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Learn to COOK - Five in Ten Cookbook
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List Price: $18.00
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Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks
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Binding: Spiral-bound
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
EAN: 9780688119270
ISBN: 0688119271
Label: William Morrow Cookbooks
Manufacturer: William Morrow Cookbooks
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 180
Publication Date: 1993-04-27
Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks
Release Date: 1993-04-27
Studio: William Morrow Cookbooks
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Now Dinnertime is as Easy as 1-2-3-4-5! The 5 in 10 Cookbook makes -- and keeps -- an extraordinary promise: quick and easy recipes that use 5 ingredients (or fewer) and cook in 10 minutes or less. If you're like Paula Hamilton, tired of fast-food meals and determined to serve your family a delicious, nourishing dinner even if you've just come home from work, The 5 in 10 Cookbook is just what you need. Meals in minutes are guaranteed by limiting the recipes to 5 ingredients and 10 minutes of cooking time. Now your family can sit down to a home-cooked meal together every night. The 5 in 10 Cookbook encourages healthier eating and saves money too. Why waste one of the 5 ingredients on fat when herbs and spices contribute more pizzaz and flavor? And by limiting the number of ingredients purchased and cooking in rather than carrying out, you will save a fortune on food bills.For speed and convenience, these 170 recipes for everything from appetizers and soups to main courses and desserts rely on readily available ingredients and high-quality packaged foods.
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Summary: Great for the Cooking-Challenged Among Us
Comment: I hate to cook. However, I hate fast food and takeout even more so I was forced to figure something out that went beyond salads, spaghetti and sandwiches. Cooking "real" food daunted me because of the long list of sometimes difficult to find or expensive ingredients, the amount of them needed, the time it takes, or the amount of food you end up with when you only want to cook for one to three people max. On the flip side- you're stuck with boring one trick pony soup-can casseroles day in and day out if you take the simple route.
This lovely little cookbook solves all of these problems and more in tasty, easy, inexpensive and often creative ways. It has cured most of my kitchen phobia (except the cleanup, heh) and encouraged me to try a lot of new things I probably wouldn't have if I hadn't discovered how easy it could be. 5 items, 10 minutes (half an hour, tops) and there you have it. I think this book is best for those of us with cooking phobias, lack of time and/or skill and knowledge or simply those who like the KISS method. I'm interested in finding the other books in the series too.
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Summary: Great Little book
Comment: Happy with book but the recipes it would seem to take a bit longer than 10 minutes and no pictures but having said that most of the recipes are easy enough you don't need a picture. The book is smaller than I thought but easy to use as it lays flat 180 pages. Happy I got this one
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Summary: Quick Help in the Kitchen
Comment: I have 3 copies of this book. One for my kitchen, one for my office and, as a practicing counselor, one to loan to clients when I tell them they need to have family meals and they say they don't like to cook or don't have time. I have tried about half of these recipes and there wasn't one my family didn't like. Also, these recipes don't just say they are quick and easy, but they really are. They don't use weird ingredients. This is a cookbook for anyone who wants great food and not a lot of preparation.
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Summary: An all-time favorite
Comment: This has been one of my favorites for years, a real go-to book. Unlike most cookbooks that make time claims, most of the recipes here really do come in close to their ten-minute limit, and I'm not a particularly fast cook. The book is divided into eight sections: Appetizers and Snacks; Soups and Chowders; Salads; Chicken, Turkey, Beef, Pork and Lamb; Fish and Shellfish; Pasta; Vegetables and Side Dishes; and Desserts. It also has a sturdy interior spiral binding so it lies flat when open.
I've tried maybe a dozen recipes (some standouts: curried carrot soup, broiled scallops with bread crumbs, berry gratin, caramelized apples) and would have no qualms about serving them to company. I have four books in this series, and though they're all quite good, I find this to be the best.
I'd like to respectfully address reviewer Jim Owen. I'm sorry for his poor experience with the book, but I looked up the recipe he referred to, and he's a bit off. The noted amount of butter mixture was to be spread on SIX FULL pita breads, not four halves. That's three times the amount he apparently mistakenly used. It's unfortunate that he based his opinion of this exceptional book on faulty information. If you're trying to decide whether or not to buy it, please note that his was the ONLY negative review among a dozen. Seems quite unfair that it was chosen for a spotlight review.
I have a couple of quibbles with the book: It has no page headers to tell you what section you're in, and the index is less than comprehensive. But I still unequivocally rate it five stars on the strength, variety, and reliability of its recipes.
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Summary: Easy to Follow & Simple
Comment: These are great to use for a busy person.And Jim Owen --- writer of review about orange butter.... you need to mix the ingredients, if you had all the OJ left, that's why there was no flavor in the butter. Think about it.
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