Your Chicken is Cooked: 125 Time-Saving Recipes Featuring Rotisserie Chicken [Paperback]

Lauren Rae Brimmer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 2004

Stop staring at that leftover chicken in your refrigerator! Great tasting, nutritious meals are easy when Your Chicken is Cooked. With 125 choices for the best leftovers everfrom any type of cooked chicken or even turkey, you'll soon be buying or roasting extra chickens to get more "leftovers".

Home cooks of any skill level will shine with these 100% kitchen-tested recipes. Your Chicken is Cooked is an excellent recipe book and food reference, offering tips on getting the best food values as well as safe handling and storage.

- Make delicious lasagna, easy pot pies, cheesy casseroles, spicy soups, fun party food, and more from pre-cooked chicken

- Craft tasty 5-minute sauces to complement rotisserie chicken take-out

- Make ‘To Die For’ Desserts: Chocolate Coconut Custard, Grandma’s Apple Pie, and 3 Scrumptious New York Cheesecakes

- Dish up ‘To Die For’ Desserts: Sue Grafton’s Killer Cheesecake, Jyl Steinback’s no-fat New York Cheesecake, plus decadent chocolate treats

- Prepare faster, healthier meals while spending less time and money on food

- Laugh with quotes and quips from famous chefs, actors, and writers

- Learn all about chicken from handling food safely to getting more flavor, nutrition, and value from meals

With so many great ideas in one place, cooking just got easier, tastier, and more fun. Why not see for yourself?

Editorial Reviews

About the Author

Lauren Brimmer spent over 12 years at Fortune 1000 companies including Microsoft, Iomega, and Honeywell. She is also an adjunct professor of Operations Management at California State University.

With an MBA in operations management, Ms. Brimmer is an unlikely candidate to write a traditional cookbook, but the perfect person to write a cookbook that's truly useful for cooks of all skill levels who are tired of cookbooks with recipes that don't work in a real home kitchen.

The book was also written to give people a laugh and teach them a few things not commonly known about selecting, handling and storing food safely.

Your Chicken is Cooked was conceived while Ms Brimmer carried her first child. Working hard to launch a new software product, dinner was often rotisserie chicken and salad or steamed vegetables. Your Chicken is Cooked was literally created from the leftovers.

Quitting her career and with time on her hands, Ms. Brimmer decided to fulfill her dream and write a book. Assembling a team of talented book designers and editors, she put her past project management experience to the test and published it too!

Buy the book at Amazon.com or choose the Marketplace option, and receive an autographed First Edition. Either way, you're bound to enjoy, Your Chicken is Cooked!

Product Details

• Paperback: 208 pages
• Publisher: Fallbrook Press (February 2004)
• ISBN-10: 0974466123
• ISBN-13: 978-0974466125
• Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 7.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #816,278 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm reviewing my own book, June 3, 2004

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Lauren Rae Brimmer (Southern California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Your Chicken is Cooked: 125 Time-Saving Recipes Featuring Rotisserie Chicken (Paperback)

Yes, I'm reviewing my own book, because I want everyone to know how Your Chicken is Cooked came to be and why it's a terrific book for busy families who want fast, healthy meals that taste terrific! I'm proud to report very positive feedback from customers, friends, and reviewers who have tried the recipes.

A career woman myself (though on hiatus since the birth of our daughter), I know what it's like to be exhausted from a full day of work and come home needing to put dinner on the table. You don't want to pay tons of money for take-out all the time, and you would feel better serving a home cooked and healthy meal.

Your Chicken is Cooked was an idea during my pregnancy that became a reality during my maternity leave (it actually took two years to become a book). I simply started my own publishing company and hired professionals as needed, and put together the book that I as a serious amateur cook wanted to buy, but seldom see from mainstream publishers.

Recipes aren't overly flashy, but the taste will impress your family and guests. Using cooked chicken, everything happens faster with less clean-up required. I also included a wealth of reference information about chicken, as well as entertaining snippets from famous chefs and personalities.

My strategy while creating the book (and even now) is to buy two rotisserie chickens at a time at my local warehouse club, eating the first one that evening, saving to other to make beautiful chicken "leftovers" that taste anything but leftover.

You also have the option to purchase a signed first edition from me as an Amazon Marketplace seller. These books make great gifts for you or a friend.

Thank you for trying, Your Chicken is Cooked!

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book for when you have leftover chicken, April 3, 2004

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Harold McFarland (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Your Chicken is Cooked: 125 Time-Saving Recipes Featuring Rotisserie Chicken (Paperback)

Filling a rather unique niche in the cookbook genre, "Your Chicken is Cooked" is a series of recipes that prove you can make a great meal from leftover chicken. Each of the meals that contain chicken start with already cooked chicken as a primary ingredient. The recipes range from appetizers to soups to main dishes and include several really tasty meals. Among them are excellent recipes for Oriental Chicken Salad, Sweet and Sour Chicken, Chicken and Dumplings, Sesame Chicken, Florentine Chicken Casserole, and Broccoli and Roast Garlic Chicken.

Don't be fooled by the title to the book. In addition to all the chicken based recipes the book also includes several dessert recipes that are chicken free. All the recipes are reasonably fast and most take twenty minutes or less to prepare. "Your Chicken is cooked" is highly recommended for busy people or anyone looking for great tasting ways to use leftover chicken.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Cookbook Ever!, March 9, 2006

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This review is from: Your Chicken is Cooked: 125 Time-Saving Recipes Featuring Rotisserie Chicken (Paperback)

From the catchy title and amusing quotes to the easy-to-follow recipes, this cookbook has been both highly informative and entertaining. Since I do not look forward to coming up with ideas for dinner, this book has been a real gift to me. It is so easy to pick up a rotisserie chicken from the grocery store. But now, rather than serve it with rice and canned green beans, my family is enjoying a variety of great, tasty chicken meals at lunch and dinner. I am grateful for the wonderful ideas contained in this book. My copy is on the kitchen counter at all times. I strongly recommend this book. You will not regret buying it!