Quick Soups 'n Salads: A One Foot in the Kitchen Cookbook (One Foot in the Kitchen Cookbook Series, No. 3) Cyndi Duncan; Georgie Patrick and Colette McLaughlin

Preparing delicious, nutritious soups and salads has never been easier with the BEST recipes for classic favorites... Split Pea Soup, Quick Cheesy Corn Chowder, Easy Tomato Vegetable Soup, Seven-Layer Salad, Ambrosia, Sour Cream Potato Salad... and new, soon-to-be-classics... Curried Sweet Potato and Zucchini Soup, Spicy Macaroni Soup, Bacon Cheeseburger Soup, Sauerkraut Salad, Tangy Fiesta Fruit Bowl, Mixed Vegetable Salad. You'll enjoy 150 recipes that quick to prepare and easy to follow. Helpful "foot" notes from the authors and a nutritional analysis for every recipe makes this cookbook a favorite. From Velvet Avocado Soup to Artichoke Cream Cheese Toss, Cajun Corn and Sausage Soup to Trail Mix Salad, Shrimp Newburg Soup to Last-Minute Fruit Salad, you ll savor creative, tasty meals with "one foot in the kitchen." Third in the award-winning ONE FOOT IN THE KITCHEN cookbook series.

Cyndi Duncan and Georgie Patrick started writing cookbooks seventeen years ago. With busy lifestyle and family members that have varying schedules, writing their "One Foot in the Kitchen" cookbook series was a natural decision. Each title in the series – Quick Crockery Cooking, Quick Mexican Cooking, Quick Soups 'n Salads, Quick Hors d'oeuvres, Quick Desserts and Quick Lunches & Brunches – is winner of the distinguished Evvy Award presented by the Colorado Independent Publishers Association.

Cyndi and Georgie differ in their opinion of what makes a quick meal. Cyndi is a "from scratch" cook who cooks ahead and freezes, creates meals from leftovers and uses fresh produce from her garden. Georgie, on the other hand, often creates delectable meals with items chosen from the deli case and convenient, prepared foods from the grocery store. Both readily admit to learning from the other's cooking methods and are committed to writing usable cookbooks for cooks at any skill level.

Georgie graduated from Colorado State University with a teaching endorsement in language arts and history; Cyndi graduated from Colorado State University with a Home Economics degree. They both are married to engineers and live in Greeley, Colorado; they each have three children and a mother that cooks.