Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast

by Christopher Kimball

Overview

NATIONAL BESTSELLER — WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD AND IACP AWARD FOR BEST GENERAL COOKBOOK

One of Epicurious' Greatest Home Cooks of All Time delivers creative, delicious weeknight dinners with this quick and easy cookbook for beginner cooks and foodies alike.
 
At Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, Tuesdays are the new Saturdays. That means every Tuesday Nights recipe delivers big, bold flavors, but the cooking is quick and easy—simple enough for the middle of the week.
 
Kimball and his team of cooks and editors search the world for straightforward techniques that deliver delicious dinners in less time. Here they present more than 200 solutions that will transform your weeknight cooking, showing how to make simple, healthy, delicious meals using pantry staples and just a few other ingredients. Here are some of the fresh, inventive meals that come together in minutes:

• Miso-Ginger Chicken Salad
• Rigatoni Carbonara with Ricotta
• Vietnamese Meatball Lettuce Wraps
• Peanut-Sesame Noodles
• White Balsamic Chicken with Tarragon
• Seared Strip Steak with Almond-Rosemary Salsa Verde
• Chocolate-Tahini Pudding

Tuesday Nights is organized by the way you cook. Some chapters focus on time—with recipes that are Fast (under an hour, start to finish), Faster (45 minutes or less), and Fastest (25 minutes or less). Others highlight easy methods or themes, including Supper Salads, Roast and Simmer and Easy Additions. And there's always time for pizza, tacos, "walk-away" recipes, one-pot wonders, ultrafast 20-minute miracles, and dessert.
 
Great food in quick time, every night of the week.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780316437318
Publisher:	Little, Brown and Company
Publication date:	10/16/2018
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	51,117
Product dimensions:	8.80(w) x 10.40(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Christopher Kimball's Milk Street is located in downtown Boston—at 177 Milk Street—and is home to a cooking school, a bimonthly magazine, and public television and radio shows. They are the authors of Milk Street: The New Home Cooking, Milk Street: Tuesday Nights, which won both the IACP and James Beard Awards for General Cooking, and Milk Street: The New Rules.

Editorial Reviews

06/18/2018
Kimball—owner of Milk Street, a Boston-based cooking school and media company that he founded after leaving Cooks Illustrated —harvests zingy flavors from across the globe to craft flavorful dishes that do not require long cooking times: Suya is spiced flatiron steak eaten as street food in Nigeria and takes 45 minutes from start to finish; Indian-inspired beef and peas is pepped up with garam masala and is ready in 40 minutes. Recipes are impeccable and basic, such as a 20-minute cacio e pepe, which calls for only black pepper, corn starch, pasta, and pecorino Romano cheese (though Kimball advises using only freshly grated cheese). Lightning-quick dishes fall into three categories: fast (Palestinian chicken with sumac), faster (sautéed shrimp with coconut and macadamia nuts), and fastest (kale soup with canned cannellini beans). Salads appear throughout—as sides (tomato salad and a chickpea salad) as well as mains (fattoush, Korean chicken salad). There is also a section on family favorites, including pizza, tacos, and burgers. Book organization, however, can become fuzzy at times (a chapter on one-pot meals includes a rigatoni carbonara with ricotta that could have been a variation on an earlier spaghetti carbonara found in the “fastest” section). Kimball concludes with quick desserts, such as maple-whiskey cakes baked in ramekins and sherry-soaked French toast. This is a handy, wide-ranging collection of pleasingly efficient recipes. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

Winner of the James Beard Foundation Award and the IACP Award for Best General Cookbook


One of the Best Books of the Year: The Atlantic, Amazon, Food52, NPR, Washington Post, Barnes & Noble, Boston Globe, Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Philadelphia Inquirer, Seattle Times, New Hampshire Public Radio



One of the 10 Cookbooks Our Readers Couldn't Live Without—Food52

"A well-tested book that turns the Tuesday-night recipe on its head... uses bright and bold flavors and smart techniques that allow even a modestly competent cook to eat well in the middle of the week... my Tuesday-night game was never going to be the same."—Kim Severson, New York Times

"Milk Street: Tuesday Nights stands above the rest... offers scores of inventive, delicious, and swift recipes ideal for any night of the week... On almost every page is a dish I'm dying to try... Coming in at a little more than 400 pages with gorgeous full-color photographs for each entry, the book has enough to keep an enterprising cook busy for weeks."—Portland Press-Herald

"As usual, Chris Kimball has the answer: replace hours of culinary labor with dramatic, high-flavor ingredients... it almost makes you wish every day could be Tuesday."—NPR

"Easy weeknight recipes with an international twist... Tuesday Nights starts with big-flavor ingredients and combines them to maximum effect."—Boston Globe

"Underscores how home cooks are changing up weeknight meals with flavors from around the world... for millions of home cooks, the thrill of the global pantry is the next big step in the kitchen... getting at the best and most efficient method that the home cook can duplicate... These are recipes, Milk Street guarantees, that work.—Houston Chronicle

"A solid, eclectic group of recipes that is built for working into your own weeknight rotations."—Washington Post

"Around-the-world meals you can actually pull off on a weeknight!"—Woman's Day

"A celebration of joyful any-day meals that'll give your routine a welcome boost."—Tasting Table

"Stress-free cooking... There's plenty to tempt even tired cooks, including a rich, flavorful Sausage and Mushroom Ragu with Pappardelle, lots of twists on no-fuss roasted chicken thighs requiring minimal active cooking time, and a bunch of satisfying dinner salads."—Christian Science Monitor

"For the global adventurer... Milk Street: Tuesday Nights is a delicious gem... [and] the recipes are accessible for any skill level."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

"A cookbook for the rest of us... packed with instructions for making delicious dinners during the week."—Monterey Herald

"Delivers 200+ recipes for palate-awakening meals... Generously seasoned with international spices and pantry staples, these speedy stir fries, pastas, pizzas, and other dishes will satisfy adventurous home cooks... Milk Street's globally inspired approach to fast cooking is anything but bland. Turn to their latest for flavorful weeknight winners."—Library Journal

"Wondering what to cook on a weeknight that could possibly be faster or better than takeout? Look no further... [than] this decidedly inventive, omnivorous, and international collection... the 200-plus recipes, each under a page and accompanied by a full-page photo, include start-to-finish (active and inactive) time estimates and, when applicable, 'don't' notes that discourage common pitfalls."—Booklist

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