A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals with Ingredients from Jars, Cans, Bags, and Boxes: A Cookbook

With the pandemic and cooking at home all the time, I wanted some new, easy ideas. This book wasn't what I expected...many recipes called for things you might find in a chef's pantry, but not anyone I know! I also tried out some new techniques but sometimes the improvement was marginal, not worth the extra dishes I used or time involved. For example, Black Garlic was a wonderful surprise. Haven't tried the salsify yet, couldn't find any except to buy 6 cans from Amazon.

This is one more cookbook to have and use. You can actually make the recipes that Nancy has written about. Nice book.JOD

Unfortunately many people's idea of a "twist of the wrist" recipe involves some sort of cream-of-whatever soup over protein, perhaps with some processed cheese thrown in for good measure. Often cookbooks involving prepared foods result in foods that are marginally tasty at best and rarely healthful.Silverton's book relies on quality ingredients, some of which just happen to be jarred, canned, bagged, or boxed (as indicated in the title of the cookbook). Spice pastes, roasted vegetables, cured meats, and other products prove very helpful in throwing together a meal in a short amount of time.These kinds of recipes are an excellent alternative to quantity cooking on the weekend or simply eating out. Many of these recipes would even be suitable to serve to company.The section on Silverton's preferred brands, products, and sources is also very useful.Overall a good book to have on hand for those days where a frozen meal or take-out is just too tempting.

I love Nancy and have learned so much from her other cookbooks. I cook from them at least once a week but this just didn’t deliver. Disspapointed.

Nancy Silverston has put together a great book of recipes that are tasty, attractive, and interesting. Since purchasing the book, I have mail ordered a few ingredients I could not find locally and the rest came from a local grocery store. If you do not like to cook and really are interested in preparations like those of Rachel Ray, this is not a book for you. If you subscribe to Saveur, Gourmet, and similar cooking magazines, you will use this book and made adaptions to what you read. The photographs are a good enhancement for the recipes and the recipes themselves are easy to follow and to use.

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I'm very disappointed in this book. I enjoy the quick and tasty recipes of the Dinner Doctor and other cookbook authors like her, and I also like the more adventuresome cooking offered by chef-authored writers like Silverton herself in her earlier Campanile cookbook. This book is an annoying blend of the two. The recipes in Twist of the Wrist are complicated; the ingredient lists are long; the canned and jarred items featured are expensive, and for the most part, I cannot find them in the big city grocery stores of the major metropolitan area where I live. I'd rather cook from scratch than mail order ingredients or fruitlessly search for ingredients in stores all over town.

I am familiar with the author and her style and had high hopes for these recipes using off the shelf items; I was very pleasantly pleased.

Very frustrating to have that amount of great sounding recipes and finding out that most of the ingredients can hardly be found elsewhere than in the states.