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Learn to COOK - Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month
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List Price: $14.95
Our Price: $10.17
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Manufacturer: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641
EAN: 9781891400285
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1891400282
Label: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Manufacturer: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2002-11-01
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Release Date: 2003-04-01
Studio: Sourcebooks, Inc.
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Through Frozen Assets" how to cook for a day and eat for a month, Deborah Taylor-Hough became known as "the once-a-month cooking expert." She taught people how to increase time at the family table, while decreasing time in the kitchen and drive-thru lanes. In addition she saved over $24,000 in five years and taught readers how tot do the same. Now she's back with a book of low-fat meal plans that utilize the same time and cost effective methods.
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Summary: Love the fact she broke this book into mini sessions by meat type!
Comment: I borrowed several freezer, cook once a month books from the library including this one. What the other books did which was totally unhelpful to me, was they listed several month's menus with shopping lists etc. What if you have a family member like I do that can't eat sausage, or red meat. Then you have to take their menus and revised them all and create your own shopping lists anyway. Not with this book. Everything is broken up into meat type, such as chicken, turkey, etc with the associated shopping lists for each mini session. That is a time saver in itself. Yes the book does have errors. But I bought this one and as I catch one I edit it myself. People usually do this anyway with a cookbook, adjusting it to suit a families likes and dislikes.
The recipes that I have tried were tasty and easy plus low fat! You can go wrong as long as you are careful about reading the recipes and double checking the lists and prep work. For chicken mini session 4 you prep parsley by chopping 1/2 cup. Then one recipe called for 1/2 cup parsley and I put it all in. Well then two other recipes called for several tablespoons chopped parsley. I had already put away my food processer so I chopped by hand. I would have been much easier if I had done it before. But the book is worth it anyway.
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Summary: Best Book on Cooking Ahead
Comment: I have looked at about 6 books on cooking ahead, freezing meals etc. I tried a few recipes in them, but I found this one to be the most logical/compatible with my lifestyle and methods of cooking. I like that everything is arranged by the kind of meat. It makes more sense to me (cooking for 8) to roast 2 turkeys and cut up all the meat and bag it than to buy several kinds of meat to prepare all in one day. I do a ground meat day, a chicken breast day, turkey day etc etc. I find, even if I don't assemble whole meals having meat cooked, cut and frozen in portions saves so much time when I get ready to cook dinner. I will be trying some of these recipes soon-I am glad they are lower fat.
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Summary: Simple!!!!
Comment: This is a great book to help simplify your life!!!!! or at least dinner. I have tried around half of the recipies and enjoy the vast majority of them. It makes a busy life a little easier.
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Summary: Its a so so cookbook.
Comment: I would not reccomend this to be your sole source for oamc recipies. Its good to have on as an addition, but to basic for me. It is very difficult to cook with, it is not hard back or spiral. Its paperback. There are better oamc resources out there.
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Summary: Imperfect, but still worthwhile
Comment: Apparently not everyone wants to deal with cooking for a whole month at once, so Deborah's new book presents the mini-session: roughly 5 to 8 recipes all involving one central ingredient. You wait until that ingredient is on sale in bulk, buy a lot of it, and do one brief session. Stash some of the meals in the freezer, then do a different mini-session a little while later and stash a few more things away. If you still want to cook for a month at once, you just do several mini-sessions at one time.Because of this new format, she does not repeat any recipes within this book. Deborah also provides tips and hints for turning your own recipes into freezer meals or putting together your own mini-sessions.
Each mini-session includes a shopping list and preparation instructions. And of course, as before, each recipe is simple and easy, and provides quick prep instructions for when you take it out of the freezer. The recipe layout is clean and easy to follow.
As the title of the book implies, these are, in general, healthier recipes than those in her last book. They include more vegetables. There's an emphasis on lighter fare: chicken and turkey instead of beef, and even beans and vegetarian recipes. Each recipe says it makes 6 servings. Note that if you're on a diet that emphasizes portion control, they make more like 9 to 10 servings (in our experience). Most of the nutritional information is included (calories, fat, protein, carbohydrates, cholesterol); unfortunately fiber is not included, to the sorrow of Weight Watchers members counting POINTS.
Our overall judgment is that these recipes are a bit more bland than her others, but definitely good. Bland is a minus for me, but I know it's a plus for many people. So the recipes are quite good, but if you like flavorful food you may want to experiment a bit.
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