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Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead

Susie Martinez, Vanda Howell, Bonnie Garcia

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Total reviews: 75 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Not What I Was Expecting/Wanting 3 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

I thought this book would provide good recipes for complete meals you can prepare ahead and freeze. It is recipes you sort of do half way and freeze and then you still have to thaw and finish cooking when you want to make them. To me that is just making a mess and dirtying pans twice for no apparent reason. I wanted ideas for good homemade frozen dinners my hubby can pull and reheat for he and our daughters while I am away on business trips.

There are some good recipes here, most require up to an hour plus thawing to "finish" the night you want to use them.

Editorial Review:

Hectic lifestyles and over-full schedules make traditional cooking methods nearly obsolete in many families. The results are poor nutrition and budgets strained by the high cost of fast food or commercially prepared meals. Don't Panic-Dinner's in the Freezer offers a simple and economical alternative, featuring dozens of recipes designed to be prepared and frozen for future use. With over 23,000 copies sold in its original self-published edition, this book gives practical tips for planning, organizing, and shopping for meals, as well as unique ways to freeze and reheat prepared foods. Every recipe includes measurements for cooking alone or as a joint venture with one or two friends. Families, singles, retirees-everyone who needs to eat-will find fast and easy answers to the question, "What's for dinner?"

Fix, Freeze, Feast: More than 125 recipes to prepare in bulk and by the serving

Kati Neville, Lindsay Tkacsik

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Millions of shoppers save money buying groceries in bulk — trays of boneless chicken breasts, pairs of flank steaks, and flats of ripe tomatoes. But savings can quickly become losses if those bulk quantities spoil in the refrigerator or lie forgotten — unlabeled and unrecognizable under layers of ice crystals — in the back of the freezer.

Kati Neville and Lindsay Tkacsik have built businesses teaching home cooks how to take advantage of bulk savings by shopping wisely; converting food purchases into delicious, healthful family dinners; and labeling and storing the meals for easy access on busy days. They share all their best recipes and organizational wisdom in Fix, Freeze, Feast, a cookbook every price-conscious shopper will love, and warehouse club members shouldn't be without. With their help, home cooks will have freezers stocked with easy-to-prepare entrées, ready to be defrosted and cooked for weeknight family dinners. Imagine the comfort of knowing a homecooked meal is always available.

Each recipe includes instructions for dividing, preparing, and storing the raw ingredients, and a second set of simple directions for thawing, cooking, and enjoying the food. Designed for the way people cook today, Fix, Freeze, Feast meals are lighter and fresher than traditional bulk-cooking recipes, with a focus on simple stews and stir-fries, quick grilled or broiled main courses, and popular ethnic meals such as Beef Fajitas and Cashew Chicken Stir-fry.

Add to the entrées ready-to-bake cookie doughs, warming soups and side dishes, fruit smoothies, and portable kids' snacks, and those warehouse club shopping trips begin to look more valuable than ever. This is a system that saves time, saves money, and saves families from the empty calories of takeout food. Make room in the freezer for next week's dinner!

The Best Make-Ahead Recipe (The Best Recipe)

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

In its many publications and on TV, Cook's Illustrated/America's Test Kitchen offers exhaustively tested "best" recipes, tips, and product evaluations. Among its cookbooks, The Best Make-Ahead Recipe offers over 300 formulas that can be prepared in advance, held, and finished later. The recipes range widely from pre-prepared oven-ready dishes like Baked Fish Provençal; "double-duty" recipes, such as Mexican-Style Pork and Chorizo Stew, that use leftovers imaginatively; slow-cooker items like Tuscan white bean soup; and desserts, such as a chocolate soufflé that can go from freezer to oven successfully. In addition, the fully illustrated book offers helpful charts like How to Reheat, which provides advice according to portion size and heating method; special-occasion menus that can be started up to a month ahead; and discerning product and equipment advice.

