The Parchment Paper Cookbook: 180 Healthy, Fast, Delicious Dishes! [Paperback]

Brette Sember (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2011

What if you could whip up healthy, mouthwatering meals that your family loved--without making a mess?

Well, it's as easy as parchment paper. You'll find that cooking in parchment paper is akin to cooking in foil--if foil were French, fast, and environmentally friendly. In this cookbook, award-winning author and food writer Brette Sember shows you how parchment paper cooking can revolutionize the way you cook--and save you time and money, not to mention the grief that often accompanies dinnertime.

With simple instructions on the art of parchment paper folding and preparation, you'll fold your way to your family's hearts with such nutritious, delicious offerings as:

• Swedish Meatballs
• Thai Chicken with Lemongrass and Coconut Rice
• Stuffed Flank Steak
• Scallops Coquilles
• Lamb and Yogurt Wraps
• Artichoke Pizza
• Portobellos with Goat Cheese and Spinach
• Quick Baclava
• Peach Pie Turnovers

You can forget dirty pots and pans. With this cookbook, dinner just got easier, faster, cleaner--and tastier!

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Brette Sember, the author of The Organized Kitchen and The Muffin Tin Cookbook, blogs about parchment paper cooking at www.NoPotCooking. She is a member of the International Association of Culinary Professionals, and the American Society of Journalists and Authors; she was also the recipient of a Mothers at Home Media Award and a Ben Franklin Award finalist.

Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Adams Media (November 15, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1440528594
• ISBN-13: 978-1440528590
• Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.7 x 9.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #300,585 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Brette Sember is a former attorney and author of over 35 books about topics such as food (The Parchment Paper Cookbook, The Organized Kitchen, and The Muffin Tin Cookbook), parenting (How to Parent with Your Ex, Unmarried with Children), business (the Essential Supervisor's Handbook, Bad Apples: How to Manage Difficult Employees), credit (The Complete Credit Repair Kit), health (Plus-Size Pregnancy, The Practical Pregnancy Planner), seniors' right (The Complete Legal Guide to Senior Care, Seniors' Rights) and divorce (The Complete Divorce Handbook, The No-Fight Divorce Book, The Divorce Organizer & Planner). She is also co-author of several textbooks.

Her web site is www.BretteSember.com. She blogs at http://PuttingItAllontheTable.com, and about divorce at www.SolveDivorce.com.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars loving the recipes! October 23, 2011

By Claudine M. Jalajas

Format:Paperback|Amazon Verified Purchase

I just bought this book. I loved it so much I bought another copy for my mom. She called me the day she got it and couldn't wait to try it. When my five year old daughter sees me pulling out the baking sheet with The little parchment paper packages she claps her hands and says, "oh yummy!"

The recipes whip up pretty quickly, there is a HUGE variety of recipes, they taste amazing, and you can't beat the clean up! The chicken turns out so tender its amazing. A friend and I recently were complaining about how crockpot cooking seems like a great idea but it never comes out right. This is exactly the answer I have been looking for!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Busy, Tired, Hungry October 24, 2011

By SJS

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I work a full time job, and freelance on the side. The last thing I have the time or energy for is cooking, even though I love to eat more than anything. A foodie on a tight schedule is not a happy camper, especially when your micro-sized apartment doesn't come with a dishwasher. Generally, I'm left with sautéed fish and brown rice in a rice cooker, or else cans of soup or PBJs. No bueno.

This book, though, has been infinitely helpful in cleaning up my diet. Healthy recipe that require pretty much no dishes to prepare, which means I can EAT without being saddled with a ton of pots and pans to clean. Real food! No mess! Clean ingredients! Really, what else can the busy adult ask for in this life? Besides a personal chef, that is?

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars The Parchment Paper Cookbook review January 29, 2012

By Valmg

Format:Paperback

Chapters include:

Breakfast Dishes
Chicken and Turkey Dishes
Pork and Lamb Dishes
Beef and Veal Dishes
Seafood Dishes Vegetable Dishes
Bread, Rice and Potato Dishes
Desserts

I never even tried using parchment paper until this year and that was for baking. The idea of using it instead of pots and pans to make all sorts of dishes is very interesting. The beginning of the book explains in detail, with images, how to fold parchment paper so that it can be used to make the recipes in the book. After that are the chapters containing the recipes. There is a table of contents in the beginning that lists all of the recipes but I also think it'd be helpful to color code each chapter on the edge of the page, to make getting to what you want a little quicker. Recipes in this cookbook are all easy to understand. Each recipe clearly lists the necessary ingredients (all of which appeared to be ordinary items), as well as how many the dish serves and the nutritional content. The recipes would be more helpful to me if they included prep and cooking time. Some of the recipes also include ideas for variations. There are no photos in this cookbook save a few in the middle of the book, I'd love it if the recipes included photos. This cookbook would be ideal for people that want to simplify their cooking by having less pots and pans to clean, as well as for those that cook for one or two.