Minute Meals For Dummies. This easy guide helps readers plan good-for-you meals that taste terrific and take almost no time to prepare. One hundred palate-pleasing recipes for salads, soups, entrees, side dishes, and desserts offer flexible options with enough choice to keep even the fussiest eaters from getting bored. Best of all, these dishes can be made as part of a complete meal that goes from kitchen to table in a total of thirty minutes or less. Packed with tips and techniques on stocking a pantry, refrigerator, and freezer to avoid last-minute shopping, plus dishes that can be made ahead of time and reheated for last-minute meals, this fast but healthy cookbook is the ultimate kitchen companion for busy people on the go.

Real Simple : Meals Made Easy

When it comes to the challenges you face every day, getting dinner on the table is always at the top of the list. Not only do you want the meal to be healthy and taste good, but you want it to be fast and simple to prepare. As straightforward as that sounds, somehow-in the midst of a busy life- the task seems nearly impossible. In Meals Made Easy, the first of a series of Real Simple cookbooks, you will find smart and doable dinnertime solutions for every night of the week, no matter how little time (or few ingredients) you have. Even better, these are dishes the whole family will love- yes, including your children. Featuring more than 75 foolproof recipes, all illustrated with large, lush photos, Meals Made Easy is custom-made for your life, with chapters dedicated to: Dishes that can be prepared and ready in 30 minutes or less Freezer-friendly dinners to make ahead of time and eat whenever Cuisine that calls only for a cutting board-no cooking necessary Meals you can cobble together using the items in your pantry Recipes that require just one pot (and blessedly very little cleanup time) In addition, the book features insightful cooking tips on every page, a chapter on versatile side dishes, and a comprehensive, easy-to-use recipe index. Whether you have only 15 minutes until the kids invade the kitchen or only a hunk of Parmesan and cold pasta in the refrigerator, Meals Made Easy is sure to become your go-to guide for nightly meal planning.

Faster! I'm Starving!

Who says there's no time to cook? In the time it takes to find the phone book and call the local pizza shop, busy parents across the country could be serving up a hot, home-cooked meal for their families. Now, the secrets to being able to cook quick and nutritious meals in the time it takes for a sitcom plot to be revealed are collected here by mother and son team Nancy Mills and Kevin Mills. Cook a healthy, interesting dinner in twenty-five minutes or less on any night of the week. These meals taste good enough to keep you from surrendering to the temptations of fast food or take out, and easy enough to make with a baby in one arm and a kid hanging onto each leg! Now, anyone can cook a complete meal in less time than it would take to order out and wait for delivery-and it's not just the same old fare. Try Pasta and Bean Soup, Chinese-Style Pork Medallions, and Roasted Portobello Mushroom Burgers! Helpful sections include: Techniques Geared for Speed--like buying pre-washed vegetables and grated cheeses, or using stir-frying or high-temperature roasting as methods for cooking Techniques for Cutting Very Quickly--and still keeping your fingertips intact Speedy Ingredients like sirloin steak and ground meats that cook quickly How to Stock your Pantry Helpful Equipment to get the job done faster, like a blender for chopping veggies Plus delicious recipes for Soups, Salads, Sandwiches, Eggs, Pasta, Rice, Grains, Poultry, Meat, Fish, and much more.

Six O'Clock Scramble

Six o'clock looms, and dinner has to be on the table pronto-the kids don't care if you've just come home from work exhausted and out of ideas or spent the afternoon ferrying them from school to playdate to tae kwon do practice. The Scramble to the rescue! Each week's worth of recipes is utterly organized, easy-to-prepare and designed to please both adult tastes and finicky children's palates. Everything is homemade, with a clever reliance on just enough prepared or packaged-but never fake-foods. Inventive, flavorful, and healthy are Aviva Goldfarb's watchwords; her Scramble recipes include: Recipes that can be prepared in thirty minutes or less Weekly menus so parents need only shop once a week One vegetarian main course per week Meals that kids can help prepare Fun foods for lunchboxes, after-school snacks, or weekend get-togethers Complete nutritional information for each recipe Dinners like honey-glazed salmon, Asian turkey burgers, and Moroccan Chicken that will please the whole family.

Fresh 15-Minute Meals

Use fresh foods and simple procedures to cook exciting, varied and balanced meals for two in just 15 minutes.

Gourmet's In Short Order

Over 250 exceptional, kitchen-tested recipes that can be prepared in 45 minutes or less and ten easy menus.

Quick Simple Food

From Susie Quick, the founding food editor and stylist of Real Simple magazine, a new approach to quick-and-easy cooking. This beautifully designed and lavishly illustrated book is filled with terrific recipes for cooks looking for ways to prepare stylish, satisfying meals even when time is short. From its chic, contemporary look to its dazzling array of easy-to-make international specialties, this cookbook demonstrates that quick and easy doesn't have to mean dowdy and dull. Susie Quick relies on fresh, high-quality ingredients and simplified cooking methods to create dishes that will please the most demanding of palates. The range is astonishing and nearly all the recipes can be made in less than 30 minutes.