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Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook

Rachael Ray

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Another winning cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Another great cookbook by Rachael Ray! I highly recommend you add this to your collection.

Nice book- creepy pictures! 4 out of 5 stars.
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So far this is a really nice cookbook. The recipes are simple, and don't call for too many crazy exotic ingredients. The layout is really handy because the recipes are grouped into menus, so that means I don't have to go crazy trying figure out what side dishes to serve alongside the main courses. What bugs me, and counts for the lower than five star rating, are all the creepy pictures of Rachael Ray. She looks the Joker! Jack Nickleson's Joker! Kidding aside, her photographs are outnumbering the food photographs at least two to one. It doesn't ruin the book for me, but it's odd to have someone beaming at me from the pages of a cook-book.

A great purchase 5 out of 5 stars.
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First I'll tell you a little about me. I own a café, took formal studies on Culinary Arts and altough I have only been in business four years (plus the three of my Culinary education) my family is one that has always gathered around a kitchen, for every family reunion. So while I am not a terribly experienced chef, neither am I a complete neophyte at the kitchen range.

That said, I must say that this breezy book was quite a surprise. The recipes in it are good, easy and very clear. It reads almost like a conversation with Rachael, like she is your chum and you are cooking together. I have already tried several of her recipes and they are hehehe Yum-o!

I was a bit intrigued because I read some fairly contratictory reviews to other books by Rachael Ray. I love cooking, but I feel it a bit snobish to dismiss someone's recipes just because they lack formal chef training. In fact, some of the best cooks I know lack said training, and in the case of this book, I believe Rachael's practical talent is a plus! Not everybody can go to Culinary school, but almost everybody, in one moment or another, will find him/herself in the position to cook. Here's where I advice you to get one of Rachael's books. Especially this one.

Every recipe (unless she warns you beforehand) takes more or less, 30 minutes (unlike some others that say they take that time, but fail to specify that that is only prep time, and then you must bake/broil/boil for say an hour and a half!) and they feel like someone's tried and true family recipes.

Ingredients... well, living in Mexico, I find some of them a bit hard to find, but they are easily substituted by others like them, and while the result may not be the one expected from the original recipe, they are nonetheless good!

If you are like me, and have little time to cook for yourself (or are exhausted after cooking for others for 12 hours in a row) or just want great tasting food without a terribly lot of work, DO buy this book. I am already getting it as a wedding gift for two of my friends.

Editorial Review:

An outstanding collection of Rachael Ray's best 30-Minute Meals, now in one volume. Features over 150 meals selected from 8 of Rachael's best-selling titles.

Pressure Perfect: Two Hour Taste in Twenty Minutes Using Your Pressure Cooker

Lorna J. Sass

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Under pressure to get a tasty, nutritious dinner on the table in a flash? Like the idea of preparing fork-tender beef stew in thirty minutes and pot roast in under an hour? All this and more is made possible by the pressure cooker, a magical appliance that produces soul-satisfying, homemade food in one-third (or less) the standard cooking time.

In Pressure Perfect, Lorna Sass, the country's leading authority on pressure cooking, distills her two decades of experience into one comprehensive volume. First learn everything you need to know about buying and using today's 100% safe cookers. Then enjoy more than 200 recipes for preparing soups, meats, poultry, grains, beans, vegetables, and desserts in record time. How about whipping up a savory risotto in 4 minutes, chicken cacciatore in 12 minutes, or a delectable chocolate cheesecake in 25 minutes?

Because the pressure cooker tenderizes tough cuts of meat quickly, you can prepare fall-off-the-bone beef short ribs or lamb shanks on weekday nights instead of waiting for a special occasion. The pressure cooker also allows you to make delectable one-pot meals in minutes. Among the many innovative recipes and techniques, you'll learn to cook meatloaf and potatoes simultaneously in 10 minutes, and meatballs, pasta, and sauce at the same time in only 5 minutes. Many recipes also suggest Cook-Along ideas for preparing vegetables and grains along with the entrée.

