The One-Armed Cook: Quick and Easy Recipes, Smart Meal Plans, and Savvy Advice for New (and Not-So-New) Moms Review

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(More customer reviews)The easy-delicious recipes made me really look good when we took care of the exhausted-new parents and baby for two weeks.
Of the sixteen recipes that I tried, during our two-week visit, the family said that every one turned out delicious and elegant! I'm not that secure of a cook either. The slow-cooker recipes are fabulous too.
Beside the recipes, the ideas for new mothers are a great read!


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Superb recipes that can be made with a whisk in one hand and a baby cradled in the other with most recipes prepared, start-to-finish, in 30 minutes or less.
Appetizing menus for any season or occasion.
Game plans for success—stocking the pantry, filling the freezer, and dining out tips.
Comprehensive list of essential kitchen equipment sure to make cooking with baby in tow faster, easier, and more fun.
Tricks for preparing no-fail dinner parties and everyday meals, hosting family celebrations, and feeding weekend guests.
Sage advice for joyfully entering into motherhood, establishing family rituals, and keeping baby safe while working in the kitchen.

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Favorite Family Meals Review

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(More customer reviews)Don't get me wrong...I'd have given this 5 stars had I not owned Karmel's First Foods, but as I flipped through this book I had serious deja vu! Not only were many recipes the same as those in First Foods, but several of the beautiful pictures were of the same items! It may take some time to idenify just how many are essentially the same since some recipes have new names ~ though some are as easy as Jell-o boats (FF) and Gelatin boats (FFM), mini-muffin pizzas, fruit smothies,
Despite the repeats, I am excited about the new book as is my almost-5-year-old! She has looked at the colorful photographs and pointed out several items she "can't wait" to try ~ including many with vegetables she had previously labelled "yucky". If Karmel's innovative presentation takes a few more minutes but can encourage my kids to break out of the hot dog/ mac and cheese routine AND sample new veggies, I'll glady buy her next cookbook too...even if it has a few recycled recipes!

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If we want our children to grow up healthy and strong, we need to include more fresh foods in their diets. More and more children and adolescents are now considered over-weight or obese. Fast food and poor-quality ready-to-eat meals are becoming a regular part of the average diet. These processed foods account for 75 percent of the saturated fat and salt that children consume. The good news is that cooking more healthfully for your family doesn't need to be complicated or time-consuming.In Favorite Family Meals, bestselling children's food author Annabel Karmel applies her signature fresh, creative cooking style to focus on the family and shows how you -- and your children -- can enjoy time spent in the kitchen preparing everyday dishes that are delicious, nutritious, and often just plain fun to make and eat!Here is a collection of all-time favorite recipes with that key ingredient, child appeal. Parents will find inspiration for meals for all occasions, including burgers and chicken nuggets, low-fat dishes, nutritious lunch box fare, family suppers, and even adult dinner parties.If you're a busy parent stuck in a rut serving the same meals week in and week out, or if you're tired of making different meals for each member of your household, this book is for you. Karmel offers practical guidelines designed to give families a "food makeover" by organizing a healthy pantry, refrigerator, and freezer, and by providing time-saving tips for making meal planning easier.Favorite Family Meals offers realistic ways to improve your whole family's diet, as well as advice on promoting good nutrition to children, because it's not good enough to prepare healthy food for kids -- they have to want to eat it, too!

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Pillsbury: One-Dish Meals Cookbook: More Than 300 Recipes for Casseroles, Skillet Dishes and Slow-Cooker Meals Review

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(More customer reviews)Don't have fresh thyme growing in a pot on your kitchen window? Just ran out of dry Hungarian mustard? That's okay! The Pillsbury One-Dish Meals Cookbook is a REAL, PRACTICAL cookbook for REAL, PRACTICAL people! For example, the recipe for Flaky Lasagna gets rid of the difficult to work with lasagna noodles and layers delicious meat sauce and healthy spinach and cottage cheese, and tops it off with flaky canned biscuits for an oh-so-fast, tasty meal that looks like you spent hours in the kitchen. If you have a life and prefer not to spend your after work hours slaving in the kitchen or schlepping to the super market, then this cookbook is for you.
I've made 3 or 4 casserole meals for my small family from this book. These meals are quick to prepare, often utilizing canned vegetables and other canned products, and readily available spices, and pop in and out of the oven in no time. Meals are always scrumptious; even the mashed potatoes and ground beef casserole I made last night using left-over ground beef was a treat. Left-overs generally last for 2 to 3 days in our 2 person family. I will advise that you season according to your personal tastes. Our Latin American palettes prefer a little "spice" added to each dish. Color photos abound in this book and 1-2-3 directions puts the ease in eas(e)y. :)

