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Learn to COOK - Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals
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List Price: $29.95
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Broadway
Manufacturer: Broadway
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 368
Publication Date: 2005-10-18
Publisher: Broadway
Release Date: 2005-10-18
Studio: Broadway
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Heeding the pleas of modern multitasking home cooks, Television Food Network’s Sara Moulton returns with 200 delicious and quick main dishes, sides, and desserts for busy workweek dinners.
As the host of Cooking Live and Sara’s Secrets, the food editor of Good Morning America, and the bestselling author of Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, Sara Moulton is one of this country’s most popular and accessible celebrity chefs. It was while touring the U.S. promoting her first book, in fact, that Sara's fans begged her for fast, tasty, and wholesome weeknight entrees. She realized that she, too, had a need for those kinds of dishes, which was all her busy schedule would allow. In writing this book, Sara rethought dinner itself, so that mealtimes no longer featured the same predictable recipes. Instead she offers “breakfast for dinner” or hearty soups or sandwiches. The result is a cookbook filled with easy and popular ethnic dishes to spice up the repertoire, her own versions of American classics, dishes to whip up from pantry staples as well as supermarket salad bar and deli items, and slow-cooking recipes for leisurely weekends.
With recipes that will satisfy taste buds as well as time constraints, Sara’s Secrets for Weeknight Meals covers the spectrum from entree salads (Thai-style Steak Salad with Spicy Mint Dressing), substantial sandwiches (Scampi Heroes), hearty soups for supper (Creamy Cauliflower Soup with Chorizo and Greens), breakfast foods for dinner (Potato Pancakes with Smoked Salmon and Fried Eggs), pasta (Quick Asparagus Lasagna), seafood (Steamed Mussels in Curried Coconut Broth), vegetable plates (Exotic Mushroom Pot Pie), meat dishes (Meatloaf Burgers), double-duty dishes (leftover rice in Cheatin' Jambalaya), weekend dishes to cook ahead (Slow-cooked Chinese Spareribs), recipes that either can be put together in no time with prepared supermarket ingredients (Crispy Polenta Slices with Gorgonzola and Leeks) or from a well-stocked pantry (Linguine with White Bean, Sun-dried Tomato, and Olive Sauce), to delectable desserts (Chocolate Bread Pudding, Gingerbread Pancakes with Butterscotch Apples, Nectarine and Plum Upside-down Cake).
Recipes include hands-on cooking time and total cooking time as well as suggestions for side-dish pairings. Twenty-four beautiful color photos, warm and friendly headnotes, and lots of Sara's tips and shortcuts (including advice on stocking a pantry, basic recipes, simple sides, quick sauces, and mail-order sources) make this another cookbook for Sara’s fans to cherish.
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Summary: It's a good choice for almost everyone......
Comment: This book is well-written, and has a wonderful selection of recipes.
The content is varied and it is a good book for all levels of skill. I've enjoyed reading it and, also, have made several of the recipes in the month that I've owned it.
It's only drawback is the colors of type. Every other page is in a lighter color of ink and difficult to read. But....buy it anyway - Tempting ideas, skilled writing and originality are evident through-out the book.
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Summary: Love Sara, Hate the print
Comment: I've learned so much from Sara on Food Network. She was always my favorite so I'm glad to see so many tips and techniques in the new book. However, the faint print and glossy paper make for difficult reading while trying to prepare a recipe. I wish all cookbooks came with spiral binding and dark print!
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Summary: Great Book
Comment: I think its the best book I ever purchase, so easy to follow and tasty recipes...
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Summary: Print problems
Comment: I admire Sara Moulton and appreciate her cooking skills. I've used several of her recipes in the past and will continue to consult her version of dishes. What disappoints me about this book is the publisher's error in using pale ink throughout. As others have mentioned, this book is difficult to read. What's up with publishers who make it hard for you to read text? Looks like the designers had an upper hand over the editors in this case. Shame on them!
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Summary: Quick, easy and delightful to eat!
Comment: In cooking, like many ither areas of life, I've come to the conclusion that nothing good comes easy. I am happy to say that Sara Moulton has proved me wrong.
I like to think of myself as a discerning, if occasional, home chef. I pride myself on cooking intricate recipes with gourmet results (often after hours of slaving in the kitchen). However, between work and kids and school, I have not alot of time to pursue culinary perfection each evening for the family dinner. I often resort to staples from my childhood: tuna casserole, chicken and broccoli or plain and simple grilled hunks of meat with corn or green beans on the side.
Sara's Secrets has proved to be a happy medium between full-on gourmet and the typical daily grind fare. The kids have enjoyed everything we've made out of this cookbook and so have my husband and I. The girls are 3 and 6 and a bit on the picky side, so I think that says alot.
The book lists out "Hands On Time" and "Total Time". I am more concerned with "Hands on Time", so that is what I judge the quickness of the recipes by and most are under 30 minutes, if not 15. Will you be able to cook to those times right off? With some recipes, yes. With others, I think it takes a couple rounds to get familiar with the process to whip them up in 10 miutes or less.
Last night I made Middle Eastern Pizzas from scratch. The dough took about 5 minutes to throw together in the food processor. The biggest effort was washing the food processor. The kids were amazed at seeing the rapid-rise yeast in action! The ingedients were all readily avaiable at the local grocery store and even wth a side of roasted veggies and accompanying dessert, the whole meal came in under $10. There was more than enough left for lunch today.
I think the best part is that even with the time considerations and ease of the recipes, they still come out tasting like a gourmet meal. The crispy pumpkin ravioli is to die for! And I like that there are quite a few little international twists to the recipes. I love the quick desserts at the end! The pecan squares were incredible- like pecan pie without the work.
This is a cookbook of weekday meals that I'm using regularly- glad I found it!
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