To further help those cooking under pressure (and who isn't nowadays?), each chapter contains timing charts for quick reference. Tips and Pressure Points in every recipe ensure optimum results.

This ultimate guide to pressure cooking is a must for all busy cooks, boaters, brides, college students, and anyone looking for a great way to make irresistible, healthy, home-made food fast.

Fast Food Fix: 75+ Amazing Recipe Makeovers of Your Fast Food Restaurant Favorites

Devin Alexander

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Total reviews: 40 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

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Indulge your fast food cravings without guilt—with recipes that deliver the same great taste without putting your health at risk or inches on your hips

Americans all want to "eat healthy," but when they yearn for the fast foods they love, what they want most are the fabulous flavors that have made them favorites in the first place. That’s what makes this collection of recipe makeovers so exceptional. Los Angeles food writer, chef, and caterer Devin Alexander specializes in low-fat, high-flavor, scrumptious cuisine. In Fast Food Fix, she shows the reader how to transform 75 fast food favorites into healthier versions that are even more flavorful than the originals. Fast Food Fix:
• demystifies the special seasonings and secret sauces of choice fast foods—showing how to reproduce their flavors quickly and easily from common ingredients
• teaches how to lighten many dishes with new cooking techniques, such as the oven-frying method that yields incredibly crunchy popcorn chicken with 35 fewer fat grams than the original version from KFC
• reveals simplified cooking methods that save time in the kitchen, proving that "fast food" can still be fast even when prepared at home

For Americans hooked on fast food flavors, these recipe makeovers by a chef with an impressive repertoire of culinary tricks will quickly become a kitchen staple.

Mark Bittman's Quick and Easy Recipes from the New York Times: Featuring 350 recipes from the author of HOW TO COOK EVERYTHING and THE BEST RECIPES IN THE WORLD

Mark Bittman

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Mark Bittman’s New York Times column, “The Minimalist,” is one of the most frequently clipped parts of the paper’s Dining section. For Bittman’s millions of fans who regularly pore over their clippings, here is reason to rejoice: A host of Bittman’s wonderfully delicious and easy recipes, 350 in all, are now available in a single paperback.
In sections that cover everything from appetizers, soups, and sauces to meats, vegetables, side dishes, and desserts, Mark Bittman’s Quick and Easy Recipes from The New York Times showcases the elegant and flexible cooking style for which Bittman is famous, as well as his deep appreciation for fresh ingredients prepared with minimal fuss. Readers will find tantalizing recipes from all over, each requiring little more than basic techniques and a handful of ingredients. Cold Tomato Soup with Rosemary, Parmesan Cups with Orzo Risotto, Slow-Cooked Ribs, Pumpkin Panna Cotta—the dishes here are perfect for simple weeknight family meals or stress-free entertaining.
Certain to appeal to anyone—from novices to experienced cooks—who wants to whip up a sophisticated and delicious meal easily, this is a collection to savor, and one destined to become a kitchen classic.

Weight Watchers Make It in Minutes: Easy Recipes in 15, 20, and 30 Minutes

Weight Watchers

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Total reviews: 76 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Quick and Easy 5 out of 5 stars.
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These are great recipes that don't require lots of thinking (after a hard day at work). Some old standards, some new ideas.

Yeah for fast meals 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am a busy mom with not a whole lot of extra time to be goofing around in the kitchen. PLus I am tired! I can have a healthy dinner for my family quickly! LOVE IT!!

Great cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love this cookboook. Everything I have tried is delicious and easy. One of my favorites is a black bean salad with corn and avocado. I have tried the Texas Cavier, Cauliflower soup, a chocolate shake, and a fruit salad. All were excellent. Highly recommended.

