The Good Housekeeping Best One-Dish Meals: Casseroles, Stir-Fries, Pizzas & More [Hardcover]

Good Housekeeping (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 31, 2001

Serving the family quick, easy-to-prepare meals that taste wonderful is the constant challenge for every home cook. That's why the editors of Good Housekeeping have come up with Good Housekeeping's Best One-Dish Meals, a collection of 300 easy, delicious, and family-friendly recipes, all triple-tested in the Good Housekeeping kitchens, and all with complete nutrition information.

If a recipe didn't pass the "great taste" test, it didn't go in the book. And great taste is here: consider Smoked Turkey and Raspberry Salad; Texas-Style Chili; Sesame Noodles and Vegetables; or Apple-Cranberry Pork Chops.

The editors of Good Housekeeping cover all the possibilities when it comes to cooking: soups and salads as main dishes, meatless meals, kid-friendly dishes like macaroni and cheese -- and a whole chapter devoted to main-dish pies and pizza, sure to please any kid, big or small.

Good Housekeeping's Best One-Dish Meals has scores of information boxes throughout the book, along with one hundred color photos. "Special Sections" are included, too; these round out meals, with taste tempters such as Smoked Ham and Cheese Biscuits and Olive-Parmesan Scones in the "Hearty Soups & Stews" chapter, and Hazelnut Shortbread and Jumbo Gingersnaps in the "Quick Desserts" chapter.

With the Good Housekeeping name behind it and the popularity of one-dish meals today, this book is sure to become another Good Housekeeping classic cookbook.

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Good Housekeeping has a circulation of five million, and a readership of twenty-two million, each month. The editors of Good Housekeeping magazine create cookbooks that become proven classics, with continued strong sales year after year.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 256 pages
• Publisher: Hearst; 1 edition (December 31, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0688163734
• ISBN-13: 978-0688163730
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,113,658 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good Housekeeping: Best One Dish Meals, January 23, 2000

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This review is from: The Good Housekeeping Best One-Dish Meals: Casseroles, Stir-Fries, Pizzas & More (Hardcover)

Outstanding recipes! The recipes are truly quick, easy, and delicious. I prepare dinner for a picky family, yet they have enjoyed every meal taken from this cookbook. I feels great to be able provide a "from scratch" meal for the ones that mean the most - even after you've had a long day in the business world. I would highly recommend this book to all busy families that are still striving to hold on to the family meal as a time for meaningful, quality interaction.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not just casseroles..., June 23, 2001

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Rebecca Johnson "The Rebecca Review" (Washington State) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Good Housekeeping Best One-Dish Meals: Casseroles, Stir-Fries, Pizzas & More (Hardcover)

If you long for one-dish meals, this is your book! Casserole cooking fans will find many new recipes. An entire chapter is devoted to Casseroles & Oven Dinners.

To put the book in perspective, it is not really just about one-dish meals. There are recipes for Soups, Stews, Stir-Fries, Main-Dish Salads, Pasta, Pies & Pizza, Sandwiches and Simple Desserts.

The recipes in Best One-Dish were designed around ideas from comfort food. Pumpkin-Pot Stew is quite creative and would be appreciated in October! A section for Biscuits and Scones is appropriate to accompany the first chapter. Gingery Beef & Sugar Snaps can be made in under an hour, making it a quick supper. Valentines Sundaes look so romantic and frozen yogurt hearts are drizzled with ruby red raspberry sauce.

They couldn't resist adding a tempting section for making cookies, although one would hope no one makes a meal out of them :)

~The Rebecca Review