While the Pasta Cooks: 100 Sauces So Easy You Can Prepare the Sauce in the Time It Takes to Cook the Pasta (Hardcover)

by Andrew Schloss (Author), Ken Bookman (Author)

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In the time it takes the water to boil and the pasta to cook, you can whip up these scintillating sauces that will turn your warmed Ragu and flaccid pasta meals into gastronomic events. Try Tomato Sauce with Hot Pepper Vodka and Cream, Sardine and Olive Sauce, and Stir-fried Broccoli and Walnut Sauce.

From Library Journal
This is not the first quick-and-easy pasta book, but it's the only one with such a surefire title. Schloss and Bookman have other clever concepts to their credit, including One-Pot Cakes (LJ 8/85) and Fifty Ways To Cook Most Everything (LJ 9/15/92). Here they offer simple and appealing recipes for pasta with sauces from Tomato Mint Vinaigrette to Everyday Meat Sauce to Wild Mushroom Persillade. Recommended for larger collections.
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 160 pages
• Publisher: Macmillan General Reference (May 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0028609891
• ISBN-13: 978-0028609898
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 8.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #513,634 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite cookbook with only one fault ..., November 22, 2002

By	Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

First of all this book ain't cheap so I was rather disgusted that if you exclude the cover it contained not one single picture .... OK so it may be hard to take a picture of pasta sauce bubbling in a skillet but .....

Now for the good part ... recepies in this book are stupendous and many are quite unique with some equisite new flavours for pasta sauce that I think I've been making for over 30 years or so.

Although the book is titled 'while the pasta cooks' and its true that all the sauces are whipped together in a pan or wok the intriguing flavours presented by the authors usually will require some planning and a stop at your local supermarket ....

The flavours presented in many of these recepies are so unique, do not fall into the tempatation to either skip or subsitiute ingredients because the simplicity of the recepies makes them very very unique .... nuff said ...

Appart from my whining about the pictures this is one great cookbook ....

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great variety, easy prep, good sauces, August 27, 1998

By A Customer

I can't believe this book is out of print! It is a great cookbook to have around, because the sauces are so quick to prepare. I've also found the recipes very forgiving, if you don't have exactly the same ingredients.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A must have for busy people., August 1, 1997

By A Customer

This is a great cookbook for those who do not enjoy spending all day in the kitchen, but who still want a great meal. I have enjoyed every recipe that I have tried