The big book for easy suppers

Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com www.Ebook777.com Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com www.Ebook777.com DEDICATION As always, I dedicate this book to my husband, Reed, who is my adviser, tester, shopper, computer person, confidant, manager, and best friend He has encouraged and supported me throughout my many years of writing cookbooks It has really been a team effort, and I couldn’t have written them without him Thank you, Reed Also to Julie, Scott, Gregg, and Jon, who, for as long as they can remember, have been eating their mother’s test recipes Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com ACKNOWLEDGEM Thanks again to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of cookbooks at Chronicle Books, for his continued support for my Big Book series The Big Book of Easy Suppers follows The Big Book of Potluck, The Big Book of Breakfast, The Big Book of Soups & Stews, and my all-time bestseller, The Big Book of Casseroles To Amy Treadwell at Chronicle Books for her continued help and advice during the writing of the book; to Carrie Bradley for her expert copyediting, additions, and suggestions; and to all of the Chronicle Books staff www.Ebook777.com Special thanks to Brian Crow for his computer consulting I am also grateful to neighbors, friends, and family who were willing testers Contents Dedication Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter Soups Chapter Main-Course Supper Salads Chapter Accompaniment Salads Chapter Sandwiches Chapter Meats Chapter Chicken Chapter Egg Dishes Chapter Seafood and Fish Chapter Main-Course Pasta, Grains, and Legumes Chapter 10 Pasta, Grain, and Legume Side Dishes Chapter 11 Vegetables Chapter 12 Pizza Chapter 13 Stir-Fries Chapter 14 Grilling Chapter 15 Desserts Index About the Author Table of Equivalents About the Author Copyright INTRODUCTION The Big Book of Easy Suppers offers an alternative to full-course, time-consuming meals with casual, lighter, and fun suppers for family and friends Featured are maincourse soups; salads and sandwiches; easy meat, poultry, and seafood entrées; hearty pastas; egg dishes; healthful stirfries; grilling recipes; and simple desserts Included are a variety of recipes that are generally easy to make, with straightforward directions and ingredients that are, for the most part, already in your pantry or readily available in local FreeFresh ebooks ==> ingredients supermarkets seasonal are used ifwww.Ebook777.com available and practical, along with a few convenience foods and some top guality canned foods Prepared mixes and canned soups are not included in the belief that homemade is truly best In some parts of the country, the evening meal is still traditionally called “supper,” while “dinner,” the biggest meal, is eaten at midday Many of our grandparents and older folks referred to supper as the casual meal served at the end of a typical day; dinner was a more formal affair reserved for special occasions or after church My childhood memories of suppers include light meals on Sunday evenings consisting of sandwiches made www.Ebook777.com Baste for Veggies Beef and Vegetable Stir-Fry Beef-Vegetable Kabobs Chicken and Vegetable Kabobs Garlic Roasted Vegetables Grilled Veggie Bobs Italian Veggie Egg Dish Oven Brown Rice and Vegetables Pasta and Vegetable Salad with Creamy Dill Dressing Pasta Salad with Turkey Breast and Vegetables Summer Vegetable Sauté Vegetable-Beef Soup with Barley Vegetable Pizza Whitefish and Vegetable Gratin Winter Vegetable Sauté Winter Vegetable Soup with Kielbasa, Pasta, and Beans Vegetarian Minestrone Vinaigrettes See Salad dressings Waffles Basic Waffles Cheese Waffles Chocolate Waffles Cranberry Waffles Nutty Waffles Poppy Seed Waffles Waffles with Ham Waldorf Salad, Spinach Walnuts Apple-Berry Crisp Blueberry Crisp with Walnut Streusel Topping Candied Walnuts Chicken and Fresh Strawberry Salad Gigi’s Fudge Cake Ice Cream Crunch Oregon Walnut Pie Refrigerator Butterscotch-Nut Cookies Spinach and Avocado Salad with Dried Cranberries, Candied Walnuts, and Blue Cheese Spinach Waldorf Salad Turkey Salad with Dried Cranberries Warm Tuna Rolls Wasabi Cream Watercress, Romaine, Shrimp, and Avocado Salad with Creamy Tarragon Dressing Watermelon