As with other Cook's Illustrated projects, Make-Ahead includes recipes that have appeared previously in its other works, though a majority of these have been amended with make-ahead or scaling-up data. Almost all the recipes are prefaced with their trademark testing "diaries," exhaustively detailed accounts of the recipe-making process ("With the onion shells figured out, we focused next on the filling...," gives the flavor), which some readers will find enlightening, but others will think excessive. Of course, certain recipes, or recipe classes, like that for desserts, are necessarily made wholly or partially in advance--but the book's point is to provide formulas designed to yield superior results even when the uncompleted dishes are held, as most can be, in the refrigerator or freezer. Mission accomplished. Readers will find the book a consistently reliable resource for superior make-ahead dishes for everyday and special-occasion cooking. --Arthur Boehm

Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day

Mary-Beth Lagerborg, Mimi Wilson

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You don’t have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect today’s healthier diet, this revised edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at the supermarket, cut down on prep time, group similar kitchen tasks together to get them all done at once, make kitchen clean-up more manageable, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals!

Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as:
--Baked JambalayaMexican

--Chicken Lasagna

--Chicken Taco Salad

--Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork

--Veal Scaloppini

--And more!
Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!

The Everything Meals For A Month Cookbook: Smart Recipes To Help You Plan Ahead, Save Time, And Stay On Budget (Everything: Cooking)

Linda Larsen

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Total reviews: 17 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

You don't have to order take out every time you don't feel like cooking--now there's an easier way to have breakfast, lunch, and dinner (not to mention dessert) right at your fingertips! The Everything Meals for a Month Cookbook is the perfect tool to help you save time in the kitchen (and money in your wallet!) with practical shopping tips and food handling tricks for buying and cooking in bulk. Learn how to plan your menu, assemble the ingredients, and store and freeze a month's worth of dinners-without losing any freshness or taste.

In addition to 300 mouth-watering recipes, The Everything Meals for a Month Cookbook explains how you can organize your kitchen for once-a-month cooking. Thanks to the easy-to-follow bulk-cooking model provided, it's easier than you think!

Features family-friendly recipes such as:

Cranberry Oatmeal Quick Bread

Stuffed Mushrooms

Santa Fe Chicken Soup

Curried Turkey Casserole

Apple Glazed Pork Roast

Shrimp Pesto Linguine

German Chocolate Pound Cake

Whether you're serving up these delicious meals straight from the oven or freezing them for later in the month, you'll find everything you need to save time and money with The Everything Meals for a Month Cookbook.

Food for Fifty (12th Edition)

Mary K. Molt

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Total reviews: 11 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Wow!!! A must have for all chefs 5 out of 5 stars.
6 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I had seen this book at a friends business and thought it was good. Since I have ordered and received it I have had the chance to really review the contents and find it one book that I can use daily. The CD rom is also fantastic in the number of recipes it contains. One nice feature is that you can size the recipes to what you need. Another great plus. Well worth the money. Tom Elliott, CEC

Love this book 4 out of 5 stars.
5 of 5 people found this review helpful.

This book is so helpful to me. I'm a new head cook at a Public school and plan to use many recipes from this book. Besides the great recipes it helps me with Nutritional planning, Variety menu planning with eye appeal, specific food information such as heating temps and storing food, and recipe adjustment. This book will be a tool I will use daily at work. I love that each recipe has the nutritional values per portion.

Food For Fifty 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

Very well written book, leaves nothing for the mind to question,I would highly recomend this book!

I liked it 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I had to buy this book for my Quantity Foods course as a part of my Dietetics major. I actually liked the book, and I am going to keep it for later use. I thought the book was organized very well. Some of the charts in Chapter 2 and 5 that we used quite often were a little hard to find (because there are so many!).
It also presented a good overview of things you wouldn't think would be in the book, such as the school lunch program, etc.
I liked it!

Big Small Plates

Cindy Pawlcyn, Pablo Jacinto, Erasto Jacinto

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

In Big Small Plates, Cindy Pawlcyn, chef at more than a dozen restaurants including Mustards Grill in the Napa Valley, offers 100-plus recipes for her signature small dishes, to be served as hors d'oeuvres, starters, or, when combined, as a meal. Strongly influenced by Mexican, South American, and Asian cooking, these include the tempting likes of Asparagus with Shiitake Spring Rolls, Mussels and Clams with Andouille Sausage in Tangerine Broth, Fried Green Tomatoes with Spicy Rémoulade, and Black Pepper and Garlic Chicken Wings. The book also offers a small selection of sweets, such as Ann's Chocolate Biscuits and Lemon-Buttermilk Pudding Cake with Chantilly Cream and Berries, plus useful tips and menus that help readers match the dishes for various occasions. Readers also learn that any recipe may be increased to serve as a meal centerpiece.

