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Real Simple: Meals Made Easy (Real Simple)

Editors of Real Simple Magazine

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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When it comes to the challenges you face every day, getting dinner on the table is always near the top of the list. Not only do you want the meal to be healthy and taste good but you want it to be fast and simple to prepare. As straightforward as that sounds, somehowin the midst of a busy lifethe task seems nearly impossible. In Meals Made Easy, the first in a series of Real Simple cookbooks, youll find smart and doable dinnertime solutions for every night of the week, no matter how little time (or how few ingredients) you have.Even better, these are dishes the whole family will loveyes, including your children.Featuring more than 75 foolproof recipes, all illustrated with large, lush photos, Meals Made Easy is custom-made for your life, with chapters dedicated to: Dishes that can be prepared and ready in 30 minutes or less Freezer-friendly dinners to make ahead of time and eat whenever Cuisine that calls only for a cutting boardno cooking necessary Meals you can cobble together using the items in your pantry Recipes that require just one pot (and blessedly very little cleanup time) In addition, the book features insightful cooking tips on every page, a chapter on versatile side dishes, and a comprehensive, easy-to-use recipe index. Whether you have only 15 minutes until the kids invade the kitchen or only a hunk of Parmesan and cold pasta in the refrigerator, Meals Made Easy is sure to become your go-to guide for nightly meal planning.

Cooking Light Weeknight (Cooking Light)

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Banish 5 oclock guilt forever with the new, wonderful-to-read, wonderful-to-cook Essential Recipe CollectionWeeknight. It features more than 50 Cooking Light kitchen-tested recipes for family-pleasing, health- conscious meals that dont take a lot of advance planning. Easy entres, one-dish dinners, soup and salad, and make-ahead mealstheyre all here, and theyre all incredibly tasty. Just what youd expect from Cooking Light!

Going Solo in the Kitchen

Jane Doerfer

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Total reviews: 24 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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Just because you are your household, don't assume eating solo limits you to having pizza, pancakes, or meat loaf in restaurants; buying them already prepared; or having to file extra portions in the freezer or the dustbin. As Jane Doerfer proves in Going Solo in the Kitchen, with no more effort than when cooking for two or more, one person can eat well and dine beautifully.

Doerfer's main strategies are to use fresh ingredients and to make friends with supermarket staff who can accommodate her needs in the land of large families. She gives detailed advice on storing foods--cooked chicken, for example, tastes better and has better texture when stored in liquid (like a sauce or broth), while potato salads and other prepared dishes keep better longer when left unsalted until just before serving.

Solo cooks do have advantages: you can eat what you want, as often as you want it, and the cost of a steak or lobster dinner is only for one.

Doerfer offers variations for recycling in case of leftovers. Her description of how to cut up a whole chicken is graphically clear (see "Chicken Management") and will save you money.

The recipes and techniques Doerfer offers will brighten the lives of solitary diners who love variety, good food, and home cooking. She provides recipes for everything you might want, from Chicken Noodle Soup to elegant Halibut with Asparagus, Cream Scones, perfectly cooked rice, and fresh, hot berry pie, made in just the right way for one. --Dana Jacobi

The Dinner Doctor

Anne Byrn

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The Dinner Doctor is IN 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I love to read cookbooks. Usually, that's all I do with them, thumb through them and set them aside, maybe making one or two of the recipes. When I got this cookbook, I took it to my son's football game and read it during timeouts, etc. Not only was it a good read, but the recipes are perfect for a family on the go who needs ideas here and there for something different. I'm also a cook who isn't afraid to try new things, so some of the recipes give me good ideas and I can adjust them to my family's taste.

One of my favorite sections is the appetizers. Our family attends many family social events, and there are several good appetizer recipes that are good to take to parties and get togethers.

I think some reviewers are a little harsh in their judgment of this book. If you want a cookbook that has recipes where the ingredients are all from scratch and are low in sodium, calories, fat, etc. then a book from the Dinner Doctor obviously isn't going to be for you! But, if you want a book that will give you a several easy, quick, friend- & family-friendly ideas for use every now and then, then this is the book for you.

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by Anne Byrn"The doctor's back, and now she's curing dinner woes! Anne Byrn, the award-winning food writer and author of The Cake Mix Doctor and Chocolate from the Cake Mix Doctor does for dinner what she did for dessert-shows how to take common, convenie

Lickety-Split Meals: For Health Conscious People on the Go!

