Imaginative and entertaining ideas for today's busy lifestyle, with more than 1,200 tested and evaluated recipes. From the name that generations have grown to trust.This new paperback edition brings together the tools we need to prepare quick and nutritious meals and includes nutritional information with every recipe. More than 150 color photos, step-by-step drawings, and easy-to-use charts make this the complete cookbook for the busy 90s!

In today’s fast-paced world, convenience is a key ingredient to any good recipe. With Pillsbury Doughboy Slow-Cooker Recipes—and a little bit of planning ahead—you can serve savory meals that took “hours” to cook and still have time to spend with your family. For success in your kitchen, the Pillsbury Kitchens have double-tested each recipe in various slow cookers. Check out the introduction, which is packed with helpful information, from how to adapt your favorite recipes to food safety and cooking at high altitude. And, with more than sixty mouthwatering color photographs, you can almost smell the wonderful aromas!

There’s a reason these are called “fix-and-forget” recipes. The recipes require minimal, easy preparation, and while you spend the day in class, at work, running errands, or driving carpool, the slow cooker does all the work. When you come home, a bubbling, fragrant, one-pot meal is ready and waiting! And the slow cooker is useful all year round—in the warmer months, this small appliance won’t heat up your entire kitchen the way an oven does.

You’ll find chapters starting with Meaty Main Dishes, like Caramelized Onion Pot Roast, and ending with Very Easy Vegetables and Sides, like family-favorite Au Gratin Potatoes and Onion. In between are Busy-Day Chicken and Turkey, with recipes like Thai Peanut Chicken, which is great for casual entertaining; Super Soups, Stews and Chilies, including Spicy Vegetarian Chili; and Slow-Cooked Sandwiches, like So-Easy Sloppy Joes. With this much variety, you are certain to please everyone in the family.

Each of the 140 easy-to-follow recipes includes a useful sidebar with a tip for serve-with items, suggestions on how the kids can help, or ideas to make it special. Set the table, whip up a fast salad or side dish, if you like, and sit down with your family to a real home-cooked meal. When a hot, hearty meal is what’s needed, Pillsbury Doughboy Slow Cooker Recipes is just the ticket!

Pillsbury: Best of the Bake-Off 0-517-705745

For over 50 years, people have looked to one contest for the most delicious, the most exciting and the most uniquely American recipes this country's home cooks have to offer. The Pillsbury Bake-Off(R) Contest presents the very best of what people today are cooking for their families and friends. Now, nearly 400 prizewinning recipes from this famed event are gathered in one book, complete with gorgeous color photographs and personal profiles highlighting the people who created the recipes.
The first Bake-Off(R) Contest, in 1949, celebrated the culinary trends of the times--recipes were made from scratch, the ingredient lists and steps were lengthy and breads and desserts comprised the bulk of the entries. Today's Bake-Off(R) entries mirror the changing trends in home cooking with recipes that are quicker and easier to prepare. The use of convenience products has increased and flavors from around the world are featured, as reflected in a brand-new chapter: Quick & Easy Main Meals. Chicken Florentine Panini, the 2002 Grand Prize winner, is an Italian sandwich that gets its fresh-baked goodness from refrigerated pizza-crust dough. Bow-Thai Chicken takes a frozen stir=fry meal starter and combines it with the wonderful flavors of a Thai peanut sauce.
"Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off(R) Cookbook illustrates how home cooks have captured their ethnic heritages in dishes adapted from their grandparents' countries to modern kitchens and busier times. The stories are as inspiring as the recipes themselves, from 1996's Grand Prize winner, Kurt Wait, a single parent who developed his $1,000,000-winning recipe, Macadamia Fudge Torte, with the help of his son, to a 2002 winner for her GnocchiAlfredo Casserole, Kelly Lynne Baxter, who remembers learning to cook alongside her mom and aunts.
All the recipes are organized by easy-to-use chapters: Soups, Sandwiches and Snacks; Main Dishes; Side Dishes and Salads; Breads; Sweet Rolls and Coffee Cakes; Cookies and Bars; Cakes and Tortes; Pies and Tarts; and Other Desserts; as well as the new chapter, Quick & Easy Main Meals. Each chapter is filled with wonderful and often humorous behind-the-scenes stories from the Bake-Off(R) Contest events.
The recipes are sensational; the storeis are uplifting. "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off(R) Cookbook invites you into the kitchens and lives of the many people who have made the Pillsbury Bake-Off(R) Contest the most loved and respected showplace for everyone to share their creative cooking talents.

In the latest addition to the Pillsbury home cook's library, Pillsbury: Fast and Healthy Cookbook presents 350 of the best recipes from Pillsbury's Fast and Healthy magazine and proves how simple and appealing healthy eating can be. Presented in the same style as the magazine, Pillsbury: Fast and Healthy Cookbook provides recipes (most 30 minutes or less to prepare!), informative sidebars, tips on storage and selecting ingredients, substitution ideas and short cuts, accompanied by 100 appetizing full-color photographs. For those who are new to healthy eating, there is a thorough introduction with recommended dietary guidelines, an explanation of the food pyramid and how to calculate serving sizes, healthy cooking techniques, a glossary of nutrients and much, much more. The hundreds of recipes include all the foods home cooks have grown to love.

