title: Impossible to Easy: 111 Delicious Recipes to Help You Put Great Meals on the Table Every Day
author:  Robert Irvine 
description: The conceit of the Food Network show <I>Dinner: Impossible</I> is that dinner is always possible, and in this quirky cookbook, host Irvine (<I>Mission: Cook!</I>) brings his show-tested know-how (frogs leg's over an open fire, anyone?) to home cooking. In his Mise-En Place chapter, for instance, he outlines an approach for getting organized, developing a personal arsenal of tools and ingredients and using the freezer as a strategic weapon, then includes a series of recipes that demonstrate the importance of setting up ahead of time, like dishes of flour, egg and breadcrumbs for a veal cutlet that needs breading or assembling different components in a logical order for duck confit with three-bean cassoulet. Irvine's dishes range from the prosaic (chicken pot pie; scalloped potatoes) to the wild (venison potatoes brandade; sea scallops over leeks with mango curry chocolate sauce) but his can-do attitude, emphasis on technique and helpful timelines make them equally approachable. While readers may find that the order of the book is a bit unconventional, those willing to delve into it will find Irvine's advice practical and illuminating and his recipes solid. Photos.<I>(Mar.)</I> <BR>Copyright &copy; Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  **INTRODUCTION**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  **RECIPE FINDER**
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  [Breakfast & Brunch](text00005.html#ch01)
  
  
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  [Big Salads & Super Soups](text00006.html#ch02)
  
  
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  [Weekday Favourites](text00007.html#ch03)
  
  
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  [The Clean Bake](text00009.html#ch05)
  
  
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  # How to use this ebook
  
  
  
  
  
  Select one of the chapters from the [main contents list](text00001.html#toc1)
  
  
  and you will be taken to a list of all the recipes covered in that chapter.
  
  
  Alternatively, jump to the [index](text00012.html#ind)
  
  
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