Semi-Homemade Cooking: Quick, Marvelous Meals and Nothing is Made from scratch - Softcover

Lee, Sandra; Puck, Wolfgang

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140135923X ISBN 13: 9781401359232

Publisher: Hyperion, 2002

Synopsis

Presenting a shortcut approach to delicious, homemade meals, this practical cookbook features more than one hundred mouthwatering recipes for breakfast, dinner, appetizers, soups, salads, and desserts, all of which can be prepared in less than thirty minutes using a combination of fress ingredients with those that are preprared and store-bought. 100,000 first printing.

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Review

Does the thought of cooking from scratch make you panic? Do you stand in front of your supermarket's canned vegetables display frozen with indecision? Is your fridge filled with takeout containers, and your oven used for storage? If you answered these questions with an emphatic "Yes," Sandra Lee's Semi-Homemade Cooking might be the cookbook for you.

There are plenty of excellent quick-and-easy cookbooks out there, but this book feels like a cross between a giant advertisement and one of those free recipe books you get with mail-in proofs of purchase. Every ingredient that can possibly be branded is labeled as such. Lee's Salad Chinois is made with Swanson premium chunk chicken breast, Kikkoman soy sauce, McCormick ground ginger, Hellman's or Best Foods mayonnaise, La Choy chow mein noodles, Fresh Express prepared green salad, Chun King chow mein vegetables, and Dole mandarin orange segments. Gnocchi Dippers are whipped up with Alessi gnocchi, Bertolli olive oil, and, believe it or not, Kraft Velveeta cheese. The Malibu Rum Cake includes Malibu Rum, Duncan Hines Moist Deluxe yellow cake mix, and Jell-O vanilla instant pudding. And not only does Lee dictate brand names, she chimes in with advice on music and wine selections, as well. One can only hope that Wolfgang Puck wrote the introduction to this book without ever seeing it. --Leora Y. Bloom

About the Author

Sandra Lee is known to audiences nationwide from her many appearances on the QVC shopping channel and numerous network and cable television programs, demonstrating her hugely popular product lines for the home.

She has shared her many down-to-earth secrets to decorating, gardening, and crafts, creating a lifestyle that is beautiful, affordable, and, ultimately, doable. Sandra and her many Semi-Homemade solutions have been featured in Good Housekeeping, Redbook, Country Living Gardener, Better Homes and Gardens, Woman's World, Victoria, and People. She has appeared on many television programs, such as NBC's Today, FOX's Good Day LA and Good Day New York, and several popular cable shows aired on such networks as Lifetime Television for Women, The Discovery Channel, and TNN.

Sandra now turns her friendly, realistic approach to cooking with her very first cookbook, Semi-Homemade Cooking. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals and studied at the acclaimed Cordon Bleu. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband Bruce and Aspen, their dog.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hyperion
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 140135923X
• ISBN 13: 9781401359232
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 208