Today’s family cooks know that by stashing delicious, home-cooked meals in the freezer, dinner preparation (and cleanup) is a snap. That’s why the 295 recipes inside Taste of Home Make It, Freeze It Cookbook make it easier than ever to find the perfect dinner solution. Within this brand new book, you will quickly discover mouthwatering recipes that include freezing and reheating instructions—a key to mealtime success for today’s home cooks. In addition, three At-a-Glance Icons offer proven value-added benefits that increase purchasing decisions—as do the book’s 200+ full-color photos, step-by-step cooking instructions and standout tips and hints. You will also enjoy a bonus chapter highlighting recipes that yield enough to serve a dish one night and store a second in the freezer when time is tight. The book also includes a clip out listing of classic freezer fare (pizzas, mac-and-cheese, chicken casseroles, waffles, etc.) readers can use as a reference to easily find such recipes in the book, stock their freezer and just as quickly locate the reheating instructions. Appetizer and dessert recipes that offer make-ahead convenience help busy cooks save time when preparing for summer get-togethers, neighborhood block parties, church picnics and other warm-weather events. In fact, all of the recipes in this must-have collection are ideal when time is tight…whether hosting a backyard barbecue or a holiday open house. When it comes to setting delicious foods on the table, Make It, Freeze It Cookbook is one book today’s home cooks simply can’t be without! CHAPTERS: Introduction, Freezing Basics, Breakfast & Brunch, Entertaining Made Easy, Fresh-Baked Breads, Sides & More, Heartwarming Soups, Beef Main Dishes, Poultry Favorites, Pork Specialties, Other Entrees, Sweet Treats BONUS: Cook Once, Eat Twice Recipes Included: Cheesy Chicken Casserole, Southwestern Lasagna, Hearty Meat Pie, Honey-Maple Pork Chops, Cordon Bleu Quiche, Sausage-Lover’s Pizza, Individual Provolone Melts, Lunch-Time Enchiladas, Summer Corn Casserole, Freezer Buttermilk Biscuits, Bacon-Egg Croissants, Sunny Brunch Quiche, Mocha Walnut Dessert, Rocky Road Bites, Frosty Strawberry Torte, and Frozen Chocolate Swirl Cake

Our mothers—and grandmothers—put up food in the freezer to economize on time and money. In a recessionary environment and in a world of dual-job families, there’s even more reason to do so today. But we don’t have the same tastes as our moms. We eat a wider range of foods, drawing on a variety of ethnic and global cuisines, we include more produce and grains in our diets, and we use fewer processed and fatty foods. Jessica Fisher’s Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook is the perfect guide for economical home cooks with any or all of these new tastes in foods that take well to freezing. Competing books on freezing sell strongly and steadily. Typically, they are based on a very specific plan—cooking for a family of four for a month ahead in an afternoon of work in the kitchen, for example. They offer orderly plans with decent, if largely unimaginative, food. Not Your Mother’s Make-Ahead and Freeze Cookbook offers two advantages over these books. First, Fisher lays out lots of easy-to-follow guidelines for diverse families with varying needs and desires, taking into account how long you want to spend in the kitchen—there are 2-hour, 4-hour, and daylong plans—as well as how far out ahead you want to cook for, the size of your household, the size of your freezer, your budget, and even your taste for one-dish meals versus multi-course meals. The emphasis is on facilitating flexibility without sacrificing clarity and ease-of-use. Second, Fisher’s 200 recipes deliver flavorful and healthy food in abundance. She takes readers beyond mom’s beef-pork-chicken triumvirate, with lots of ideas for lamb, fish, shellfish, and vegetarian main courses. There are homey and family-friendly dishes, like Cheddar Cheese Soup with Zucchini, Broccoli, and Carrots, or Crumb-Topped Cod Fillets, fancy dishes for company, like Seasoned Steak with Gorgonzola Herb Butter, and lots of globally inspired creations like Salsa Verde Beef, Red Lentil Dahl, and Hoisin-Glazed Salmon. While the emphasis is on dinner, there are breakfast and brunch recipes, too, and plenty of ideas for breads, quick breads, and desserts that freeze well. Ample sidebars address such matters as finding good freezer bags and containers, labeling frozen food, whether to invest in a new freezer, and how to thaw safely. The author’s story—cooking for a family of eight, including six home-schooled children under ten, and serving as the creator and writer of the popular blogs Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats—fits the topic and the book perfectly. Fisher is a woman who knows all about budgeting time and money efficiently, at the same time serving up delicious food with warmth, love, and an appreciation for the pleasures of the table.

