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(More customer reviews)Back in the old days when I was young and childless, I spent my Wednesday evenings cooking from Pierre Franey's weekly "60-Minute Gourmet" column in the NYTimes. I considered the enterprise a loving weekly gift to my new husband, but 60 minutes? No way. More like 2 and a half hours. Since then I budget at least twice the time for cooking that 'time-saving' recipes claim, and often I'll still be scrambling. This book really makes good on its promise: of 8 weekday meals I've prepared so far, none took me longer than 30 minutes. Better yet, the food is really delicious. Many of these recipes do honorable double-duty in the "terrific-for-guests" file as well as the one for "when-I-get-home-after-8PM". There are recipes for 29-minute meals and recipes for freeze-ahead one-pot meals, but the section that's changed my life, that has made me so much happier about cooking for my family while I work 55 hours per week that I am writing this review like some kind of Born-Again Home Ec major, are the 8 weeks' worth of weekly meal plans. You get a shopping list for the week (bliss! a shopping list that really is so efficient for the week that 1 trip does the job without wasting food) and recipes with logically laid out preparation plans for complete dinners for the week. The trick is you cook like a demon on the weekend to prepare the foundations (meats, sauces, soup bases etc) for the weekday meals...but the results, during the week, are quick, delicious, and interesting. This is a deceptively slim volume which is actually a goldmine. Bravo, Susan Ott.
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