Relax, Company's Coming!: 150 Recipes for Stress-Free Entertaining

by Kathy Gunst

In the introduction to Relax, Company's Coming! author Kathy Gunst confesses that she entered adulthood thinking of parties as "torturous exercises that always ended with a sink full of dishes and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0743202589
• ISBN13: 9780743202589
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Simon & Schuster
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.7" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Easy and Quick Company Cooking

This is geared to those who don't like or have the time to prepare the more exotic dishes, which take some more time to shop and prepare.150 recipes are gathered here with that in mind, to have a pantry of items and recipes around to prepare flavorful, good food for company.Stuffed Turkish Peppers, Roast Duck with Thyme-Honey Mango Sauce, Braised Lamb Shanks with five Onions are indicative of the wide variety of dishes offered.Although this is adequate and even as the above recipe selections show some creativity, most of these are not what I choose to serve for company, even if rushed. Try severel others which I think show more creativity and thought put in to your entertaining: "Fast Food For Friends" by Lewis Esson; "Food for Friends" by Fran Warde, and "New Fast Food" by Donna Hay.

Many easy tips and appetizing dishes

The focus here is as much on the entertainer enjoying time with guests as with presentations which look lavish and elegant but require little last-minute work. The key is to stocking a pantry well: over a hundred dishes based on such a pantry are presented in a title which lacks color photos but includes many easy tips and appetizing dishes.

HOW I LOVE THIS BOOK!

Love to have the company, but hate the mess, time and preparation? If that is the case, then this book is for you. It is an absolute delight and life saver. The African Chicken, and the Pork Chops with Caramelized Apples and Onions are simply Devine! These recipes will taste like you spent the whole day in the kitchen slaving over a hot stove, when, in fact, they take minimum time and effort. You will really begin to feel like your guests are a pleasure, rather than a burden which ties you to the kitchen for hours on end. If you have the time to spend in the kitchen then you probably enjoy your hours of labour, but for those of us who never seem to have enough hours in a day, this book can be a salvation. There are some absolutely scrumptious recipes contained among the pages, so buy the book, relax, banish the kitchen blues, and enjoy your company...and the fruits of your labour!