Taste of Home 201 Recipes You’ll Make Forever All the classic, must-have recipes that every home cook should know! Meatloaf. Brownies. Fried chicken. Chocolate cake. Lasagna. Pot roast. Gingerbread. Apple pie. Chicken Noodle Soup. These are the recipes that every home cook relies on—the classics that form the cornerstone of American family cooking. Whether you’re a newlywed starting your own family, a graduate soon to be out on your own or an experienced cook who simply wants all the greatest hits—tested and perfected—in one convenient place, this volume is a must have. These recipes are the ones you’ll turn to time and again, and Taste of Home 201 Recipes You'll Make Forever is the book will be the one you continuously reach for.

Modern freezer meals to turn the notion of frozen food on its head. Despite our food culture's deification of preserving ingredients through classic methods like canning and fermenting, we've relegated the freezer to the category of TV dinners and overwrought casseroles. But the freezer can be your best meal-prepping friend, and the easiest way to always have a ready-made meal on hand. Modern Freezer Meals provides one hundred fresh recipes for frozen food—from healthy, vibrant grain bowls to proteins cooked straight from the freezer with tons of flavor still intact. Frozen food guru Ali Rosen offers proper packing and labeling techniques to shatter some of the myths around freezer meals. The days of freezer burn or giant blocks of unwieldy meals are replaced by dozens of dishes that stand up to the cold. Recipes include: Everything biscuits Mashed potato bell peppers Cherry chocolate cookies Ricotta gnocchi And so much more! Gain a freedom from the daily cooking conundrum with Modern Freezer Meals.

"Seriously Good Freezer Meals provides home cooks with the tools they need to make delectable, healthy meals using fresh and flavoursome ingredients, with information on shopping, cooking, freezing, thawing and everything in between. This unique compilation of 150+ family- and freezer-friendly recipes, made without processed foods, will help busy families save time and money while still enjoying home-cooked meals. The book provides an all-encompassing look at cooking freezer meals: getting organized, making lists, shopping strategies, nutritional information, making a lot of freezer meals in one day, freezer organization, freezer meal swaps, thawing and more. It also offers a mini starter programme for beginners, an intermediate programme and, for more advanced cooks, a guide to making 50 freezer meals in a day. Within the beautifully photographed full-colour pages you will discover recipes for every meal of the day and for every occasion."--

Hectic lifestyles and over-full schedules make traditional cooking methods nearly obsolete in many families. The results are poor nutrition and budgets strained by the high cost of fast food or commercially prepared meals. Don't Panic-Dinner's in the Freezer offers a simple and economical alternative, featuring dozens of recipes designed to be prepared and frozen for future use. With 100,000 copies sold, this book gives practical tips for planning, organizing, and shopping for meals, as well as unique ways to freeze and reheat prepared foods. Every recipe includes measurements for cooking alone or as a joint venture with one or two friends. Families, singles, retirees-everyone who needs to eat-will find fast and easy answers to the question, "What's for dinner?"

