Supper Swapping: Cook Four Days a Month with Chefs' and Restaurants' Easy Recipes

by Susan Thacker

Cook Once a Week... Live Low Carb... Plan Bad Carbs... Use Chef's Easiest Recipes... Bond with a Friend... In our book, you'll find simple recipes from restaurants and chefs across America. Recipes... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0975905201
• ISBN13: 9780975905203
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Shenanigans 1-5-7
• Length: 202 Pages

Customer Reviews

Best book on swapping suppers available

This is the best book EVER on the subject of supper swapping. It's a great thing to do whether you are a working parent or a stay-at-home parent because it really frees up your time. As a stay-at-home mom, I am able to spend more time with my children and on my hobbies instead of in the kitchen every night. It also keeps our family from eating out a few nights a week or eating fast food and/or frozen dinners. This way we get a healthy, tasty, home-cooked meal every night in the relaxed atmosphere of our home. No rushing around and getting stressed. No throwing something together at the last minute. The recipes are gourmet, but they are easy! Who wants the same old stuff that you've always eaten? The ingredients used are common, easy-to-find ingredients. This book promotes sitting down as a family to eat. This is so important in order to stay close, realy get to know each other, and for the kids' self esteem. Make this a priority for your family, to get out of the rat race, slow down, and be together. Build bonds that can't broken. Then when the storms of life come in, your family will hold strong. You will be giving them a gift they will always cherish. Susan Thacker explains the importance of this in her book. She really opens up our eyes to what family can and should be. Susan not only explains "why" the concept of supper swapping is important; she gives detailed information on the "how" to do supper swapping. It is not difficult to follow at all, and you will build friendships as well. This book is a "must have." Get it! Your life will never be the same again!

A Must For Expatriates!

As an expatriate family living in the Middle East, utilizing Susan Thacker's ideas in Supper Swapping with other expatriate families is a fantastic way of savoring meals indigenous from other parts of the world. For our family, swapping meals has led to experiencing foods from South Africa, Lebanon, Turkey, Malaysia, Iran and Scotland. What better way to share of one's culture than through food! One of the numerous quotes from the book, "A recipe doesn't have to be hard to be good," by Executive Chef Kraig Thome, is a perfect statement in relation to Thacker's selection of recipes. She's put together a variety of recipes, with few (yet very tasty) ingredients, that are a delicious and healthy way to start sharing meals. Our personal favorites from Thacker's book are: Amuse Salad with Balsamic Dressing Blueberry Spinach Salad with Toasted Pecans and Blue Cheese Thai Soong Chicken with Cranberry Mustard Sauce Grilled Flank Steak with Lime Garlic Mojo Sauce Buttery Cilantro Ginger Sauce Corn Spoonbread Supper Swapping is an easy-to-read book that shares an interesting concept of supper swapping--how to get started, things to consider when swapping and how to make it work--along with extraordinary, simple, yet delicious recipes. Buy one for yourself and buy one for a friend...then start cooking and swapping!

Chef's Recipes and Cooking Tips

"Supper swapping is an arrangement to share dinner cooking responsibilities with a friend. You divide what you make and "swap" the extra portions with a friend who reciprocates. This works well whether you live alone or have a family." ~Susan Thacker Susan Thacker asked restaurant owners and caterers for their simplest recipes and features each chef with their recipes throughout this intriguing novel sized cookbook. She doesn't believe in making 30 meals in a day and suggests fun ideas like lunch groups where people share a lunch at work. The recipes are divided into main chapters: Soups Salads and Vinaigrettes Vegetables and Side Dishes Chicken Beef and Pork Fish, Shrimp and Crab Bread Desserts "Cooking together, creating together, eating together...there's no better way to communicate." ~Executive Chef Steve Mannino Recipes include: Pumpkin Bisque Champagne Vinaigrette Arugula Salad with Lemon/Garlic Vinaigrette Grilled Vegetable Gratin Asparagus with Pistachios and Roasted Fennel Vinaigrette Chicken Curry Grilled Lemon Rosemary Chicken Salad Pan Seared Sea Bass Zucchini Bread Sweet Tart Dough Warm Chocolate Cake with Double Whiskey Cream I don't know about you, but after reading this book I have been thinking..."why share?" These recipes sound so delicious. However, if you want to make your life easier, buying a friend a copy of this book sounds ideal. With recipes this interesting I think you may want to cook more than four days a month. This book is useful for supper swapping, but can also be used by anyone who loves gourmet food at home and enjoys reading chef's cooking tips. ~The Rebecca Review

Don't Miss These Recipes!

I have made 4-5 of the recipes now from Thacker's book and have to say I have not found one that was anything less than excellent. Thacker explains the dinner swapping concept well, giving advice on the best way to get started, pitfalls to avoid, and even nutrition information for those trying to live a more low-carb lifestyle. The recipes are fantastic and the "Kid Tested" icon found at the bottom of recipes that tested as kid-favorites is a great concept. If you are looking for gourmet tasting recipes, without the complexity, this is the book for you. Whether I end up swapping meals with a friend or not, I will make these recipes again and again.

What a great find!

Supper Swapping is fantastic! The recipes are quick, easy and delicious! I loved reading this book as it's well-written and witty too!