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Tarfumes.com - Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
EAN: 9780312366254
ISBN: 0312366256
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2007-02-20
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2007-02-20
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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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!Â
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!
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Customer Rating:
Summary: good for organizing, but not as advertized
Comment: Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
For the most part, this book is NOT about once-a-month COOKING; it is about once-a-month FREEZING. the book claims that the recipes allow you to cook once-a-month, freeze 2 or 4 weeks of entres and then on serving night, take it out of the freeze to "heat up." However, this is not true. The majority of the recipes require just as much daily cooking as regular cooking. What the technique does is have you preplan meals 2 to 4 weeks in advance, shop, chop and prepare meals to just before the point where you would actually put them in the oven and start cooking. At this point, you freeze the meal--usually with the meal separate from the sause and other components. You are freezing raw meat, along with its marinade or seasonings, not a cooked meal. On serving day, you take the frozen meal (actually only the entre, you make a separate vegetable or salad while the entre is cooking)out of the freezer and put it in the oven, stovetop or crockpot to cook. the cooking times on most of the recipes are between 30 min to 1 1/2 hours. The only recipes which are actually precooked and only need reheating are (1) soups and chillis (2) sliced meat in a sauce type dishes, such as "Savory Beef" (p 42). With the second category, you still have to make pasta to pour the meat sauce over. If saving time is your goal, a cookbook with simpler recipes would be better. This book is for those who make their own spaghetti sauce or those who need the organization of preplanning meals. Since the book does not actually do what it claims, I cannot rate it high.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Pretty Good
Comment: This is a good book with a lot of good ideas, but the only problem is that the recipes and meal ideas don't contain many vegetables ... otherwise a good book
Customer Rating:
Summary: Wonderful
Comment: This book was a great help in organizing my month. It helped make family meals a time to enjoy rather than pulling my hair out. Thanks!
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Summary: Disappointing and unhealthy
Comment: I had been looking forward to using this book to save time in cooking but was really disappointed with the recipes. Most of the book has meat recipes and hardly any vegetarian recipes which makes for a very unhealthy and unbalanced diet. Also, the ingredients on the whole were not natural and unhealthy.
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Summary: Decent cookbook, but so many typos!
Comment: This is a good cookbook that helps you organize yourself for a monumental cooking task. But you have to check and double check each list and recipe because there are SO MANY typos in this cookbook. I don't think there was an editor.
In addition, almost every single recipe calls for meat, making it great if you "cannot" live without meat, but not so great if you are a vegetarian or aspiring to reduce your meat consumption.
On the plus side, the majority of the recipes are really easy, and it's quite nice to have a full freezer and know exactly what's for dinner tonight.
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