101 Veggie Dishes

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 & Easy Thai

Now busy home cooks can bring the fantastic flavors of Thai cuisine into the kitchen with a simple trip to the grocery store. Nancie McDermott, experienced cook, teacher, and author of the best-selling cookbook Real Thai, presents this collection of 70 delicious recipes that focus on easy-to-find ingredients and quick cooking methods to whip up traditional Thai. With recipes like Crying Tiger Grilled Beef, Grilled Shrimp and Scallops with Lemongrass, Sticky Rice with Mangoes, and Thai Iced Tea, along with McDermott's highly practical array of shortcuts, substitutions, and timesaving techniques, anyone can prepare home-cooked authentic Thai meals--as often as they like.

Fifteen Minute Meals

Fresh, fantastic and nutritious recipes.

Too Busy To Cook Vol. 2

Sale! More than 600 timesaving recipes & menus, including microwave & do-ahead. Color photos.

Minutemeals: 20 Minute Gourmet Meals

This is the first cookbook hat promises a complete, gourmet-inspired dinner--including dessert--in 20 minutes or less. Yes, there are other 20-minute cookbooks, but none that gives people the real food they crave, coupled with creative taste and flavor variations that lift meals out of the ordinary. Sure, everyone knows how to open a few cans or packages and throw something together, but this book shows people how to create memorable meals in less time than it takes to watch the evening news, no matter how busy they are. 150 fantastic menus, each featuring a main dish, side and dessert. Minute Meals

Working Mom's Fast and Easy Family Cookbook

Two amazing books in one: Working mom's Fat and Easy Kid-Friendly Meals and Working Mom's Fast and Easy One-Pot Cooking, Together they feature more than 300 kid-approved meals, all using a minimum of cookware and many that can be on the table in under 30 minutes.

Simply Delicious Food

Celebrates the good things in life: easy-to-prepare, flavorsome food and the timeless pleasure of sharing meals with friends and family. Here the author offers 150 simple-to-prepare, stylish recipes plus inspirational ideas for serving food and drinks with flair, using flowers, table linens, and candles.

Minutemeals 3 Ways to Dinner

When people make dinner, they reach for the same favorite ingredients again and again. They hit the wall. How can they make staples such as chicken breasts, ground beef, and pasta seem fresh and exciting? Here are enticing new ideas that infuse old standbys with new life and great taste appeal. Includes 81 menus using 27 favorite main dish staples; three complete 20-minute menus for each of the 27 favorite ingredients; and a complete game plan for every menu, including tips and notes. Minute Meals

Minutemeals Vegetarian

People are clamoring for vegetarian menus--it's one of the most requested categories on the minutemeals Web site. Featuring 80 fresh, enticing menus--such as Chinese Dumpling and Bok Choy Soup with Snow Peas and Grape Tomato Salad and Lemon Ice--this cookbook proves that home-cooked vegetarian meals don't have to be limited or time-consuming to prepare. For both committed vegetarians and people who like to go meatless a few times a week, this is the key to really great dinners--really fast. Minute Meals

Quick and Easy Entrees with Style

A collection of cookbooks offering style and taste on a budget. These innovative cookbooks are devoted to celebrating wonderful food and a contemporary sense of style on a budget. Provided are recipes for delicious and easy holiday treats, entrees, and salads and breads that take fewer than 20 minutes to prepare and present with flair. Appropriate for both novice and experienced cooks, all of these recipes use ingredients commonly found on supermarket shelves. Each recipe is accompanied by nutritional information and diabetic food exchanges. The fun presentation ideas suggested use basic supplies found in supermarkets and mass merchandise stores, enabling cooks to create meal presentations worthy of Martha Stewart on a family budget.

The Minimalist Cooks at Home

With only a few choice ingredients and easy steps, dishes such as Creamy Squash Soup with No Cream, Real Paella, Chicken Curry-in-a-Hurry and 15 Minute Fruit Gratin can be on your table in no time. And by encouraging versatility, this book allows cooks of all skill levels to create a tailored repertoire of sophisticated dinners. this is modern cooking at its best—flexible, fast and fabulous. From Library Journal: Author of the best-selling How To Cook Everything, Bittman writes a popular weekly column for the New York Times, where his philosophy is less is more. Some of the simple but mouth-watering recipes in his new book are from the column, but there are many new ones as well: Sparkling Cider-Poached Fish, Minty Broiled Shrimp Salad, and Chicken with Coconut and Lime are some of the appealing choices. Each one has an extended headnote, offering tips, alternatives for ingredients, serving suggestions, and more; and each also includes With Minimal Effort, with more specific recipe variations and ideas. Step-by-step-technique photos, from how to slice gravlax to the easiest way to peel chestnuts, are scattered throughout.

Just Add Water

NEW! Can you boil water? Then you can make these 140 deliciously simple recipes for great soups, stews, chicken, fish, pasta, desserts & more.

In Just 10 Minutes

We all live increasingly busy lives, and the opportunity to spend leisurely hours preparing a meal is a very rare event. This book solves the problem with eighty healthy, delicious recipes that can be made in minutes. Relying on simple, fresh produce and basic store cupboard ingredients, the emphasis is on speedy cooking techniques and versatile, simple recipes. A mix-and-match menu section includes lots of ideas for fast, flexible two- and three-course meals and instant ideas for salads, appetizers, and desserts.

The Efficient Epicure

You don't have to sacrifice the pleasure of sharing home-cooked meals with family and friends because you're too tired to cook at the end of the day. The work is behind you, condensed into one single cooking session that provides good food for the whole week.

Lorna Sass' Short-cut Vegetarian

New! Learn amazing shortcuts in 100+ recipes, all short on prep, long on flavor. At-a-glance ingredients & pantry info. 176 pgs. Paper