Transform the way you use your freezer with 100 flavorful meal prep recipes from two-time James Beard Award–winning Southern chef Ashley Christensen and cookbook author Kaitlyn Goalen. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TASTE OF HOME • “Ingenious . . . Ashley and Kaitlyn are leading us in the right direction to making life in the kitchen a little bit easier.”—Emeril Lagasse, chef and restaurateur In It’s Always Freezer Season, Ashley Christensen and Kaitlyn Goalen reveal how the freezer can easily become the single most important tool in your kitchen. By turning your freezer into a fully provisioned pantry stocked with an array of homemade staples, you’ll save time and energy. Even on a tight schedule you can now put together delicious, complex dishes such as Cornbread Panzanella with Watermelon, Cucumber, and Za’atar Vinaigrette; Potato Pierogi; Pan-Roasted Chicken Breast with Preserved Lemon–Garlic Butter; Braised Short Ribs with Cauliflower Fonduta; and Provençal Onion Tart (Pissaladière) with Tomato-Olive Relish. Christensen and Goalen also share fully prepared make-ahead dishes for every meal of the day to keep in your freezer, like Pistachio Croissant French Toast with Orange Blossom Soft Cream, Chicken and Kale Tortilla Soup, Pimento Mac and Cheese Custard, and Deviled Crab Rigatoni, plus snacks, sweets, and drinks ready to be enjoyed at a moment’s notice. With innovative recipes, helpful technical information, and tips on stocking your new “pantry,” this book will allow you to make more delicious meals with a lot less effort.

A time- and money-saving guide to feeding the entire family explains how to take advantage of bulk savings by shopping wisely and converting food purchases into delicious, healthy meals that can be frozen and stored for use on busy days, offering more than 125 recipes that include instructions for dividing, preparing, and storing raw ingredients.

Savor hundreds of hearty comforts with freezer-friendly recipes, overnight dishes and other prep-now/eat-later specialties. A tight schedule doesn’t mean avoiding your favorite comfort foods. Simply make them ahead of time! From the experts at Taste of Home, Make-Ahead Comfort Foods helps you serve the stick-to-your-ribs greats your family requests most—no matter how busy your household might be. Take advantage of this book’s breakfast bakes that set up in the fridge overnight, savory meats that season themselves in an 8-hour marinade and slow-cooked classics that simmer to perfection while you’re working…you’ll find these satisfying delights and others inside this handy cookbook. You’ll even find a Bonus Chapter, “Cook Once, Eat Twice,” that includes a selection of serve one/freeze one casseroles and shows you how to prepare one meal and turn the extras into a second dinner so delicious no one will realize they’re enjoying leftovers. At-a-Glance icons, serving suggestions and more ensure that Make-Ahead Comfort Food is one cookbook you’ll reach for time and again.

Whether you’re heading to a friendly brunch, family barbecue, church picnic or holiday office party, the perfect crowd-pleasing contribution is at your fingertips! No more worrying about what you can bring to the block party, bake sale or baby shower. Taste of Home Make It, Take It Cookbook is packed with more than 310 simply impressive bring-a-dish classics. Each recipe is guaranteed to travel well, come together easily and satisfy everyone at the party. In fact, these dishes are so incredible, you’ll want to serve them at home for your own gang to enjoy! Each recipe travels well, feeds at least 10 and comes together easily. No more doubling or tripling the ingredients, struggling to get your dish to the celebration or finding the perfect addition to holiday buffet. CHAPTERS Appetizers & Dips Breakfast for a Bunch Main Dishes Sides & Salads Big Batch Dishes Slow Cooker The Sweetest Treats No-Bake Favorites Party-Perfect Bites RECIPES Caramel Nut Breakfast Cake Creamy Hash Brown Casserole Roasted Vegetable Dip Sausage-Stuffed Jalapenos Ranch Beans Quick & Easy Swedish Meatballs Mac & Cheese for a Bunch Pizza Pasta Casserole Grilled Picnic Chicken Slow-Cooked Tater Tot Casserole Chocolate-Almond Crescents Nutty Cheesecake Squares Pumpkin Bars Cinnamon Roll Casserole Cookie Ice Cream Pie