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Learn to COOK - Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead
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Manufacturer: Revell
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
EAN: 9780800730550
Feature: ISBN13: 9780800730550
ISBN: 0800730550
Label: Revell
Manufacturer: Revell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2005-09-01
Publisher: Revell
Studio: Revell
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ISBN13: 9780800730550
Condition: USED - VERY GOOD
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Editorial Reviews:
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Hectic lifestyles and over-full schedules make traditional cooking methods nearly obsolete in many families. The results are poor nutrition and budgets strained by the high cost of fast food or commercially prepared meals. Don't Panic-Dinner's in the Freezer offers a simple and economical alternative, featuring dozens of recipes designed to be prepared and frozen for future use. With over 23,000 copies sold in its original self-published edition, this book gives practical tips for planning, organizing, and shopping for meals, as well as unique ways to freeze and reheat prepared foods. Every recipe includes measurements for cooking alone or as a joint venture with one or two friends. Families, singles, retirees-everyone who needs to eat-will find fast and easy answers to the question, "What's for dinner?"
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Summary: Great layout and format
Comment: I have yet to try the recipes but found a lot for me and my family. The format is eazy to read with great details.Thay had a seperate chart for how long to freeze the item, but I wish this information was on the recipe page. I really like the section: add a side dish.
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Summary: Huge time-saver and great recipes!
Comment: I received this book a few weeks ago and spent one weekend making several meals that were all tasty and very easy to make. I liked it so much that I went and bought the second edition at my local bookstore. It has really turned things around during the week for me with not having to worry about what to make for dinner. I know that I already have something prepared that just needs to be baked, reheated, etc. It has been a tremendous help to me in my hectic life as a working mother!
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Summary: Good Recipes Lacking Variety
Comment: I have been satisfied with a number of recipes that I have tried from this book. However, this book does lack a Vegetarian and Seafood section and there are a handful of recipes that are not meant to be freezer meals - which is decieving. The majority of recipes are meat and desserts.
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Summary: Really Good Cookbook
Comment: The book, Fix, Freeze, Feast was so good that I started looking for another freezer cookbook to give me more recipes. This one had so many good reviews, I couldn't resist. Boy, am I ever glad I bought it! Lots and lots of great recipes, full of great taste and easy instructions. Also, the recipes here are healthier for the most part than those in many other freezer cookbooks. Each page has a chart to help you make the amount you need of that recipe. If there is a downside to the book, it's that there is too much variation in the servings per recipe. For instance, one recipe may serve 3, one 4-6, and one 8-10. You need to pay attention to this when calculating your amounts. Other than that, it's worth every penny! Try the Chicken Pot Pie, Hot Fudge Sauce, Cranberry Chicken, and Taco Soup for starters!
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Summary: Definitely Worth the Money
Comment: If you click on the left on Index it will show you all the recipes in the book (not table of contents - that only shows the general categories).
One of the things I have been frustrated with in some of my past OAMC books is that the recipes are just not the "right kind" that I am looking for. They have things like spaghetti sauce and tacos that are so fast and easy to make that it is almost not worth predoing them. The menus were really limited and 90% of them include cream of mushroom soup (not that I have anything against cream of mushroom soup - it's one of my favorites - but I want more variety, you know?). The other frustration I had was that many of them precooked all the meals and just reheated them later. While that has its place, in my personal opinion, that tends to make your meals feel more like TV dinners and sometimes the quality just isn't there the second time around.
Something I like about this book is that it has the recipes like they have in the freezer preparation places - things like chicken breasts in the marinades stored in the ziplock bags.
Recipes are shown with 1 batch, usually of 6-8 servings (plus x2, x4, x6 for appetizers and x3, x6, x9 for the entrees). Instructions include clearly laid out cooking day and serving day notes.
Overall they have ingredients I am likely to already have in my pantry or that are easy to find. These are not generally "exotic" recipes, so I don't see much call for ingredients of a more unusual nature (i.e. it leans more towards the standards of onions, celery, etc.). I think the majority of recipes are kid friendly (because basically this is NOT a gourmet cookbook).
I don't like that there isn't a regular index where you could look up peppers for instance and find all the recipes that have peppers in them. I consider that an annoying inconvenience, though not a huge big deal. Many, if not most, of the side dishes are dishes that are best made on the day of serving, which lead me to the question of "so why did you include them in a freezer cooking book?"
For the vegetarians - there is no separate section for vegetarian recipes. Apart from the ones you might expect to be vegetarian (like some side dishes for example), I don't think there are a whole lot of vegetarian recipes in this book and wouldn't recommend it if that is what you were looking for.
But for new recipes to try for chicken, beef, pork, etc. this is definitely worth getting.
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