Synopses & Reviews
Chinese Tomato Shrimp Soup. Enchiladas Vera Cruz. Spicy Gingered Asian Slaw with Salmon. No one needs to know these dishes began with a can of soup, a store-bought roast chicken, and deli cole slaw. With this book, cooks can discover the quick trick of pairing freshly prepared purchased items and pantry staples to produced such specialties. It is chock-full of more than 200 great spur-of-the-moment recipes for hors d'oeuvres, entrees, biscuits and breads, and desserts fashioned from ready-made, boxed, or frozen ingredients. Packed with smart shortcuts for busy cooks, this practical, inspiring book brilliantly redefines home cooking.
Synopsis
Two James Beard Award winners take "half-scratch" cooking to its full potential with wily strategies for transforming the new convenience foods into culinary triumphs. Now cooks can discover the quick trick of pairing freshly prepared purchased items and pantry staples to produce specialties. 200 recipes.
About the Author
LINDA WEST ECKHARDT is a cookbook author and contributor to Cooking LIght. She is author if Bread in Half the Time, winner of the 1991 IACP Julia Child Award for the Best Cookbook of the Year, and the coauthor, with her daughter KATHERINE WEST DEFOYD, of Entertaining 101 and Stylish One-Dish Dinners. The authors live in Maplewood and South Orange, New Jersey.