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Perfect One-Dish Dinners: All You Need for Easy Get-Togethers
In Perfect One-Dish Dinners, the New York Times best-selling author Pam Andersonshares her secret for having people over without breaking stride: Make just one dish. Instead of a parade of offerings, she focuses attention on a single main course—a rustic tart, paella, grilled platter, or homey stew. Perfect One-Dish Dinners showcases about forty such meals, perfect for eve...more
Hardcover, 280 pages
Published
September 20th 2010
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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WHY must The Mr. have food allergies? Specifically seafood/shellfish??? Look at this (yes there is some stuff we can eat :D ):
* Spicy Coconut Shrimp Stew with Tomatoes and Cilantro on Sticky Rice
* Salsa Verde Chicken with Herbed Cornmeal Dumplings
* Chicken Potpie with Green Apples and Cheddar Biscuits
* Sauteed Chorizo Bites with Sweet and Sour Fig Sauce
* Orange Sherbet with Hot Fudge Sauce
* Shrimp Wonton Crisps with Asian Pesto
* Blue Cheese Stuffed Beef Tenderloin with Port Sau...more
WHY must The Mr. have food allergies? Specifically seafood/shellfish??? Look at this (yes there is some stuff we can eat :D ):
* Spicy Coconut Shrimp Stew with Tomatoes and Cilantro on Sticky Rice
* Salsa Verde Chicken with Herbed Cornmeal Dumplings
* Chicken Potpie with Green Apples and Cheddar Biscuits
* Sauteed Chorizo Bites with Sweet and Sour Fig Sauce
* Orange Sherbet with Hot Fudge Sauce
* Shrimp Wonton Crisps with Asian Pesto
* Blue Cheese Stuffed Beef Tenderloin with Port Sau...more
Perfect One-Dish Dinners / 978-0-54719-595-7
I love cookbooks and I was excited to try this one when it came available on NetGalley. Several weeks later, I'm a little...confused.
Make no mistake about it - this is a breathtakingly lovely book. There's a lot of valuable recipes here, but they're definitely of the "advanced student" variety, so do be aware of that. Almost every recipe has at least a dozen ingredients, and almost everything in this book is made completely from scratch - anytime dump...more
I love cookbooks and I was excited to try this one when it came available on NetGalley. Several weeks later, I'm a little...confused.
Make no mistake about it - this is a breathtakingly lovely book. There's a lot of valuable recipes here, but they're definitely of the "advanced student" variety, so do be aware of that. Almost every recipe has at least a dozen ingredients, and almost everything in this book is made completely from scratch - anytime dump...more
My thoughts:
What beautiful photos this cookbook has! They are sparklingly clear - almost edible. I love that in a cookbook - I want to see what the finished dish will look like. I have been swayed by a picture more than once when the ingredients have not jumped out at me.
The recipes are mostly simple and are written in a clear, straightforward way. There are no strange ingredients that you will have to go in search of. I just loved how Ms Anderson gives you options to vary the recipe and also s...more
What beautiful photos this cookbook has! They are sparklingly clear - almost edible. I love that in a cookbook - I want to see what the finished dish will look like. I have been swayed by a picture more than once when the ingredients have not jumped out at me.
The recipes are mostly simple and are written in a clear, straightforward way. There are no strange ingredients that you will have to go in search of. I just loved how Ms Anderson gives you options to vary the recipe and also s...more
I was pleased to discover that the author's purpose in putting together "one-dish" dinners was focused on recipes where all elements would be done at the same time, rather than cramming disparate ingredients into one pot to avoid cleanup. Complementary salad, appetizer and dessert recipes were also provided, so the recipes didn't have the lonely, boring feel that one pot recipes sometimes have.
This is a lovely book -- glossy color photos always earn cookbooks extra points. It's organized for entertaining, so each main dish has a coordinating appetizer, dessert, and suggested wine. The recipes just aren't really the type that I like to cook, or even the style that I entertain in, so it's not for me.
Wonderful pictures fill this book but the dishes weren't really "one dish". Most of the items looked pretty easy to make but it was the desserts in the book that sounded most delicious to me. Lemon tarts, lemon cookies, tres leches cakes, pecan pie sundaes... YUM!
Good recipes, great pictures, clear instructions.
Two or three of the recipes seemed a bit over-involved to me-that is, it looked like there were too many flavors going on. But maybe they cook up and mesh well together.
Two or three of the recipes seemed a bit over-involved to me-that is, it looked like there were too many flavors going on. But maybe they cook up and mesh well together.
Great Photographs!
I'm not sure I liked the set-up of the recipes by meal. I think I would have preferred all the appetizers together, all the salads together, etc...
But otherwise a great cookbook!
I'm not sure I liked the set-up of the recipes by meal. I think I would have preferred all the appetizers together, all the salads together, etc...
But otherwise a great cookbook!
Includes a handful of vegetarian recipes, but many others could be made vegetarian by substituting mushrooms or beans or faux meats. Great pictures. Quick and easy recipes.
Too many recipes involve tearing apart a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. I don't need a big, glossy book to tell me how to jazz up a rotisserie chicken.
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Not nearly "one-dish" enough. I really just wanted to put a bunch of stuff in a pot and have it be a meal.
Excellent collection of simple but tasty meals
Not really about one-dish dinners after all
Lovely photos and appealing sounding dishes. But the author's idea of "easy" didn't match what I had in mind (simple meals for busy weeknights)!
The recipes come across really easy, but it needs more pictures...
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PAM ANDERSON is the author of the best-selling The Perfect Recipe, Perfect Recipes for Having People Over, and the New York Times bestseller The Perfect Recipe for Losing Weight and Eating Great. She has been the food columnist for USA Weekend for the last eight years, is a contributing chef to Fine Cooking and Runners World, and writes a weekly blog for the Asheville (North Carolina) Citizen-Time...more
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