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Six Ingredients or Less: Slow Cooker (Six Ingredients or Less)

Carlean Johnson

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Perfectly fine unless you need to lose weight 4 out of 5 stars.
14 of 15 people found this review helpful.

I'm all for simple, straightforward, easy recipes, and the ones in this book definitely fit the bill. I like the author's down-home, friendly style. The only problem is, her recipes are very down-home too - they almost seem outdated, as if they were created back in the slow cooker's original heyday, the 1970s or so (actually I think people ate more healthy than this in the 70s). Obviously the author and her family have no weight problems and can eat what they want. The recipes are hearty and easy, but be prepared for lots of full-fat ingredients and everything we're always renovating our recipes for nowadays. I flagged a lot of recipes in this book to make, but only as special treats. I couldn't use this book for daily meals.

Another useful and well written cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 8 people found this review helpful.

Excellent cookbook using "normal" ingredients that can be found in almost any kitchen. I love being able to put ingredients in the slow cooker and finding a tasty, home cooked meal at the end of the day. The slow cooker is a lifesaver and Carlean Johnson's cookbook is too.

125 Best Food Processor Recipes

George Geary

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Total reviews: 5 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Editorial Review:

Delicious recipes for the indispensable food processor.

Although millions of food processors are bought each year, they are seldom used to their full potential. With 125 Best Food Processor Recipes, the prep time to create delicious dishes is just a few minutes. These foolproof recipes are specifically created for food processors:

• Appetizers: Crab Feta Mushrooms, Herbed Chicken Puffs, Roasted Red Pepper Guacamole Dip
• Salads and Salad Dressings: Pepper Pasta Salad, Blue Cheese Peanut Coleslaw, Chipotle Mayonnaise
• Salsas, Sauces, Marinades and Rubs: Peach Mango Salsa, Jerk Chicken Marinade, Homemade Ketchup, Hot and Spicy BBQ Rub
• Soups: Roasted Pumpkin Pecan Soup, French Onion Soup, New England Clam Chowder
• Main Dishes: Fast and Easy Meatloaf, Stuffed Chicken Breasts, Red Hot Chili
• Vegetables: Tomato Basil Tart, Pecan Yams, Potatoes Au Gratin
• Breads and Rolls: Crusty French Rolls, Honey Whole Wheat Sunflower Bread, Fast and Easy Pizza Dough
• Cookies: Lemon Citrus Cookies, Quadruple Chocolate Chunk Cookies, Cinnamon Apple Shortbread
• Pies, Tarts and Pastries: All-Butter Pie Crust, Three Berry Pie, Caramel Chocolate Tart, Pear Pandowdy
• Cakes and Quick Breads: Deep Dark Rich Chocolate Fudge Cheesecake, Blueberry Pecan Muffins, Fresh Savory Herb Scones

For cooks using a food processor, this book will become the ultimate resource for its outstanding recipes. The wealth of timesaving tips and techniques will appeal to cooks at all skill levels.

Busy People's Diabetic Cookbook (Busy People's Cookbooks)

Dawn Hall

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Good to get you started 4 out of 5 stars.
11 of 11 people found this review helpful.

I bought this book to help my boyfriend manage his diabetes better. There are several recipes in here, but I was a little disappointed that there weren't more meal/main course options. Its great if you're primarily looking for desserts, appetizers, etc to serve, but I feel very limited with the options for a main course.

Editorial Review:

Busy People's Diabetic Cookbook is the answer for everyone who wants to eat healthier without sacrificing what is most important to them - delicious flavor! These recipes are not just for those people with diabetes, but everyone in the family can enjoy these healthy and well-balanced recipes.

Diabetes is becoming a national epidemic. The number of new cases diagnosed increased by 25% from 878,000 in 1997 to 1,104,000 in 2,000. Today 18.2 million people in the U.S. - 6.3% of the population - have diabetes. Shockingly, adult onset diabetes is now being diagnosed in children.

Sometimes when one member of a family is diagnosed with diabetes, two meals are made - one for the person with diabetes and one for everyone else. What's terrific about this book is that you would never know by tasting these recipes that they are all within American Diabetic Association's guidelines. They are that good, that delicious, and that amazing!

Pantry Cooking

Laura Robins

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Making Meals from Dried & Canned Foods 5 out of 5 stars.
17 of 17 people found this review helpful.