Blueberry-Melon Bowl with Honey- Yogurt Dressing Whipped Cream, Spiced Whitefish and Vegetable Gratin Wild rice Shrimp and Rice Wine-Butter Baste Winter Vegetable Sauté Winter Vegetable Soup with Kielbasa, Pasta, and Beans Wrap, Chicken, Avocado, and Red Bell Pepper Yogurt Halibut with Tangy Yogurt Topping Honey-Yogurt Dressing Zesty Meatballs and Pasta Soup Zucchini Alphabet Soup Baked Herbed Zucchini Frittata Beef-Vegetable Kabobs Big Beef-Bean Stew Chicken and Vegetable Kabobs Garlic Roasted Vegetables Greek-Style Grilled Zucchini Grilled Veggie Bobs Kabobs from the Sea Pasta with Chicken, Zucchini, and Mushrooms in Quick Tomato Sauce Summer Vegetable Sauté Vegetarian Minestrone Zesty Meatballs and Pasta Soup Zucchini Bake Zucchini Boats ABOUT THE AUTHOR Maryana Vollstedt is a native of Oregon and graduated from Oregon State University in Home Economics In 1952 she and her husband, Reed, started Reed and Cross, a small nursery and garden center that grew into a retail complex that included a landscape service, a florist, a gift shop, clothing, gourmet cookware, a wine shop, and a deli This is where Maryana started her writing career in the mid-1960s by authoring the first cookbook and manual for the Kamado barbecue She continued to write, and self-published 15 other cookbooks on a variety of subjects The Vollstedts sold the store in 1979 to travel and pursue other interests Since 1995, Maryana has written Pacific Fresh, What’s for Dinner?, The Big Book of Casseroles, The Big Book of Soups & Stews, The Big Book of Breakfast, and The Big Book of Potluck, all published by Chronicle Books These books, with practical recipes and straightforward directions, appeal to the home cook and all have been best-sellers Maryana also writes a bimonthly food column called “What’s for Dinner?” and has edited the “Kids Cook” column for her local newspaper the Eugene Register Guard for eight years She is active in her community as the volunteer coordinator for a mentor program in five middle schools She has four grown children and seven grandchildren Maryana lives with Reed in Eugene, Oregon, where she continues to write cookbooks TABLE OF EQUIVALENTS The exact equivalents in the following tables have been rounded for convenience LIQUID/DRY MEASURES U.S ¼ teaspoon ½ teaspoon teaspoon tablespoon (3 Metric 1.25 milliliters 2.5 milliliters milliliters teaspoons) fluid ounce (2 tablespoons) ẳ cup cup ẵ cup cup pint (2 cups) quart (4 cups, 32 ounces) gallon (4 quarts) ounce (by weight) pound 15 milliliters 30 milliliters 60 milliliters 80 milliliters 120 milliliters 240 milliliters 480 milliliters 960 milliliters 3.84 liters 28 grams 454 grams 2.2 pounds kilogram LENGTH U.S ⅛ inch ¼ inch ½ inch inch Metric millimeters millimeters 12 millimeters 2.5 centimeters OVEN TEMPERATURE Fahrenheit 250 275 300 325 Celsius 120 140 150 160 Gas ½ 350 375 400 425 450 475 500 180 190 200 220 230 240 260 10 MARYANA VOLLSTEDT is the author of more than a dozen cookbooks, including The Big Book of Potluck, The Big Book of Breakfast, The Big Book of Soups & Stews, The Big Book of Casseroles, and What’s for Dinner?, all from Chronicle Books She lives in Eugene, Oregon Text copyright © 2005 by Maryana Vollstedt Cover photograph copyright © 2005 by Sheri Giblin All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher ISBN 978-1-4521-1990-8 (eBook) The Library of Congress has previously cataloged this title under ISBN 9780-8118-4350-8 Designed by George McCalman Prop styling by Leigh Noe Food styling by Dan Becker Photo Assistant by Guarina Lopez Typesetting by Janis Reed Chronicle Books LLC 680 Second Street San Francisco, California 94107 www.chroniclebooks.com ... for my Big Book series The Big Book of Easy Suppers follows The Big Book of Potluck, The Big Book of Breakfast, The Big Book of Soups & Stews, and my all-time bestseller, The Big Book of Casseroles... meals and easy- to-prepare guality food, The Big Book of Easy Suppers will appeal to the home cook Suppers are ideal to serve for family meals and for informal entertaining A well-designed supper... their mother’s test recipes Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com ACKNOWLEDGEM Thanks again to Bill LeBlond, editorial director of cookbooks at Chronicle Books, for his continued support for my Big