Sandra Lee

Provides recipes that use both ready-made and fresh ingredients for making fast, easy, and healthy meals with such items as turkey, salmon, couscous, and sweet potatoes.

A celebrity chef describes her struggle to achieve success, from a difficult childhood with an abusive mother, to her early attempts to establish her own business, and to her rise as a best-selling author and television food icon.

Contains more than 120 recipes for pastas, risottos, five-ingredient favorites, one-pot dishes, meat and poultry main courses, soups, stews, and desserts, along with a selection of potluck and single-dish casseroles that can be prepared in the oven.