Monday-to-Friday Pasta

by Michele Urvater

Overview

Second in the Monday-to-Friday series, here's a pasta book with a difference. For two-worker families, single parents, and other busy people, Ms. Urvater marries the innovative Monday-to-Friday pantry-based approach with everyone's favorite food, pasta. The result is a guide to making over 175 delicious pasta dishes in roughly the time it takes to boil a pot of water. The range of recipes includes soup (Comforting Pasta Fagioli), seafood (Scallops Casino with Bowties), meat (Beef and Glass Noodles, Chic Chorizo), and salad (Couscous and Lentil Salad, Rotelle a la Greek Salad). Monday-to-Friday and the noodle: It's as perfect a match as spaghetti and meatballs.

Selection of the Better Homes & Gardens Family Book Service and Book-of-the-Month Club's HomeStyle Books. 55,000 copies in print.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761179047
Publisher:	Workman Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/09/1995
Sold by:	Hachette Digital, Inc.
Format:	eBook
Pages:	250
File size:	13 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

An "excellent teacher" is the New York Times's praise for Michele Urvater. The star of the Television Food Network series Cooking Monday-to-Friday,her books include the award-winning Monday-to-Friday Cookbook and Monday-to-Friday Chicken. Her 20-year cooking career includes catering, teaching, writing, consulting, and working as a corporate chef.

Table of Contents

Pasta: The Monday-to-Friday Way

How the Monday-to-Friday system works, including matching meals to busy family schedules.

The Pasta Pantry

Tips on buying and storing all varieties of dried and fresh pasta, plus a chart of popular pasta shapes.

Monday-to-Friday Pantry List

Stocking your refrigerator and cupboard-a quick overview.

Cooking Pasta

Advice on preparing and serving pasta, including what to do if your pasta clumps together or is overcooked.

Pasta Sauces

A collection of quick and easy sauces that go well with the pasta on hand: Enraged Tomato Sauce, Mariner's Sauce, Creamy Corn Salsa, and more.

Pasta Soups

Comforting Pasta e Fagioli, Japanese-Style Bean Noodle Soup, Tingly Lemon Orzo Soup-nourishing bowls of soup in no time.

Rich and Creamy Pasta Dishes

Cheese- and egg-filled pastas, including New-Fashioned Macaroni and Cheese, Linguine with Gorgonzola and Walnuts, and an Instant Lasagne-perfect to prepare on a workweek schedule.

Pasta with Poultry

Caribbean Chicken with Tender Noodles, Smoked Cajun Chicken and Mezzani, Turkey Tetrazzini with Butterfly Pasta-all one-dish meals that combine two favorite, fast ingredients.

Pasta with Seafood

The flavor and texture of seafood marries well with pasta, making it a natural Monday-to-Friday choice. Recipes include Shrimp Piquante with Fusilli, Fresh Tuna and Sun-Dried Tomatoes with Shells, and Rosy Creamed Sole Tossed with Fedelini.

Pasta with Meat

Pairing meat with pasta results in inviting dishes such as Gingered Beef with Glass Noodles, Veal with Olives and Penne, and Hot Sausage and Sweet Currants over Whole-Wheat Pasta.

Beans and Grains with Pasta

A full range of recipes that combine beans and grains with pasta-Coriander-Scented Lentils with Spaghettini, Garlicky White Beans and Sage with Orecchiette, Red-Hot Chick-Peas with Rigatoni, and more.

Pasta with Vegetables

Any season is a good time to enjoy fresh vegetables with pasta. Try Thai-Style Broccoli with Rice Noodles, Ravioli with Curried Cauliflower, and Eggplant "Chinoise" with Penne, to name a few.

Pasta Salads

Easy meal-size salads that make good use of both fresh and leftover ingredients: Beef and Fusilli Salad with Horseradish Dressing, Chicken Salad with Wagon Wheels, and Couscous and Lentil Salad are included.

Pasta from the Pantry

Pasta dishes that can be prepared using only what's available in the pantry. Try "Chilied" Black Beans and Penne, Spaghetti with Lemon Bread Crumbs and Anchovy, and Rotelle with Tuna and Tomatoes.

Pasta Off-Center

A collection of recipes that are out of the pasta mainstream as well as some that are out of the Monday-to-Friday genre. Included here are slow-cooked dishes to make on a Saturday or Sunday and some unusual desserts made with pasta.

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Editorial Reviews

This follow-up to Urvater's successful Monday-to-Friday Cookbook (LJ 9/15/91) is likely to be just as popular. This time around she offers close to 200 pasta recipes that take less than half an hour to prepare, along with lots of variations, ideas for jazzing up leftovers, and other tips for busy family cooks. Many recipes include suggestions for making them "Especially Good for Children" (or for adults, for company, or for dieters). Yes, yet another pasta cookbookbut the recipes are different and the format is very appealing. For most libraries.

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