“Quick Fix Meals: 200 Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make Mealtime Easy,” by Robin Miller (Taunton, $18.95)
With the older of her two sons just off to kindergarten, Robin Miller may be new to the school-year drill, but she’s more than ready for the daily challenge of fitting healthful, home-cooked dinners into a busier-than-ever schedule.
If you find Rachael Ray’s hyper-perkiness grating and Paula Dean’s butter-intensive recipes too rich, Miller may be just the ticket.
“Fast is first,” says Miller, host of her own show on The Food Network. “If it can be healthy, that’s awesome. Fast, delicious, healthy – that’s what people want.”
The “Quick Fix” book offers 200 recipes and three main strategies: “In the Bag,” prepping and refrigerating the components for dishes like Bow-Ties with Warm Blue Cheese Sauce for fast assembly; “Morph It,” making a big batch of a dish like Roasted Chicken with Smoky Apricot Sauce, then turning the leftovers into three disparate meals (in this case, quesadillas, a Thai-inspired chicken salad and a curry); and “Dinner Express,” shortcut dishes like a white pizza made with purchased dough, jarred pesto and shredded mozzarella. | McClatchy News Service