If you store the right foods in your pantry, you can make a number of delicious recipes without having to run to the store at a moments notice. The Brownie recipe calls for unsweetened chocolate, butter-flavored shortening, sugar, vanilla, dry egg, water, whole wheat flour and chopped walnuts. In many of the recipes, the flour is whole wheat. So, if you are looking for some healthy recipes, this book has plenty of them (...except, you might want to use butter in place of the less healthy butter shortening)!

The main sections:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner
Sides and Sauces
Dessert

A section on "Important Storage Components" also contains information on a 72-Hour Survival Kit, ideas for making a snack pack to carry with you and hints on gardening.

Some of the ingredients used are easy to keep in your pantry: dry egg mix, dry onions, bread mixes, dried fruits and vegetables, dry pastas, canned ground beef (who knew? I'd never seen it before), sun-dried tomatoes, tuna, chicken bouillon, dried herbs an spices, oil, canned vegetables, cornmeal and cherry pie filling.

You will find recipes for:

Biscuits and Gravy
Mushroom Omelets
Pancakes
Macaroni and Cheese
Sloppy Joes
Chicken and Dumplings
Linguine with White Clam Sauce
Smoked Salmon Cakes
Navajo Fry Bread
Spanish Rice
Salsa
Cherry Cobbler

As someone who likes to challenge herself to see how much she can cook with whatever is in the pantry, this book did intrigue. I think it will be most useful at the end of the week or when I don't want to run to the store. Most of the ingredients are things you already keep in your pantry, so that makes it even more useful. You may also want to own this for camping trips, since you can take along dried foods that are light to carry.

I'm making the Greek Chicken Soup...except, I'm using a homemade chicken stock. There are ways to adapt the recipes, like you can use chopped onions instead of the dried onions. You just skip adding the water to the dried onions.

This book would be helpful in an emergency situation as long as
your pantry is well stocked and you have lots of bottled water on hand.

~The Rebecca Review

Editorial Review:

What is food storage, and why should every family have a store of food and water in their homes? There are many reasons why it's not just a good idea, but also a modern-day necessity. Author Laura Robins reveals just how easy food storage can be, and how implementing a food storage plan can not only keep you safe in an emergency, but can also help avoid the stress and chore of creating three healthy meals a day for your family. Learn how to create comprehensive menu plans that rotate your food storage, build and keep a 72-hour kit, lessen the stress of everyday cooking, and how to use planned menus.

Fat-Free & Easy: Great Meals in Minutes

Jennifer Raymond

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Total reviews: 6 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

great book 4 out of 5 stars.
9 of 10 people found this review helpful.

I have had this for a week and have already tried 3 of the recipes. Most of the recipes are very good, and they sound yummy. Great for vegetarians and I love the fact that they are nearly fat free! Very simple recipes and in an easy-to-use format.

Handy Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm new to vegan cooking and have found this cookbook to be very helpful with a lot of useful information for people like me who are just learning. The recipes are easy to follow and the ones I have made are very good. I have four vegan cookbooks now and I think with these four I have all I need to keep me going for a long time. The other three that I think are very good are; The Almost No Fat Cookbook by Grogan and The New McDougall Cookbook and The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook. All these can be found here on Amazon.

Editorial Review:

Learn how to cook without added fats, determine how much fat you should be eating, and how a diet free of meat, eggs, and dairy products is the best choice for ensuring a long and healthy life. There are almost 100 recipes for dishes anyone can enjoy, no matter what their food preferences are.

Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

Rachael Ray

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Cooking "Rond the Clock" Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals 5 out of 5 stars.
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My wife loves it. She has been using only this book since she got it. Great meals!!! She's lost 5 lbs. since she started using it.Cooking 'Round the Clock: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

A Great Cookbook for a Person Who's New to Cooking and Willing to Buy Lots of Ingredients 5 out of 5 stars.
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In Cooking 'Round the Clock, the irrepressible Rachael Ray fills every hour with fun in the kitchen and joy in the eating. This woman is a whirlwind! She gets you off to a fast start on that conclusion when she relates how she didn't sleep as a child . . . but would sneak down to cook in the middle of the night. And she's still a night owl, often writing her many cookbooks while you and I are abed. True to her roots, everything in this book can be produced in 30 minutes or less. Don't let the long ingredient lists fool you on that point: Items are mostly mixed together and quickly prepared at that point.

