365 Great 20-Minute Recipes

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Summary: My favorite cookbook
Review: I love to cook, but have no time. Most cookbooks promise easy-to-prepare recipes, but end up requiring ingredients I don't have, more time than you think, or just don't taste good. What a relief to happen on 365 20-Minute Recipes! The recipes are so easy, they taste great, and even my kids love them. I've prepared at least 35 of the recipes and every one of them is good!

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Summary: Desert island book
Review: If I were stranded on a desert island...this would be the book I'd want with me.

This is the cookbook my family uses over and over again. Every recipe I have tried has indeed been easy to make and tasted terrific. You'd think that easy-to-make recipes would be too homey or bland to serve to guests, but any dish in this book would impress a dinner guest. The recipes often take longer than 20 minutes, but I am still in love with this cookbook and encourage busy cooks with high standards for taste and quality to seek it out.

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Summary: Our most-used cookbook
Review: Though there are some weird recipes in here (jalapeno macaroni and cheese!), the pasta dishes especially deliver on the promise: really flavorful, really fast. The author does not shy from capers, anchovies, cayenne pepper, fresh cilantro, and other high-taste ingredients.