Quick from Scratch: Real Food for Busy Weeknights

by Food & Wine Magazine (Editor)

You'll learn from the pros. Time-saving test-kitchen tips liberally sprinkled throughout the book help you get a superb dinner on the table with speed, with confidence, and even with flair. Make simple, succulent fare from fresh ingredients with inspiration from over 200 thoroughly tested recipes. You'll find nine full chapters on main dishes, two for side dishes, and one devoted to fast desserts.

Genres: Cookbooks

319 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

Reviews

[Carm · Rating 4 out of 5]

The recipes are divided into sections soups and stews, sandwiches and mains, vegetables and salads side dishes, desserts, stir fries, risotto polenta and other ways with grains, main dishes salads. The sections are different than any other cookbook I’ve seen. But the page which lists all the sections and their pages isn’t available. There’s an index which helps. There’s lots of pictures but none in the desserts section which suggests this book was hurriedly put together without enough thought to its structure, readability, and consistent pictures throughout. I like the list of items for pantry staples.
There’s classical dishes such as salt and pepper crusted roast beef, strange such as mustard lemon bluefish- what is bluefish, different such as black eyed pea risotto. Overall this book leaves me intrigued and unsettled. Many recipes have shorter ingredients lists and bold pictures and look like ideas I’d like to try.

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some excellent meals here, but wondering about calorie and nutrition information.