Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Sara's Secrets for Weeknight Meals SARA MOULTON. Broadway, $29.95 (352p) ISBN 0-7679-1659-X

Moulton, a Food Network and Gourmet chef, wants to help home cooks produce elegant meals without excessive fuss. For each dish in this assemblage, she indicates hands-on time and total cooking time, with most calculated to require under 45 minutes (though cooks who are less efficient at prepping than Moulton may dispute some of the estimates; Mexican Chicken Salad, for instance, indicates 15 minutes of hands-on time, but with all the chopping and washing, some amateurs will soon reach the 25 minutes allotted for the whole process). Besides chapters on soup, pasta, …