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A Twist of The Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals With Ingredients From Jars, Cans, Bags, And Boxes by Carolynn Carreño and Nancy Silverton

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  • Pot sticker and vegetable stir-fry (Tom Douglas, Dahlia lounge Seattle)

    • mfto on July 11, 2011

      Quick?! Depends on how you look at it. Yes, it is quick after you have all the ingredients right beside your wok. Fun? yes. Good? yes. But not quick in my cooking dictionary. Someone gave me a bottle of Sweet Chili Sauce Mae Ploy. It is way too sweet for my taste but when I mixed some in lime juice and added a little fish sauce, it was much better. My husband really liked it and it certainly is easy which appeals to me.

  • Crostini with white bean purée, rosemary olive oil, and aged balsamic vinegar

    • DKennedy on July 29, 2012

      I love this recipe. Similar to the crostinis served at Mozza. Be sure to finish with grey salt, balsamic reduction and good quality olive oil.

  • Chicken with potato-lentil curry, green masala yogurt, and fresh cilantro

    • DKennedy on September 18, 2012

      Made this tonight with excellent results. The fresh green sauce placed on the table at most Indian restaurants is the green masala sauce needed in this recipe. The precooked lentils sold at Tjs work well in this dish.

    • DKennedy on May 16, 2013

      Tweaked this over time to make it simpler. Use fresh green sauce. I buy mine from the Indian fast food restaurant. I pick up the potato curry needed for this dish there as well. If not, I substitute TJs chick pea curry or spinach. TJs precooked lentils work well in this dish, saute them with garlic, shallots. Shred a rotisserie chicken. If time permits, heat the chicken to just above room temp before assembling. Don't mix lentils and curry together. Instead layer: lentils on the bottom, fresh arugula, tomatoes and cucumbers draped on top, roasted chicken next, drizzle with yogurt green masala dressing, and warm curry on both sides. Makes for a lovely presentation. So, so good!

  • Strawberries and ladyfingers with sour cream, muscovado sugar, and saba

    • DKennedy on September 19, 2012

      Excellent. Try substituting ginger cookies instead.

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  • ISBN 10 1400044073
  • ISBN 13 9781400044078
  • Published Mar 27 2007
  • Format Hardcover
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Alfred A. Knopf
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf

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Award-winning chef Nancy Silverton has conquered the gourmet world as the original dessert chef at Spago and founder of the celebrated La Brea Bakery. Her recipes are legendary, innovative, and delicious. However, in the last few years, there has been a great shift in cooking toward the Home Meal Replacement (HMR), better known as "takeout." It's impossible to spend hours in the kitchen after a hard day's work, so more people are buying prepared foods and frozen meals, compromising taste for convenience. Realizing that people's hectic workdays don't afford everyone the time to re-create her epicurean triumphs, Nancy has come up with the perfect solution . . .

Enter, the jar!

Compiling a list of her favorite products that come in jars - and cans, bags, and boxes - Nancy has created easy-to-follow recipes that require less than thirty minutes to prepare. With this book there's no need to sacrifice flavor, sophistication, and taste just because you're spending less time chopping, cleaning, cooking, or baking. Nancy's shortcuts not only allow us to produce quick and easy meals at home, they let us bring back the pride and the joy of creating gourmet meals for our family and friends.

A Twist of the Wrist contains 137 quick and delicious gourmet recipes from salads to pasta to meats and desserts, such as:

  • Cumin Shrimp and Chickpea Salad with Roasted Carrots
  • Creamy Corn Soup with Bacon and Cheddar Crostini
  • Orzo with Dried Porcini Mushrooms, Radicchio, and Aged Balsamic Vinegar
  • Boneless Pork Chops, with Creamy Polenta and Fennel Pollen
  • Seared Rare Tuna with Tomato-Olive Salsa
  • Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Pie with Hot Fudge Sauce
  • Cajeta, and Salty Spanish Peanuts

In addition to Nancy's own creations, she includes recipes concocted with prepared ingredients from some of her chef friends, including Sara Foster, Tom Colicchio, Charlie Trotter, Mario Batali, Suzanne Goin, Ruth Reichl, and Jean-Georges Vongerichten.

There is also a pantry section, telling us where to get - by the Internet and mail order - the best of all things canned, jarred, and bottled.

This charming and utterly indispensable cookbook is suited for any type of cook, whether you're an on-the-go gourmand or you just love flavorful, accessible meals at home. A Twist of the Wrist fits perfectly into today's modern lifestyle and is a must-have for the contemporary kitchen.

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