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Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight!
Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With How to Cook Everything(TM): Quick Cooking, great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less!
Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-quick recipes. You'll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including:
* Creative recipe variations and ideas
* Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes
* Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques
* Menu suggestions for a Weeknight Family Dinner Classic, an Elegant Dinner Party, and more
* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less
Synopsis
Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight!
Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With How to Cook Everything(TM): Quick Cooking, great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less!
Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-quick recipes. You'll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including:
* Creative recipe variations and ideas
* Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes
* Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques
* Menu suggestions for a Weeknight Family Dinner Classic, an Elegant Dinner Party, and more
* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less
Synopsis
Make a quick home-cooked meal tonight!
Ziti with Creamy Gorgonzola Sauce. Shrimp Marinara. Broiled or Grilled Chicken with Pesto. Stir-Fried Spicy Beef with Basil. With How to Cook Everything(TM): Quick Cooking, great-tasting, satisfying dishes like these can be made in 30 minutes or less!
Mark Bittman, the award-winning author of the bestselling kitchen classic How to Cook Everything(TM), shares his favorite simple-and infinitely flexible-quick recipes. You'll be able to prepare family-pleasing everyday meals, spur-of-the-moment dinners for friends, even special-occasion feasts. To inspire you and help you plan your meals, you'll find Bittman's straight talk on cooking and special features, including:
* Creative recipe variations and ideas
* Tips for shopping, preparing, and cooking the recipes
* Illustrations to demystify trickier techniques
* Menu suggestions for a Weeknight Family Dinner Classic, an Elegant Dinner Party, and more
* At-a-glance icons highlighting recipes done in 20 minutes or less
About the Author
Mark Bittman is one of Americas best-known and most widely respected food writers. He covers food policy, cooking, and eating as an Opinion columnist for The New York Times and the papers Sunday Magazine. He produced "The Minimalist" column for 13 years and has starred in several popular Public Television cooking series. Now a frequent public speaker, he appears regularly on the Today Show and is a guest on a wide range of television and radio shows. Bittman has authored more than a dozen cookbooks, including How to Cook Everything® The Basics, How to Cook Everything®, How to Cook Everything® Vegetarian (all available as apps), Food Matters and The Food Matters Cookbook, and the new VB6™: Eat Vegan Before 6:00. For more information go to markbittman.com.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments.
About This Book.
What to Know About Quick Cooking.
1. Starters.
2. Pasta.
3. Fish.
4. Poultry.
5. Meat.
6. Rice and Beans.
7. Vegetables.
8. Desserts.
Quick Menus.
Recipes That Take 20 Minutes or Less.
Tips Reference.
Index.
Conversions, Substitutions, and Helpful Hints.