Synopses & Reviews
Long gone are the days when only “a meat and two veg” qualified as a real meal; today, says Sara Foster, “salads are meals, sandwiches and quesadillas qualify as respectable grown-up dinners (or breakfasts or lunches, for that matter), and eggs can be eaten any time of day.” In this new cookbook, Sara acts as a mentor to the rest of us, sharing her passion for practical, comfortable cooking at home with more than 100 recipes for everyday meals.
As the owner of two of the mid-Atlantics busiest gourmet markets, Sara shares her professional knowledge about ingredients and techniques, incorporating the changing trends in cooking, health, and entertaining. Formal is out; instead we want relaxed, versatile recipes that are full of flavor but dont require precision cooking or fussy techniques. We want to approach cooking with a sense of comfort and ease, and Sara Fosters Casual Cooking teaches us how: it is relaxed yet refined homey yet sophisticated, showcasing the kind of meals we all want to eat—and will actually cook, day in, day out.
In Sara Fosters Casual Cooking, Sara will help you navigate both the kitchen and the market with greater ease, resulting in satisfying meals that wont take all day to make. The recipes include the most popular dishes at Fosters Market and her own personal favorites, and all feature the updated Southern flair that has made her one of the Souths best-known cooks.
From easy party platters to assemble for impromptu guests to ingenious ways of turning a bag of spinach, a package of sausages, or a ball of pizza dough into a fresh and fabulous dinner, here finally is a cookbook that reflects the way we really eat today.
Synopsis
Explaining how to prepare tasty, interesting dishes without spending hours in the kitchen, a colorful new cookbook features more than one hundred recipes for a variety of favorite foods, along with fresh and flavorful variations, all made from items that can be kept on hand in one's refrigerator, pantry, or freezer, accompanied by ingenious time-saving tips. 40,000 first printing.
Synopsis
In this lavishly illustrated book, Sara Foster introduces time-pressed cooks to a world where salads are meals; sandwiches and quesadillas can be a respectable grown-up dinner; meat, fish, and pasta are the starting points for satisfying one-dish suppers; and desserts come together in minutes. Time-saving tips include using staples like beans or tunafish in exciting new combinations, spicing up leftovers, and taking advantage of packaged or precooked products. With Foster's more than 100 recipes for perennial favorites and a little bit of ingenuity and flexibility, readers can turn casual cooking into something special.
About the Author
Sara Foster began her career as a
chef for Martha Stewarts catering company before going on to open her own take-out business, Fosters Market, in Durham, North Carolina. Today, Sara has a second Foster's Marketin Chapel Hill, North Carolina, as well as her own website, FostersMarket.com, where her line of products
is also available. Sara teaches cooking classes
and is a frequent guest chef for Viking and
Williams-Sonoma at culinary functions. She is also the food columnist for Cottage Living and has
been featured in Martha Stewart Living, O Magazine, and Country Living, among other publications.
She is the author of Fosters Market Cookbook and Fresh Every Day.
Carolynn Carreño writes for Saveur and the
Los Angeles Times and coauthored several cookbooks, including Once Upon a Tart and 100 Ways to Be Pasta