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One-Dish Meals CookbookMore Than 300 Recipes for Casseroles, Skillet Dishes and Slow-Cooker MealsFrom America's most trusted kitchens comes a collection of delicious and easy recipes for one-dish meals that everyone--even the cook--can enjoy.Featuring: Kids' Favorites, Easy Entertaining, Tried and True Family Favorites, Brunch SpecialtiesConvenient casseroles, quick and healthy stir-fries, comfort foods from the slow-cooker: One-dish meals are perfect for today's busy cook. Pillsbury, America's most trusted name in the kitchen, has collected more than 300 delicious recipes for casseroles, skillet dishes, and slow-cooker meals that everyone--including the cook--can enjoy. From Celebration Brunch Strata to Ratatouille with Hot Pepper Tortellini to Old-Fashioned Beef Stew, Pillsbury: One-Dish Meals Cookbook presents updated family favorites alongside elegant dishes and exciting new flavors inspired by today's culinary trends. In addition to its easy-to-follow recipes and more than 100 beautiful photographs, this latest edition to Pillsbury's library includes step-by-step features designed to guide readers through specific cooking techniques. For the practiced family cook or the culinary novice, this collection of sure-to-please soups, stews, casseroles, skillet meals and more is a must-have. With their irresistible and infinitely reliable recipes, the experts at Pillsbury prove that one dish is all today's time-savvy cook needs to make delicious meals.

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Campbell's 1-2-3 Dinner Review

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(More customer reviews)This colorful cookbook is hardcover but lays flat so you can easily read while cooking. Every recipe has color photo with shortcut ingredient photos as well. Lots of really tasty meals that will thrill your family! The table of contents gives you 11 categories to choose from! Here is the list:
Classics
20 Minutes
Chicken & Pasta
Chicken & Rice
Beef
Pork
Fish
Vegetables
Tacos
Burgers
Sandwiches
This cookbooks has some great party recipes such as the Beef Taco Bake & the Pan Roasted Vegetable & Chicken Pizza. This is a great cookbook to add to your collection! Enjoy!

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Turn simple ingredients into easy meals with the one-and-only Campbell's! This practical guide is the ideal tool for the busy cook because it helps you create delicious meals in a just a few simple steps. This convenient cookbook features:Sturdy, wipe-clean board pages Full-color photographs Dozens of delicious, three-step recipes And much moreFrom Chicken & Broccoli Alfredo to Polynesian Pork Chops to Florentine Casserole, with Campbell's, cooking is as easy as 1-2-3!

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The Family Dinner Fix: Cooking for the Rushed Review

