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Cooking Quick & Easy

Oven to Table

Over 100 One-Pot and One-Pan Recipes for Your Sheet Pan, Skillet, Dutch Oven, and More: A Cookbook

by (author) Jan Scott

Publisher
Penguin Group Canada
Initial publish date
Feb 2019
Category
Quick & Easy, General, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780735234499
    Publish Date
    Feb 2019
    List Price
    $32.00

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Description

GOLD WINNER of the 2020 Taste Canada Awards in Single-Subject Cookbooks

Take the guesswork out of mealtime with over 100 essential, simple, and tasty one-pot and one-pan creations.

Sometimes it feels impossible to get a home-cooked meal on the table. Between preparing the ingredients, following elaborate directions, and cleaning up the mess of pots and pans, feeding your family or hosting friends can feel like more effort than it's worth. Fortunately, there's a satisfying solution to help make stress-free, mess-free, and tasty meals a reality: one-pot cooking. Using one of six cooking vessels--skillet, sheet pan, Dutch oven, baking pan, roasting pan, and casserole dish--with Jan Scott's effortless recipes, you can bring a complete dish to the table using easy-to-find ingredients and a variety of foolproof techniques. Preparing food in one pot not only saves time, both in the prep and post-meal clean up, but these recipes are flexible and endlessly adaptable too.

This collection of practical recipes, including Overnight French Toast Casserole, Barbecue Chicken Chili with Cornbread Dumplings, and Cherry Tomato and White Bean Skillet Bruschetta, brings ease, comfort, and bold flavour to everyday cooking. Whether you're braising Perfect Saucy Pulled Pork in a Dutch oven or whipping up Salted Chocolate Tahini Skillet Blondies, Oven to Table will reveal the wide-ranging versatility of just a few pieces of cookware. With dishes leaping from stove to centerpiece, Jan's wholesome recipes will streamline your kitchen routine and nourish your family and friends.

About the author

Jan Scott is a well-known Canadian food writer and the creator of Family Bites, a blog devoted to tasty family-focused recipes and easy-to-execute entertaining and party ideas. She's the food editor for The Savvy Mom Group, and has had essays and articles published in a variety of print and online publications. Prior to making the transition to food writing, she was an event planner for a private catering company. She lives in Toronto, ON, Canada with her husband, Rob, and their two sons.

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Awards

  • Winner, Taste Canada Awards - Single-Subject Cookbook

Excerpt: Oven to Table: Over 100 One-Pot and One-Pan Recipes for Your Sheet Pan, Skillet, Dutch Oven, and More: A Cookbook (by (author) Jan Scott)

INTRODUCTION

ONE PAN, MANY POSSIBILITIES

This book couldn’t come at a better time. With an increase in obligations and digital distractions that tempt us away from the kitchen, a healthy, home-cooked meal is one of the sacrifices many are making. Fortunately, there’s a satisfying solution to help home cooks make stress-free, mess-free, and tasty meals a reality: one-pot or one-pan cooking.

The roots of cooking, from both an anthropological point of view as well as a personal one, began in one pot. Although scientists continue to hotly debate which group of people first mastered fire, it only stands to reason that they cooked most of what they ate in one pot simply because so few other tools were available. In my own starter kitchen—a small and ill-equipped one at that—it never occurred to me to own multiple cooking vessels. My student budget was tight and supplies were limited, but that didn’t stop me from dishing up grub to tables full of friends and fellow housemates. Today, I rely heavily on one-pot cooking for its convenience in helping me feed my brood of boys. With a husband and three sons at my table, all of whom unquestion­ably eat more than three times a day, making a meal in just one pot is what saves my sanity, not to mention my time.