Pawlcyn excels at recipe writing, so readers will have no trouble reproducing the dishes at home; chatty notes also offer comprehensive dish context while providing a sense of Pawlcyn's rather astonishing professional journey that began in 1983 and is still going strong. Her commitment to good food and enjoyment of the cooking process, implicit throughout, should rub off on her readers. With lovely color photos, this is a personal cookbook of the very best and most instructive kind. --Arthur Boehm

Secrets from a Caterer's Kitchen: The Indispensable Guide for Planning a Party

Nicole Aloni

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Some good information, some problems 3 out of 5 stars.
9 of 13 people found this review helpful.

Overall a good resource, especially for the price.

Pros:
-- excellent lists and tips for making lists
-- good section on portions and quantities
-- interesting menu ideas
-- tips on how to find help and when to use hired help
-- good decoration ideas


Cons:
-- some of the recipes don't work
-- most recipes serve 8 people. If your party is for 50 it would be helpful to have recipes that serve more people or more specific information on how to scale the recipes (both those in her books and favorites from other sources).
-- could use more sketches/diagrams on table settings. The few she has are good. Possible layouts for rooms and buffets would be helpful as well
-- some information is obvious or redundant

Editorial Review:

From the author of Secrets from a Caterer's Kitchen, the only 55 recipes you'll ever need to entertain with style and confidence.

Features:
€ 55 essential dishes with lots of variations for every occasion
€ 38 versatile menus-from casual meals to elegant repasts
€ The basics of how to roast, grill, or steam meat, fish, and vegetables
€ From napkins to utensils-what every home entertainer needs
€ Hints and tips from the professionals to make every gathering as much a pleasure for the host as it is for the guests
€ Crowd favorites and exotic cocktails
€ Expert wine selections

Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Entertaining

Beth Hensperger

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Best-selling authors Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann present 300 new recipes specially created to serve a group, proving that the slow cooker is the perfect tool for effortless entertaining on weekends and even weeknights. Like the recipes in Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Cookbook and Not Your Mother's Slow Cooker Recipes for Two, the dishes here feature fresh, wholesome ingredients and reinforce what an essential appliance the slow cooker is for any busy cook. There are recipes to suit a wide variety of entertaining styles, from casual to formal; both classic slow cooker favorites such as New-Fashioned Pot Roast with Fresh Rosemary, Mulled Wine, and Hot Spinach Dip; as well as many more adventurous, innovative dishes such as Fondue with Sparkling Apple Cider, Brandied Red Onion Soup Gratinée, and Braised Pheasant with Mushrooms in Riesling that will really impress. In addition, this is the only slow cooker cookbook that includes lots of tips and techniques on how to use your slow cooker for a wide variety of entertaining options, covering all the bases: appetizers, drinks, soups, sauces, entrees, desserts.

The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet: A Month of Meals Made Easy

Nanci Slagle

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Total reviews: 95 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

10 years ago author Nanci Slagle was a "crisis cook". Every evening she made whatever she could with whatever she had and called it "dinner". She ate out. She ordered in. She popped popcorn and called it a "main dish". Then she made friends with her freezer and soon she was sharing her system with others. The Freezer Cooking Manual from 30 Day Gourmet: A Month of Meals Made Easy is a bestselling cookbook that will teach you how to spend one day assembling and freezing a month's worth of tasty and nutritious entrees, side dishes, snacks and desserts in an easy-to-follow format. The manual includes:

*Step-by-Step Instructions
*Time-Saving Worksheets
*65+ Delicious Recipes, multiplied out for easy quantity cooking
*Nutritional Information
*Lite Versions of 38 Recipes
*Free Website Membership
*100+ Additional Recipes online
*Equivalency Charts
*Multiplication Chart for Ingredient Measurements
*Healthy Tips
*Money-Saving Ideas
*Photos
*Lay-flat binding for easy countertop use
*Online support

This unique cooking system is helping thousands of cooks solve their dinnertime dilemma. Nanci has appeared on national television and radio programs and her cookbook has been recommended in Family Fun and Good Housekeeping magazines.