Seriously Simple: Easy Recipes for Creative Cooks

by Diane Rossen Worthington

The subtitle says it all. One of the biggest challenges for the good home cook is creating delicious, healthy meals using just a few ingredients and simple steps. And good cooks know that Diane... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811831949
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Chronicle Books
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Seriously AWESOME

This cook book is one of the better finds out there. Most cook books with the word "simple" in the title are filled with recipes that start with a can of condensed soup. This cookbook really is creative. The fish stew is fabulous. A friend of mine prepared it for me (along with the marscapone toasts with honey and berries). I like it so much I had to get the cookbook. I've since tried several other dishes--all fabulous.

This book delivers on its title

Simple, extremely flavorful, and easy to modify recipes to personal tastes. You end up with dishes that look and taste like you ordered them from some nouvelle cuisine restaurant. I haven't made anything in here that didn't simply rock. Flavors actually sparkle. Wonderful attitude about cooking.

Seriously Easy

My sister bought this book for me, knowing that with two small children I don't have much time to prepare gourmet meals. This book gives some great ideas on how to prepare fabulous meals easily and with little time required. I especially love how the author includes "the clever cook could" section to most of the recipes which gives ideas on how one could serve any leftovers or jazz up the meal. The photographs are beautiful as well. I think this book would make a wonderful gift to anyone who loves to cook or just wants a change from what they usually prepare at mealtime.

Diane Rossen Worthington's Seriously Simple

I own all of this author's cookbooks and love them all. But this one reaches a new height. The author understands what it means to live in a house where all cooking adults work but where no one is satisfied with restaurant or take-out food. She provides recepies that are in fact simple: marinades that are easy to make; combinations of ingredients that are immediately accessible; good healthy food that all members of the family are likely to enjoy. The recepies are for the most part easy, but they are also extremely elegant. Kids will love the simplicity and the great taste. Gourmets will admire the subtlety. A user-friendly, teriffic book.

Finally, a cookbook that works!

First of all, I am not a cook but now there is hope for me using this wonderful new cookbook. My family likes to eat in restaurants and these recipes let me prepare that kind of food.The recipes are as the title states: serious and simple. I particularly loved the section on setting up a pantry. If you want to cook, eat, and learn about high quality, healthy, fresh, food, run out and buy this book. ps Try the scallops!