All-Time Best Dinners for Two

All Time Best

by America's Test Kitchen (editor)

Leave it to America's Test Kitchen to help you get a perfectly scaled dinner for two on the table--no guesswork required.Whether you're in the mood for a takeout-inspired stir-fry or a more refined beef tenderloin, you'll find recipes to satisfy everyone's tastes. To scale down our favorite dinners to serve two, we've reengineered 75 recipes from the ground up, using ramekins to make individual Chicken Pot Pies and blade steaks instead of chuck to produce a streamlined Yankee Pot Roast. From easy weeknight options (Teriyaki-Glazed Steak Tips and Skillet Pork Lo Mein) to date-night-in meals (Honey-Roasted Cornish Game Hens and Shrimp Scampi), hearty meatless mains for vegetarians (Baked Manicotti and Soba Noodles with Roasted Eggplant and Sesame) to comforting Sunday dinners (Beef Stroganoff and Chicken Piccata), All-Time Best Dinners for Two offers options for any occasion.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference, Food

190 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 4, 2018

About the author

America's Test Kitchen, based in a brand new state-of-the-art 60,000 sq. ft. facility with over 15,000 sq. ft. of test kitchens and studio space, in Boston's Seaport District, is dedicated to finding the very best recipes for home cooks. Over 50 full-time (admittedly obsessive) test cooks spend their days testing recipes 30, 40, up to 100 times, tweaking every variable until they understand how and why recipes work. They also test cookware and supermarket ingredients so viewers can bypass marketing hype and buy the best quality products. As the home of Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines, and publisher of more than one dozen cookbooks each year, America's Test Kitchen has earned the respect of the publishing industry, the culinary world, and millions of home cooks. America's Test Kitchen the television show launched in 2001, and the company added a second television program, Cook's Country, in 2008.

Discover, learn, and expand your cooking repertoire with Julia Collin Davison, Bridget Lancaster, Jack Bishop, Dan Souza, Lisa McManus, Tucker Shaw, Bryan Roof, and our fabulous team of test cooks!

Learn more at https://www.americastestkitchen.com/.

Reviews

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is one worth buying. The origins and the metamorphosis of each recipe are explained. The ingredients are easily obtainable. The book is well laid out with great photos. These are perfectly scaled down dinners...yay!

[Theresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's hard to cook for just two with some time constraints and still keep meals interesting. This is a handy resource for just those reasons. A keeper.

[Connie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good advice regarding cooking times for smaller pans, etc. Nice little section at the end on cook times for 2-serving basic sides. I wish the whole book had been more like that. The main problem with cooking for two is, as this book itself states, not getting stuck with lots of leftover dishes and unused ingredients. However, I didn't really see that this book solved those problems on the ingredient side. What would really be helpful would be something like a weekly planner to find uses for leftover produce or dairy items.

[Amanda Knox · Rating 2 out of 5]

Huge disappointment! I'm making my way through all of the potentially-appealing America's Test Kitchen cookbooks and this is the first I've come across that woefully lacks in vegetarian recipes. Sure, many of these things can be made vegetarian, but I want the Test Kitchen to do a little more work than have me try to recreate a dish. This still deserves some credit though because the pictures are so great that even I salivated over a meat recipe or two.

[Sarah · Rating 1 out of 5]

I came just for the vegetarian meals but come on, vegetarian meals don’t have to be slathered in dairy to be amazing. Run of the mill recipes found everywhere, and nothing I’d want to make.

[Miss Clark · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars

Favourites:

Yankee Pot Roast
Teriyaki-Glazed Steak tips
Bacon-Wrapped Pork Chops with roasted potatoes
Crispy Sesame Pork Chops with Wilted Napa Cabbage Salad

[Dave Mohr · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every recipe a winner

[Katy]

Same recipes as the full Americas Test Kitchen Cooking for Two book. Made the steak fajitas and loved them!

[Kira Gimm · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eh. The concept behind the book is great, but none of the recipes are really anything that I would eat.

[Kristina]

Some okay looking recipes.