Getting food on the table fast does not have to be a compromise. Everyday Food: Great Food Fast ($24.95, Clarkson Potter) delivers 250 recipes pulled from Martha Stewart's Everyday Food magazines and TV show.
Most recipes in the book can be prepared in 30 minutes or less using ingredients that can easily be rounded up in a local store.
Stuck for a seasonal weeknight supper idea? This book offers the solution. The book is broken down by season, the better to highlight favorite produce and flavors from each time of year. We loved both the Cod with Leeks and Tomatoes and the Asparagus Gruyere Tart from the spring section.
Guests said that the dinner cooked from this book tasted like "restaurant food" and we'll take the compliment. There is a fullness of flavor in these recipes that is not found in other quick fix recipes. Each recipe has a punchy full color photo, which helps cooks create picture perfect meals. Nutritional information is also provided for each recipe in the back of the book.
I received the magazine subscription as a gift. Some of the recipes come in handy when you're looking to whip something up with what you've got in the pantry. The recipes are definitely a better alternative to Rachael Ray {blech}.
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I have this book. I really like it. I have made a couple things from it. The shrimp coconut soup was great, as were the turkey meat balls. The time estimates seem very accurate. The only thing is.....all the recipes in it can also be found on Martha Stewart's website.
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There are a gazillion 30-minute meal/quick dinner/speedy recipe type cookbooks, so it's nice to hear that people have had success with one.
Does anyone else find Martha Stewart's website really unwieldy when it comes to searching for recipes?
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I just got this book recently and I'm wanting to try the recipes right now. Even though the recipes are on the Martha Stewart site, I generally find grabbing a cookbook to be easier than grabbing my laptop. On top of that, the links on the Stewart site aren't always working properly.
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There are a gazillion 30-minute meal/quick dinner/speedy recipe type cookbooks, so it's nice to hear that people have had success with one.
Yeah, that. Thanks for the tip.
But hold up! Don't soak shitakes in water? How am I supposed to reconstitute them?
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Mjoe, I think the tip applies to fresh mushrooms. I'll double-check the tip for context and post here tonight.
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Oh. Thanks, gochrisgo. I thought of that, but then I thought "that makes no sense, why would anyone want to soak fresh shitakes in water?" So that's mystery #2.
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Mjoe, I scanned through the book again and can't yet find the page where I took that quote from. I'll keep looking as I use the cookbook. And now you've got us thinking: look for a whole post about cleaning mushrooms sometime over the next couple of weeks.
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Ha! I can't wait. And since the kid groomed the dog with my mushroom brush, I am in the market for a new one.
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