In Perfect One-Dish Dinners, the New York Times best-selling author Pam Anderson shares her secret for having people over without breaking stride: Make just one dish. Instead of a parade of offerings, she focuses attention on a single main course—a rustic tart, paella, grilled platter, or homey stew. Perfect One-Dish Dinners showcases about forty such meals, perfect for every season and occasion, all designed to wow guests, calm the cook, and relieve the dishwasher at the end of the night.

If the cook wants to make something extra, Pam provides a compatible appetizer, salad, and dessert for every one-dish dinner. And as a special bonus, she throws in "nearly instant" alternatives for each—more than 200 mixable, matchable recipes. Whether for a book group, church get-together, birthday party, or family supper, Perfect One-Dish Dinners makes easy, shareable meals perfectly doable.