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(More customer reviews)This is the fourth book in the "Cooking for the Rushed" series by Sandi Richard and I think the best. She is the expert on meal planning. She mentions that the most stressful part of the day is dinner, and I can believe that because so many of us don't start thinking about what's for dinner until 5 minutes till six. But she has developed a system to change that.
The book has 10 weeks of meal plans, each divided into colors. The red and yellow meals are dinners that can be prepared in under 30 minutes. The green and blue meals are dinners that can be prepared in under 60 minutes. The average family spends 38 minutes preparing dinner each night. But at a glance you could easily see which meals you could have enough time to prepare and get out of the house in time.
This cookbook has some very nice pictures (all recipes had a full color picture, what a treat!). There are vegetarian substitution suggestions. The pages are glossy so splatters would clean up somewhat easily. She also gives suggestions on which meals are "having company" type meals, crockpot meals, there are calorie and nutritional information provided, there's an equipment list so you'll know all the pots and pans you need, and there are also food exchanges. All is great information that many many cookbooks don't provide.
Her recipe for Mexican Hamburgers calls for 90% lean ground beef but you could easily substitute turkey or tofu. It was delish; I loved the avocado salsa. There are also make ahead (freezer) suggestions for this recipe for those who like to do weekend cooking.
Most of the recipes call for a full meal suggestion. The red snapper with pineapple salsa, pecan wild rice and asparagus is a complete meal. And it's all ready in under 30 minutes.
All of the recipes use fresh ingredients. I didn't see any packaged foods (bottled BBQ sauce maybe) so her recipes by naturally being healthier and less fat will most certainly cause weight loss. They are not specifically low-fat but that is the usual outcome when you stop eating fast-food and start cooking with fresh, natural ingredients.
There were no unusual combinations, I think most people would have kids who'd very easily try these meals. We had the crispy chicken and the kids just raved. The secret ingredient was crushed crispy rice cereal. The serving suggestions were baby potatoes seasoned with garlic herb seasoning and a side salad. All very doable in the evening. It cooked in the oven so we could do homework in the meantime.
Her main suggestion is to get all your equipment out as soon as you get home, start the water boiling, etc before changing clothes. I hadn't thought of this but I can see where this would be a big motivator to continue cooking once you changed. I've found myself returning from the bedroom and just sighing because I now had to drag out pots and pans and start cooking. While not a big deal in itself, it's easier to jump in the car and go to a restaurant especially when the kids are begging. But after a few of these meals the kids will be begging for more home cooking!
There are grocery lists provided broken down by category. Each week has 5 recipes for the week not 7, I saw in another review that bothered someone. I find it doable because at least one night you want to have pizza and another you're out and about anyway.
She also has spice combinations for those spices you don't want to pay extra for (i.e. pumpkin pie spice). She has all kinds of suggestions and cooking terms that would make this book excellent for a young family getting started.
Check out www.cookingfortherushed.com to find more information.
Well worth the investment.


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Good Housekeeping Fast Weeknight Favorites: 200 Simply Delicious Meals in 30 Minutes or Less Review

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(More customer reviews)This is yet another cookbook aiming at the 30 minutes to dinner genre. The cookbook touts meals that are hassle-free, great and nutritious, tried-and-true, perfect results every time...well I can say first hand that is all true.
This cookbook not only has recipes that you pull out of the fridge and cook as soon as you get home but it also has dishes that are started in the slow cooker that morning and then when you get home you have a finished meal. So don't think it's just hurry, hurry, cook, cook as soon as you hit the door.
The first one I tried was actually a slow cooker recipe, Chicken Scarpariello. I started it in the morning and it did take close to 20-30 minutes to assemble because there was some pre-browning of the meat, onions, garlic, etc. Then I put in the slow cooker and left it on low all day. But when I hit the door from work it was oh-la-la, it was delish (in Rachael Ray speak). The aroma was wonderful and we were eating within 15 minutes and then out the door to wrestling. I recommend this recipe.
The next recipe I tried was the Jerk Pork Chop with Grilled Pineapple. The recipe called for using a fresh pineapple but we can't get those in the mid-west in the winter (without paying an arm and leg) so I used canned pineapple rings and the results were the same. I used the Pampered Chef Jerk Seasoning but there is a recipe for making your own blend. So all the recipes can be modified with similar results if you need too. Nevertheless the kids loved it, the recipe could be substituted with ribs, chicken drumettes, etc with outstanding results.
Nutritional information is provided for each recipe so if you need to watch your WW points, salt intake, etc it's all there. There are prep times, cook times, serving size, and total time for each recipe. There are a few pictures and they are good quality.
There is a vegetarian chapter and I made the Florentine Frittata and nobody noticed there was no meat. It was just as good as the other recipes. I have found no "bad" recipes yet.
These are all entrees, there are no sides, no desserts, no fillers so to speak. Many of the recipes are one pot meals (like the Chicken Scarpariello) but many are not like the Jerk Pork Chops. You'd still need to add a side salad, bread, etc to make it a complete meal. I don't think you'd want to serve just pork chops and pineapple...but maybe. There are so side serving suggestions, and there are no recipes for quick sides. I guess you just open a can of corn and heat??
I hope this helps. Overall a great "quick go-to" cookbook and well worth adding to your 30 minutes genre collection. If you have Super Suppers Cookbook or "Super Suppers 2" by Judie Byrd, Saving Dinner: The Menus, Recipes, and Shopping Lists to Bring Your Family Back to the Table by Leanne Ely, or "Betty Crocker's 1-2-3 Dinner" than you'd be OK to skip this one. But if you're starting out this would be a great purchase. Just remembered to suggest Sandi Richard's The Family Dinner Fix: Cooking for the Rushed. It would be a great one as well.

