Cooking Light Dinnertime Survival Guide will help women navigate mealtime armed with strategies, tips, and recipes that are targeted to the specific issue they have with dinner-whether that's an insane schedule, a tight budget, or extra-finicky kids. This book highlights the Top 10 Challenges women face with getting a home-cooked meal on the table and offers empathy and encouragement in the form of doable steps to take and strategies to try, plus more than 150 recipes to make mealtime a breeze.

Have a fridge full of staples, a family of finicky mouths to feed, and only a few minutes to get something on the table? If this sounds all too familiar, chances are you'll find dinner and more in this can-do approach to mealtime. The Busy Family's Survival Cookbook is designed with the modern-day family in mind-too busy, with not nearly enough time to eat together-and makes delicious meals come together in a snap. With a focus on accessible recipes with only a few simple ingredients, this guide takes the humble pantry staple and transforms it in minutes into delicious restaurant-quality dishes. The more-than 125 recipes are organized, not by course or time of day, but by the way people really cook: categories like pasta, vegetable dishes, salads, chicken, slow-cooking, fish, and more make the dinner dilemma easy. Try Butternut Squash and Pear Soup, Bronzino Veracruz, Baked Wild Mushroom Risotto, Roasted Chicken Enchiladas, and Meatloaf Burgers. This revolutionary approach will change the way you see dinnertime.

When Lora Brody, cookbook author, chocolate maven, and mother, sent her sons off into the world, she (and they) realized that they didn't have a clue as to how to feed themselves or their guests, if, heaven forbid, they should have any. The Kitchen Survival Guide is for anyone -- newly graduated, newly married, newly single -- who is venturing into the kitchen for the first time. With her on-target brand of humor, Lora Brody builds kitchen confidence with more than 130 basic recipes necessary to get through life, as well as hundreds of helpful hints Mom forgot to share: On cleaning an oven -- "Manual cleaning oven, unfortunately, does not mean that a guy named Manuel will come and clean your oven." What's the difference between dicing and chopping, zest and pith, or au gratin and au lait? Survival recipes include tuna fish salad, homemade chicken soup, brownies, and many more. Setting up a kitchen and keeping it clean and safe, how to buy and store food, a glossary of basic cooking terms, and what to do in the event of a culinary disaster are all covered in this handy, easy-to-use cookbook and kitchen compendium.

Cooking Light Complete Meals in Minutes is a must-have collection of over 700 fast and delicious recipes that go from kitchen to table in 30 minutes or less. Enjoy appetizers and beverages, pasta and pizza, meats and poultry, soups and sandwiches, sides and desserts, and so much more. In this kitchen-friendly, wipe-clean binder, you'll fi nd: Cooking Class how-to tip boxes and photos 15- , 20- , and 30-minute icons so you can fi nd the right recipe at a glance Ingredient Spotlights: purchasing tips, storage guidelines, and nutritional information 500+ mouthwatering photos Make It a Meal: hundreds of simple ideas to round out your dinner menu Plus... Editor's picks for time-saving gadgets Make It Faster shortcuts for when your schedule is especially busy A nutritional analysis for every recipe Easy-to-use recipe index

Combines time-saving tips with a ten-week meal plan consisting of quick-prepare dinners to counsel busy family cooks on everything from equipping a kitchen and organizing grocery runs to cooking in accordance with healthy guidelines. Original. 35,000 first printing.