The Ultimate Casserole Cookbook: 175 Great One-Dish Recipes
More common in American households than stews are their near relatives: casseroles. These, too, can be set in an oven and forgotten, freeing the cook for other duties. Barbara Jones'The Ultimate Casserole Cookbookdoesn't immediately rush into common shortcuts such as adding a can of cream soup to meat. She calls for fresh ingredients such as white wine and sour cream in her mushroom-chicken stroganoff. But she does resort to canned soup when time is of the essence in an easy broccoli chicken bake. By spicing this hasty casserole with curry and adding steamed fresh broccoli, she adds flavor and texture missing in so many soup-based dishes. Cooks with little time and much responsibility for family dinners will find lots here to entice hungry mouths of all age groups.Mark KnoblauchCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved