Skillet & Sheet Pan Suppers: Foolproof Meals, Cooked and Served in One Pan

by Monica Sweeney

Delicious one-skillet sensations to feed the whole family in a flash Delicious dinners don’t have to mean endless dishes! Introducing Skillet & Sheet Pan Suppers , a collection of one-pan meals that will revolutionize the way you prepare dinner. Feed your family in half the time with a fraction of the effort―and no one will know the difference! With mouthwatering meals    These heartwarming, stick-to-your-ribs spreads will provide delicious and nutritious meals for your table. Spend less time prepping and cleaning, and more time with the ones you love.  50 color photographs

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Nonfiction

128 pages, Paperback

Published September 13, 2016

Reviews

[farmwifetwo · Rating 3 out of 5]

A lot use premade dough's and pie crusts which makes meals quicker to make. It's a tiny little book -
I got it from the library - and I do want to make one of the breakfast meals... mostly because I never thought about it... For the most part, a little common sense, a little meat, a little sauce, some tinfoil, potatoes or other veggies that you can roast... and you can make most anything on a sheet or a cast iron fry pan.

[BookBec · Rating 2 out of 5]

First of all, what's with the description of full sheet, 3/4 sheet, and half sheet pans? I've never heard of a 3/4 sheet pan! If you're going to specify a certain pan, please specify its dimensions.

I tried two recipes in my big cast-iron skillet instead. Both had problems.

Roasted Drumsticks and Veggie Medley barely fit 5 drumsticks in the pan with potatoes and veggies, not the 8 chicken pieces called for. The small red onion should be ... chopped? sliced? whole? The recipe doesn't say, and the picture doesn't show any onion. The picture *does* show potato chunks, but the instructions want the potatoes sliced. Somehow I'm supposed to simmer everything, but the only liquid is butter and 1 tablespoon lemon juice. What's simmering? At the end of the specified cooking time, I had undercooked chicken and overcooked veggies.

Walnut-Ginger Chicken turned out much better, but I still had issues with the instructions. The picture shows nice brown caramelization on the chicken pieces, but that doesn't happen when you add the marinated chicken to the skillet as directed; there's too much liquid. The instructions needed to say to use a slotted spoon to move only the chicken to the skillet, leaving behind the marinade. And all that marinade ended up making the dish soupier than I wanted (which was easily fixed with some cornstarch).

I'm not impressed with the lack of attention to detail in these recipes, so I'll be returning the book to the library without trying any more. A nice idea for one-pot cooking, but the execution is lacking.

[Marylu Sanok · Rating 5 out of 5]

Some really great recipies in this book. I copied all the ones I liked. An excellent recipie for chicken ( cut into pieces ) , broccoli, and I added some cut up red potatoes. I cooked it on a sheet pan with some olive oil and garlic. One pan meal. Another was steak, also cut up in pieces and asparagus.

[Onceinabluemoon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Didn't care for the recipes but wonderful photography.

[Carrie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not detailed enough for me to give a recipe to a kid and say, “Here, make this,” but maybe I can make some of these recipes work.

[AJ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Very few sheet pan dinners, and not a single veggie one. The veggie selections are all skillets and heavy on cheese and eggs.

[Laurla2]

-a lovely photo for EVERY recipe in this thin little book! yay! well, a couple of the photos are cheats, a regular pepper instead of the stuffed peppers in the recipe. a picture of basil instead of the shrimp pesto spaghetti squash. but still, better than most cookbooks do photo-wise.

-it is as it says, cooked and served in only one pan! no preparing in one pan then transferring to another like a couple other books have done.

-uses bags of frozen veggies, condensed soup, refrigerated pizza dough or pie crust, boxed rice mix, jarred sauce, and dry seasoning packets to make things quicker/easier.

-recipes that interested me: sadly not many.
walnut ginger chicken
baked Italian chicken
ranch style backed chicken
rustic country vegetable tart

[Claudia · Rating 2 out of 5]

Was surprised to see many recipes that call for pre-packaged sauces or mixes. They didn't seem that hard to prepare on your own.