10 Minutes to Table

Book excerpt: Supermarkets are full of slickly packaged prepared dishes and takeaways are on almost every corner, so is cooking at home worth the effort? With ready meals often taking half an hour or more to heat and their ingredients sounding as if they belong in a laboratory, Ten Minutes to Table proves that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'.Cooking at home is the cheaper, healthier, tastier and, as proved by Xanthe, faster option. Xanthe cooks against the clock, using fresh ingredients, producing great meals in 10 minutes or less. With insider tips and expert advice, Xanthe shows that it is easy to eat well at home when time is in short supply.