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Quick & Healthy Recipes and Ideas: For people who say they don't have time to cook healthy meals, 3rd Edition

Brenda J. Ponichtera

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Total reviews: 61 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Healthy and quicl 5 out of 5 stars.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful.

Have tried only one chicken recipe (marindate) and it was delicious. I highly recommend this book. The pictures are excellent.

This is an EXCEPTIONAL cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is so well organized; it makes meal planning a breeze...from grocery lists to nutrient analysis and straight on to easy, delicious meals!
It's a must in any kitchen.

Quick yes, Good, not so much 2 out of 5 stars.
1 of 4 people found this review helpful.

Very basic recipes that call for lots of processed foods. I never use this cookbook at all.

Editorial Review:

The third edition edition of this bestseller is now published by Small Steps Press! People spend less time cooking than ever before— but where do they turn when they still want to eat healthy? Quick & Healthy brings you over 200 easy recipes that are low in fat, cholesterol, and calories— and take almost no time to prepare. With recipes designed for the busy cook, this latest edition includes practical nutrition information as well as quick, delicious recipes that have been kitchen-tested for taste and ease. Inside, you will find time-saving ideas, tips to reduce fat and cholesterol, and even food exchanges for weight loss and diabetes.

New Food Fast

Donna Hay

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Total reviews: 34 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great quality at a great price. 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 6 people found this review helpful.

I'm very happy with my purchase there. I would recommend this vendor. Thanks.

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

New food Fast offers reader a vast amount of detailed recipes and easy to use foods to make quick and tasty meals for the whole family.Great photos to help with the cooking process.

Excellent recipes 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

The best cookbook author....easy and delicious recipes that are not too fussy or time consuming and are always fabulous. A must have. Dorick

A few good ideas, but mostly skimpy on details 3 out of 5 stars.
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I have been cooking through this book in order, skipping only meat-based recipes (but cooking the fish recipes). The photos are gorgeous. And there are some good ideas in this book -- I somehow had never come across bircher, and ways to dress up otherwise boring food.

However I find this cookbook skimps on details. For example, the sticky rice for picnics is a really wonderful idea, and while it does tell you how much coconut milk to use, it doesn't tell you how much rice to use! I'd expect either both or neither to be general. It's almost as if she believes that if the recipe is short to read, it can be cooked faster. Also the book seems to skip ingredients. I have yet to come across a recipe that calls for salt, for example, although brownies, sticky rice, salad dressing, and several other recipes simply cry out for it. Of course I can throw in my own dash of salt, but I wonder what other small things were skipped for the sake of a brief recipe (after all, how long does it take to add a dash of salt?). Not sure I'll buy another Donna Hay cookbook...

P.S. Just tried to fry something with no info in the recipe on oil temperature or timing. It was a disaster.

Editorial Review:

This book delivers what it promises -- New Food Fast. Whether you've got 10, 20 or 30 minutes to make a meal, Donna Hay gives you the ideas, recipes and inspiration to create great dishes using fresh and interesting ingredients in next to no time. With busy people like herself in mind, Donna has solved the daily what's-for-dinner dilemma with a book full of fast, simple, tempting and satisfying answers. Keep this copy of New Food Fast on the kitchen bench and, even in your busiest moments, you'll never be left wondering what's for dinner.

Betty Crocker's Quick & Easy Cookbook

Betty Crocker Editors, Betty Crocker Editors

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

"What’s for dinner tonight?" Here’s your answer, filled with more than 300 family-pleasing recipes plus lots of great tips and ideas for speeding up your cooking. You need to get dinner done fast and you want delicious meals the whole family will enjoy. Keeping today’s busy lifestyles in mind, every recipe can be made in 30 minutes or less. And with Betty Crocker, kitchen-tested recipes that taste great are guaranteed.

Dinners with family and friends are the best time when you have a mealtime plan that works. Here are plenty of great ideas to keep you cooking–and enjoying–dinnertime every night!

30 minutes or less to dinner. Here’s how:

Keep It Quick: All recipes are 30 minutes or less. Need dinner faster? Turn to super express recipes, ready in 20 minutes or less.

Always Delicious: Taste matters most, and recipes like Cornmeal Chicken with Fresh Peach Salsa and Sirloin with Bacon-Dijon Sauce are packed with great flavor.

