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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: 70 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good 3 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

This book was helpful. I don't like that you have to get a lot of the recipes "ready" and still have to go home & cook them for an hour or so-that to me is not a timesaver. Overall there were some helpful ideas, recipes, and even baked desserts!

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?"

Sam the Cooking Guy: Just a Bunch of Recipes

Sam Zien

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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"'I can't cook,' I hear that all the time. And it's not that you can't—it's that you don't. It's that we've been wrecked by cooking shows with their millions of complicated steps and crazy-ass ingredients. Ingredients you can't find, let alone pronounce. That's not how I want to cook. I want to eat well, but I don't want it to take a year. Who's making stuff like 'Truffled Peruvian Mountain Squab with Chilled Framboise Foam' anyway?

"So this book is about food that's big in taste and small in effort. Just great-tasting stuff with no fancy techniques and definitely no over-the-top ingredients, as in everything-comes-from-a-regular-supermarket—cool concept, huh? It's just a bunch of recipes you'll easily be able to make and enjoy."
—From Sam the Cooking Guy

Look inside for great recipes like these:

• Cinnamon Pull-Apart

• French Toast Mountain

• One Dank Tomato Pie

• "Whatever" Spring Rolls

• Five-Minute Stir-Fry Noodles

• O.F.R.B.P.J.G.O.

• Awww Nuts!

• BBQ Chicken Pizza

• Halloween Chicken Chili

• Fridge Fried Rice

• Sam's Sticky Sweet BBQ Ribs

• Stuffed Burgers

• Pesto BBQ Shrimp

• Chili Salmon

• Motor Home Meatballs

• Spicy-ish Sausage Pasta

• The Great Potato Cake

• Brussels Sprouts You'll Actually Eat

• (Fake) Crème Brûlée

• Chocolate Toffee Matzoh

• Peanut Butter Ice-Cream Cup Things

The 5 Factor Diet

Harley Pasternak, Myatt Murphy

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 73 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

It works if you work it! 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The concept is revolutionary! The book is easy to read. The step-by-step, easy-to-follow- instructions are excellent and not daunting.
Plus 1/2 the book has recipes which are really simple and tasty.
Overall it works if you work it!

Editorial Review:

Lose the weight with 5 ingredients, 5 minutes, and 5 meals a day: Give this diet 5 stars!

Celebrity trainer and diet expert Harley Pasternak, author of 5-Factor Fitness, shares his secret to easy weight loss in this delicious plan: 5 small meals a day for 5 weeks, plus 100-plus recipes with 5 or fewer ingredients and just 5 minutes of prep time. Meal plans are included, and preparation is a snap. It works for Pasternak's clients, and it can work for you! As Eva Mendes says, “Harley has changed my life. Not only do I feel better than ever, but now I can have guilt-free pizza anytime, and that has made me a happy girl.” You'll even find a bonus chapter of 5-Factor Fitness workouts and sample 5-minute workout moves to help you maximize diet results in just 25 minutes per day over 5 weeks.

Giada's Family Dinners

Giada De Laurentiis

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Total reviews: 94 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Fans of the Food Network's Everyday Italian with Giada De Laurentiis will love Giada's Family Dinners an even more accessible (if this is possible) cookbook designed to help families enjoy easy, delicious, authentic Italian meals. Simple and elegant, the recipes range from the quick fix to the family feast, and include plenty of desserts. And, those of you who felt that the only flaw in Giada's first book was that it lacked a chapter on soups will want to fire up the range and get your pots ready for 7 delicious and easy soup recipes.

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First Meals (New Expanded Edition)

Annabel Karmel

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Customer Reviews:
Total reviews: 166 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Simple, Fun and Easy 5 out of 5 stars.
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My husband and I love this book. We found the recipes were fairly easy. Cooking for little ones doesn't have to be chore. We really enjoyed preparing these recipes for our son.

Good recipes 3 out of 5 stars.
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I think the recipes in this book are excellent but I wish there was a little more detail on daily meal planning, for instance how many bottles, how much formula, I still have so many questions even with this book, I found the Gina Ford book on weaning much clearer. (My daughter is 11 months old).

Editorial Review:

The leading author on cooking for children has updated and expanded (by 48 pages) her bestselling cookbook to reflect the needs and tastes of today's parents and under-sevens. This new edition contains over 200 recipes of which over 75 are brand new. Provides detailed, up-to-date information on the nutritional requirements of young children at every stage of development, with six new pages of nutritional information covering current "hot" health issues: food allergies and intolerances, childhood obesity and healthy eating outside the home for busy parents and kids.

The Best 30-minute Recipe: A Best Recipe Classic (Best Recipe Series)

Cook's Illustrated Magazine

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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300 Fast and Flavorful Recipes from America's Most Trusted Test Kitchen

Tired of quick recipes that aren't really quick or don't taste very good? While some cookbooks promise 30-minute meals, America's Test Kitchen delivers. The Best 30-Minute Recipe is packed with more than 300 great-tasting recipes, along with time-saving techniques that will help you become more efficient in the kitchen. You'll also find honest evaluations of ingredients important to quick cooking, such as chicken broth, preshredded cheese, instant rice, and more. And because the type of equipment you use is important to the success of any recipe—made in 30 minutes or not—we tell you which brands are worth buying.

The Best 30-Minute Recipe features a surprisingly wide range of recipes. You get not only the very best versions of naturally quick dishes like salads and stir-fries, but also quick and easy recipes for typically long-cooking dishes that you'd never even think of making on a weeknight—including meatloaf, lasagna, beef pot pie, and a pad thai so easy that you may never call for takeout again. With efficiency and good taste, The Best 30-Minute Recipe is the time-pressed cook's guide to getting dinner on the table, night after night.

