Once you've chosen the entree for a meal, your thoughts turn to what you should serve with it. Our 75 quick dishes will stand up to any main course and take the ho-hum out of mealtime in the blink of an eye. Chapters include Garden Veggies, Pasta Medleys, Rice Favorites, Light Choices, and Soup's On. Includes kitchen tips, product substitution suggestions, perfect pasta tips, and a metric equivalents table.

In an age fascinated by both fitness and good food, salad has naturally come into its own. It appears as the main course at lunch or dinner, or as a substantial side dish. Whatever the occasion, salads have never before offered such versatile, fresh choices as in this handy cookbook with 75 easy, all-time favorite recipes. Chapters include Fresh Greens and Veggies, Chicken, Pasta, Seafood, Turkey, Pork, and Fruit. Includes kitchen tips and a metric equivalents table.

Brunches are a luxurious way to start the day, and these 83 recipes provide all the flavorful choices that families love most. There are egg dishes, meats, potatoes and other vegetables, fruits, biscuits, jams, pastries, coffee cakes, spicy hot and cold drinks, and more. Recipes include Make Your Own Omelets, Homemade Sausage, Potato Croquettes, Baked Onion Turnovers, Breakfast Smoothies, Cinnamon Cider, Spiced Coffee, Hot Maple Cream, Hot Cranberry-Lemon Tea, Swiss Cheese Chowder, Tasty Pecan Muffins, Toasted Granola, Apple-Pecan Salad, Easy Cheesy Bread, Fluffy Yeast Rolls, Frozen Fruit Salads, Corned Beef Hash Casserole, Chocolate Cinnamon Rolls, and other favorites.

With these 75 timesaving recipes, you'll get dinner ready and be out of the kitchen faster than ever! Each dish features easy-to-gather ingredients and short cooking times or convenient make-ahead plans. You'll turn to these family favorites even when you're not in a hurry! Chapters include Dinner, Lunch, Breakfast or Brunch, and Kids' Favorites. Includes tips for smart shortcuts and full meal menus, plus a metric equivalents table.

Whether roasted, fried, sauteed, or simmered, chicken goes great with a huge variety of seasonings and ingredients. These 75 easy, all-time favorite recipes are simply delicious, and simple to make. So gather your family and invite your friends for a feast of flavorful chicken that you'll be proud to serve. Chapters include Salad Sampler; Chicken Combos; Roasted, Baked and Grilled; South by Southwest; Comfort Food; Appetizers and Snacks; and From the Skillet and Wok. Includes cooking and grilling tips, plus a metric equivalents table.

Whatever you're hungry for, here are 928 recipes that are sure to please. There are cookies of all kinds, desserts to top off meals with sweetness, easy recipes for casual everyday meals, ready-to-fix gift mixes, party appetizers and drinks, and complete menus for family gatherings. This big cookbook collection also presents all-time favorite recipes for smart suppers to fix fast, treats to satisfy every sweet tooth, side dishes to spice up lunch and dinner, salads for the freshest and healthiest meals, cakes and pies for ending meals on a sweet note, and a variety of flavorful chicken recipes. With its convenient lie-flat comb binding, this treasury will be used again and again!

A “bold, luscious” memoir, “indispensable to anyone trying to forge their own truer path” (Ruth Reichl). On one side, there is Grace: prize-winning author Diana Abu-Jaber’s tough, independent sugar-fiend of a German grandmother, wielding a suitcase full of holiday cookies. On the other, Bud: a flamboyant, spice-obsessed Arab father, full of passionate argument. The two could not agree on anything: not about food, work, or especially about what Diana should do with her life. Grace warned her away from children. Bud wanted her married above all—even if he had to provide the ring. Caught between cultures and lavished with contradictory “advice” from both sides of her family, Diana spent years learning how to ignore others’ well-intentioned prescriptions. Hilarious, gorgeously written, poignant, and wise, Life Without a Recipe is Diana’s celebration of journeying without a map, of learning to ignore the script and improvise, of escaping family and making family on one’s own terms. As Diana discovers, however, building confidence in one’s own path sometimes takes a mistaken marriage or two—or in her case, three: to a longhaired boy-poet, to a dashing deconstructionist literary scholar, and finally to her steadfast, outdoors-loving Scott. It also takes a good deal of angst (was it possible to have a serious writing career and be a mother?) and, even when she knew what she wanted (the craziest thing, in one’s late forties: a baby!), the nerve to pursue it. Finally, fearlessly independent like the Grace she’s named after, Diana and Scott’s daughter Gracie will heal all the old battles with Bud and, like her writer-mom, learn to cook up a life without a recipe.