The book is organized around times of the day, mostly providing short menus, but sometimes varying that approach with a list of recipes. Here are the sections:

7-11 a.m. Rise & Shiners has sections on seven forms of scrambled eggs, a champagne menu, three kinds of hash, three sweet breakfast items, continental breakfast breads, and heavier dishes (oatmeal, ham steaks, and toast stacks with eggs and bacon)

11 a.m. - 4 p.m. Lunch delivers three brunch menus, seven lunch menus, two great heavy-duty salads, lots of sandwich recipes, three soups, a taste of Italian and French food

4-7 p.m. Early-Bird Specials covers 18 menus with a variety of classic American and ethnic (English, Chinese, Italian, and Mexican) dishes plus three hearty "stoups"

7-9 p.m. Sit-Down Suppers has eleven menus cover the range from steak to burgers while hitting turkey, chicken, and fish in between. There are four other recipes (chili, chicken and couscous, chicken salad, and polenta and mozzarella)

7-12 p.m. TV Dinners & Snacks is filled with the foods we all eat in from of the television (nachos, pizza, subs, popcorn, dips, appetizer munchies, and various wraps)

9-12 Bistro Meals takes you on a world tour of great eating menus (bourbon-orange chicken, tuna marinara, duck salad, Cuban-spiced pork, and French-style cod)

12-7 a.m. Late-Nite Bites is all recipes (7 kinds of tartines for the toaster oven, quick "gnocchi," pita-based pizzas for the toaster oven, more eggs dishes, Mexican coffee, cheese-based entrees like welsh rarebit, and pasta carbonara)

Are you feeling full yet?

Unlike her earlier cookbooks, I found the flavor experiences in most of these recipes to be less adventuresome. But there were quite a few recipes where I was intrigued by the combination of flavor and speed that she offers:

Green Eggs and Ham (pp. 30-31)
Oatmeal Cookie Pancakes (p. 43)
Orange and Almond Scones (p. 45)
Mixed Greens with Balsamic Vinegar and Strawberries (p. 64)
Smoked Turkey Waldorf Salad (p. 65)
Curried Cashew-Chicken Salad (p. 66)
Shrimp on Chicken Caesar Romaine Lettuce Wraps (p. 69)
Fruit Soup (p. 70)
Bombay Brunch Wrap (p. 79)
Cobb Sandwiches (p. 80)
30-Minute Shepherd's Pie (p. 94)
Baked Stuffed Flounder (p. 108)
Shrimp Newburg (p. 131)
Mixed Green Salad with Gorgonzola Dressing (p. 137)
Chicken, Chorizo, and Tortilla "Stroup" (p. 148)
Gorgonzola and Sage Sirloin Burgers (p. 151)
Chili Verde (p. 154)
Roasted Red Pepper Hummus and Crudités (p. 167)
Bittersweet Dijon-Dressed Salad (p. 183)
Haddock with Bacon, Onions, and Tomatoes (p. 184)
Gorgonzola and Walnut Spaghetti (p. 186)
Cuban-Spiced Pork Tenderloin and Soffrito Rice (pp. 202-203)
Veggie Scrambles with Pesto (p. 224)
Green Ranch-Hand Eggs (p. 228)
Rigatoni Carbonara (pp. 236-237)

The rest of the dishes seemed potentially interesting, but seemed a bit too close to the standards to provide much excitement of variety. But these could easily be staples for those who don't yet know how to do the standards.

If you love turkey-based items and lots of Italian sauces and cheeses, you'll be quite pleased with what you find here.

But you won't save much time unless you look over the recipes you want to try and assemble the ingredients in advance. My cupboard and refrigerator don't have much in the way of items like fresh ginger root, scallions, cream, fresh parsley, brandy, nutmeg, garlic pickles, sausage, whole-berry cranberry sauce, pierogi, kielbasa, kale, sauerkraut, fresh chives, or fresh dill. These are just some of the ingredients listed on pages 92-100.

I'm pretty sure I can buy all of these at my supermarket, but I would need to put a special shopping list to be able to launch into a 30-minute meal preparation.

Enjoy!

Editorial Review:

Rachael Ray is a household name and a best-selling author, thanks to her simply fabulous recipes, free-hand style of cooking, and unfailing good results. This latest collection of recipes, a companion book to her show, will feature flexible menus for cooking great meals 24/7.

