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Ready When You Are : A Compendium of Comforting One-Dish Meals
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by:
Martha Rose Shulman
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Publisher:
Clarkson Potter
Published: November 18, 2003
ISBN: 0609610848
Format:Hardcover
Pages:416
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Book Description
From Publishers Weekly
Shulman (author of Mediterranean Light and Proven‡al Light, among other books) has reinvented comfort food in this excellent collection of one-dish meals. Shulman makes comfort food multiethnic and modern with dishes like
Tunisian Chick Pea Breakfast Soup and Stewed Chicken with Chipotles and Prunes. Bold flavors meet innovative treatment in dishes such as Wild Mushroom Ragout & Cobbler, which includes a recipe for a topping that can be used to make a savory pie out of
any stew. Even familiar dishes are revisited in new ways, like a Fast Lemon Chicken with Honey Glaze and Sweet Potatoes that both speeds up an old favorite and turns it into a full meal with the sweet potatoes roasting in the same pan. Shulman has
heavily annotated each recipe regarding advance preparation, although occasionally these hints go overboard. The layout, which places such indications in a second column next to the recipe steps, is unnecessarily distracting. More helpful are easy
instructions for making most of these recipes vegetarian (Shulman got her start with vegetarian cookbooks) and suggestions for leftovers, which combine to make this an eminently useful and universal book.
Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Pressed for time but still searching for comfort from your kitchen? Ready When You Are offers more than 200 recipes for dishes that are easy on the cook and a joy for eaters.
Drawing on her many years of cooking for
friends and family, Martha Rose Shulman shares her favorite recipes for simple yet sophisticated, hearty but not heavy one-dish meals. Most can be made hours or even days in advance and, because they are cooked and brought to the table in the same dish,
serving, cleanup, and storing... read more
Book Description
Pressed for time but still searching for comfort from your kitchen? Ready When You Are offers more than 200 recipes for dishes that are easy on the cook and a joy for
eaters.
Drawing on her many years of cooking for friends and family, Martha Rose Shulman shares her favorite recipes for simple yet sophisticated, hearty but not heavy one-dish meals. Most can be made hours or even days in advance and, because
they are cooked and brought to the table in the same dish, serving, cleanup, and storing leftovers is no trouble at all.
Based on traditional home cooking from around the world, this is comfort food at its best-Tuscan White Beans with Sage and
Sausage, Chicken Pot Pie, Vietnamese Beef and Noodle Soup, savory gratins and ragouts, creamy risottos, and "The Easiest Chocolate Mousse in the World." Many of the most flavorful and satisfying dishes in the book are vegetarian, including Turkish Summer
Vegetable Stew and Zucchini, Potato, and Artichoke Moussaka. Each of the recipes includes information about how long leftovers will keep, along with ideas and companion recipes for transforming them into something new. Yesterday's bouillabaisse, for
example, becomes today's pilaf, while diced beef from a pot-au-feu forms the base for a delicious salad for the next day's lunch.
Whether you're cooking a hearty family meal, planning a dinner party, or making a simple after-work supper, Ready
When You Are is filled with exceptional, undemanding recipes and strategies for getting the most satisfaction from your time in the kitchen.
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