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“What’s for dinner-quick and easy?” That’s the question that anyone with a family to feed faces every single day. Good Housekeeping has 200 tasty answers! The magazine’s cooking experts come to the rescue of harried moms and dads with recipes that taste great, work every time, and take just a half hour or less from preparation to table. Even the shopping’s simple, because everything is in your local supermarket; there’s nothing exotic or hard to find. Organized by main ingredient, the chapters cover every type of entrée from fast skillet dinners to grilled dishes, from speedy stir-fries to quick-prep, slow-cooked, one-pot wonders that are ready when you are. Recipes feature useful tips with information on techniques, substitutions, variations, and time-saving methods.Among the delectable 30-minute favorites are Crispy Duck Breasts with Tart Cherry Sauce, Coriander Steak with Warm Corn Salad, Southern Peach Pork Chops, Honey-Lime Salmon, Pasta with Ricotta & Grape Tomatoes, and Pesto & Mozzarella Pizzas. And one thing you can always count on: because all the recipes are triple-tested by Good Housekeeping’s test kitchens, they’ll be absolutely delicious.

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Giuliano Hazan's Thirty Minute Pasta: 100 Quick and Easy Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent cookbook for creating simple pasta meals that are a little adventurous and very tasty. The author has several sections - vegetarian dishes, seafood dishes, and meat dishes - with enough recipes in each section to make this a very usable book no matter what your eating habits. That is, unless you've gone gluten free. Even then, I suppose you could use this book with non-gluten pastas.
Another thing I like about this book is that the recipe requirements are not out of the ordinary. I tried the pasta alia puttanesca bianca and I had all the ingredients. I also had all the ingredients on hand for several other meals. I think this is a great book for a quick, delicious meal on a busy night or even if you're having company over.

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Now that America’s low-carb obsession is over, home cooks are once again looking to prepare well-balanced meals that include everyone’s favorite food—pasta. Few of us, though, have the leisure to create a classic Bolognese meat sauce from scratch. For those who are as pressed for time as they are starved for a toothsome bowl of beautifully sauced pasta, Giuliano Hazan has created 100 scrumptious pasta dishes that can be put together in half an hour or less.

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Kraft Kitchens: Dinner On Hand Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is loaded with really tasty and easy dinner ideas. Instead of saying exactly what the recipe calls for it gives you ideas of what to combine based on what you have on hand - no fancy ingredients to shop for!!! Also has really easy measuring (ie: a handful of vegies per person). The recipes are really quick to make and are easy enough for kids to help make supper. This book has taken the stress out of that "just home and have to get supper on the table hour!!!!"

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It's 6 o'clock.You look in the refrigerator.You check the pantry.What can you make for dinner?The Kraft Kitchens have the answer with scores of sure-to-please solutions to the everyday dinnertime challenge.DINNER ON HAND shows you how to quickly make great meals your whole family will love, using the ingredients you already have on hand.

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Mad Hungry: Feeding Men and Boys Review

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(More customer reviews)At first pass, I almost overlooked this lovely title BECAUSE of the title. I don't have any children, I don't eat beef and often avoid the heavy and greasy staples associated with men, and my husband is my partner in the kitchen -- not someone I wait on hand and foot. Inside this beautiful book, the reader will not only find a solid collection of easy and delicious recipies, but equal parts useful advice about food, family togetherness, cooking, and auto-biography. Impressive credentials as a Martha Stewart big-wig aside, Lucinda Scala Quinn's food is accessible, familiar and yet inventive, and can be cooked using the budget and pantry of an average American family. This is a handsomely styled book filled with healthful tasty plates equally worthy of a cherished Sunday dinner and harried weeknights that scream for Chinese take-out or pizza.
Scala Quinn is a regular on the PBS show "Everyday Food." Regardless of your gender or how many "men and boys" you have to feed, fans of the show and the magazine will love this collection of 10-ingredient or less recipies that can be simply prepared in 30 - 60 minutes.
The cover art sort of screams at you, but Lucinda Scala Quinn's voice is calm, patient, funny, and real. This is one book you are better off not judging by the cover.