Editorial Review:

The most trusted name in weight loss makes healthy eating fast and delicious. Perfect for everyone who thought they were too busy" to cook healthy food, these meals are ready in 15, 20, or 30 minutes -- just pick the time frame that fits your schedule. The wide range of recipes will please everyone, from fussy kids to gourmets. Sample Pierogies with Creamy Mushroom and Sherry Sauce, Berries and Cream Blintzes, Pepper-Crusted Flank Steak with Cucumber Relish, Cuban Sandwiches, Easy Paella, Tuna Panzanella and Wild Mushroom Risotto."

Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes

Rachael Ray

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Total reviews: 123 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

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No pasta? No dessert? No way! Everything in moderation, says Rachael Ray. After all, some days only chocolate or spaghetti will hit the spot.

In Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Get Real Meals, the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes that are ready to rock your tastebuds in less than thirty minutes. The latest addition to Rachael’s runaway hit series of 30-Minute Meals cookbooks is designed for cooks who want to look and feel great but long for the fun and the flavor that’s missing from their extreme low-carb meals. Why fill your shopping cart and your stomach with processed, low-carb cereals and breads that taste like cardboard when you can eat the foods you crave? Here, at last, are recipes for those who just cannot and will not live totally carb-free: Pasta dinners made mostly with proteins and vegetables and only a couple of ounces of pasta per servings, fresh Thai and Mexican lettuce wraps, take-out-style stir-frys, and tons of burger ideas—with and without the buns. And when you’ve just got to satisfy that sweet tooth, even nonbakers (like Rachael) will flip for Nutty Creamsicle Pie, Stuffed Roasted Strawberries, and other surprisingly easy dessert recipes.

With more than 150 new dishes, plenty of time-saving tips, and a generous serving of Rachael's “you can do it” attitude, 30-Minute Get Real Meals proves you don’t have to go to extremes to eat healthy.

Rachael Ray confesses that there’s pasta in her pantry, and she isn’t afraid to admit that chili is just an excuse to snack on corn chips. On the other hand, she also confesses that it’s more fun to shop for clothes when she’s eating fewer carbs. So what’s a carb-frustrated cook to do these days? Don’t go to extremes, says the force of nature behind Food Network’s 30-Minute Meals. Get real! With a little creativity and less than half an hour, now you can watch your carbs and eat them, too. Satisfy your carb-starved cravings and still mind that waistline with more than 150 healthy, delicious recipes—including Rachael’s first-ever section devoted just to desserts:

•Snacks and Super-Supper Snacks

•Burgers Gone Wild

•Take a Dip: Fondues

•Salads that Stack Up

•That’s Souper

•Well-Rounded Square Meals

•Pasta: Come Home Again

•Desserts? Yes, Desserts!

Simple Italian Sandwiches: Recipes from America's Favorite Panini Bar

Jennifer Denton, Jason Denton, Kathryn Kellinger

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With nothing more than a panini grill, a toaster oven, and a few simple ingredients, Jennifer and Jason Denton bring the fresh, robust flavors of Italy to your home table in Simple Italian Sandwiches.

Eating in Italy is all about simple pleasures, relaxing with good company, and savoring fresh, no-frills foods like traditional toasted panini, crustless tramezzini, and crunchy bruschetta. In Simple Italian Sandwiches, Jennifer and Jason Denton offer up a collection of recipes for these classic bread-based dishes, plus condiments, antipasti, and salads that are easy enough for the novice cook yet tasty enough for anyone with a sophisticated palate. From Soppressata, Fontina, and Arugula Panini, to Mozzarella and Basil Pesto Tramezzini, to Roasted Butternut Squash, Walnut, and Asiago Bruschetta, the dishes can be prepared in minutes and require minimal cooking.

With simplicity the governing rule for today's busy schedules, Simple Italian Sandwiches is the ideal cookbook for anyone who wants to prepare vibrant, flavorful food for family and friends, and then sit down and enjoy it with them.

