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Learn to COOK - Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
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List Price: $12.95
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Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555
Format: Bargain Price
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: 2007-02-20
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release Date: 2007-02-20
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
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Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You don’t have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect today’s healthier diet, this revised edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at the supermarket, cut down on prep time, group similar kitchen tasks together to get them all done at once, make kitchen clean-up more manageable, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals!
Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as:
--Baked JambalayaMexican--Chicken Lasagna--Chicken Taco Salad--Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork--Veal Scaloppini--And more!
Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!
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Summary: Wonderful, but buddy-up the first time!!
Comment: My husband and I used to do this together before we had our son and we were both working. Later I found that a two-week version was easier by myself. You'll save lots of $$ by not eating out, but don't forget to get things out in time to thaw for the day you want to eat it. RE: the updated version - on a radio program the author said one of the main differences was leaving more uncooked until the day the meal was needed, then dumping it in a crock pot so the wonderful cooking smells could be enjoyed the day it is eaten. Some things, however, would still need to be cooked on cooking day, but this would make cooking day easier, too, I would think!
Customer Rating:
Summary: LOVE IT
Comment: The first plan I tried was one month plan D. I was concerned about portion sizes and flavor of the recipes. We are alomost finished with the first month's food. Everything was delicious, you never know with recipes, there were some dishes that I made notes to (add more chicken, needs more gravy) but other than that, they were all great dishes. We have a family of 6 and some of the meals are only for 4, that was not a problem at my house, we added a bread or extra fruit or vegatable and we ALWAYS had leftovers (usually only one portion). Finally I feel like my family is eating appropriate portion sizes. This really has saved me a huge amount of time and money. I figured with the one month plan each dinner cost my family about $2.23 per person. Well rounded healthy food. We have purchased the ziploc steam n bags and in 4 minutes we have fresh steamed vegetables to go with our entre. My husband has had no problems jumping in and preparing the dinner for the evening, since all you are really doing is putting it in pan and reheating. I love this book, I have been telling everyone about how great it is. If you dont have an extra freezer there are two week plans, that I can say will fit in your regular freezer (I took the last two weeks out of the deep freeze and moved them inside, just to see). Also, if a someone has a baby or a friend needs a helping hand, you have a meal all ready for them in the freezer.
A nice feature...at the end of the book, there are family dinner discussion topics for the communication to get rolling at the table. No more "what did you do today?" more like "talk about one thing you started today and one thing you finished"
My only complaint, the book is soft back with paper pages, this makes it hard to keep clean when you are doing cooking day since you are flipping back and forth. I put mine is a binder with sheet protectors, a small investment, but all the pages turn easy and wipe clean.
I did not notice recipe issues, I noticed shopping list errors (I had stuff leftover after the food had been made) I was confused at one point at which chicken to use where, boiled or boneless breast chunks but really not a big deal to me...chicken is chicken.
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Summary: wonderful
Comment: I just can't seem to stop talking about how this book has changed my life! I want everyone to expecience it. I made the first 2 week meal plan and was able to create 26 meals (we have a family of 2 with an additional 5 year old). The average meal for our family was only $6.56! Unfortunately, my husband does not help with any household or cooking responsibilities. So now, instead of getting frustrated every night that I spend my evening cooking and cleaning, I can now spend time doing the activites I want. The book has also gotten me out of my "recipe box". I stuck with the exact recipes and made several dishes that I normally would not have. Most of them I really liked.
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Summary: This version is a new revision and they don't tell you that!!!!
Comment: I have some serious issues with this book. I have the 2007 edition from my library and used it just yesterday to purchase almost $250 in groceries to do a monthly cooking.
Today, I received what /should/ be the exact same book from Amazon. It has the same ISBN number, thus indicating no major revisions.
Here's a few (it would take an hour to show all the ones just from the menu I selected)
Library version - Menu B Dairy calls for:
Butter
Sour Cream
Yogurt
Monterey Jack Cheese
Cheddar Cheese
More Monterey Jack Cheese
Amazon version - