Quick and Easy Japanese Cuisine for Everyone

Even those unfamiliar with Japanese cooking can follow the steps in this book and feel confident in achieving great tasting, authentic results. Cutting techniques and cooking methods are explained and illustrated in detail and because emphasis has been placed on the preparation of everyday Japanese meals, no special equipment for any of these dishes is necessary--a reasonably, well-equipped Western kitchen will do--and all of the ingredients are readily available.

What's For Dinner, Reissue

Trust the author of the Big Book of Casseroles to come up with simple, honest food that real people want to eat every night for dinner. Back with an enticing new cover, this extremely useful cookbook is filled with all-purpose, everyday recipes that are perfect for busy cooks who expect great results with a minimum of time and effort. Easy to follow and healthy, the dishes offer plenty of tips for menu planning and call for ingredients that are readily available and affordable. And with tempting recipes such as fiery Shrimp Salsa, Herbed Pork Loin with Roasted Potatoes, and Spiced Apple Crisp, What?s for Dinner? is a true kitchen classic.

Semi-Homemade 20-Minute Meals

Super simple and simply sensational 20-minute recipes for appetizers, pasta, fish, poultry, meat, desserts, and drinks. More than a 150 recipes and dozens of tips and tricks for creating fabulous tasting meals in 20 minutes! Special section devoted to creating great-tasting meals by microwave cooking.

Dream Dinners

What's for Dinner? If the sound of those three words sends you reeling or, worse, straight to the nearest fast-food chain or take-out joint, then relax. Dream Dinners will change all that forever. With their new cookbook, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna, founders of Dream Dinners, bring the successful philosophy behind their hundreds of assemble-and-freeze-meal stores across America into home kitchens. Dream Dinners offers up one hundred recipes for flavorful meals made with easy-to-find ingredients. The premise is simple: Scoop or pour ingredients into baking pans or plastic bags, then store the uncooked dishes in the freezer. Later in the week or month, when dinnertime rolls around, just pop one of the frozen meals into the oven. Each recipe is provided two ways: One, prepare just one meal for the night, or two, prepare enough for three meals and freeze the other two. Dinner after sports practice, music lessons, and play rehearsals has never been easier! In addition to recipes for hearty, family-pleasing classics such as Baked Pesto Ravioli with Chicken, Beef and Zucchini Casserole, and Cider-Braised Pork Loin Chops, Stephanie and Tina give a wealth of time-saving shopping tips and cooking pointers. More than for convenience, eating dinner together provides benefits for the whole family. Study after study shows that mealtime matters. Families who dine together form stronger bonds, and kids get better grades and develop lifelong healthful eating habits. Dream Dinners makes it easy for families to gather around the dinner table and share the ups and downs of the day. With Dream Dinners, you will spend less time stressing in the kitchen and more time connecting with family and friends.

Homemade in Half the Time

Preparing high-quality, home-cooked meals in record time has never been easier—or more delicious! You can enjoy that special homemade taste without spending hours in the kitchen. The new generation of convenience foods—like precut produce and premarinated meats—make it possible to enjoy outstanding home-cooked meals, fast! You simply need to know what ingredients to buy, what cooking techniques to use, and when you can safely slash preparation and cooking time without sacrificing taste. Here readers will learn how to shave 3 hours off Chicken Pot Pie with Biscuits or how to make a Clementine Tart with White Chocolate Macadamia Cookie Crust in only 8 minutes of hands-on time. In fact, more than 50 recipes require only five ingredients or less (plus salt and pepper). And readers will get two meals for the work of one with Double-Duty Dinners (learning, for instance, how to transform a set-aside portion of Roasted Chicken and Turnips in Peanut Sauce into Thai Chicken Noodle Salad). Menus and shopping guides make planning for a week’s meals as hassle-free as possible. With more than 200 streamlined recipes and a wealth of ingenious time-saving tips, Quick-to-Fix Family Favorites is the perfect cookbook for 21st-century America, when people’s schedules are more hectic than ever yet they are more demanding about the flavor and healthfulness of the meals they eat.

Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking with Mixes

With the success of such cookbooks as The Cake Mix Doctor home chefs have found that they can overcome the quality issues in many convenience products, including soup mixes and cake mixes, and end up with a better dish than they could have made from scratch. Taking this new trend one step further, ward-winning author Ellen Brown shows readers how adding simple ingredients can turn mixes into culinary masterpieces--in half the time. Inside, readers will find fantastic recipes for broth, stocks, marinades, rubs, salad dressings, dips, spreads, soups, stews, salads, meat poultry, pastas, rice, cakes, cookies, and desserts.

Don't Sweat Guide to Cooking

Learn how to keep it simple in the kitchen so that you focus on enjoying time with family and friends instead of trying to be a perfectionist.

I Can Cook, You Can Cook!

