Sheet Pan Suppers

October 15, 2014

Our desire to produce complete meals while dirtying as little cookware as possible has been addressed by several intriguing cookbooks, including Carla Snyder's One Pan, Two Plates, Laura D.A. Pazzaglia's Hip Pressure Cooking, and Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock's The Casserole Queens Make-a-Meal Cookbook. Here, cooking instructor and food blogger Lulauf (dunkandcrumble.com) introduces another minimal cleanup cooking method, one that relies on sheet pans and the oven. She uses these to broil, bake, roast, and toast such dishes as fajita flank steak with peppers and onion, lemon-herb sole on crispy potato rafts, and big Dutch baby with Meyer lemon sugar. VERDICT Lulauf's recipes that combine mains with sides are very successful, and, as promised, they're less soupy than those you'll find in one-pot or crockpot cookbooks. Her stand-alone desserts and vegetarian options (which favor stuffed vegetables), however, are more conventional.

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