Of course, families aren’t the only ones in need of these simplified cook­ing methods. My mom is a single working woman with a ninety-minute com­mute each day. Her commitment to eating well is reinforced when she can get dinner on the table in a timely manner. Not to mention, one-pot cooking lends itself well to a speedy cleanup, as fewer dishes inevitably crowd the kitchen sink. My oldest son—soon to be a university student in charge of making most of his own meals—is a devout one-pot cook, because good­ness knows if he had to rely on multiple cooking vessels to get food into him, he’d likely be living off of PB&Js for the next four to eight years. And let’s not forget about newlyweds and empty nesters, two demographics potentially also in need of mealtime simplification. One group is likely busy building their careers and has limited time for complex daily cooking projects, while the other group could be ready to scale back the amount of time they spend in the kitchen after decades of nightly meal making.

Using one of six groups of cooking vessels—skillets, sheet pans, Dutch ovens, everyday baking pans, enamel roasting pans, and stoneware casserole dishes—my one-pot creations are designed to bring a complete dish to the table using easy-to-source ingredients and a variety of foolproof cooking techniques. From stir-fries to stews and cobblers to casseroles, this collection of down-to-earth recipes brings ease, comfort, and bold flavours to everyday home cooking. Flexible and endlessly adaptable, preparing food in one pot not only saves time, both in the prep and post-meal cleanup, but also allows for smart seasonal cooking. The dishes included in this book are prepared or served in a single pot, pan, skillet, or casserole dish and emphasize the versatility that can be created with just a few pieces of humble cookware.

Speaking of cookware, the good news here is that you probably have most of these items in your kitchen cabinets already. Oven-to-table pieces like Dutch ovens, sheet pans, skillets, and casserole dishes are essential when it comes to feeding a busy family or hosting a gathering. Roasting pans, while perhaps less common, should be considered essential, as they are practical for so much more than roasts. They can be used to bake French toast or roast a complete chicken dinner, and they lend themselves well to cooking a vari­ety of side dishes. Not only do most of us not have enough space to store the pots and pans we need for cooking plus an additional set of dishes for serving food, it can be a hassle to transfer everything just to make the table look fancy. Instead, these pieces are ready to leap from stove to centrepiece in an instant. Most of these items are just as comfortable on the daily dinner table as they are at a holiday feast, and these recipes will not only streamline the meals you make, but also satiate the people you share them with.

My hope is that Oven to Table will show less experienced cooks just how easy it is to create simple, wholesome meals, while inspiring more seasoned ones to try their hand at new recipes and simplified techniques. Uncomplicated food can be the best to eat, the most fun to share, and certainly the most enjoyable to cook.

Editorial Reviews

FINALIST for the Taste Canada Awards
Praise for Oven to Table:
“Jan Scott turns one-pot recipes into memorable meals that will fill your home with flavour, without filling it with dishes. At once immensely creative and cozily familiar, Oven to Table is chockful of contemporary family classics that will please everyone.”
—Allison Day, author of Modern Lunch

“Jan Scott makes everyday cooking so fun and delicious—and it couldn't be easier when everything is cooked and served in one pan or pot. These recipes are cozy, comforting, and packed with effortless flavour.”
—Claire Tansey, Cityline guest expert and author of Uncomplicated

“A brilliantly creative and approachable cookbook. Jan Scott understands the need for convenience, but doesn't compromise on flavour—or fun. This is the future of family food.”
—Aimee Wimbush-Bourque, author of The Simple Bites Kitchen

“Jan Scott knows what a family cook needs: meals that are easy to pull together and deliver delicious, hearty results—with a guarantee of leftovers. From breakfast to dessert, Jan's recipes never fail to excite me about getting in the kitchen. I know I'll be cooking from this stunning book for years to come.”
—Ceri Marsh, author of The School Year Survival Cookbook

“Jan doesn't just suggest one-pot cooking as a strategy, she describes the what, why, and how before you even get to the recipes. We gobbled up the Barbecue Chicken Chili with Cornbread Dumplings before the last of us even got home for dinner!”
—Lucinda Scala Quinn, author of Mad Hungry
“[Oven to Table] is packed with tasty (and efficient) ideas.”
Chatelaine

“If you have a busy schedule, are a working parent doing double duty or simply do not like cleaning up after cooking, Oven to Table is for you.”
—Torontonicity

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