A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals with Ingredients

A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals with Ingredients from Jars, Cans, Bags, and Boxes: A Cookbook

Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton has conquered the gourmet world as the original dessert chef at Spago and founder of the celebrated La Brea Bakery. Her recipes are legendary, innovative, and delicious. However, in the last few years, there has been a great shift in cooking toward the Home Meal Replacement (HMR), better known as â€œtakeout.â€ Itâ€™s impossible to spend hours in the kitchen after a hard dayâ€™s work, so more people are buying prepared foods and frozen meals, compromising taste for convenience. Realizing that peopleâ€™s hectic workdays donâ€™t afford everyone the time to re-create her epicurean triumphs, Nancy has come up with the perfect solution . . .

Enter, the jar!

Compiling a list of her favorite products that come in jarsâ€”and cans, bags, and boxesâ€”Nancy has created easy-to-follow recipes that require less than thirty minutes to prepare. With this book thereâ€™s no need to sacrifice flavor, sophistication, and taste just because youâ€™re spending less time chopping, cleaning, cooking, or baking. Nancyâ€™s shortcuts not only allow us to produce quick and easy meals at home, they let us bring back the pride and the joy of creating gourmet meals for our family and friends.

A Twist of the Wrist contains 137 quick and delicious gourmet recipes from salads to pasta to meats and desserts, such as:

Cumin Shrimp and Chickpea Salad with Roasted Carrots
Creamy Corn Soup with Bacon and Cheddar Crostini
Orzo with Dried Porcini Mushrooms, Radicchio, and Aged Balsamic Vinegar
Boneless Pork Chops, with Creamy Polenta and Fennel Pollen
Seared Rare Tuna with Tomato-Olive Salsa
Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Pie with Hot Fudge Sauce, Cajeta, and Salty Spanish Peanuts

In addition to Nancyâ€™s own creations, she includes recipes concocted with prepared ingredients from some of her chef friends, including Sara Foster, Tom Colicchio, Charlie Trotter, Mario Batali, Suzanne Goin, Ruth Reichl, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

There is also a pantry section, telling us where to getâ€”by the Internet and mail orderâ€”the best of all things canned, jarred, and bottled.

This charming and utterly indispensable cookbook is suited for any type of cook, whether youâ€™re an on-the-go gourmand or you just love flavorful, accessible meals at home. A Twist of the Wrist fits perfectly into todayâ€™s modern lifestyle and is a must-have for the contemporary kitchen.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9781400044078
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2007-03-27
Size 1 EA
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781400044078

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9781400044078
Color	Grey
ReleaseDate	2007-03-27
Size	1 EA
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781400044078

A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals with Ingredients from Jars, Cans, Bags, and Boxes: A Cookbook

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