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Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids

Rachael Ray

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Total reviews: 51 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

Ray's Kid Cookbook 4 out of 5 stars.
28 of 28 people found this review helpful.

I enjoy cooking. The Kitchen is like my science lab, it is great to taste and try new things in the kitchen.

A cookbook written with children in mind can either talk down to kids or can treat them like equals. most of this book treats children like equals. However it is cutely illustrated with cartoony images of Rachel Ray, which to me, belittles the kids.

The recipes are family oriented cooking tasks that kids and adults can make together. It has plastic slicked stock is the kind I think most cook books can use

This book is good cook book for family and people that want to teach children to eat well. I like what is here..if you have kids and want to have your children to learn to cook, this is your book

Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD

NOT WORTH THE MONEY, YUCK! 1 out of 5 stars.
1 of 5 people found this review helpful.

I love Rachael Ray. I love her enthusiasm, her moxie, just her good 'ole zest for life. She is fun to watch and gets you really involved in the meal at the same time urging you to try new things.

She should not have published this cookbook.

The ideals in it are nice. Cook with your kids, teaching, learning etc. etc. Create some wholesome family time etc. etc. ABSOLUTELY.

Great ideas, great concepts.

HORRIBLE RECIPES.

Seriously, just plain bad.

I am an uneducated semi-gourmet cook. Meaning, I am an excellent cook, everyone has always loved my food and I can cook just about anything under the sun (with or without recipes), BUT, I have not been to culinary school.

Even so, these are terrible recipes!!!!!

They not only taste terrible, they don't make alot of culinary sense.

I am not bashing Rachael. Just this cookbook.

Don't waste your money folks, look elsewhere, but continue to cook with your kids, it is time well spent!

Editorial Review:

Kids rock! says Rachael, and it seems the feeling is mutual. Young people number among her biggest fans. For them she has created a fabulous collection of age-specific recipes with a high cool factor.

Alive in 5: Raw Gourmet Meals in Five Minutes

Angela Elliott

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

You call this gourmet? 2 out of 5 stars.
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I think the title of this book is quite misleading. I'm giving it two stars because I think the author is representing it as something it's not: "gourmet food".

While the recipes are not complicated, most of them are far TOO simple. Over and over, I kept asking myself, "for THIS I need a recipe book??" For example, "Cucumber Pizza", which sounds intriguing, is nothing more than chopped olives on slices of cucumber. "Scrambled Eggs", which sounds like something you wouldn't find in any ordinary raw food recipe book is -- are you ready for this? -- 3 ripe avocados mashed in a bowl, add salt and pepper! The "salad" recipes are the most basic of salads ... if you can chop some vegetables and lettuce into a bowl, add some lemon juice, olive oil and your favorite seasonings, you already know how to make most of the salads in this book.

There are several different nut milk recipes, each with a fancy, delicious-sounding name, but they're all the exact same recipe ... only the kind of nut you use is different.

Many of the recipes call for the pulp left over from making nut milk, and some of the soup recipes require nut milk. So unless you've taken the time to make nut milk, and have saved a supply of the pulp, you're out of luck.

One problem I have with many raw food recipe books is the inordinate amount of nuts, seeds and avocados called for. One recipe in this book calls for 5 avocados to make a dish that serves 3 people (just about all the recipes in the book make 3 servings). A taco recipe calls for 2 cups of soaked sunflower seeds in the pate', plus an avocado in the filling, and another cup of sunflower seeds to make the "sour cream" topping ... serves 3. I don't like gorging on fats, even if they are the healthy kind.

Some recipes call for coconuts, which is a no-go for me, because I don't want to have to deal with cracking coconuts and scraping out the flesh, etc. One recipe (that makes 3 servings) calls for 3 young coconuts.

I'm a big proponent of raw foods, and have a large collection of raw food recipe books. For "quick and simple" recipes, I especially like Raw Food Made Easy for 1 or 2 People, by Jennifer Cornbleet. Raw Foods for Busy People by Jordan Maerin is another favorite. But I cannot recommend Alive in 5, for all the reasons mentioned above. Perhaps if it were titled more honestly, something like "Dishes You Really Don't Need a Recipe Book For", I wouldn't have been so disappointed with it. I'm not saying there aren't some tasty combinations of foods in this book, but many of them are just TOO simple. To call it "Gourmet Meals" is misleading.

Editorial Review:

Here is a great resource for anyone looking for easy alternatives to complex raw recipes that require lots of time and expensive equipment to prepare. Acclaimed raw chef Angela Elliott shows how to whip up mouth-watering lasagne, spaghetti marinara, stuffed mushrooms, broccoli in cheese sauce, apple pie, decadent whipped cream and strawberries, chocolate shake, and more--all in about five minutes, with easy-to-find ingredients and just a blender or food processor. She shares her personal wellness journey and her playful enthusiasm to make the book an enjoyable and inspiring guide to delicious living.