Family Appeal: Treat the gang to favorites that kids love like Easy Macaroni and Cheese, Mini Meat Loaves and Triple-Berry Shortcakes.

Lots of Dinner Options: You’ll find it all, from quick snacks and appetizers to hundreds of main course choices, from great vegetables and sides to easy dessert treats.

Shopping Made Easy: Recipes call for familiar basics found at any supermarket, from everyday fresh ingredients to prepared foods and convenience items.

No Time to Shop? A complete stocking-your-pantry guide means you’ll always have great dinner options on hand, even on those days when there’s no time to shop.

Great Ideas: A tip with every recipe for easier preparation as well as delicious ways to round out your dinner.

The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes

Cinda Cavich

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Imagine being able to prepare a wonderful beef stoganoff in only 10 minutes. Or a rich, creamy cheesecake in only 20 minutes. That's a complete meal in just half an hour! And it's what you'll be able to enjoy with your pressure cooker and The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes.

While the benefits of pressure cooking have been known for generations, advances in pressure cooker design have made these small appliances safer and more convenient than ever before. Today, North Americans are discovering that pressure cooked meals are not only faster (about 75% faster, on average) but also healthier since the food retains more of its nutrient value while requiring less fat for cooking. The result is that over the past decade, pressure cooker sales have continued to rise, now approaching 1 million units a year.

While the resurgence of pressure cooking is comparatively new to North American households, in other countries (from France to India) it has always been the preferred method for preparing moist and flavorful stews, vegetables, risottos, and soups. In fact, many homes in Europe and Asia will use two cookers simultaneously to prepare a meal.

With The Best Pressure Cooker Recipes you get more than 125 recipes specifically designed to take advantage of what pressure cookers do best. And as you'll discover, pressure cookers are amazingly versatile. Sample from starters such as "Braised Artichokes with Red Pepper Aïoli" or "Spicy Sweet Potato Soup." Delicious main course offerings include "Chicken Cacciatore" and "Cajun Seafood Gumbo," along with bean dishes like "Maple Baked Pork and Beans with Apples." Side dishes such as "Roasted Garlic Risotto with Asiago" are sure to complement any meal. And pressure cooker desserts? Absolutely! Just try the "Orange Espresso Cheesecake" or "Cool Lemon Custards with Fresh Berry Compote."

In addition to a helpful tips and kitchen wisdom that accompany the recipes, this book provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of pressure cooking, including guidelines for adapting your own recipes, compensating for the effects of altitude on pressure cooking, as well as a comparison of the various styles and models of cookers on the market. Whether you're new to pressure cooking or an experienced cook looking for great pressure cooker recipes, this book is a must-have for your kitchen.

Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus: 137 Complete Meals Timed for Success

Dawn Hall

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Party Planning Made Easy! 5 out of 5 stars.
7 of 7 people found this review helpful.

I hosted a bridal shower luncheon for my soon-to-be sister-in-law and wanted to make a great impression. I'm pretty good at planning events, but I'm lousy at making food, so was in a quandary until the 30-Minute-Menu cookbook saved me! In it I found the perfect menu for my luncheon, start to finish, and it was a huge hit! With the timings spelled out, I was able to coordinate the entire event seamlessly. No waiting, no soggy sandwiches, no missing ingredients or last-minute dashes to the store. And Dawn has a great knack for finding flavors that combine well together. What a great tool!

Editorial Review:

Easy step-by-step instructions for entire meals that you can make in 30 minutes or less.

After a busy day at home or in the workplace, the best answer to "What's for dinner?" can be found in one of these delicious super-simple, low-fat, heart smart 30-minute menus.

The uniqueness of this can't-miss cookbook is that each menu has clear step-by-step instructions on how to put together the entire menu. Gone are the days of the vegetable being ready five minutes after the meal starts.

In addition, each menu has a pantry list of items you will need but probably already have, a list of cooking pans and bowls, and a grocery list arranged by supermarket department. Also included is a nutritional analysis of each recipe.

Busy People's Super Simple 30-Minute Menus ensures that all the elements of your busy-day dinner are ready to each when the family sits down.

