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> Julie Bove wrote:
>> So I bought the book called 20-Minute Menus by Marian Burros. Luckily I
>> got it used and didn't pay much for it because it is totally worthless to
>> me. The book seems to presume that the people buying it don't know a
>> thing about cooking. They tell you if the recipe calls for an 8 oz onion
>> but you only have a 10 oz. onion to either discard the 2 oz. or add them
>> to your dish. Say what? Who weighs their onions? Really?
>>
>
> I think teaching non-cooks how to cook *is* her specialty. I purchased one
> of her books for my daughter and was pleased with it.

Marion Burros provides the best recipe for moules mariniere ever. However,
when you set a standard of 20 minutes for a menu you must expect food quite
different to everyday. I've many dishes that I can do in 20 minutes but I
don't necessarily consider them a meal, a menu.
Tipping and tailing green beans takes too long for that, peeling and cooking
carrots takes too long, peeling and cooking potatoes takes too long. You'd
need quite a pantry of canned and dried and boxed things because although
maybe you can cook rice in that time, preparing from scratch a stir fry to
go with it means going to a supermarket salad bar which we don't even have!
I'd be hard pressed to write a whole book of decent food one could have on
the table in 20 minutes.