Monday-to-Friday Pasta (Monday-to-Friday Series) [Paperback]

Michele Urvater (Author)

Book Description

Series: Monday-to-Friday Series | Publication Date: January 8, 1995

Second in the Monday-to-Friday series, here's a pasta book with a difference. For two-worker families, single parents, and other busy people, Ms. Urvater marries the innovative Monday-to-Friday pantry-based approach with everyone's favorite food, pasta. The result is a guide to making over 175 delicious pasta dishes in roughly the time it takes to boil a pot of water. The range of recipes includes soup (Comforting Pasta Fagioli), seafood (Scallops Casino with Bowties), meat (Beef and Glass Noodles, Chic Chorizo), and salad (Couscous and Lentil Salad, Rotelle a la Greek Salad). Monday-to-Friday and the noodle: It's as perfect a match as spaghetti and meatballs.

Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books. 55,000 copies in print.

Editorial Reviews

From Library Journal

This follow-up to Urvater's successful Monday-to-Friday Cookbook (LJ 9/15/91) is likely to be just as popular. This time around she offers close to 200 pasta recipes that take less than half an hour to prepare, along with lots of variations, ideas for jazzing up leftovers, and other tips for busy family cooks. Many recipes include suggestions for making them "Especially Good for Children" (or for adults, for company, or for dieters). Yes, yet another pasta cookbook?but the recipes are different and the format is very appealing. For most libraries.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Review

First stock a pantry with basic ingredients; then use this title to provide five days a week of variety; from pasta soups and pasta chickens to salads and bean-infused fare. Each dish can arrive from pantry to table in 30 minutes, which will please busy cooks. -- Midwest Book Review

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Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Workman Publishing Company (January 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1563053470
• ISBN-13: 978-1563053474
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 7.3 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,247,382 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best practical working family cookbook available, March 28, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Monday-to-Friday Pasta (Monday-to-Friday Series) (Paperback)

My wife and I absolutely love this cookbook. If you are looking for a quality cookbook with simple yet substantial dinners taking less than a half-hour to complete, then this is the book for you. Save your money going out to dinner and prepare a meal from this book that will accomplish the same goal.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Michelle Urvater is the best!, April 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Monday-to-Friday Pasta (Monday-to-Friday Series) (Paperback)

I first picked up a review copy of the original MtoF cookbook when I worked in a bookstore and found it one of the most well-written, creative, practical, consistently good cookbooks I have ever used. I bought the Pasta book for my husband when he was learning to cook -- We both love it!!! Michelle Urvater provides a wide variety of recipes and always has suggestions for playing with ingredients and what to do with leftovers.

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This review is from: Monday-to-Friday Pasta (Monday-to-Friday Series) (Paperback)

This was a bridal shower gift. The bride loves pasta. She was thrilled with the cookbook. I like giving cookbook as gifts. Everyone seems to like cookbooks, so it makes a really nice gift