Kitchen Quickies Great, Satisfying Meals in Minutes Marie Caratozzolo and Joanne Abrams

ISBN: 0-7570-0085-1 Length: 288 Pages Size: 7.5 X9-inch Format: Quality Paperback Category: Cooking Price: $14.95 Availability: In Print   Contents Reviews

Have you ever left work after a long, hard day feeling totally exhausted, but knowing that the second you arrive home, yet another job awaits--you have to make a meal, fast? Or maybe you've spent the day chasing after your kids or driving them from soccer practice to music lessons to play dates. Now everyone's clamoring for dinner. But is it possible to get a satisfying home-cooked meal on the table before, say, midnight? Absolutely!

The authors of Kitchen Quickies know that in this busy world, you just don't have time for hours of grocery shopping followed by hours of food preparation. Their solution? To begin with, virtually all of their over 170 kitchen-tested recipes--yes, really kitchen tested--call for a maximum of only five main ingredients other than kitchen staples. This makes supermarket shopping easier. Then the dish itself takes at most forty-five minutes to prepare from start to finish. As a bonus, these delicious dishes are actually good for you--low in fat and high in nutrients!

Kitchen Quickies begins by guiding you through the basics of quick-and-easy cooking. You'll learn about the ingredients and the equipment that can make meal preparation both fast and fun. Following this are ten spectacular chapters filled with exciting and imaginative dishes, including sensational soups, satisfying sandwiches, refreshing salads, fabulous pastas, tempting chicken and turkey dishes, sizzling seafood, hearty beef and pork fare, meatless delights, enticing vegetable and grain side dishes, and luscious desserts. In Kitchen Quickies, you'll learn how to make tangy Margarita Chicken, Savory Crab Cakes, saucy Penne From Heaven, and more--all in no time flat!

So the next time you think that there's simply no time to cook a good meal, pick up Kitchen Quickies. Who knows? You may even have time for a few quickies of your own.

Marie Caratozzolo is a graduate of John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she earned her BA in English, as well as a secondary teaching certificate. A wife and mother of two, Marie has been a book editor for nearly fifteen years.

Joanne Abrams earned her BA in English from the CW Post Campus of Long Island University. As an editor for over twenty years, and a cookbook editor for nearly a decade, Joanne has become proficient at preparing meals on the run.

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