Zonya Foco

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Total reviews: 54 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Love Zonya on PBS, but her book is just okay 3 out of 5 stars.
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Zonya is energetic and inspirational on TV, but this book really isn't the best. Maybe I'm old fashioned, but I like recipe books that have a traditional format. They need to be sturdy work horses. I like a book that's hard covered, and with either spiral or strongly bound pages. Zonya, made this book too cutsy! It has a funky fold out easel stand that's supposed to hold the book upright so a person can read the recipes. However, it stands too upright to view the recipes without bending over and holding your head at an akward angle. I don't like the way you have to flip the pages up to turn them, instead of turning them the way you turn most other books pages--from right to left. The cover is very flimsy. It's laminated, which is good, but it's very thin and shifts around a lot. The way the book is made, it doesn't stack or fit in well with all my other cookbooks on the shelf. The cover is too whimpy to keep it from sliding, shifting, and twisting under the pressure of my big work horse cookbooks. Lickety Split looks completely overwhelmed next to my other cookbooks. I almost feel sorry for the little thing, as it sits there getting smooshed. Give me a tough, ugly, practical and useful brute any day!

As for the recipies, many of them are very fundamental and novice. I could think up throwing a can of corn, beans, chill powder and chopped onions together and topping the mixture with cornbread to make a casserole all by myself, without buying this book. Most of the recipies seem to be geared toward getting your kids to eat healthy meals. If you're a busy Mom or Dad, this book my be useful. Several of the recipies do taste pretty good. That's why I gave it 3 stars. However, if you've been cooking healthy meals for awhile you probably won't find anything new here. The recipies may seem a bit blah, unsophisticated, and uncreative. Iron Chef material this isn't!

Semi-Homemade Grilling 2 (Semi-Homemade Series)

Sandra Lee

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Her Best Recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
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Sandra Lee's best recipes are on the grill...she loves outdoors & celebrates the easy way to create a fun time with the least amount of concern. I used this new one when it arrived & 3 of the recipes were wonderful for our weekend house guests.

Thanks Sandra!

not to bad 3 out of 5 stars.
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This one is better than the first one which I sold, I would recommend this book.

Outstanding Grilling 5 out of 5 stars.
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Enjoy it,Easy to follow the instruction, would recommend this book to any person who enjoys simple instuction and good food.

An exceptionally popular addition to personal and community library cookbook collections! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Simply stated, Sandra Lee is an expert cook, the host of the successful Food Network television series 'Semi-Homemade Cooking" (which celebrates its 200th episode in May 2008), and the author of thirteen books. The latest of which is "Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Grilling 2" that is comprised of two hundred pages of culinary advice, recipes, gadgets, and illustrations that focus upon the art of the grill. Separate chapters are devoted to grilling veggies and sides; skewers; dogs and sausages; 'things to Do with Your Turkey Fryer'; beef; 'things with Wings; Swimmers (fish); 'Best Burgers'; desserts, and 'Parties' (including party menus and tablescapes from a beach blanket bash to a father's day feast'. With mouth-watering, 'cook friendly' recipes ranging from Prosciuto-Wrapped Corn on the Cob; Salami-Stuffed Pork Chops; Rib Steaks with Raspberry-Tarragon Sauce; and Bourbon-Brined Chicken; to Salmon Steaks with Sun-Dried and Fresh Tomato Salsa; Taco Meat Loaf; Mixed-Berry Cobbler; and Grilled Figs with Orange-Honey Drizzle, "Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade Grilling 2" will prove an exceptionally popular addition to personal and community library cookbook collections!

Editorial Review:

Sandra is back with more recipes for success. Using the same winning ingredients - food, family and fun - as in her other books, Sandra shares her latest gourmet-tasting, out-of-this-world recipes for any grill in her new must-have cookbook where nothing is made from scratch but everything tastes homemade.

Serves One: Simple Meals to Savor When You're on Your Own

Toni Lydecker

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Anyone facing an occasional dinner for one, making solo brown-bag lunches, or living alone will find Toni Lydecker's Serves One invaluable. She shows you how to make tabbouleh and ratatouille in modest amounts so you don't have to eat them for days. She even gives a recipe for pizza dough you can turn into perfect, single-size pies. Who needs soggy take-out when you can make your own potato and pesto pizza, or luxuriate on Sunday with a creamy Smoked Salmon Pizza? (You bake the dough, then add the topping; it's much better than a bagel!)

