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The Short-Cut Cook: Make Simple Meals with Surprisingly Little Effort




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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780060936921
ISBN: 0060936924
Label: William Morrow Cookbooks
Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 01, 2001
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Release Date: October 09, 2001
Studio: William Morrow Cookbooks



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Product Description:
Jacques PÉpin, America's favorite French chef, makes your cooking easier with 150 timesaving recipes.
  • Make crackers by spritzing wonton wrappers with oil and bake until golden.
  • Use frozen butternut squash for quick soup.
  • Freeze salmon and cream cheese appetizer rollups for easy slicing.
  • Prepare cheese straws appetizers with frozen puff pastry.
  • Need an elegant entrÉe in record time?
    SautÉ pork cutlets with prunes and steak sauce.
  • Spoon a rich-tasting sauce of wine, ketchup, and mustard over grilled steak
  • Mix melted chocolate with whipped cream for quick chocolate mousse.
  • Fill a store-bought, hollowed-out pound cake with quick food processor lemon buttercream.




  • Customer Reviews
    Average Rating: out of 5 stars

    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Gift for sis
    She loved it. I hope she lets me sample some of Jacques's delictable meals. Yummmm.


    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - biased
    jacques pepin is my all time favorite chef.. there is nothing negative i can say about Mr. P.. even with all the new chefs today.. Jean Georges-Daniel--Bobby--Alain.. i always go back to Mr. P..


    Rating: 5 out of 5 stars - Easy Access to Good Food
    I began cooking from this book about 12 years ago, when it was first released in hardcover. I did not know Jaques Pepin's reputation, I simply wanted recipes one can do quickly. My bottom line on this book is that it succeeded in delivering on the promise of the book's title.

    I confess I was a little cynical about Pepin's book at first. Pierre Franey, a chef whose very very impressive pedigree I did know had published, at that time, at least three volumes of quick cooking recipes based ... Read More


    Rating: 4 out of 5 stars - No Ego Here -- A Title That Delivers
    Jacques Pepin is known for honest, straight-forward, fool proof techqniue and advice. As the most familiar French face for most American foodies, his association has generally been with what Americans consider "classic" French cooking.

    But Pepin has been touting all along the simplicity of "real" French cooking -- from his home kitchen to that of his mother's, these recipes attest to the paradigm that a few high quality products can transform a meal into something memorable.

    Many ... Read More






     






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