Make-A-Mix

Karine Eliason, Nevada Harward, Madeline Westover

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Total reviews: 57 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Make a Mix Cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
4 of 4 people found this review helpful.

I have the 1978 edition of Make a Mix and upon receiving it as a promotion gift from Tupperware, immediately took it apart, punched holes in the pages, and put those little hole enforcers around them. This was a keeper, and indeed, it has been for thirty years now one of my favorites. It is worth owning for the granola recipe alone, which is a staple in my home and now in my daughter's homes. I'm looking forward to ordering them each one for Christmas, so they can make their own mixes.

Editorial Review:

Make-A-Mix is really two cookbooks in one. The cookbook begins with 67 make-ahead shortcut mixes for everything from all-purpose cake mix to meatball mix. These can be made on a weekend-or whenever there’s free time-and used to speed food preparation on busy days. The mixes are a key ingredient in one or more of the 306 recipes that follow. The kitchen-tested recipes run the gamut from breakfast dishes to after-dinner treats. They include hearty dinner entrees, like enchilada casserole, onion pot roast, and shrimp & vegetable stir-fry; international fare like green chili burritos and quick chow mein; soups and other appetizers, like New England clam chowder, and even freezer treats like fruit slush. With the Make-A-Mix method, home cooks can control the amount of sugar, salt, and preservatives in a recipe, and save money on store-bought mixes. This cookbook is the updated and expanded version of Make-A-Mix that sold over a million copies.

Robin to the Rescue: Quick & Simple Recipes for Delicious Home Cooking

Robin Miller

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

200 time-saving recipes from bestselling cookbook author and Food Network celebrity chef Robin Miller that allow you to "Quick Fix It" your way to get home-cooked meals on the table every night, no matter what your schedule.Robin to the Rescue contains recipes organized by course/main ingredient so you can find recipes for what you're in the mood for fast. For ease of planning, each recipe says how long it will take to prep, active cooking time, and walk-away time (the time a dish can be left to cook without your supervision). A new feature for this book will be that each recipe will allow you to Quick Fix it your way, namely it will tell you how a particular recipe can be turned into a Meal Kit; prepared in a slow cooker; doubled up so you can bank a batch in your freezer for nights when you have no time for meal preparation at all, aside from pushing buttons on the microwave; and/or morphed into another meal you can enjoy later in the week. Robin to the Rescue is a uniquely versatile book, allowing the reader to tailor recipe prep to her own particular needs.

The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food: Easy Step-by-Step Instructions for Freezing, Drying, and Canning

Janet Chadwick

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Total reviews: 4 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A Practical and Simple Guidebook for Preserving Food 5 out of 5 stars.
33 of 33 people found this review helpful.

I used to feel intimidated about preserving fresh vegetables. I thought all sorts of expensive equipment and a vast knowledge of preserving were needed in order to successfully preserve food. Then I purchased a copy of The Busy Person's Guide to Preserving Food and was delighted to find that I could almost effortlessly preserve many of the fresh vegetables I grew and still have good results with the finished product. Now, I look forward to a healthy crop of green beans, yellow squash, zucchini, and tomatoes and no longer wonder what I'll do with all of the produce.

Teriffic book for a beginner! 5 out of 5 stars.
21 of 22 people found this review helpful.

I used this book when i was just starting to learn how to can, and it was a savior. Provides detailed, step-by-step instructions on how to can, freezer, and dry store. Also contains great basic receipes to get you started.

Editorial Review:

With this indispensable guide readers will discover the fastest, easiest way to stockpile and preserve the season's best fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Included are step-by-step instructions for storing today's most popular produce quickly and easily. Food-by-food suggestions for the best preservation methods (including microwave) save the reader lots of time.

The Way to Cook

Julia Child

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Total reviews: 43 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

With The Way to Cook, Julia Child creates a second culinary classic. Her first, Mastering the Art of French Cooking, introduced a generation of those used to preparing simple fare to what was then considered gourmet food, demystified classic techniques, and raised our culinary consciousness. In The Way to Cook, she also demystifies cooking techniques and does some consciousness-raising. This time, though, she speaks to everyone with little or no experience in the kitchen, which is most people these days. Always in tune with the moment, and ever the gracious realist, Child (although calling her Julia seems reasonable since she treats us with such open informality) explains in The Way to Cook how to boil an egg and stuff it, as well as how to make a perfect omelet and an elegant soufflé.

To help out readers who lack the most basic knowledge, she organizes the book by techniques rather than by ingredients. Soups are first, a relatively unintimidating choice to build confidence through delicious results such as true French Onion Soup and a contemporary Black Bean Gazpacho. Next come breads, updated to use a food processor to cut the kneading time. The fish chapter covers broiling a salmon steak and creating a sophisticated Crown Mousse of Trout. Chapters on poultry, meats, vegetables, and desserts are equally ample and wide-ranging.

