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Off The Shelf: Cooking From the Pantry

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In Off the Shelf, Australia’s bestselling food creator Donna Hay shows you how to fill your pantry with convenient and basic ingredients. Save time with these easy to put together recipes — for everyday meals or special occasions, and especially when unexpected guests arrive.

Off the Shelf is packed with the information and inspiration to create a great meal at short notice — anything from a simple pasta dish or the slippery slurp of Asian-inspired noodles to a tempting berry tart. All you wish to have is a well-stocked pantry and a handful of fresh ingredients.

An essential handbook for everyone who loves to cook and to eat.

Donna Hay, Australia’s bestselling cookbook writer, understands our pain. The pain, that is, of producing delicious meals when time is tight and we actually can’t shop–again. Off the Shelf: Cooking from the Pantry presents a blueprint for from-scratch good eating that relies on a thoughtfully stocked larder, a few fresh ingredients, and really streamlined recipes. The idea isn’t new, of course, but Hay finds a better way with it, presenting recipes like Pasta with Pancetta and Peas; Lime, Beef, and Noodle Salad; and Green Olive and Baked Chicken that are really quick and easy to do. First published in Australia, Off the Shelf arrives here in an edition meant to work for American cooks; if ingredient names, quantities, and some operations are not all the time completely “translated” (one recipe calls for English spinach leaves) or given conventional American form, willing readers will still be able use it most productively.

Organized by ingredients and topics, the book offers buying advice during, regular recipes, and Short Order sections that distill formulas, such as those for Lemon and Basil Pilaf and Marinated Chickpea Salad, into get-the-drill-quickly paragraphs. A few of the fuller-dress recipes, readers will surely want to check out Beef and Caramelized Onion Couscous Salad, Crispy Spiced Thai Chicken, and Seared Salmon on Coconut Spinach, among others. Sweets, including Burnt Vanilla Creams and Chocolate Honey Snaps, are also delicious and easily accomplished. With really useful tips (cut overlong cooked noodles to make them more manageable is one why-didn’t-I-think-of-that example), an oversize bravura design, and color photos during, the book shows and tells how to cook with the greatest ease. –Arthur Boehm

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