Desperation Dinners

PART COOKBOOK, PART SURVIVAL GUIDE, PART WHOLE NEW WAY OF COOKING FOR YOUR FAMILY, HERE IS THE ANSWER TO EVERY BUSY COOKS PRAYERS. Whats a Desperation Dinner? How to feed your family well when your spouse is late, the kids are losing it, and the dog is scratching at the door. Features over 250 tempting, nutritious recipes that take brilliant advantage of convenience foods-from individual quick-frozen chicken breasts to chopped ginger in a jar-plus innovative techniques to cut time and push flavor. Desperation Dinners Promise 1. These recipes are not hard. 2. These recipes do not require expensive equipment. 3. These recipes do not lie-every one can be made in 20 minutes, start to finish. 4. Expect to be working, but only for those 20 minutes. 5. These recipes taste good. A Slightly Desperate Cooks Answer to Whats for Dinner? Skillet Shepherds Pie Topsail Spaghetti Pork au Poivre Chicken Chili Quesadillas Garlic-Roasted Salmon Buttered Rum-Glazed Ham Fish Florentine Confetti Stuffed Peppers And When Youre Really Desperate Southwestern Chicken on the Spot Minute Minestrone Tuna and Fusilli Alfresco Miracle Baked Pork Chops Practically Perfect Peach Crisp The dinner dilemma is solved! The Desperation ladies deserve to be stove-side in every busy home. -Nathalie Dupree, author of Nathalie Dupree Cooks Quick Meals for Busy Days The Desperation Authors Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross are co-authors of the nationally syndicated column Desperation Dinnersr. Both women are food journalists, are married, have two children each, and have been living the desperate life for the past seven years.

Author: Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover

Pages: 382

Publisher: Workman Publishing Company

Publication Date: 1997-01-10