Baltimore's favorite food personality is now gaining national recognition with his down-home style, no nonsense love of food, and recipes so simple and delicious folks everywhere will be saying: I can cook, what he cooks! From his days as the proprietor of Baltimore's first casual restaurant to the popular Wayne's Bar-B-Que located on the Inner Harbor, Wayne Brokke is truly an American original. Now, more than 150 of Wayne's recipes are available to anyone who wants to enjoy simple, fast, and delicious home cooking that's more than just comfort food, it's comfort for the soul. Peppered with Wayne's unique anecdotes, these easy-to-follow recipes also include Wayne's special hints for cooks that encourage experimentation and creativity. I Can Cook, You Can Cook! includes outstanding soups, salads, entrees, vegetable dishes, desserts, breakfast, and cool summer drinks, as well as helpful information Wayne has learned on his lifelong cooking odyssey.

Le Cordon Bleu Quick and Easy

Enjoy classic cuisine, made simple and healthful by the chefs of Le Cordon Bleu, the most famous culinary institute in the world. This beautiful book teaches how to apply classic French cooking techniques to updated recipes that are simple to prepare and lightened up for today’s health-conscious home cook. Le Cordon Bleu Quick and Easy is the one-stop source for delicious, imaginative flavors from around the world. Step-by-step instructions, preparation times, and Chef's Tips—a feature that brings the voices of the famed Cordon Bleu instructors right into the home kitchen—accompany each of the recipes. Full-color photography is featured throughout.

Allrecipes 30 Minutes to Cook

Savvy cooks at Allrecipes.com, the world’s most popular Internet cooking community, have solved the dinnertime dilemmas with this latest collection of easy-to-make homestyle meals. Featuring the best of Allrecipes.com’s quick-and-easy recipes—as tested and rated by Allrecipes.com members--these great tasting, family-pleasing meals go from countertop to tabletop in 30 minutes or less.

Family Circle Quick & Easy Recipes

More than 300 tasty, easy-to-prepare recipes from the editors of Family Circle. At a glance, readers can use icons to choose the right recipe for any given night; the seven choices range from Five Ingredients or Less to One Pot, Quick Cook, and even No Cook. While it offers a hearty helping of old-time favorites, flavorful international choices are included, too, with great ideas for every course: Sesame Shrimp Salad; Chicken Enchiladas; Pork Marsala; and dozens of innovative pasta dishes can all be on the table in a jiffy. Even dessert is a snap, with quick-and-easy techniques for treats such as Chocolate Mocha Cake and Key Lime Pie. Nutrition information is included with every recipe.

Quick Pickles: Easy Recipes with Big Flavor

Forget those mason jars and double-boilers! Pickling can be quick and easy if you know the tricks. Offering both classic and contemporary pickles, these simple recipes can be completed with minimum fuss. Great, healthy snacks––think of them as the salsa of the millennium–– they'll keep for weeks in the refrigerator. With handy tips on keeping pickles crunchy, choosing and using containers, and suggestions for serving with meals, there's more than a peck of pickles in this tangy collection.

Quick and Easy Korean Cooking for Everyone

Perhaps the best-known dishes from Korea are the pungent relish Kimchee and the barbecued meats called Bulkogee. Korean cuisine, however, includes a blend of old and modern tastes with influences from all over Asia, including China and Japan. This cookbook includes over 60 recipes that showcase the uniquely fresh style of Korean cuisine, which utilizes high-quality ingredients and spices to achieve delicious tasting meals.

Carefree Cook

2004 IACP Award Nominee for General Category America's palate has reached lofty levels of sophistication, but the amount of time and energy available for cooking has plummeted. With that in mind, Rick Rodgers has created a magnificent solution. In his most comprehensive book to date, Carefree Cook replaces stress and fuss with creativity and ease. While Rodgers has included numerous quick ideas in this collection, many of his selections simmer and roast at a leisurely pace while the cook relaxes. Written in Rodger's appealing irreverent style, each of the 150 recipes here draws dazzling flavor from just a handful of ingredients. A down-to-earth approach to fine cooking, Carefree Cook transforms a hectic kitchen into a source of bliss.

Pat and Betty's No-Fuss Cooking

Pat & Betty show you how to . . . Wrap it up, Cook it up, & Serve it up, with no Cleanup! More Than 250 Delicious, Time-Saving, and Easy Recipes from the Reynolds Kitchens. America has fallen in love with Pat and Betty -- television's favorite home economists. Now for the first time, Pat and Betty share their favorite recipes, tips, and shortcuts! Known to millions as the voice of Reynolds products, Pat and Betty appear regularly on TV, radio, and the internet. Now, for the first time, these home economists share over 250 no-fuss recipes for everything from appetizers, main courses, vegetables, and desserts, using foil, oven bags, plastic wrap, and other products. Also included in this cookbook is a special holiday cooking section to help you plan and cook a delicious meal for those large family gatherings. Pat and Betty guide you with time-saving tips and shortcuts. A cookbook that no home should be without, Pat & Betty's No-Fuss Cooking will ensure that you spend less time in the kitchen, and more time with family and friends.