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Summary: hit and miss
Review: I've had this cookbook for two years now and have found the recipes to be very hit and miss. A few recipes have becom classics (fettucine alfredo with artichokes and mushrooms) and a few have been so bland I would have been better off eating the page the recipe was written on.
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Summary: This is the BEST cook book ever!
Review: I adore this book--it is my cooking bible! Great recipes--they taste great and are quick and easy to make! Gave out 6 of these books as gifts---I put stars on the recipes my family loves the most (hard to choose!). The people I gave this cookbook to agree with me and use these recipes all the time!
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Summary: Our FAVORITE COOKBOOK
Review: My Husband uses this cookbook for our everyday quick meals. I recommend this Book to everyone. It's easy, quick and tasty. The photos are wonderful, so you can see what you are hungry for. We've got 30 other cookbooks in our house, but we keep grabbing this one and Emeril's cooking. Yesterday our quick meal was Shrimp with red sauce on Sauteed Polenta. It was great!
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Summary: Great recipes for fast, healthy meals
Review: I like this cookbook because the recipes are healthy without sacrificing taste. It gives you side items to go with each entree and has meat, poultry and vegetarian items. It also provides a shopping list to go with each meal. I use this cookbook at least twice a week and have cooked almost everything in it at least once.
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Summary: Great Buy
Review: Tried items from this book for my family and all my grown children wanted a copy. Quick and Easy with good taste. Great variety
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Summary: Fast! Minimalist! Good! Attractive!
Review: Aspiring amateur gourmet that I am, one just can't cook like one desires each evening. And one tires of carryout, fastfood, and microwave entrees.Thus, my purchase of this book, being already an avid Cooking Light subscriber and fond user. This book delivers what it references --- few ingredients and fast prep and cooking time. It goes further to meet my demands that it also be innovative and attractive food! Things like Fruited Moroccan Chicken with Curried Couscous with walnuts, or Creamy Chicken-Spinach Soup, Pork Chops with Dijon Cream Sauce, and the Lamb Chops with Minted Sour Cream Sauce are great recipes to try and put in one's standard repertoire. The Mix and Match Recipe section with its salads and side dishes along with desserts is so neat and useful feature! The layout with large format and color photos are helpful, but makes one salivate to cook more of these recipes. This is healthy, great, quick food which doesn't have to take back seat on appearance or taste.
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Summary: Okay, but not the best...
Review: I used to get Cooking Light magazine, until I decided to get the Cooking Light cook book, which covers each recipe included in the magazine's calendar year. The annual Cooking Light cook books are great. This 5 Ingredient/15 Minute Cookbook I was a little disappointed with. Most of the recipes are stressing fast, rather than healthy or great tasting. Many of the recipes call for pre-made or canned/boxed ingredients. I am not a fan of boxed mashed potatoes, or bread in those rolled up cardboard tubes. There is one chili dish that my wife and I frequently make, but one good recipe doesn't really make a great cookbook. I wish that this book would have had more fresh ingredients, and less prepackaged products.
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Summary: WOW! Wish there were more books out there like this one!
Review: I purchased this book used because of the first review--which was less than kind. The book came in excellent condition and I'm VERY glad because I think the book is GREAT!!!!! Yes, it does contain some pre-packaged items like coleslaw mix and gravey in a jar, but frankly, I'm too busy to make everything from scratch! Frozen veggies are there too, but that's okay because they can be healthier because they're frozen very quickly, compared to fresh, which unless you shop at a good fruit market, can sit there for a while. There's even a hand full of recipes using the crock pot--a real time saver! I'd absolutely give this as a gift too. Pictures abound for those of you who like to be visually inspired! Nice fish recipes, pasta, a very cool section on quick side salads. Because of the range of foods, there is lots of color with the meals as well. The shopping list is brief and very helpful. The book is well layed out. There's even a cute little microwave chart for cooking veggies--which we all know we need to eat more of, and they go so great with lots of things! There's this nice little "Vegetable Salad Marinade" that you make then it gives four VERY healthy legume salads to use it on--no leftovers to waste! There are some unusual, different recipes too like "Moroccan Chicken and Lentils"--how's THAT to break up the same-old-thing routine? I don't know folks. I love to cook, but time is at a premium at my house. I think this book has earned five stars!
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Summary: I love this cookbook!!
Review: Quick and easy...that's what these recipes are. Yes, there are a couple that I found that I didn't like (salisbury steaks were basically fried hamburgers), but on the whole, very yummy and light stuff!!
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Summary: A Little Disappointed
Review: I ordered this book because I have often found good things in the pages of the magazine, Cooking Light. This 5-ingredient part was appealing because in addition to cutting down on time, it also, hopefully, would cut down on costs -- fewer ingredients=less money, right? Not so...the heavy reliance on prepackaged foods seemed to make these meals cost more than others. Also, I found some problems, such as a suggested meatloaf cooking time that was impossibly short. I thought that the meal suggestions are pretty uninspired, and have used this book very little.
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