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The Best Make-Ahead Recipe
The Editors of Cook's Illustrated
#UB1572
Hardcover, 448 pages; 2007
$35.00
 Members' Price: $29.75
I've never taken a covered dish to an ailing friend (why make the sick sicker?), and those suggestions for fix-and-freeze meals have always sounded ghastly to me. But now that I've downsized to a place with a tiny kitchen, the idea of advance preparation— especially when I'm entertaining—has begun to put forth some serious appeal. Enter the editors of Cook's Illustrated: they're a discerning, hard-to-please bunch, so when they say "make ahead," I listen. They grabbed me with such chapters as Appetizers, Side Dishes, and Oven-Ready. Others might respond to Double-Duty Cooking and Slow-Cooker Favorites. Of course, there are chapters on chili, casseroles, desserts, and other advance preparation standards. There's even an entire make-ahead menu for a holiday ham dinner. Illustrations and how-tos abound. I even like the staff 's hostile opinions: after trying every kind of canned, frozen, or precut green beans, they conclude that none are satisfactory, and exhort their readers to just take the time to snip the beans. This is my kind of make-ahead!
(EE)
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