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Civilize the wild beasts in your life, one meal at a time.Four hungry brothers. Three ravenous sons. A husband who loves to eat. Lucinda Scala Quinn has spent much of her life feeding the men and boys in her life and teaching them how to feed themselves. Now Scala Quinn—chef, television personality, and Martha Stewart Omnimedia's resident food guru—shares winning strategies for how to sate the seemingly insatiable, trade food for talk, and get men to manage in the kitchen. She provides recipes for single-skillet meals and dinners that yield fabulous leftovers and that are a cinch to stretch for extra guests. Her grab-and-run breakfast will help kids start the day right, and her healthful drinks make it easier for guys to say no to soda. Scala Quinn's recipes are easy to prepare, affordable, and so good that even the most finicky eater will want to dig in.Along with her cooking techniques and survival strategies ("Never be caught without bacon"), Quinn muses about life in a predominantly male household and provides empowering advice to feed guys' spirits as well as fill their bellies. With her help, homemade meals become second nature, nourishing both diner and cook.

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Grace Before Meals Review

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(More customer reviews)Grace Before Meals is more than just a great cookbook. It has stories and great ideas for bringing the family close together with meal preparation. Most families today need to spend more time together. After reading this cookbook, I wished it was around when I was raising my family. The recipes I've tried were very good too.
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Grace Before Meals is not your typical cookbook-it offers recipes for building more meaningful family lives. Families today are busier than ever. They never seem to have enough time together, and even when they do, there's often a struggle to find common ground. But living in a fast-paced world doesn't mean we have to live with a fast-food mentality. The simple act of creating and sharing a meal can strengthen all kinds of relationships. Research shows that frequent family dinners can reduce risks facing children-from teen pregnancy and smoking, to drug use and depression. Grace Before Meals is a welcome resource for parents who want their sons and daughters to know, whatever happens in their life, they will always know whom they can turn to. And you don't have to be a traditional family or have kids to reap the benefits. Grace Before Meals-Stronger Family. Better Food.

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Campbell's Weeknight Cooking Review

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(More customer reviews)As a newlywed and busy college student, this book has been a lifesaver! I bought it on a whim, but this is one time when a cookbook has changed my entire outlook on cooking! I refuse to cook anything that makes me spend time mincing or calls for 1/3 tsp of something they don't have in our small town grocery store. This book has quick, easy meals that are healthy and fulfill my husband's hearty appetite! He and I have loved everything I've made so far! Another bonus: there are not a ton of ingredients for each recipe and everything listed is inexpensive! We are definitely on a budget and we are able to enjoy a nice dinner with these recipes! There is a plastic cover around the outside to make for easy clean-up if something gets spilled on the cover. My book is not spiral bound, but generally stays open while cooking. Also, almost every recipe has a picture which helps me understand what the final product should look like and even offers a variety of sides to think about adding. This is a must-have for anyone like me. Food is important, but with a busy life on a budget, I don't have money or time to bother with multiple ingredients and difficult instructions. I need easy, cheap, quick meals that will keep us healthy and happy! This cookbook helps do exactly that!

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Preparing a tasty weeknight meal is easy and quick with the help of this cookbook. Choose from more than 60 recipes that include meals with four ingredients or fewer, casseroles, slow-cooked main dishes, salads, and side dishes. Campbell s cooking experts offer tips on planning and organizing meals, and getting creative with recipe ingredients.The cookbook is spiral-bound, so it lies flat when opened for easy use. You ll want to try these weeknight recipes prepared with Campbell s Soup products: Zesty Chicken Mozzarella Sandwiches Simply Delicious Meat Loaf and Gravy Tasty Pork Chops Chipotle Chili Three Cheese Baked Ziti with Spinach

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Campbell's Quick & Easy Recipes Review

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(More customer reviews)This cookbook is great for those of us who have limited time to cook. The recipes are "quick and easy." Also, the book contains recipes for foods you actually want to try. Most of the ingredients required for the recipes, you probably already have.

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A collection of 125 tried-and-true recipes for dishes made from Campbell's soups features recipes for appetizers, hearty stews, main dishes, vegetables, and more and includes 225 photographs of the finished product.