An introduction filled with helpful information for successful-every-time cookie baking precedes the chapters that cover every type of cookie. There are Drop Cookies, Hand-Formed Cookies, Refrigerator Cookies, Rolled Cookies, Bars and Brownies, Holiday Cookies, and, of course, Bake-Off Favorites. Each recipe is accompanied by easy-to-read sidebars with headings such as Ingredient Substitution, Make It Special, Storage Tip, and Holiday Fact, providing all sorts of information for making cookie baking easier and more fun. The recipes are also tagged with bullets - Editor's Favorite, Kid Pleaser, and Chocoholic's Choice - to help readers find exactly the recipe they're looking for.

When most people hear the name Pillsbury,  they immediately think of luscious, irresistible desserts. For more than 125 years, the Pillsbury Company has been providing Americans with the best foods, and now they proudly present their extensive collection of exceptional dessert recipes. Pillsbury: Best Desserts has a dish for every sweet tooth, from Golden Pecan Pie to Apple Raspberry Cobbler to Pumpkin Cheesekcake with Praline Sauce to Banana Brownie Split Sundae.

The Pillsbury cookbooks are classics because they provide more than just great recipes--they are valuable sources of cooking and baking information. The first chapter of Pillsbury: Best Desserts, Desserts Basics, provides a thorough introduction to making perfect desserts, including general information about common equipment and ingredients, as well as more specific information, such as how to test a cheesecake for doneness and how to distinguish a cobbler from a crisp or a crumble. The remaining chapters cover the range of possible desserts to satisfy any craving--Cakes and Frostings; Pies and Tarts; Crisps, Cobblers and Other Baked Desserts; Cheesecakes; Mousses, Puddings, Trifles and Other Refrigerated Desserts; Ice Cream and Frozen Desserts; Bake-Off® Desserts; Cookies, Bars and Brownies; and (to top it all off) Sauces--all accompanied by 110 mouth-watering full-color photographs.  
        
With Pillsbury behind the recipes, home cooks can expect delicious, successful desserts for every occasion. Pillsbury: Best Desserts  is a must-have on any cookbook fan's shelves.

350 top dessert recipes  for anyone who's ever wanted to have the last course first!

Dessert Basics, Cakes and Frostings, Pies and Tarts, Baked Desserts, Cheesecakes, Refrigerated Desserts,   Frozen Desserts, Bake-Off® Desserts Cookies, Bars and Brownies, Sauces

Entertaining is fun—and Pillsbury makes it easy!

Pillsbury has been bringing home cooks convenient and delicious recipes for years, but now it’s time to party! Appetizers turn any get-together into a celebration, and with timesaving expertise from the Pillsbury kitchens, hosts get to enjoy themselves just as much as the guests.

With more than 300 recipes for dips and spreads, cold and hot appetizers, snacks and beverages, Pillsbury Appetizers helps you find the perfect recipe or pull together an entire menu. The introduction features helpful advice on freezing, cooking in batches or large quantities and making dishes ahead. Suggestions for planning and getting organized will ensure that each party or event comes off without a hitch. Tips on how to cook for a crowd from pantry staples will help you put out a fun spread of irresistible nibbles and drinks that make it seem like you were waiting for friends to stop by.

Whether planning a football bash stocked with Game-Time Nachos and Maple-Glazed BBQ Meatballs or a special cocktail party featuring Caviar and Cream Cheese-Filled Endive and Baked Brie and Brandied Mushrooms, you will find all the right recipes to fit the occasion. For great snacks (that kids will love, too) try roll-ups and mini pizzas, or add a bit of international flair with kabobs, crostini, spring rolls, antipasti or empanadas. Drink recipes include a wide selection of punches, cocktails and margaritas, as well as a variety of nonalcoholic offerings.
Suggestions for theme-party menus make it even easier to throw a Mexican fiesta patio party, a New Year’s Eve candlelight soiree, a Mediterranean getaway or an easy after-work appetizer buffet. From warm and cheesy fondues to zesty salsas to bite-sized, savory pastries, Pillsbury Appetizers has recipes for every season and every mood. Who knew you could host such fabulous parties?

In Pillsbury® 30-Minute Meals, the Pillsbury experts prove that a complete, satisfying, and delicious meal can come together in a mere half-hour. With chapters on beef and lamb, pork, chicken, turkey, fish and shellfish, and vegetarian dishes, as well as a selection of quick, simple sides, the latest addition to the Pillsbury library features 225 main dishes that require only 30 minutes to prepare.

Each recipe includes prep time and detailed nutritional information. Thanks to the inspiring menu suggestions, each main dish is spotlighted at the center of a balanced meal with the simplest of side dishes and desserts. Hurried cooks will also find plenty of useful time-savers such as Quick Products for Quick Meals, Shortcut Ingredients, as well as lists of useful kitchen gadgets, ways to shop effectively, and “smart” pantry staples.
Americans can’t seem to get enough of timesaving cookbooks. Now, from America’s most-trusted kitchens, Pillsbury® 30-Minute Meals will be the cookbook delivering convenience and quality faster than the pizza guy.