Dinner Plan: Simple Weeknight Recipes and Strategies for Every Schedule

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From the authors of the IACP award-winning cookbook KEEPERS, an entirely new and personalized approach to tackling the dinnerdilemma: Between juggling work, family activities, mismatched schedules, andoften barerefrigerators, there are all sorts of situations that make weeknight cooking a universally challenging-and frustrating-experience.The Dinner Planoffers fivemeal strategies-Make-Ahead, Staggered, One-Dish, Extra-Fast, and Pantry-that will help get dinner on the table no matter what the workweek throws at you. The 135 recipes-from main dishes to sides to salads and "lifesaver" condiments-provide lots of practical options whether time is super-tight,youhaven't had a chance to run to the store, or everyone is coming home at a different time. And most importantly,all of the recipes are "keepers"-brag-worthy, reliable, crowd-pleasing preparations that you'll confidently turn to again and again. Shrimp Scampi, Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas, Foolproof Carbonara, and Mexican Skillet Lasagna are just a few examples of doable recipes that will earn their place in any busy cook's repertoire.Rounded out with plenty of tips and a bonus section on healthful snackscalled The Forgotten Meal,The Dinner Planis every home cook's indispensable weeknight dinner guide.

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"The Dinner Plan does a fantastic job of providing new go-to favourites to add to your regular midweek rotation." Easy Food
"There are cookbooks for every occasion, but none I have found tackles weekly dinner plans quite like this one. Its authors first cookbook, Keepers, is a go-to resource for weeknight meals, and was published six years ago." -- The Times

Author Bio

Kathy Brennan is a food/cookbook editor and writer. A winner of the Bert Greene and James Beard Journalism Awards and a graduate of New York's International Culinary Center, she was a senior editor atSaveurand also worked atGourmetandFood Arts.Caroline Campion is a freelance writer and the creator of the award-winning food blog DevilAndEgg.com. She was also a senior editor at Saveur, GQ, and Glamour and has contributed to the New York Times, Martha Stewart, Redbook, and Cherry Bombe. Their first book together, KEEPERS: Two Home Cooks Share Their Tried-and-True Weeknight Recipes and the Secrets to Happiness in the Kitchen, won the International Association of Culinary Professionals Cookbook Award for General Excellence in 2014 and was chosen by NPR as one of its Good Reads of 2013. The Boston Globe also called it possibly "the best-value weeknight cookbook around".