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Cooking Dinner: Simple Italian Family Recipes Everyone Can Make Review

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(More customer reviews)This is a wonderful cookbook! My husband just bought this for me and I can't wait to make them all. In addition to recipes, many pages have an area called "Did You Know" (which gives info on Italian cooking or history of the dish), "Helping Hands" (how your kids can help in the cooking process) and a Kitchen Tip.
The recipes are very straight forward and the photographs are beautiful (I find it helpful to see what the dish is supposed to look like). The Nonna's Secrets (which means Grandma's secrets in Italian) chapter gives lots of useful information such as how to get more juice out of an orange (put them in warm water before squeezing) or how to ripen an avocado quickly (store the avocado in a paper bag with an apple).
Finally you get tear-out lists to take to the store so you can plan meals for the entire week. This cookbook/handbook would make a great gift for anyone who enjoys cooking.I highly recommend it!


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Nothing instills a sense of familial well-being better than a meal prepared and eaten together at home. But today’s busy lifestyles, coupled with more and better options from the take-out department, have made the family dinner nearly a thing of the past. Cooking Dinner is a rescue plan for this endangered tradition. Written by two mothers with a passion for Italian cooking, it features delicious recipes that don’t take all day to prepare. These family-tested, easy-to-follow recipes build a sense of confidence in beginning cooks, yet are packed with wonderful flavors that delight even the most discriminating palate. “Helping hands” suggestions in each recipe show which tasks are suitable for children. Packed with handy kitchen secrets, shopping lists, helpful menu planning strategies, and stunning photos, this interactive cooking workbook makes it easy for parents to once again cook and eat with their families.

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NBC Sunday Night Football Cookbook Review

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(More customer reviews)This cookbook is a must have for people who love to eat good food as well as those who are fans of profesional football. It is an excellent combination of fun football facts coupled with a wide variety of recipes from current and past NFL players as well as professional chefs. The book is well layed out and covers appetizers to dessert from all four regions of the country. This book is a can't miss for both football fanatics and chefs alike.

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Completely authorized by NBC Sports, The Sunday Night Football Cookbook marries two great American institutions--food and football. With more than 150 delicious recipes from America's top chefs, NFL players and alumni, and NBC Sports' all-star on-air team, the book is an easy-to-use playbook for making the ultimate football meal. Team by team and city by city, The Sunday Night Football Cookbook celebrates the special dishes, unique flavors, and most famous chefs of the NFL's 31 cities (and Honolulu, where the Pro Bowl is held). Recipes range from local favorites like Seared Tequila Chicken from Eddie Matney's Restaurant in Phoenix to decadent desserts like Chef Tobin McAfee's Double Warm Chocolate Hazelnut Pudding served at Sir Edmond Halley's in Charlotte, NC. Among the all-star chefs contributing recipes are Bobby Flay, Emeril Lagasse, Jean-Robert de Cavel, Christopher Wilson, Susan Goss, and others. Also adding their favorite recipes are former NFL players--including Pittsburgh Steeler Hines Ward, Kansas City Chief Tony Gonzalez, and Indianapolis Colt Dwight Freeney--and stars from the NBC's Football Night in America team, including John Madden, Tiki Barber, and Jerome Bettis. These aren't your run-of-the-mill tailgating recipes, though: The Sunday Night Football Cookbook redefines football food, transforming traditional dishes into super-tasty recipes and adding the nation's regional tastes to the game-day table.

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Better Homes and Gardens Dinner Express (Better Homes & Gardens) Review

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(More customer reviews)This cookbook definitely offers meals prepared in under 30 minutes, but at the expense of your wallet. About 85-90% of the recipes include using ready-made, packaged meat and/or pasta. Some included recipes would cost just as much as a restaurant meal. It is a nice cookbook if you keep some of the prepared products on hand for "just in case" you are running out of time and need a quick meal. For someone who already uses a lot of ready-made items, this cookbook would be a wonderful tool to take your usual fare up a notch. I gave it 3 stars for that reason only. Glad this book was in the bargain section for a couple of bucks when I bought it.

