How Hard Can It Be to Prepare
If It's a One Pot Dish?
Over the years I've met lots of people who tell me they want to eat healthy, but they just can't do it because they don't like to cook. Or, the never really learned how to cook, and feel that every recipe they read is written in a foreign language. Or, they live in homes with tiny kitchens and few appliances or cooking pots. Or, it's just so much simpler to grab fast-food meals or order pizza.
Do any of these excuses sound familiar? I've heard them often, but I think I've finally figured out the answer to every one of them: a cookbook devoted solely to one pot dishes. What could be easier than that?
You'll find an astonishing variety of meals can be produced using just one cooking pot, and you can select the pot based on your needs that particular day. If you're going to be busy for hours, but long to come home to a fully cooked meal, a slow cooker recipe may fit the bill. If you walk in the door to a ravenous family and nothing planned, a speedy microwave dish will put food on the table in mere minutes. And if you don't want to use your oven because you're just cooking for yourself tonight, a quick skillet or stir-fry (rather than a coll to the takeout place) is one way you can care for yourself and make a healthy choice without creating lots of extra cleanup.
The principle behind the recipes in this volume promises "one pot," although you may be using a few other dishes or bowls. But be assured that every "favorite" I've included has survived the test of time--that is, tested by people with little time or patience to cook complicated, multi-ingredient, five-course meals! I bet you'll use the recipes in this book again and again, because they're simple, delicious, and remarkably efficient.
Because I'm not known as the "Dessert Lady of America," I cant' have one pot cookbook that doesn't put a few dessert recipes into those pots. While the vast majority of recipes included in this collection are main dishes, you'll find a delicious selection of my special desserts, created with you in mind!
Pick your pot, choose a recipe, and you're on your way! You'll be so glad you did.
JoAnna
You'll find an astonishing variety of meals can be produced using just one cooking pot, and you can select the pot based on your needs that particular day. If you're going to be busy for hours, but long to come home to a fully cooked meal, a slow cooker recipe may fit the bill. If you walk in the door to a ravenous family and nothing planned, a speedy microwave dish will put food on the table in mere minutes. And if you don't want to use your oven because you're just cooking for yourself tonight, a quick skillet or stir-fry (rather than a coll to the takeout place) is one way you can care for yourself and make a healthy choice without creating lots of extra cleanup.
The principle behind the recipes in this volume promises "one pot," although you may be using a few other dishes or bowls. But be assured that every "favorite" I've included has survived the test of time--that is, tested by people with little time or patience to cook complicated, multi-ingredient, five-course meals! I bet you'll use the recipes in this book again and again, because they're simple, delicious, and remarkably efficient.
Because I'm not known as the "Dessert Lady of America," I cant' have one pot cookbook that doesn't put a few dessert recipes into those pots. While the vast majority of recipes included in this collection are main dishes, you'll find a delicious selection of my special desserts, created with you in mind!
Pick your pot, choose a recipe, and you're on your way! You'll be so glad you did.
JoAnna
