When there's not enough time; Food Network's Miller knows how to make good and quick meals

When Robin Miller, host of "Quick Fix Meals" on the Food Network,jetted into Chicago to promote her first book, the aptly named QuickFix Meals (Taunton Press, $18.95), I asked her to meet me at thesupermarket.

After all, isn't that where the planning for that night's mealbegins for many home cooks?

My plan was to get Miller to shop for a meal from her book, onewhere we could gather the supplies quickly enough to qualify for theexpress checkout lane.

Miller, who is a charming woman and a good sport, flipped openthe book and found a number of options with no problem. That didn'tsurprise me because I'd already gone through her book.

A lot of …