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Delectable dinners in just thirty minutes from start to finish!Whether it's finding the time to make a tasty meal for your family, or planning a dinner party for friends, you don't have to sacrifice great flavor for quick and easy dishes. Better Homes and Gardens® Dinner Express offers a wealth of easy and inspiring ideas for main dishes, appetizers, desserts, and more—all ready in just thirty minutes or less.Filled with mouthwatering photos and 200 quick and easy recipes, this cookbook proves that quick can equal delicious. Savory yet healthy recipes, like Salmon with Feta and Pasta and Garlicky Steak and Asparagus, are just minutes away. • 200 recipes and 100 full-color photos in an affordable paperback format make this a great deal for cooks on a budget • Includes recipes for family-size meals, quick daytime snacks, sides, and desserts • Each recipe can be prepared in under thirty minutes!For busy parents in need of family dinner solutions—fast!—Better Homes and Gardens® Dinner Express offers hundreds of great ideas to help you tackle every cooking challenge.

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Dinner Survival: The Most Uncomplicated, Approachable Way to Get Dinner to Fit Your Life Review

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(More customer reviews)I really liked Sandi Richards' first book The Family Dinner Fix: Cooking for the Rushed and just knew that I had to have this one when it came out.
This book has 10 weeks of menus for 5 nights of the week. It only includes 5 evenings of meals because it is expected that one night you will dine out and perhaps another you will eat leftovers or have pizza. The meals are divided into color coded meals of green, blue, red, and yellow. What this symbolizes is the time it takes to prepare each meal so you decide when night you're having which color.
The red and yellow coded meals are designed to be ready in under 30 minutes with the red requiring less cutting and chopping. The green and blue coded meals are designed to have dinner ready in under 60 minutes, it allows for doing something else while dinner is cooking. The green means less cutting and chopping. So while dinner is cooking you could be helping the kids with homework, starting laundry, etc.
Each week has at least one of every color so you mix and match as your evening plans dictate. There are fabulous pictures and nutritional information with each recipe. Food exchanges are also included for those who need that info. Additional serving suggestions are provided to complete the dinner meal such as the addition of rolls, salad, side steamed vegetables, etc. This would be a great gift for someone who is new to cooking and dinner preparation. It really is an uncomplicated approach.
Grocery lists are also included so make sure and check out her website, www.cookingfortherushed.com it's a great supplement to the book. I would also suggest Getting Ya Through the Summer (cooking for the Rushed) if you can still find it.
I set my timer and made the Pecan-Crusted Salmon, sweet potato fries and broccoli per her timeline. This is a yellow coded 25 minute meal so I set the timer and started. It took me 31 minutes from start to finish. I think my delay was in reading and re-reading just to make sure I didn't miss a step. That is just my newness and inexperience with the recipe. I think her timelines are definitely within reason.
Her biggest suggestion is to have a menu prepared for the whole week ahead of time. So as you as you get home you know to start water boiling or turn the oven on, etc. Then you go change clothes while the water is boiling, oven is preheating vs. starting it after you've changed when you're more likely to say "let's just order pizza."
I highly recommend this book for those who need a jumpstart with dinner and getting meals in order. Family meals should be a priority and not an afterthought. Fast food is not a healthy, nutritious meal...this cookbook is. If you like this genre of cookbooks I would suggest The Food Nanny Rescues Dinner: Easy Family Meals for Every Day of the Week as well as The Candy Bar Cookbook.
For the publishers, the front cover of this cookbook does not do Ms. Richards justice. It looks too similar to her first cookbook and when I initially saw it I thought it was her first one, The Family Dinner Fix. This cover should not have included her picture and exact same pose as her first book. Regardless of that this one is a keeper.