Lydecker tells how to make Mini Meatloaf and Oven-Barbecued Pork Ribs, just the right amount of Chicken Fingers, even your very own Shellfish Steamer, a kind of clambake. Many recipes cook in 5 to 20 minutes. When stews and soups take longer, they don't need tending. If any cookbook will ever wean you off frozen entrees and instant mixes so you eat as well on your own as with family or friends, Serves One can do it. --Dana Jacobi

A Man, A Can, A Plan, A Second Helping: 50 Fast Meals to Satisfy Your Healthy Appetite

David Joachim, Men's Health Editors

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wonderful gift 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was familiar with the series in the Men's Health magazine so when my brother in law decided to learn how to cook , I knew it would be perfect for him. It has easy to follow instructions and the food is much healthier than regularly eating out!

Editorial Review:

The latest entry in the A Man, a Can series returns with more easy recipes for great, guy-friendly food.

When award-winning cookbook author/editor David Joachim introduced the A Man, a Can series in 2002 with A Man, a Can, a Plan, readers and reviewers alike were quick to embrace the winning premise: quick, tasty, healthful meals based on canned and other convenience foods. "This cookbook makes meals guys would love," raved the Philadelphia Daily News. "A foolproof, not to mention spill-proof, guide to manly success in the kitchen," exclaimed the Sunday Star-Ledger.

Now David Joachim is back with 50 new tempting recipes for hungry guys everywhere—hearty, healthy fare such as Chili Empanadas, Noodlicious Ramen Salad, Cheez-It Crusted Chicken, Pesto Salmon Pitas, and more. With step-by-step instructions and full-color photographs, even the most culinarily challenged dudes can whip up dishes that will have diners eager for more.

Williams-Sonoma Bride & Groom Cookbook: Recipes for Cooking Together

Gayle Pirie, John Clark

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Whether it was a whirlwind romance or you've known each other for years, you are entering a new stage of life. Now that you're married, it's time to think about the new life and traditions you'd like to create. Often our fondest family memories are centered around the dinner table, with the fulfilling meals and companionship it offers.

To create this cookbook, Gayle Pirie and John Clark have drawn from their experience as restaurant chefs and on their shared history as a married couple. They have cooked in some of San Francisco's best restaurants for nearly twenty years, so they know how to make food taste delicious. But they also know what it's like to come home from a long day of work and want to create a comfortable haven for their family. In these pages, Gayle and John have brought together dozens of their own favorite dishes that can create hundreds of family meals.

Knowing that most of their readers won't have learned the art of cooking at their grandmother's knee, they've also included the basics. The Bride & Groom Cookbook explains all you need to know about setting up a kitchen and pantry with essential equipment and ingredients, combining dishes to create a meal, and even cooking methods. If you're already comfortable in the kitchen, you'll find plenty of valuable advice on pairing wine and food, serving a cheese course, and gracious entertaining.

The two of you could take only one cookbook with you as you embark together into this new and rewarding stage of life, the Bride & Groom Cookbook would truly be the one.

Ciao Italia Slow and Easy: Casseroles, Braises, Lasagne, and Stews from an Italian Kitchen

Mary Ann Esposito

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What could be welcoming in your kitchen than a big warm pan full of lasagna, a pot of braised short ribs or a casserole dish holding fragrant mussels, tomatoes and herbs? When you think of comfort food, the first cuisines that comes to mind is Italian.and nobody knows that better than Mary Ann Esposito, host of the longest-running television cooking show in the U.S., Ciao Italia. In Ciao Italia Slow and Easy, Mary Ann tells us how to slow down, take it easy and fill the kitchen with Italian slow-cooked goodness. By braising, baking, roasting and simmering, she gives readers a treasure trove of wonderful dishes like

-stove top lasagna with artichokes

-prosciutto-wrapped chicken baked in parchment

-tomato braised short ribs with rigatoni

-pasta shells stuffed with a ragu of pork and cream

-one-skillet chicken supper with tomatoes and green beans

-layered polenta pie with mushrooms and sausage

-mussel, potato and tomato casserole

Ciao Italia Slow and Easy is filled with Mary Ann's sensible advice, knowledgeable asides about the history of Italian cuisine and, most of all, a sure sense of what tastes good.