Having friends over for dinner doesn't always have to be a big production. With In a Pinch, Caren McSherry will show you how to make a five-star meal in no time flat.

Gone are the days of three-day preparations (and epic cleanups). With In a Pinch, you'll impress your friends with sophisticated dishes without even breaking a sweat. This is the new era of cooking! With a few neat, high-quality ingredients from your grocery store, and a few fresh items from your local market, you'll be assembling quick and easy meals that will make you look like a star.

Serve these at your next talked-about dinner party, or for your last-minute guests:

• Fresh Fig and Prosciutto Rolls
• Duck Taco Bites
• Grilled Chili Lime Pork Tenderloin
• Mini Almond Ice Cream Tartuffi

Caren McSherry is the owner of Gourmet Warehouse. Her cooking school is the longest running private cooking school in Canada. She has trained at the prestigious Cordon Bleu in London, England, The Oriental Hotel in Bangkok, and The Culinary Institute of America in New York. She is a resident chef on Global TV's Saturday morning news.

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Rob Feenie was born in Burnaby, BC, and even as a kid loved to spend time in the kitchen. At 20 he attended the Dubrulle French Culinary School in Vancouver, then became a sous-chef at the Rim Rock Café and Oyster Bar in Whistler, followed by Vancouver’s Cherrystone Cove and Crocodile. After stints in Alsace with Chef Emile Jung at Au Crocodile and Antoine Westermann at Buerehiesel, both Michelin three-star-rated restaurants, and in Chicago with Charlie Trotter and in New York with Daniel Boulud and Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Rob Feenie returned home to open his own restaurant.

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