Busy cooks seeking fussless, intensely flavored dishes will embrace Rozanne Gold's Recipes
1-2-3 Menu Cookbook: Morning, Noon and Night, the sequel to her award-winning Recipes
1-2-3. In that ingenious book, Gold showed how recipes could be pared down to three
ingredients each (salt and pepper aside) to achieve dishes that were more than the sum of
their parts. In this book, she presents over 60 menus of three-ingredient dishes, 260
recipes in all, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner--course after course of simple, healthful
food based on easy-to-find ingredients inventively treated. Want a lovely weekend
breakfast? Try Gold's "Room Service" menu of Poached Eggs with Lime Hollandaise,
Smoked Salmon Quesadillas, and Fresh Strawberries with Gingered Yogurt--nine ingredients,
total. Hungry Guests, a menu for streamlined entertaining, features Frisée and Beet Salad
with Goat Cheese Dressing; Chicken Fricassee with Pearl Onions and Lardons; Celery Root
Gratin; and Warm Banana Tarts--a 12-ingredient feast. Other menus present equally
satisfying few-ingredient recipes that even novice cooks can prepare. Throughout, Gold
provides useful strategies for time-saving cooking; her "Grapenotes" offers wine
suggestions to complement the dishes and "Menus from the Healthy Kitchen" lists
recipes that are fat-free, low-fat, and low-calorie. You'll find yourself mixing and
matching dishes to create your own few-ingredient menus--a tribute to Gold's unique
approach and enticing recipes. --Arthur Boehm |