From Warehouse to Your House: More Than 250 Simple, Spectacular Recipes to Cook, Store, and Share When You Buy in Quantity [Paperback]

Sally Sampson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 26, 2006

Warehouse club shopping is thrilling. Walking down aisle after fluorescent-lit aisle of impossible-to-pass-up bargains, you fill your cart and tally the money you're going to save. Unloading the boxes and jugs, however, it becomes obvious that, while the way you shop for food may have changed, the scale of your refrigerator (and your stomach!) has not.

So what do you do with the sixteen chicken breasts, the five pounds of oatmeal and the gallon of olive oil that you couldn't afford not to buy? You turn to From Warehouse to Your House: More Than 250 Simple, Spectacular Recipes to Cook, Store and Share When You Buy in Quantity by Sally Sampson, veteran cookbook author, working mom and accomplished warehouse shopper.

Utilizing the fresh and packaged products available at the warehouse clubs and superstores, Sampson's flavorful recipes are simple enough for a weeknight dinner and special enough for entertaining and, if you're cooking for a couple or a small family, portioned so you can eat some, store some and even share some.

Those boneless chicken breasts turn into New-Fangled Classic Chicken Noodle Soup, Curried Chicken Salad for lunch and Moroccan Chicken for the freezer. Three pounds of butter becomes Chipotle Butter to dress up a grilled steak or chicken breast, Cinnamon Butter for your morning toast and Chocolate Chip Cookies: a batch baked right away, a batch of dough for the fridge and a batch for the freezer. And that big box of oatmeal? When you're tired of hot cereal (maybe with some of the Cinnamon Butter?), try the Fruit Crisp or Oatmeal Lace Cookies. From breakfast coffee cakes to soups, appetizers, salads and dressings, sandwiches and entrÉes, Sampson gives the home cook who buys big a wide variety of classic American recipes, as well as international dishes like Mexican Chicken Fajitas, Asian Ribs, Italian pastas and Jamaican Jerk Chicken.

Sampson includes an essential pantry list, and amusing and informative tips and techniques that will help you make the most of your time, your money and your groceries, whether you're cooking for a small family or a small army.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

Anyone who's shopped at a price club has wondered: what am I going to do with all of this? The lure of the deal often results in the lament of the overstuffed pantry, but Sampson's got solutions. She provides commonsense advice and easy-to-prepare recipes for interesting, flavorful meals. Tips for storing and freezing food ensure easier entertaining or quick family meals on nights when nobody feels like cooking—just defrost and serve. She notes that, in facing down large quantities of food, she "was becoming more and more creative" in the kitchen. Recipes for salad dressings, breakfast butters and various sauces will add kick to meats and vegetables; creative entrees include Lemon-Tarragon Chicken Salad, Chili-Coated Pork Chops, plus variations on steaks, turkey burgers and fish dishes. Desserts range from Citrus Shortbread to classics like Rice Pudding and Baked Apples. The author's humorous asides, pithy food-centric quotes and anecdotes about her family and friends add warmth to an already friendly volume. (Dec.)
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About the Author

Sally Sampson is the author and coauthor of numerous cookbooks, including the James Beard Award-nominated The $50 Dinner Party, Throw Me a Bone (with Cooper Gillespie) and The Olives Table (with Todd English). She has contributed to Self, Bon AppÉtit, Food & Wine, The Boston Globe, Boston magazine and The Boston Phoenix. She lives with her family in Watertown, Massachusetts.

Product Details

• Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster; Original edition (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0743275055
• ISBN-13: 978-0743275057
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,919,020 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Sally Sampson is the author of twelve cookbooks, including the Recipe of the Week series, Party Dips!, Souped Up!, Party Nuts!, and the James Beard Award-nominated The $50 Dinner Party. She has coauthored six additional books, including (with chef Todd English): The Olives Table, The Figs Table, and The Olives Dessert Table.

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Versatile and organized cooking for every day, May 3, 2007

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Lynn Harnett (Marathon, FL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: From Warehouse to Your House: More Than 250 Simple, Spectacular Recipes to Cook, Store, and Share When You Buy in Quantity (Paperback)

You don't have to be a bulk shopper to benefit from Sampson's ("The $50 Dinner Party") organized approach. Many dishes are served immediately or made only a day ahead. But she does provide storage and do-ahead guidelines wherever appropriate.

Many marinated recipes, for instance, can be frozen raw in the marinade. These include dishes like Chicken with Balsamic Vinaigrette or Curried Chicken with Raisins and Cashews, Apricot Soy-glazed Sirloin Steak Tips and Flank Steak with Bourbon Balsamic Ginger as well as several recipes for ribs.

She includes plenty of finished dishes that freeze well, such as soups, stews, chilis, macaroni and cheese, lasagna and pasta sauces. Her Chicken Pot Pie makes filling for four pies. There are salad dressings which keep up to a month and plenty of ideas for leftovers of all kinds.

While do-ahead convenience is the theme, versatility is the charm. Side dishes, like Spinach with Garlic and Pine Nuts, can double as pasta sauce or omelet filling.

Suggestions for variations and garnishes abound and she offers serving suggestions with most recipes. Her Parmesan Chicken can be served with her Caesar Salad or with Grape Tomatoes with Garlic and Olive Oil (which can be a burger or pasta topping) or on a wilted lemon-pepper salad or with mozzarella on a baguette.

Her tastes run more to chicken than meat (she was a vegetarian for years) and there are lots of boneless chicken breast recipes that take little time to prepare.

Clearly written, well-organized, and attractive, with food quotes scattered throughout, and a friendly, conversational approach, this is a useful addition to any cook's shelf.

2.0 out of 5 stars Misleading title, nothing new inside, December 29, 2011

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This book is both terribly mislabeled and with little unique content to make it worth buying, even at its current bargain price. Amazon's text(from the back cover copy) claims the book will help if you end up with "the sixteen chicken breasts, the five pounds of oatmeal and the gallon of olive oil that you couldn't afford to buy." If that is why you are considering buying this book, think again. What you will get is a very plain vanilla cookbook with no really inspiring recipes, no photos, and no real link with the purported aim, to use large quantities of food in individual recipes.

I also took the time to count the recipes, since the title boasts more than 250 recipes, but many of these take a full two pages and the book has only 308 pages, including lots of title pages and some introductory material. If you are generous in counting four slightly different bruschettas and similar variations, the total still barely reaches 200. The count also includes things like making breadcrumbs, a pretty basic macaroni and cheese, etc.

Perhaps this seems nitpicky, but the point is that there is even the title is more inflated than what you are going to get if you make the mistake of buying this. Even the most avid cookbook collector is unlikely to find any reason to add this one to their shelves.

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Recipes, January 8, 2011

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This book has recipes ranging from a quick supper to company fare. A good companion book for anyone looking to eat out less, but still have some different meal choices handy. Freezer cooking is a huge budget saver!