Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
We have been so contented with these recipes! Perfect for everyday, and adaptable (with added side dishes and appetizers) for company! We've made about 60% of the recipes so far, and have had one lassie (Super Mashpots--- ho-hum) and about 200 HITS!!!!!!!! Try the Mamacello Chicken--- OMG remarkable!
An outstanding, easy, fun, DELICIOUS food producing cookbook!
Our first Rachel Ray cookbook, but it won't be our last!
Around the crowd
The reserve is very good; the service from the person I purchased it from was excellent.
Very productive for busy families
What this post has over most cookbooks is that every single page has a complete answer to "What's for dinner tonight?" Many other cookbooks include breakfast foods, desserts, or fancier dishes, or else you need to put together a join recipes to make a complete meal. With this book you just flip through the pages until something sounds passable and you have most of the ingredients, and within an hour, you are eating. Honestly that part is just brilliant and earns five stars even though there are minor problems.
Our kinsfolk uses this book frequently. Despite what I just wrote, the book works works slenderize better if you pick a few of the recipes right before your weekly grocery store trip, so you can get all the ingredients you are missing. Most of the recipes use modern ingredients, which improves the taste but makes it harder to be 100% spontaneous, it's very rare to just have everything in your pantry and fridge. At the same tempo, that's why it's harder to do the same thing without this book.
Most of the recipes are good, though some are not. C'est la vie. You sometimes pay the price for not doing any baking, roasting, stewing, or other interval-consuming operations, but this is definitely weeknight fare, and it is a major step up if you're in a spaghetti-and-red-sauce rut like we were. I must say the "30 minutes" is species of a fantasy if you don't have a paid prep cook, but it's always under 60 minutes, which works for me. It's great that all the recipes proceed towards the same amount, four servings, so it's just another thing you don't have to think about.
The page numbering is maddening. The index refers to folio numbers, which are printed in the tiniest type at the bottom of each page. But your eye can only see the enormous "recipe number" at the top of the page. Since there's about one formula per page, two numbers are _almost_ the same; just wrong enough to confuse you 100% of the time.
Our trick is to take recipes we like, and then calligraphy control-write the big recipe number in the index. Then when you are browsing the index for something to eat, you're eye is drawn to the ones you've already liked, and you can indeed find the right page easily.
don't be fooled by 30 half a mo meals
The recipes are trustworthy but there's too many ingridents so it takes longer than 30 minutes. If you're working and you think this will be easy and fast, it won't. I'm out of a job right now and I find a lot of these recipes too difficult. The recipes are good but they are harder and take longer than 30 minutes. Perhaps if you're a gormet cook they'll be easier for you.
Almost sublime
So far our blood has only tried a couple of recipes. Must confess it took me a bit longer than 30 minutes, but both were easy to get and very tasty. My only criticism is that the recipes rather routinely call for 2 pounds of meat to serve 4. Half a comminute of meat is simply not healthy and I worry that people will get the idea that if Rachael calls for it, it must be a good fetich to do. BTW, simply reducing the amount of meat isn't a good solution, since the balance may get wildly thrown off.
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The Kindest Everyday Cookbook!We have been so contented with these recipes! Perfect for everyday, and adaptable (with added side dishes and appetizers) for company! We've made about 60% of the recipes so far, and have had one lassie (Super Mashpots--- ho-hum) and about 200 HITS!!!!!!!! Try the Mamacello Chicken--- OMG remarkable!
An outstanding, easy, fun, DELICIOUS food producing cookbook!
Our first Rachel Ray cookbook, but it won't be our last!
Around the crowd
The reserve is very good; the service from the person I purchased it from was excellent.
Very productive for busy families
What this post has over most cookbooks is that every single page has a complete answer to "What's for dinner tonight?" Many other cookbooks include breakfast foods, desserts, or fancier dishes, or else you need to put together a join recipes to make a complete meal. With this book you just flip through the pages until something sounds passable and you have most of the ingredients, and within an hour, you are eating. Honestly that part is just brilliant and earns five stars even though there are minor problems.
Our kinsfolk uses this book frequently. Despite what I just wrote, the book works works slenderize better if you pick a few of the recipes right before your weekly grocery store trip, so you can get all the ingredients you are missing. Most of the recipes use modern ingredients, which improves the taste but makes it harder to be 100% spontaneous, it's very rare to just have everything in your pantry and fridge. At the same tempo, that's why it's harder to do the same thing without this book.
Most of the recipes are good, though some are not. C'est la vie. You sometimes pay the price for not doing any baking, roasting, stewing, or other interval-consuming operations, but this is definitely weeknight fare, and it is a major step up if you're in a spaghetti-and-red-sauce rut like we were. I must say the "30 minutes" is species of a fantasy if you don't have a paid prep cook, but it's always under 60 minutes, which works for me. It's great that all the recipes proceed towards the same amount, four servings, so it's just another thing you don't have to think about.
The page numbering is maddening. The index refers to folio numbers, which are printed in the tiniest type at the bottom of each page. But your eye can only see the enormous "recipe number" at the top of the page. Since there's about one formula per page, two numbers are _almost_ the same; just wrong enough to confuse you 100% of the time.
Our trick is to take recipes we like, and then calligraphy control-write the big recipe number in the index. Then when you are browsing the index for something to eat, you're eye is drawn to the ones you've already liked, and you can indeed find the right page easily.
don't be fooled by 30 half a mo meals
The recipes are trustworthy but there's too many ingridents so it takes longer than 30 minutes. If you're working and you think this will be easy and fast, it won't. I'm out of a job right now and I find a lot of these recipes too difficult. The recipes are good but they are harder and take longer than 30 minutes. Perhaps if you're a gormet cook they'll be easier for you.
Almost sublime
So far our blood has only tried a couple of recipes. Must confess it took me a bit longer than 30 minutes, but both were easy to get and very tasty. My only criticism is that the recipes rather routinely call for 2 pounds of meat to serve 4. Half a comminute of meat is simply not healthy and I worry that people will get the idea that if Rachael calls for it, it must be a good fetich to do. BTW, simply reducing the amount of meat isn't a good solution, since the balance may get wildly thrown off.
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