Williams-Sonoma Food Made Fast: One Pot

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Total reviews: 2 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

My Favorite Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I got this book as an impulse buy after I found a Le Creuset on deep discount and didn't know what to make in it. I have tried most of the recipes and all have been good. Recipes from this book now make up about a fourth of our weeknight rotation. We love the Gumbo, Halibut with Leeks and Tomatoes, Spiced Chicken and Rice, and Baked Sausages and Beans.

Pretty book, some good recipes. 4 out of 5 stars.
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Book came in perfect condition. Have only prepared one recipe so far, it was good.

Two Dudes, One Pan: Maximum Flavor from a Minimalist Kitchen

Jon Shook, Vinny Dotolo, Raquel Pelzel

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Editorial Review:

Just one pan? No problem! You’ll need only a single skillet, or a roasting pan, or a Dutch oven to make any of the 100 knockout recipes that have made this team the hottest culinary duo west of the Rockies.

Today their catering business and restaurant are the toast of Los Angeles, but Jon and Vinny still remember what it was like to cook with a minimum of space, time, and equipment. And they know that it is the feel-good, homestyle favorites that win raves from their clients and will make any home cook’s reputation. In Two Dudes, One Pan they show you how to prepare a surprising array of dishes—from finger foods to sweets and everything in between—using a few simple pieces of equipment and never more than one at a time.

Just as Jon and Vinny depend on fewer kitchen tools and gadgets than most cooks, they also believe it’s possible to eat well without spending a fortune, and their varied, deeply flavored food won’t send you running to the gourmet shop in search of an obscure ingredient. For them, it’s all about what you can do with food from the local grocery store. Pick up your favorite pan and try your hand at dishes like:

Curried Chicken Nuggets with Honey Mustard and Red Onion Slaw * Sake-Soy Sea Bass with Baby Bok Choy * Spicy Roasted Cauliflower, Capers, and Parm * Sherried Salmon and Cipollini Onions * Five-Spice Cornish Hens * Pistachio Tiramisù with Sweet Cherry Sauce * Pumpkin Pie Bars

With full-color photographs, ingredient alternatives, helpful tips and shortcuts, and dozens of straightforward, down-and-dirty recipes that pack a wallop of flavor, Two Dudes, One Pan will inspire you to use less—and cook more.

Student's Go Vegan Cookbook: Over 135 Quick, Easy, Cheap, and Tasty Vegan Recipes

Carole Raymond

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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The choice to follow a vegan lifestyle is simple when you’ve got a cookbook full of delicious recipes representing the very best of gourmet, ethnic, and basic cuisine—served up vegan style! Even better, these dishes are tailored to fit a student’s schedule and budget, making a vegan diet possible for just about anybody.

Carole Raymond brings flavor and depth to vegan food with just a few inexpensive ingredients and recipes that are simple enough for even dorm-room cooks to wow their friends. Raymond also includes nutrition information that is vital to a healthy vegan lifestyle, as well as tips on stocking a vegan pantry, innovative substitute ingredients for all the foods you love, and suggestions on how to experiment with vegan dishes and make each mouthwatering recipe your own. Her collection of recipes includes such savory dishes as:

• Apple-Pecan French Toast

• Hash in a Flash

• Thai Spring Rolls with Spicy Peanut Dipping Sauce

• Déjà Vu Sloppy Joes

• Spanish Tomato Soup

• Basic Baked Tofu

• Millet Salad with Curry-Ginger Dressing

• Pumpkin Scones

• Ten-Minute Brownies

• Coconut Tapioca

And much more!

Whether you’re a curious but passionate newcomer or already a dedicated pro, the Student’s Go Vegan Cookbook has enough variety, simplicity, and strategies for you to make tempting vegan food for every meal—every day of the week!

Even More Top Secret Recipes: More Amazing Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods

Todd Wilbur

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Fun and interesting, but I got mixed results 4 out of 5 stars.
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If the poor condition of the library copy is any indication, Even More Top Secret Recipes is a very popular book!

Todd Wilbur has a number of books, and it can be a little confusing sorting them out. There are three "Top Secret Recipes" books, Top Secret Recipes, More Top Secret Recipes (this book) and Even More Top Secret Recipes. These books focus on what Wilbur calls "convenience foods." That is, most packaged sweets and fast food. He also has a book Top Secret Restaurant Recipes, in which he attempts to duplicate the foods of mostly casual dining restaurants like Chili's and Applebee's. He also has a book solely on drinks.

