Over 300 shortcut recipes show how to bring home-cooked meals into the world of fast, hectic schedules with tips on how to streamline and improve the parts which take time - such as in a 10-Minute Vegetable Curry dish which remarks curry usually takes up too much time - but a jar of curry sauce does most of the work for you, leaving just chopping veggies and grilling flatbread for the 'homemade' touches. Another plus: recipes are gathered from culinary traditions around the world, so there's lots of choice and variety, from Chicken with Candied Pecans to Couscous Stuffed Peppers.
Another excellent title from the Chronicle Cookbook Series
In an age where time is as precious as good food, enter Cook'n Homemade in a Hurry, the secret to having more of both!
With over three hundred recipes, from appetizers, soups, and salads to main courses, side dishes, and desserts, cooking from scratch is made easier with shortcuts for those who demand a LOT more in less time.
By jump-starting the cooking with high-quality prepared ingredients such as pesto, curry cooking sauces, and pre-chopped vegetables all found at local supermarkets the complicated is streamlined and what used to take hours in the kitchen is now ready in minutes.
Author and cooking teacher Andrew Schloss has a knack for creating easy-to-prepare recipes that turn the same-old-thing into something special. Puree a can of navy beans with a little garlic, olive oil, and lime juice and viola, White Guacamole.
With additional sections on setting up your pantry and creating and storing your own homemade convenience foods, Cook’n Homemade in a Hurry will make cooking at home an everyday pleasure you won’t want to miss.
Andrew Schloss wants you to cook more, and he has devoted his career to easing the way. As a well-known teacher, food writer, cookbook author, and food industry consultant, he concentrates his decades of experience to streamline the tedious and illuminate the intricacies that make the cooking of good food a pleasure and a passion.