125 Best Toaster Oven Recipes [Paperback]

Linda Stephen (Author)

Book Description

Series: 125 Best | Publication Date: April 3, 2004

More than 40 million people in the U.S. own toaster ovens.

Toaster ovens are very versatile and convenient. With their ability to toast, bake, broil, top brown and keep food warm, they do the job of a toaster and a full size oven in one countertop unit. Ideal in any home, these ovens save space and energy.

Most toaster ovens are used only for making open-faced sandwiches or simple broiling. However, there is an endless variety of recipes and meals you can make in a toaster oven. The 125 Best Toaster Oven Recipes provides dozens of tantalizing recipes for such tempting dishes as:

• Shrimps with Pesto and Prosciutto for entertaining
• Chicken Breast with Pesto and Mozzarella for a perfect weekday meal
• Oven Beef Stew, a comfort food favorite
• Stuffed Pork Loin Roast with Cran-Apple Sauce
• Baked Spaghetti Pie, a favorite one-dish meal
• Red Pepper Quiche for a satisfying lunch or brunch
• Nachos, perfect for your next party

125 Best Toaster Oven Recipes also provides practical tips and techniques, menu suggestions and valuable information on the wide variety of styles and sizes of toaster ovens available today.

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About the Author

Linda Stephen is a professionally trained chef whose recipes have appeared in magazines and cookbooks. She runs her own cooking school, Linda's Country Kitchen.

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Introduction

I saw my first toaster oven twenty years ago, when I was staying with a friend who used it to toast bread and bagels. But I didn't get one of my own until I wrote The Best Convection Oven Cookbook, which included a chapter of convection toaster oven recipes. That's when I first started to actually cook in the toaster oven, and right away I was hooked.

Over the many years that I have been cooking, teaching and catering, I have become used to cooking meals for anywhere from six to two hundred people. So it was second nature to me to turn on the big kitchen oven when I was at home, even when I was cooking for just a few people.

Then I realized that this convenient countertop item was really just a tiny oven, and that it really would cook. I could make entire meals for three or four in it. I could bake cakes, pies and bread in it. I could roast and broil in it. An I could even use it for reheating and toasting bread and bagels! Now the toaster oven is a permanent appliance in my kitchen.

Not only convenient for students, singles, young couples, empty-nesters and retirees, the toaster oven is also ideal for families. Kids can easily learn to make themselves nachos, mini pizzas and French toast. It's perfect for whipping up a Spaghetti Pie (page 100) for a weekday meal, or Beef Tenderloin (page 78) and Baked Alaska (page 182) for a special-occasion dinner for two.

And at a time when we are all faced with soaring energy costs and even blackouts, consumers are becoming more aware of how much energy large appliances use. Why turn on the big oven when the toaster oven will do the same task?

As a cautious consumer and veteran cook, it takes me a long time to change my habits and my equipment. But I have quickly become a cheerleader and advocate of the toaster oven, and I now use it almost daily.

And my friend? She now has a stepped-up model of a toaster oven that she uses more often than she uses her standard oven

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Robert Rose; 1St Edition edition (April 3, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0778800865
• ISBN-13: 978-0778800866
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #576,159 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Toaster Oven Recipe book, January 12, 2008

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Frances L. Munson "francine" (Fayetteville, AR United States) - See all my reviews
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The book is good. Full of elaborate multi-ingredients.
But it is not what I was hoping. I am retired, also retired from food preparation. I purchased a new convection toaster oven and was looking for simple ideas for quick preparation.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great book, April 4, 2007

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Mimi (memphis, tn) - See all my reviews

This review is from: 125 Best Toaster Oven Recipes (Paperback)

this book has great recipes. they are easy to follow. i was especially interested in the convection toaster oven recipes and would have liked more on this subject. i use my toaster oven several times a day and these recipes give me more ways to use it effectively.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lots of useful recipes, March 5, 2009

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R. Hoeler "copicus" (New Jersey) - See all my reviews
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this is the perfect cookbook it you only routinely cook for 3 people. Great and creative recipes. Excellent purchase, wish it was published in a spiral binder though to keep it opened while referring to it.