Fix-it And Forget-it 5-ingredient Favorites

Phyllis Pellman Good

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So who has time to prepare food these days? We timestarved cooks need recipes that are guaranteed to be

Quick to fix, Easy for anyone to make, whether you’re a cook or not, Delicious and satisfying. The solution? FixIt and Forgetit 5Ingredient Favorites the new member in the multimillion copy Fixit and ForgetIt Cookbook series! This smart, new cookbook offers convenience and comfort to anyone faced with a toofull life and hungry people to feed. Gather five or fewer readily available ingredients + your slow cooker + FixIt and ForgetIt 5Ingredient Favoritesand you have

• Apricot Chicken
• Lazy Lasagna
• Shredded Dill Beef
• Bacon FetaStuffed Chicken• Alfredo BowTies
• UpsideDown Chocolate Pudding Cake
• Rich Brownies in a Nut Crust
• FixIt and ForgetIt 5Ingredient Favorites, with its more than 600 recipes, can be your new faithful campanion. Turn to it for Main Dishes, Meats and Pastas, Vegetables, Soups, Breads, Breakfasts and Brunches, Desserts, Appetizers, Snacks, and Beverages.
  
  From New York Times bestselling author Phyllis Pellman Good, who believes that it is possible to do homecooking and to enjoy the great satisfaction it brings to those who cook and to those who eat.

What Can I Bring? Cookbook (Cake Mix Doctor)

Anne Byrn

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Potlucks and picnics, dinner parties and church socials, fundraisers, toasts to the teacher, reunions, cookouts—it's the busy age of shared meals, which means with every invitation comes the question: " What can I bring?" Anne Byrn, an inspired cook, problem solver, and bestselling author of The Cake Mix Doctor cookbook and other books with over 2.6 million copies in print, knows exactly how to answer the question. Cutting through menu block—a condition familiar to everyone who cooks—here are over 200 delicious suggestions for crowd-pleasing food that’s designed to travel.

There are finger foods, canapes, and "trios"—Trio of Marinated Goat Cheese, Asian Summer Rolls with a Trio of Sauces, Trio of Pastry-Wrapped Camemberts. 25 surprising salads: White Corn Salad with Fresh Thyme, Asparagus and Grilled Peppers with Asian Soy Dressing. Main dishes for a party, from Southern-Style Pulled Pork to Creamy White Bean and Spinach Lasagne. Desserts (of course, 25 of them), and a full chapter of loaves and other gifts from the kitchen, including Chocolate Sour Cherry Bread and Sun-Cooked Peach Preserves. Each recipe comes with Tote Notes (how best to transport the dish), Big Batch (how to multiply the dish), and When You Arrive (how to put the finishing touches on the dish). Plus there are "Grab & Gos"—super-quick recipes—for each section, etiquette tips for working in someone else's kitchen, and a "Notes" area for each recipe, to jot down tips and log in when you made the dish and for what occasion, so you don't repeat yourself.

EatingWell Serves Two: 150 Healthy in a Hurry Suppers

Jim Romanoff, The Test Kitchen of EatingWell Magazine

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A fusion of simplicity, healthy ingredients and just-right quantities, these delicious, exciting new recipes are designed for today's growing world of empty-nesters, couples without children and smaller households.

For millions of fast-paced, modern households, the old cookbook standard of "serves four" is increasingly outdated and a daily nuisance. With more than 77 million baby boomers adjusting to the Empty Nest Syndrome, and with their adult children setting up their own new homes, there is a mounting demand for quick, easy, healthy recipes yielding fewer servings.

But cooking for two people or even singles isn't as simple as cutting a recipe in half. In EatingWell Serves Two, the award-winning editors and recipe developers for America's leading food and nutrition magazine have created 150 dinner recipes from their hugely popular "Healthy in a Hurry" and "Serves Two" columns to meet the specific needs of smaller households.

More than a cookbook, EatingWell Serves Two provides a smart guide for how to shop in small quantities, how to store leftover ingredients, keep a well-stocked pantry and use easy cooking strategies that result in minimal waste while putting a healthy, delicious meal on the table in 45 minutes or less.

Filled with mouthwatering photography and tips on shopping, planning and simple cooking for two with healthy ingredients and without waste. Full-color throughout.