Twenty-Minute Menus - Hardcover

Burros, Marian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0671623907 ISBN 13: 9780671623906

Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 1989

Synopsis

Now there's one less excuse for not cooking and eating right. In 20-Minute Menus, best-selling author Marian Burros does all the thinking and planning for you: the 100 from-scratch menus have been designed and tested to get the best-tasting meal on the table in the least amount of time.

The perfect book for everyday cooking, 20-Minute Menus is full of tips and strategies to help the cook in a hurry, from stocking the pantry for the 20-Minute Kitchen, to providing a precise shopping list for each meal and a "Game Plan" that guarantees everything will run smoothly and be ready at the same time. Next time you want dinner fast, why not try:

Meatloaf Hamburgers/Mashed Potatoes/Broiled Tomatoes

Curried Shrimp, Peas and Potatoes/Toasted Pitas

Tunisian Chicken/Minted Carrot Salad/Couscous

Annie's Spicy Noodles and Veggies/Whole-Grain Bread

Scrod Provençal/Green Beans and Corn/Rice

Pork Tenderloin with Maple Glaze/Potatoes, Brussels Sprouts and Onions

Fish on a Bed of Salsa/Boiled New Potatoes

Veal with Lemon and Black Olives/Fresh Tomato-Zucchini Sauce with Pasta

Now anyone can put a delicious, creative, freshly prepared and healthful meal on the table in less time than it takes for a pizza to be delivered.

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Reviews

For those who like to eat well but can't stand the heat of long hours in the kitchen, Burros, New York Times food columnist, advances reliable methods for ever-faster meal preparation; her 20-minute menus (for two to three people, without dessert) are practical, healthful alternatives to take-out or frozen dinners. Burros explains how to trim shopping time to 10 minutes per day (by keeping staples on hand, shopping daily for each menu, buying hard-to-find food through mail order) and suggests buying pre-cut vegetables at salad bars and meats and fish in trimmed and packaged form. Following current diet trends, low-fat chicken and fish dishes are emphasized; cream sauces are made with ricotta and yogurt. Salt is decreased by seasoning food with herbs, ethnic condiments and flavored oils and vinegars. Sensibly, menus often combine the required starch, protein and vegetable components of a meal into one or two dishes, but leafy greens are lacking, and white sugar is used unnecessarily in dressings and tomato sauces. Each menu includes simple recipe instructions and shopping lists. BOMC Home Style main selection, QPBC alternate, Better Homes & Gardens Book Club alternate.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

The title sounds too good to be true, but most of the menus in Burros's latest collection can be prepared in 20 minutes. And, although she relies on salad bar ingredients to save time, she has not had to resort to any "convenience" foods for these simple, healthy, and tasty dishes. A game plan and shopping list accompanies each meal. Any busy cook would find this book handy, and Burros's unintimidating, speedy menus could even make cooks of noncooks. For most collections. Homestyle main selection, BOMC, Quality Paperback, and Better Homes & Gardens alternates.-- JS
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Edition details

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0671623907
• ISBN 13: 9780671623906
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 254