Product Description

With the flip of a lid, and these delicious recipes, you'll have dinner on the table in no time!

Short on time? Hungry for something new?

With her trademark quick and easy recipes using canned and jarred ingredients, Laura Karr will help you prepare tasty, nutritious meals in a matter of minutes. In her first successful cookbook, The Can Opener Gourmet, Laura introduced her worry-free, time-saving approach to home cooking. Now, in her latest offering, she provides 200 more mouthwatering recipes that require very little preparation-just pop it, stir it, fix it, serve it-and then sit back and enjoy it.

It's all here: recipes for starters, soups, salads, meat and fish entrees, breads, desserts, and more. Dishes like Mediterranean White Bean Dip, Salmon-Orange Salad with Ginger-Lime Dressing, Mexican Chicken Bake, Beef Shepherd's Pie, and Applesauce Raisin Bread can be prepared in mere minutes with items you've already got on hand.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #469439 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-11
• Released on: 2005-05-11
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

From Booklist
Following her successful earlier book, The Can Opener Gourmet (2002), which lauded the convenience of cooking with canned foods, Karr embarks on further explorations of how much variety and good flavor come out of the humble can. She goes far beyond merely binding ingredients with a can of condensed soup, aiming instead for maximum flavor by mixing canned ingredients with plenty of dried herbs and a hefty amount of spice. This adds variety and attraction to what might otherwise be a bland menu. Many of Karr's creations use Indian spices, sure to perk up appetites. Items such as pancakes and cornbread start with flour and leavening instead of prepared baking mixes. For those concerned about the presence of excessive salt in canned foods, she suggests rinsing as a way of eliminating some sodium. One ingredient Karr insists on having in its fresh form is genuine Parmesan cheese, not the boxed variety. People living with minimal refrigeration facilities may find this an especially useful cookbook. Mark Knoblauch
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About the Author
A woman on a tight schedule, Laura Karr makes the most of her time by using the recipes in this cookbook and her last cookbook, The Can Opener Gourmet, to put terrific meals on the table. A food writer and a lifetime cook, she lives in Los Angeles, California.

Customer Reviews

Easy Cooking for Busy people
I bought the first cookbook by Laura Karr, Can Opener Gourmet. There were several recipes in there that my family requested again and again. Based on that, I picked up this cookbook as well.

This cookbook is a bit more comprehensive that her Can Opener Gourmet cookbook. There are more recipes and they might be a bit more difficult than the recipes in the other cookbook. However, every recipe I have tried has been fairly easy, uses common ingredients, and turns out well. In fact there are many recipes my family has requested that came from this cook book.

These are the type of recipes a young child who can read and work an oven safely can easily throw together. Additionally these are the type of recipes that can be thrown together in a short amount of time. You can easily add or delete or change the recipe to suit your taste also.

It is well worth the money.
Enjoy.

A No Fear Cookbook that Really Makes Cooking Easy
This is the easiest cookbook ever. I'm 27, married and hopeless in the kitchen. I received my first new stove 3 months ago. For me, the scariest part of cooking is not the oven, but the grocery store. Most cookbooks list ingredients I've never heard of and could never find in the store. With Laura Karr's book, you can get away with the canned food aisle and the spice section. Once you make the Spicy Tomato Cheese Sauce, you will have all of the spices you need in your kitchen to make anything. (I'd only ever had garlic salt in the spice rack before) For someone who thinks Ragu is too full of chunky bits to enjoy, I couldn't believe how delicious this sauce was! Just a few teaspoons of a half-dozen spices and you have great flavor without the chunky stuff. My husband wants me to make gallons of this sauce and freeze it so we can just forget the store-bought sauce altogether and put this on everything.

The recipes make it very easy to make substitutions for picky eaters and they are also easy to make vegetarian.

Before every recipe, there is a handy guide to what appliances you need to make that dish. Very helpful for the starting cook who just doesn't have their kitchen outfitted yet. The ingredient list is simple and easy to shop with.

Everything I have made with this cookbook has come out delicious. I've made soup, chowder, spaghetti sauce, dinner rolls and desserts. All had rave reviews from friends brave enough to try my cooking. I would highly recommend it to anyone who wants to cook, but doesn't know where to start. A great first cookbook for graduates and newlyweds.