Jimtown Store Cookbook or Betty Crocker Dinner Made Easy with Rotisserie Chicken

Jimtown Store Cookbook: Recipes from Sonoma County's Favorite Country Market

Author: Carrie Brown

One sunny summer day in 1987, Carrie Brown and John Werner happened on Jimtown, an abandoned country store in northern California. Founded more than 100 years earlier, the Jimtown Store had held fast to its original building and its old-fashioned charm. Enchanted by its possibilities, Carrie and John decided to turn Jimtown into a new kind of country store: a gathering place for people to share down-to-earth, honest food in a beautiful setting.

The new Jimtown quickly became a favorite, offering exceptional main courses, soups, salads, sandwiches, sweets, and breakfast goods, all made from fresh local produce. Now everyone can enjoy the dishes that have made Jimtown so popular, faithfully recorded by Michael McLaughlin, who collaborated on the legendary Silver Palate cookbooks. Each of the more than 135 recipes blends time-honored simplicity with updated flavors and a modern-day appreciation of quality ingredients. From sophisticated starters such as Crisp Grilled Dates with Manchego and Bacon to their famous Pan-Fried Petaluma Duck Burgers to such homey desserts as the delicious Buttermilk Pie, the recipes are all accessible and imaginative. Unencumbered by national boundaries, The Jimtown Store Cookbook offers a tasty bazaar of international food. Also included are cooking tips, menus for entertaining, and as a welcome bonus, colorful profiles of local vendors. So invite the Jimtown spirit into your home and enjoy the bounties of a very special country store.

Library Journal

Brown and Werner opened their "general store"/restaurant on Sonoma County's Route 128 ten years ago, and it has been popular ever since. Werner was one of the original partners in New York City's Silver Palate shop, and McLaughlin was the coauthor of the incredibly successful first Silver Palate cookbook. Jimtown's recipes are in a similar vein, upscale but easy food such as Green Four-Bean Salad with Caesar Dressing and Roast Pork Loin with Bacon and Rosemary. Suggestions for special menus are scattered throughout, along with sketches of their "resident gentleman organic farmer" and other favorite purveyors. For area and other larger collections. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

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Betty Crocker Dinner Made Easy with Rotisserie Chicken: Build a Meal Tonight!

Author: Betty Crocker Editors

Transform your store-bought bird into a complete homemade meal!

Whether serving the whole bird carved with delicious sides or cut-up to use in a quick-and-easy pizza, salad, casserole or pasta dish, rotisserie chicken is a lifesaver when you want to eat well in a hurry.

This book gives you loads of tempting ideas to help make the most of your rotisserie chicken. Making the whole bird the star of the meal? Then let it shine with a simple appetizer, side dish and dessert you can either pick up on the way home or put together quickly with ingredients from your fridge or pantry. There are plenty of easy dinner menus to get you started.

Or you can use the meat from your rotisserie chicken to make mealtime magic in delectable dishes like Garden Chicken and Fettucine, BBQ Chicken Pizza or Caribbean Chicken and Black Bean Salad. 125 tempting recipes give you lots of variety without lots of fuss–and with no messy roasting pans, cleanup is easy!

• Build a full meal around a whole chicken, with 12 complete menus ranging from a Family Night Dinner to a Casual Get-Together to Lunch for the Kids.

• Use your rotisserie chicken to make super soups, salads, sandwiches, pizzas, pasta, stews, casseroles and more–tasty recipes make it a snap.

• Discover tantalizing ethnic options like Greek Orzo Chicken and Asian Chicken Salad with Peanut-Soy Dressing–chicken never tasted so good!

• Get dinner ready on the fly–Wing It! tips with each recipe make a meal that’s fast and full of flavor.

Table of Contents:

All About Rotisserie Chicken.

Carving Your Rotisserie Chicken.

Pantry Planner.

Fix It Fast!

1. Easy Dinner Menus.

2. Super Soups, Stews and Chilies.

3. Speedy Salads.

4. Suddenly Sandwiches and Pizzas.

5. Pastas in Moments.

6. Snappy Casseroles.

7. Main Dish Magic.

Helpful Nutrition and Cooking Information.

Metric Conversion Chart.

Index.