How to Be a Great Home Cook

Learn the simple techniques it takes to make fabulous dinners on hectic weeknights and when entertaining. Youll learn how to shop to ensure you always have the makings of a great dinner on hand, how to throw together a meal in a hurry, and how to plan a menu for entertaining. Youll learn to coordinate timing---both yours and the food---so that side dishes and entres are ready at the same time, and how to turn basic recipe concepts into several variations so that you never again feel like you eat the same meals every week. This is a class designed specifically to make sure the meals you put on the table are delicious, simple, and stress-free. Using a few basic recipes, youll discover how to create dozens of weeknight entres (all of which can be on the table in less than 30 minutes) using chicken, fish, seafood, beef, pork and vegetarian protein sources. Marge Perry is a nationally syndicated Newsday columnist, contributing editor for Cooking Light, cookbook author, and writer for such diverse publications as The New York Times, Self, Better Homes & Gardens, Health, Westchester Magazine and many others.