Cook It Quick!: Speedy Recipes with Low POINTS Value in 30 Minutes or Less

Weight Watchers

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Total reviews: 28 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

GOT A HALF HOUR OR LESS?

THEN YOU CAN SOLVE YOUR DINNERTIME

DILEMMA-QUICKLY, HEALTHFULLY, AND DELICIOUSLY!

In today's overworked world, busy people have less and less time to cook the healthy, enticing meals their families crave. But now, Weight Watchers Cook It Quick! takes some of the work out of your workday by supplying you with fabulous fix-it-fast ideas for all your evening meals. Based on the FlexPoints® Weight Loss System, Cook It Quick! is packed with more than 150 speedy, savory recipes, and also offers helpful hints for easy substitutions and tasty tips for making these recipes even faster and more mouth-watering.

Each exciting recipe includes complete nutrition information and POINTS value -- and will never take you more than a half hour to cook! With so many fantastic 30-minutes-or-less recipes at your fingertips, what are you waiting for? Just check out what's in store for you within these colorful, tempting pages:

•Salads to Sink Your Teeth Into •Savory Soups & Stews •Pizza, Sandwiches, & Wraps •All-in-the-Family Favorites •Everybody Loves Pasta (Grains, too!) •Flash in the Pan: Stir Fries & Skillet Suppers •Elegantly Easy •About Last Night...Slow-Cooker Recipes •Plus an extra special bonus: 10 in 15: Best Ever 15-Minute Recipes!

Gordon Ramsay Makes It Easy

Gordon Ramsay, Mark Sargeant, Helen Tilott

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New York City Cookbooks from Wiley
New York is one of the world's great food cities; it is also one of the most culinarily diverse. Check out these great cookbooks from some of the stars of the New York food scene, as they make their great recipes accessible to the home cook.

Fiamma: The Essence of Contemporary Italian Cooking A contemporary spin on classic Italian cuisine for home cooks from New York's acclaimed Fiamma restaurant.

At Home with Magnolia: Classic American Recipes from the Owner of Magnolia Bakery Known for recipes evoking a homemade, uncomplicated era, Allysa Torey, the owner of New York's renowned Magnolia Bakery, expands her repertoire with 93 great recipes for appetizers, soups, casseroles, main courses, vegetables, and, of course, desserts.

The Soul of a New Cuisine: A Discovery of the Foods and Flavors of Africa Marcus Samuelsson, award-winning chef/owner of Restaurant Aquavit and Riingo, takes his formidable culinary talents and curiosity to Africa to bring the continent's diverse cultures and cuisines alive for home cooks in this beautiful book with more than 200 recipes, 250 photos, and fascinating stories of his journey.

Artisanal Cooking: A Chef Shares His Passion for Handcrafting Great Meals at Home Terrance Brennan, the chef/owner of two acclaimed restaurants, Picholine and Artisanal, brings to life his passion for simple yet flavorful cuisine in this wonderful cookbook.

Go Fish: Fresh Ideas for American Seafood Celebrated chef Laurent Tourondel of New York's BLT Fish and BLT Steak, reveals how creating elegant, mouthwatering seafood at home can be marvelously easy-and faster than you might think.

In the Heat of the Kitchen International superstar chef Gordon Ramsey, owner of the forthcoming New York hot spot "The London," reveals all, from techniques and short cuts to clever cooking tips.

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Healthy Cooking for Two (or Just You): Low-Fat Recipes with Half the Fuss and Double the Taste

Frances Price

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Total reviews: 61 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great tasty & basic healthy recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I am a foodie, and I sympathize with the readers who thought this book was too basic. But it has been a great find, as I am a foodie married to a REALLY unadventurous eater. The recipes here are not fancy, but they are pretty consistently good comfort food. They're also healthy without relying on any bizarre diet-y substitutions. I have grown especially addicted to the Cincinnati Turkey Chili, which is now my go-to dish for casual pot-lucks. (It also freezes beautifully for brown-bag lunches.) The Deviled Chicken is easy and tasty. Best of all-- my husband will eat the recipes from this book.

Editorial Review:

* More than 200 creative, low-fat recipes for today's smaller households
* Unique two-column recipe format for hassle-free preparation
* Tips on shopping for one or two, and streamlining your kitchen
* Full nutrient analysis with every recipe
* Special chapter of delicious, no-fuss menus
* Plenty of 30-minute recipes-- plus meatless meals, divine desserts, tip-packed boxes and more

Quick Fix Meals: 200 Simple, Delicious Recipes to Make Mealtime Easy

Robin Miller

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

A good cookbook for a busy lifestyle 4 out of 5 stars.
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I like how Robin Miller helps you plan meals ahead of time and get things ready the night before. You can get home from work and throw everything together but still have a home-cooked, healthy meal. There are a lot of great recipes but I must admit that some of them are a little bit too weird-sounding for me to try. I just don't think my husband would eat some things and some of the ingredients she tells you to have on hand are hard to find in the grocery store. All in all, I really do like this cookbook though.

Editorial Review:

Food Network star Robin Miller gives Rachael Ray a run for her money with her new cookbook, Quick Fix Meals. Focused on time-saving strategies for putting delicious food on the table, Miller's first cookbook is organized by technique, including "Meal Kits" (pre-prepping the ingredients and having them ready to go in the fridge), "Greased Lightning" (tasty recipes that can be on the table in 20 minutes), and more. Want to know more? Check out our exclusive video from Robin Miller, below. --Daphne Durham

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