Not Your Mother's Weeknight Cooking: Quick and Easy Wholesome Homemade Dinners - Softcover

Hensperger, Beth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1558323686 ISBN 13: 9781558323681

Publisher: Harvard Common Press, 2008

Synopsis

Not Your Mother's guide to quick and wholesome meals, prepared in 30 minutes or less. Weeknight dinners that rock!No disrespect to Mom, but award winning author Beth Hensperger has gone her one better with this collection of fast, wholesome, tasty weeknight meals that updates the classics and offers dozens of new classics-in-the-making. From Chicken Pot Pie to Spicy Chicken with Cilantro and Mushrooms, from Horseradish Meatloaf to Lamb Curry with Apples and Apricots, from Scampi to Fabulous Fish Tacos, Not Your Mother's Weeknight Cooking makes it easy to prepare and enjoy delicious food any night of the week.

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From the Back Cover

PRAISE for NOT YOUR MOTHER'S WEEKNIGHT COOKING   “For today’s home cook, this is a comprehensive and multi-cultural guide...and a friend in the struggle to keep us cooking and eating at home.” – The San Francisco Chronicle
“Hensperger’s recipes are sophisticated and reflect her years as a cookbook author.” – The Birmingham News   “Clear and concise instructions...clever chapters that meld old standards with new ideas.” – The Orlando Sentinel   “The recipes will definitely inspire. From classic to creative, and spanning all cuisines and levels of formality, there’s something for everyone here.” – About.com   “Creative recipes with fresh, easy-to-find ingredients.” – The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   “One of the best...A compilation of recipes that is thoroughly modern, covering a wide flavor spectrum.” – The Times Union (Albany, NY)    

About the Author

Beth Hensperger, a New Jersey native who has lived in California since her teens, has been educating, writing, and demo-lecturing about the art of baking for over 30 years. In the last few years, she has shifted focus to countertop appliance-driven cookbooks that embrace adapting traditional and professional recipes for the home cook: the bread machine, the rice cooker, the microwave, and a four-volume compilation specifically for use with the electric slow cooker, stressing personal creativity in preparation and selection of ingredients. Hensperger is the author of over 22 cookbooks, including the best-selling Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook series, which includes NYMSC Recipes for Entertaining, NYMSC Family Favorites, and NYMSC Recipes for Two, along with the blockbuster first volume, Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook. Her other books include highly-acclaimed titles such as The Bread Lover's Bread Machine Cookbook, The Ultimate Rice Cooker Cookbook, NYM Microwave Cookbook, and NYM Weeknight Cooking. She is also the author of The Bread Bible (Chronicle Books), winner of a James Beard Award in 2000. She has twice been nominated for the Julia Child/IACP Cookbook Award. Hensperger wrote a San Jose Mercury News food column for twelve years, Baking with the Seasons. She is a contributor to dozens of national and online cooking & lifestyle magazines, such as Food & Wine, Every Day with Rachael Ray magazine, Veggie Life, Cooking Light, Working Woman, Victoria, Prevention, and Family Circle, and is a sought after newspaper and radio interviewee speaking on slow cooking, bread baking, and entertaining. She lives in the San Francisco Bay area. Visit her website at www.bethhensperger.com and blog at www.notyourmotherscookbook.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard Common Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1558323686
• ISBN 13: 9781558323681
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 320