Description:
With The Working Stiff Cookbook, Bob Sloan has written a smart, effective, useful little cookbook. He probably has in mind a reader with a small kitchen and limited counter space. But the book works just as well for the reader with a grand kitchen and enough counter space to make room for every kitchen gizmo imaginable. Sloan's bottom line is more about time than anything else. If you are a working stiff, you probably assume that you don't have the time or requisite cooking skills to produce stylish, flavorful, and nutritious meals for you and your loved ones. Yet Sloan will show you how. He demonstrates that with a willingness to learn as you grow, you too can put Thai-Style Flounder with Coconut Rice on the table in about 30 hassle-free minutes. Next you'll be whipping up Chicken Breasts with Artichokes and Mushrooms, or perhaps Singular Meat Loaves with Garlic Mashed Potatoes. Sloan divides his book into chapters that address technique and appropriate tools. Here are "One Pot" recipes (Sicilian Vegetable Stew, Chicken Curry in a Hurry), pasta (Thai Vegetable Noodles, Fettuccini with Smoked Salmon), and soups, salads, and sandwiches. This is a breezy, easy-going book. It's spiral-bound to open flat and stay there and not make you crazy while you're trying to cook. New cooks can't lose, and well-schooled cooks may well want to take note. Bob Sloan believes that pancakes for dinner is a perfectly legitimate dish, and that alone deserves the price of admission. --Schuyler Ingle
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