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Quick Gourmet Cooking

No time to cook but you don't want to eat Top Ramen or macaroni and cheese in a box? Do you have a sophisticated palate and a thin wallet? Don't despair! These chefs will help you cook delicious food in no time.

 

Selected Books

For additional titles, browse the library catalog under the subject heading: Quick And Easy Cookery.

Barnard, Melanie
Food Made Fast: Weeknight
TX833.5.B37484 2006x
Prolific food writer Melanie Barnard offers a collection of recipes and cooking tips for such quick-to-make, flavorful meals as fennel-crusted pork tenderloin, miso-glazed salmon, and spring vegetable risotto--all of which have been streamlined for easy preparation any night of the week. Part of the Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast Series.
 
Lawson, Nigella
Nigella Express: Good Food, Fast
TX833.5.L39 2007x
This is for everyone who loves good food, but just doesn't have time or patience at the end of the day for a long, drawn-out cooking session. Nigella Lawson is a British cook with a show (Nigella Feasts) on the Food Network.
 
Moulton, Sara
Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals
TX833.5.M68 2005
As the host of Cooking Live and Sara's Secrets, the food editor of Good Morning America, and the bestselling author of Sara Moulton Cooks at Home, Sara Moulton is one of this country's most popular and accessible celebrity chefs.
 
Pépin, Jacques
Fast Food My Way
TX833.5.P47 2004
Did you know that Jacques Pépin once cooked for Charles de Gaulle? This is the companion volume to Pépin's PBS television series. See below under videos for the series on DVD.
 
Pépin, Jacques
Jacques Pépin More Fast Food My Way
Pepin's TV series was popular enough to result in a second book. These are dishes that can be assembled with relatively little effort by the experienced cook.
 
Ramsay, Gordon
Fast Food: Recipes from the F Word
TX833.5.R3598 2007x
Gordon Ramsay is a British celebrity chef with several TV shows, including The F Word.
 
 

Videos

For more cooking videos, browse the Food Network Takeout Collection.

The Best of America's Test Kitchen. Best Weeknight Recipes
Fancy but easy dishes from the chefs at Cook's Illustrated
 
Everyday Italian. Weeknight Cooking
Giada De Laurentiis shows how to prepare easy weeknight meals with updated versions of recipes from her Italian roots. More Everyday Italian videos.
 
Fast Food My Way
Jacques Pepin's PBS television series from KQED-TV is available in 3 volumes with 2 videodiscs in each.
 
Pasquale's Kitchen Express. Volume 1
Instruction in Southern Italian cuisine by a singing chef. Demonstrates how to prepare full course dinners for four in under thirty minutes. Originally produced as six individual episodes of the Toronto television series.
 
Sara's Secrets: Effortless Entertaining
This collection of programs was originally produced as five individual episodes of Sara Moulton's television series: Sara's Secrets. Sara also has a new public television series: Sara's Weeknight Meals, based on her book Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals.
 
Simply Ming: Easy Techniques for East-Meets-West Meals
Relying on a handful of stocks, master chef Ming Tsai shows how to prepare a variety of Asian-inflected dishes that can be prepared quickly and easily.
 
 

Web Sites

  • Epicurious: Quick and Easy Recipes
    The folks at Gourmet and Bon Appetit have created a collection of their quick and easy yet sophisticated recipes that you can browse by course.
  • Epicurious: Weekly Dinner Planners
    Quick and easy dinner menus for families on the go. They give you a menu and recipes for each night of the week as well as a weekly shopping list!
  • Food Network: Quick & Easy Recipes
    Theoretically, TV programs should be great sources of quick recipes since they have to be completed in an hour or less...
  • Sara Moulton's Weeknight Meals
    On this website for her popular TV program which started airing in April 2008, you will find recipes for the dishes featured in each program. Some, like gnocchi, are fairly involved.