Cooking Light 3-Step Express Meals: Easy weeknight recipes for today's home cook

by Cooking Light

By using fresh grocery store convenience items like prechopped vegetables, bagged prewashed greens, rotisserie chicken, pizza dough, fresh pasta, peeled cooked shrimp, and refrigerator and freezer-aisle staples and streamlined techniques that save you steps without sacrificing flavor or sabotaging your healthy-eating intentions. Each menu comes with suggestions for simple-to-prepare sides to round out the meal and an easy to follow 1-2-3 game plan to ensure you get everything on the table at once. A helpful grocery store guide show readers how to stock their kitchens with time-saving products-sauces for simmering, spice blends for adding flavor to roasts and sautés, and double-duty bottled vinaigrettes for dressing salads and marinating meats in minutes. Simple Swaps offer easy substitutions you can make to vary the recipe to suit your family's tastes or what you may have on hand. From mouthwatering main dishes to light and refreshing salads and sides, getting meals on the table is as simple as 1-2-3 for today's busy cooks.

Genres: Cookbooks

224 pages, Paperback

First published September 3, 2013

About the author

Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.

Reviews

[Marathon County Public Library · Rating 4 out of 5]

A busy lifestyle does not mean you can’t eat healthy. You will be amazed that all of the recipes can be completed in just 3 easy steps.
This cookbook lists kitchen staples as well as a grocery store guide. Included also are 10 tips for preparing the express meals and a chapter on 1-step side dishes.
Three-Bean Chili, Old-Fashioned Chicken Noodle Soup, Grilled Ham and Pineapple Pizza, Baked Flounder with Fresh Lemon Pepper and Shrimp Florentine Pasta are just a few of the great tasting and healthy recipes in this book.
The colorful pictures of the recipes plus easy to follow instructions makes this a perfect recipe book for today’s busy cooks. Are you getting hungry? Check out this book and many other great cookbooks at your public library. Enjoy!

Paula L. / Marathon County Public Library
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[Bookish · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent! The recipes were easy to follow, the ingredients easy to find, and the results outstanding. This is a keeper!