When The Way to Cook was published in 1989, it accompanied a television series. A related set of videotapes, the first to teach cooking comprehensively, was offered simultaneously. However, more than 600 color photos in this book make it fully complete on its own.

The Way to Cook is a good reference volume, a useful gift, and a handsome way to follow Julia's career as she transformed from a French classicist to the ever-evolving, always clear and reliable teacher we have come to adore. --Dana Jacobi

Fast Food My Way

Jacques Pepin

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Total reviews: 48 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Over time, in his cookbooks, and on his TV series, Jacques Pépin has taught people how to cook simple, fully flavored dishes--food that reflects his French training while embracing American informality. Jacques Pépin: Fast Food My Way takes this approach one step further by providing 100-plus recipes for a wide range of delicious, meant-to-be fast dishes. These include Stuffed Scallops on Mushroom Rice; Chicken Breasts on Mashed Cauliflower with Red Salsa; Pasta, Ham, and Vegetable Gratin; and Apple, Pecan, and Apricot Crumble. The "my way" of the title can mean the use of time-saving tools (Pépin uses pressure cookers to achieve easy stews like his beef short-rib, mushroom, and potato dish) and convenience foods (canned black bean soup or sweet potatoes for new soup versions). Generally, though, the Pépin approach emphasizes the use of foods that are themselves quickly cooked, like chicken breasts or beef fillet and that can be made flavorful with equally fast-to-fix accompaniments, like his salsa mayonnaise or his tomato-olive sauce.

Fast is, of course, a relative term, and readers will find more than a few dishes in the book that may require more time or attention than they're willing to spend on a daily basis. But overall, the book offers enough easily made recipes, and super-time-saving formulas, like Instant Vegetable Soup, to make it a true cooking resource. --Arthur Boehm

The Mcdougall Quick and Easy Cookbook: Over 300 Delicious Low-Fat Recipes You Can Prepare in Fifteen Minutes or Less

John A. McDougall, Mary McDougall

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Total reviews: 33 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Over 300 delicious low-fat recipes you can prepare in fifteen minutes or less. By greatly simplifying the work involved in preparing healthy, exciting meals, bestselling authors Dr. John McDougall and Mary McDougall continue to build upon the success of their acclaimed, low-fat McDougall Program books. In this latest edition, they share their secrets for lowering cholesterol, alleviating allergies, and dramatically reducing the risk of heart disease, cancer, osteoporosis, and diabetes with food that is irresistible to the whole family. Featuring over 300 recipes that can be prepared in fifteen minutes or less, The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook is the busy person's answer to eating right.

Discover shopping tips and cooking hints to save time, reduce fat, and make great-tasting meals. Learn the viable egg and dairy replacements to eliminate fat, cholesterol, and animal protein from your diet. And refer to the updated "McDougall-Okayed Packaged and Canned Products" list.

The economical, fast, and innovative recipes in The McDougall Quick and Easy Cookbook help make good health and longer life easier than ever to achieve.

* The McDougall Program was recently ranked #1 in the weight loss field by the Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine

Kosher by Design Short on Time: Fabulous Food Faster (Kosher by Design)

Susie Fishbein

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Total reviews: 14 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Kosher By Design, the best kosher cookbook series of today! 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

The Kosher By Design cookbook series are one of the best kosher cookbooks of today. The recipes mix modern and traditional cooking together in a most delicious way. Easy to follow recipes and beautiful pictures. I highly recommend this cookbook and any of the other cookbooks in the Kosher By Design series.

One of a kind! 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

We've already made quite a handful of dishes from this book and every single one of them came out incredibly, robustly delicious. This book has become a staple in our kitchen!

Overall, an excellent cookbook 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this book for our synagogue library and was impressed from the moment I received it. I tried about 6 different recipes, and all were tasty if not delicious, and most were actually fast unlike many other "quick" recipes. I like having pictures to go with the recipes, and don't mind some short-cut ingredients such as using bottled sauces.

Interesting assortment of recipes 4 out of 5 stars.
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They may not be as quick to make for those of us whose kitchen skills are not up there with Susie Fishbein's, but the directions are clear, pictures helpful, and most of all, the recipes are tasty.

Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day

Mary-Beth Lagerborg, Mimi Wilson

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Total reviews: 12 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Editorial Review:

Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You don’t have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect today’s healthier diet, this revised edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at the supermarket, cut down on prep time, group similar kitchen tasks together to get them all done at once, make kitchen clean-up more manageable, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals!

Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as:
--Baked JambalayaMexican

--Chicken Lasagna

--Chicken Taco Salad

--Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork

--Veal Scaloppini

--And more!
Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!