Almost Homeade Cookbook (Gooseberry Patch)

Gooseberry Patch

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Great Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
8 of 9 people found this review helpful.

This is the first Gooseberry cookbook I have. I have made many recipes out of this and have yet to make something that wasnt good and a huge hit. Everything that I have made, has been done again and again and I am excited about trying new ones. You will like this. Defintiely worth the buy!!

wonderful cookbook! 5 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

I love this cookbook! I have used it almost everyday. I think the recipes are simple, yet they taste great! I really like the way they present the recipes. The extra stories are fun too! you won't go wrong in picking up this book.

Editorial Review:

Homemade cooking just got easier! Our Almost Homemade cookbook has over 200 recipes using lots of ready-made ingredients like biscuit baking mix, handy canned soups and refrigerated dough that you already have on hand...with these timesavers, even special occasion meals are a snap. You'll love recipes like wake-up fruit salad, Italian egg rolls, cheese-stuffed meatloaf and mandarin orange cake. Along with our clever tips on each page, there are handy party planning tips in the back!

Busy Woman's Cookbook

Sharon McFall, Gene McFall

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Great quick and easy recipes! 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

This book is not just for women but for men too. With over 500 recipes you can find lots to like. The recipes use simple, easy to find ingredients. A great cookbook for beginning cooks, college students, busy people, and those physically unable to spend time in the kitchen. Soups, side dishes, meats, cakes, pies, cookies, appetizers. Also, the side notes about remarkable women make great reading.

Editorial Review:

Over 500 quick to fix three and four ingredient recipes, for everything from appetizers to soups, salads, main dishes and desserts. A charming addition to the book are the 200 anecdotes and facts about famous first women in history. Each woman has been first in her field, including aviation, sports, intellectual achievement, politics, medicine, education, literature and science. An excellent teaching tool - this book encourages beginning cooks, as well as showcasing missing parts of women's history. Plus, the recipes are so much fun to prepare - anyone with access to a supermarket and a simple kitchen can make great homecooked meals in minutes.

The Newlywed Cookbook

Robin Miller

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A Great Bridal Shower Gift! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

This book is great for newlyweds. It has sections for holiday meals, and romantic cooking for 2 meals. Most meals are made to serve 2 people. There are sections about entertaining, hosting a Thanksgiving meal, etc. Great for a couple who are new to living together and are learning how to cook for two. Full color pages. I gave this book as a bridal shower gift to my friend, along with Betty Crocker's Cookbook - Bridal Edition.

Editorial Review:

With simple recipes that will impress every new husband, wife or in-law, newlywed couples now can actually use their new kitchen accessories instead of ordering take-out for every meal.
More than 200 original recipes, easy-to-follow instructions and personal advice on navigating the kitchen. From planning intimate, candlelit meals to hosting the first sit-down dinner party, this collection will turn any novice into a gourmet.

Includes such special features as:
-- A simple guide to common cookware
-- Terminology and spice indexes
-- Preparation and cooking times
-- Tricks and tips from the stovetop to the dining room table
-- Suggestions for “special occasion” meals, including the one-year anniversary dinner and when in-laws come to visit

Italian Easy: Recipes from the London River Cafe

Rose Gray, Ruth Rogers

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“Easy food doesn’t have to mean unsophisticated food.”

Rose Gray and Ruth Rogers, founders of London’s renowned River Cafe, are famous for their innovative approach to traditional Italian fare. In Italian Easy, their fifth cookbook, they reinvent the Italian kitchen for today’s busy home cook, refuting the notion that elegant food requires hours of preparation. These are visually spectacular, remarkably simple recipes for those who love good food but have little time to prepare it.

Displaying the imagination and panache that are Rose and Ruth’s hallmarks, the nearly 200 recipes in Italian Easy are streamlined for efficiency in the kitchen without compromising either quality or taste. Relying on a well-stocked pantry, just a handful of fresh, seasonal ingredients, and even fewer steps, these sublime recipes summon both familiar and surprising Italian flavors. Bruschetta with tender asparagus and shaved Parmesan, tagliatelle with ripe figs and spicy chiles, slow-roasted chicken with fresh nutmeg and prosciutto, and the restaurant’s popular Chocolate Nemesis cake are all as enticing as they are effortless.

This is not Italian food that’s impossible to pronounce or prepare. At once straightforward and sexy, this is Italian Easy—the cookbook that makes it possible for busy people to eat well every night of the week.