Homemade in a Hurry: More than 300 Shortcut Recipes for Delicious Home Cooked Meals [Paperback]

Andrew Schloss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 20, 2006

In an age where time is as precious as good food, enter Homemade in a Hurry, the secret to having more of both. With over three hundred recipes, from appetizers, soups, and salads to main courses, side dishes, and desserts, cooking from scratch is made easier with shortcuts for those who demand morea LOT morein less time. By jump-starting the cooking with high-quality prepared ingredients such as pestos, curry cooking sauces, and pre-chopped vegetablesall found at local supermarketsthe complicated is streamlined and what used to take hours in the kitchen is now ready in minutes. Author and cooking teacher Andrew Schloss has a knack for creating easy-to-prepare recipes that turn the same-old-thing into something special. Puree a can of navy beans with a little garlic, olive oil, and lime juice and voil, White Guacamole. Dress up a cup of stuffing mix for a turkey meatloaf that's in the oven in under ten minutes. A little mango and onion give new life to store-bought salsa making a perfect accompaniment to grilled salmon. And even after a delicious bit of Lasagna Bolognese, no one will guess it takes only minutes to prepare. Homemade in a Hurry is the essential home chef's companion guide to using the supermarket as a personal pantry for creating impressive dishes, whether for everyday meals or for full-on dinner parties.

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About the Author

Andrew Schloss is a veteran cookbook author and cooking teacher with expertise in rethinking the use of convenience foods in everyday cooking. He lives in Pennsylvania.

Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (July 20, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 081184899X
• ISBN-13: 978-0811848992
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,109,317 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Andy Schloss wants everyone to cook more, and he has devoted his career to ease the way. As a well known teacher, food writer, cookbook author, and food product developer, he concentrates his decades of experience to streamline the tedious and illuminate the intricacies that make cooking good food a pleasure and a passion. Andy has authored 17 cookbooks and countless food articles. His first book Fifty Ways to Cook Most Everything was a Book of the Month Club Main Selection. The Science of Good Food (co-authored with David Joachim) won an IACP Cookbook Award, and their book, Mastering the Grill was a NYT bestseller. His latest books Fire It Up, a follow-up grilling guide written with Joachim and Homemade Soda are being published in the Spring of 2011. Schloss is the culinary creator of Cookulus: Ultimate Recipe apps, and the developer and manufacturer of the popular line of seasoning blends, Chef Salt. He is a past president of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and lives outside Philadelphia with his wife, Karen, and their incredibly well-fed dog.

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Beginners and Experienced Cooks, January 8, 2008

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This review is from: Homemade in a Hurry: More than 300 Shortcut Recipes for Delicious Home Cooked Meals (Paperback)

This really is a wonderful cookbook. I bought it in college and it was really great for making quick, wholesome, tasty meals in what little time I had. Now I continue to use the book because the recipes are so wonderful; and I bought my mother a copy, which she uses on nights when she gets home late from work or doesn't feel like cooking.

Many cookbooks that advertise expedience have little to offer other than bad-tasting food. Not so with this book! The recipes are inventive and plentiful--it would take a long time to get tired of all the meals in this book! One of my favorite things about the book is that the author explains the reasoning behind some of the shortcuts he takes and also takes the time to educate the reader on how to perform basic cooking duties. I am an experienced cook and found the comments interesting and helpful rather than annoying.

I recently bought this book for a friend of mine who is very afraid of the kitchen. She has already made 3 recipes from the book, all of which were a success. Just a great, great book.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Over 300 shortcut recipes show how to bring home-cooked meals into the world of fast, hectic schedules, October 14, 2006

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This review is from: Homemade in a Hurry: More than 300 Shortcut Recipes for Delicious Home Cooked Meals (Paperback)

Over 300 shortcut recipes show how to bring home-cooked meals into the world of fast, hectic schedules with tips on how to streamline and improve the parts which take time - such as in a 10-Minute Vegetable Curry dish which remarks curry usually takes up too much time - but a jar of curry sauce does most of the work for you, leaving just chopping veggies and grilling flatbread for the 'homemade' touches. Another plus: recipes are gathered from culinary traditions around the world, so there's lots of choice and variety, from Chicken with Candied Pecans to Couscous Stuffed Peppers.

Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch

1 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars too much stuff, April 4, 2009

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This review is from: Homemade in a Hurry: More than 300 Shortcut Recipes for Delicious Home Cooked Meals (Paperback)

Too much stuff. It was too exotic for my family, plus I am handicapped so I need something simple. I like to use spices and have a wide selection, so this was not an issue. I returned the book. I kept his slow cooker book.