Product Description

Is there a way to cut the time spent in the kitchen? Can a delicious meal be prepared quickly without using lengthy recipes? Seriously Simple helps those that are short on time create fabulous meals that are long on flavour. One of the most difficult challenges for any home cook is to create a tasty dish using just a few ingredients and simple steps. The key is to find one strong flavour component, which makes preparing a memorable dish easy. A touch of soy sauce heightens the complex flavor of mushroom soup. Fresh halibut roasted over high heat and drizzled with balsamic syrup is a quickly prepared meal that's ready in minutes. "The Clever Cook Could" tips accompany each recipe, giving a variety of variations and suggestions to dress up each dish, and encouraging readers to experiment. With recipes for appetizers and salads to main dishes and desserts, Seriously Simple is the ideal cookbook for busy people who want to eat delicious and interesting meals every day.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59147 in Books
• Published on: 2002-06-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 192 pages

From Amazon.com
Diane Rossen Worthington's Seriously Simple: Easy Recipes for Creative Cooks delivers on the promise of its title. The award-winning chef and author provides sophisticated flavor combinations while keeping the ingredients, and, most importantly, prep time, to a minimum. Chilled Summer Squash Soup with Basil makes a great starter course or light entrée; Grilled Lamb Chops with Cilantro-Mint Sauce yields a rich yet refreshing result with almost no work, especially with the use of a food processor; and the Summer Fruit Crisp (much less work than a homemade pie) includes a custard layer made with crème fraîche. Keeping with her theme of simplicity, Worthington has provided many suggestions for "advanced preparation" so that the busy cook can do some, or all, of the preparation long before mealtime. The most unique element of this cookbook is "the clever cook could" entry with each dish, in which Worthington makes suggestions for substituting ingredients and how to use the leftovers in savvy and tasty ways. Worthington's recipes will help shorten the work to get food on the table but should also increase the enjoyment while at it. --Teresa Simanton

About the Author
Diane Worthington is a food writer, consultant, and James Beard Award-winning broadcaster who trained at the London Cordon Bleu. She is the author of A Taste of Summer, American Bistro, and The Cuisine of California (all from Chronicle Books), and lives in Southern California with her husband and daughter.

Customer Reviews

This book delivers on its title
Simple, extremely flavorful, and easy to modify recipes to personal tastes. You end up with dishes that look and taste like you ordered them from some nouvelle cuisine restaurant. I haven't made anything in here that didn't simply rock. Flavors actually sparkle. Wonderful attitude about cooking.

Turn Yourself Into a Super Cook
I love this cookbook. It has become my favorite and is nearly always on the kitchen counter at our house. It is easy to follow, provides great suggestions for stocking a kitchen (equipment, pantry, refrigerator, herb garden), instructions for staples (like her "seasoning salt"), and includes interesting recipes that are fun to share with family and always a hit with guests. The recipes are truly SIMPLE to follow, and make you look like a SERIOUS cook, even mid-week after a day at work - - hence, the title is apt. Try the ribs with hoisin sauce, the fish stew with chipotle sauce, lamb with goat cheese and spinach, the pasta with sausage and tomatoes, the dense, gooey chocolate cake cooked mostly on the stovetop, and many others.

Seriously delicious!
I love this cookbook! The recipes ARE simple, the flavors are wonderful. They're easy enough for everyday cooking, and delicious enough for guests.