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10 WEEKS OF DELICIOUS , HEALTHY, COMPLETE DINNERS "I can climb over the laundry heap, but I can't climb over dinner." Dinner is a lot bigger than food. It's about family, health -- both physical and spiritual -- economics, commitment, time and your sanity. And whether you love or hate to cook, chances are you really don't like it much during the workweek. But what if everything was organized for you, from shopping lists to 10 weeks of meals? What if you could involve everyone in the process, from choosing menus to helping get food to the table? What if each meal just took as little as 20 minutes to prepare? Meal planner and mother of seven Sandi Richard will help you achieve dinner hour, without stress and struggle. She will free you from your feelings of guilt over falling into the take-out trap -- and show you how to plan, shop, prep and cook fantastic-looking and -tasting meals that even a picky 6-year-old will like. In Dinner Survival, Sandi passes on her vast personal experience and that of the hundreds of families she's studied and advised. Don't take hours of precious weekend time to cook, she says. A little preparation -- chopping and freezing a few ingredients -- will make a huge timesaving contribution to the busy workweek. Got teenagers? Involve them. After all, knowing how to cook makes one even more independent. Do you cook for anyone with special health issues? The book is packed with nutritional information and substitution charts that will keep everyone at their best. And of course, all the meals will help your family maintain a healthy weight and a healthy body. So what is it going to be? Another store-bought roast chicken that tastes of its plastic container or vibrant, flavorful Ginger-Lime Chicken ready in 30 minutes? Rather than soggy, drive-through tacos, how about the sizzle of a delicious Beef Fajita Stir-Fry on Pasta, ready in just 25 minutes? Save time, money, health and peace of mind with Sandi Richard's simple, great-tasting plan for dinner.--This text refers to the Kindle Edition edition.

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(More customer reviews)Being a woman "of a certain age" and married for 20+ years, I have been cooking for a long time. I admit, I am far from gourmet: I don't specialty shop; I don't watch the TV cooking shows or reality shows starring angry chefs and their desperate-to-please minions; glossy gourmet food and recipe magazines make me nervous.
I do have skills. I have one small shelf of cookbooks in my kitchen. I can cover the basics, having more or less successfully fed and nourished a healthy family of five for some time now. Culled from a 25-year-old, well-worn copy of the cooking classic: BETTY CROCKER'S COOKBOOK (1987), family magazines and, in more recent years, recipe searches on AllRecipes.com for the iPhone and iPad, I have compiled my very own cookbook: a mish-mash of photocopies, hand-written classics and typed recipes, all carefully preserved in plastic page protectors and haphazardly "filed" in a white, plastic-coated (easy wipe!), 3-ring binder.
However, having said all of that:
Even with my vast and very practical culinary knowledge and experience, I love, Love, LOVE Susan Nicholson's 7-DAY MENU PLANNER FOR DUMMIES! An instant new-NEW classic, this book should be a treasured kitchen bible for every man, woman or young adult trying to prepare and serve nutritious, delicious, affordable and do-able meals for a family, couple or even healthy meals for one.
Susan Nicholson is a registered dietitian and creator of the 7-Day Menu Planner newspaper column, featured in major newspapers and in online syndication, too. She is a culinary professional and a talented writer with a lot of experience and a great sense of humor, which makes 7-Day Menu Planner for Dummies more than just another cookbook.
7-Day Menu Planner for Dummies gives you a year's worth of weekly dinner idea and recipes that "take about 30 minutes to prepare, contain an average of 30 percent calories from fat, and use common ingredients to save time and money." It is a well-organized and simple roadmap for menu planning, offering great recipes, practical instruction and tips, and a very consistent weekly plan of coordinated dinners: Family Night; Kid's Night (not just for children!); Express Meal; Budget Night; Heat and Eat; Meatless Night; and Easy Entertaining. I love the fact that the week's meals are coordinated to use ingredients in common and a central philosophy of reduce, re-use, recycle and re-format throughout the week's plan. (Trust me, *not* repetitious, you will not get bored!)
7-Day Menu Planner for Dummies makes planning and preparing meals less of a chore and more simple, easy, quick, healthy and delicious. Whether you are an old pro in the kitchen or a culinary "noob" (as my kids say), make room on your cookbook shelf for a new classic!
-- Sherri Caldwell, Humor Columnist & Reviewer at RebelHousewife.com
Co-Author, The Rebel Housewife Rules: To Heck With Domestic Bliss!

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Flavorful, nutritious meals that can be prepared quickly, easily, and economically
7-Day Menu Planner For Dummies is the perfect book for any family looking for a structured, nutritional approach to daily meal planning. It contains over a year’s worth of weekly dinner ideas and recipes that take an average of thirty minutes to prepare, contain an average of thirty percent calories from fat, and use common ingredients to save time and money.
Features budget-friendly family meals that are both quick and healthy
Dinner for each week of the night is associated with a theme—for example: Family Sunday, Kids Monday, Express Tuesday, Budget Wednesday, Heat and Eat Thursday, Meatless Friday, and Easy Entertaining Saturday

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