Wilbur explains in the Introduction of More Top Secret Recipes that these are not the actual recipes used by restaurants, and he did not obtain them through bribery, theft other illegal or illicit means. He starts with the ingredient list on packages of food and modifies the relative amounts, or with fast food, tries to identify the ingredients by taste. He admits that the real producers of these foods often use custom ingredients unavailable to the consumer, and that the goal was to match the texture and flavor of the food, and appearance is secondary.

So why try to clone commercially-available food? In both More Top Secret Recipes and Even More Top Secret Recipes, the author mentions availability. Some of the foods are regional, and you may not get them where you live. In the introduction to More Top Secret Recipes, he gives a list of reasons including low cost and curiosity. I'm not so sure about the cost argument, since I have to sacrifice two boxes of Macaroni and Cheese to make half a box of Cheese Nips, but the curiosity is what applied to me. I just wanted to know, "Can I really duplicate these commercial foods at home?"

This book contains 88 recipes, a big increase over the 37 of the previous book. The recipes clone the likes of McDonald's, Nabisco, Carl's Jr. and Taco Bell. Every recipe includes a history of the food item, something alone which makes this book valuable, and a dimensioned engineering graphic of the product. Even More Top Secret Recipes includes an interesting introduction discussing the fast food industry, and gives some tips on creating the clones. The recipes make as much use as possible of premade food and mixes. For example, most candy bars are coated with melted chocolate chips, so you will not find that you have to crush cocoa beans, or perform any such low-level task.

From this book, so far, I attempted to make Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies, (I AM a Girl Scout after all. Really. My wife signed me up. It was a surprise to me, too!) and Nabisco Cheese Nips. The thin mints turned out pretty good. The flavor and texture were pretty close. The only problem is that the chocolate was a little thick. Applying it to a desired thickness is difficult. Also, the chocolate remained quite soft. A little more experimentation with cookie thickness and baking time and temperature might make the centers a little more consistent, too. The Cheese Nips are made using the cheese packets from Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (Cheese and Macaroni?). They turned out crispy, and although bright orange like the real thing before baking, turned out grayish-tan when done. Although crispy, they weren't light and bubbly like the real thing, but were more like crispy cookies. They needed to be cheesier. They tasted like the flour and shortening. They weren't bad, though, and my wife liked them, but they weren't much like Cheese Nips. A lot of recipes would benefit from the use of rolling pin rings to establish uniform dough thickness.

I also had mixed results with the recipes from More Top Secret Recipes. You can read my amazingly similar review on that book for more details.

Using this book was fun and informative. I've had mixed results using these books. In short, have fun, but don't expect miracles with every recipe.

A Man, a Can, a Grill: 50 No-Sweat Meals You Can Fire Up Fast

David Joachim, The Editors of Men's Health

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The secret is the can! 5 out of 5 stars.
10 of 10 people found this review helpful.

Let's face it, we all love being a little creative in the kitchen or around the grill every now and then. Who would have thought ordinary canned cola or beer would add great taste to the best meats on the grill? Mix a budweiser with worcestershire sauce, grilling mix, and a small jar of chopped jalapenos and you have a wild barbecue mix making you believe you may be out in the Caribbeans. Or a can of sloppy joe barbecue sauce mixed with jalapenos. There are recipes a plenty guaranteed to fire up your taste buds.

Author David Joachim, who also penned A MAN, A CAN, A PLAN gives many great tips for perfecting your roastings for the grill. This book is a real must for anybody inviting guests over for a summer barbecue. Whether it's steak fajitas doused in beer, a rotisserie chicken grilled with a can of budweiser up the (orifice), or ordinary St. Louis Style Ribs - there are no limits as to what an ordinary can will do to add flavor to your favorite dishes. Highly recommended for any barbecue chef wannabes out there!

Editorial Review:

Take a man. Add a can. Now throw in a grill. Sounds like a recipe for disaster, right? But with the geniuses who brought you A Man, A Can, A Plan are calling the shots, any guy can turn his culinary carnage into a killer meal.

- Photos of most ingredients, so shopping is a breeze
- Instructions for charcoal and propane grills alike
- Options for vegetarians
- Other useful facts about the ingredients and grilling techniques
- Whether the menu calls for beer-basted chicken or shish kebabs, Joachim's approach to barbecuing will lure even the most inexperienced cook to slap on an apron.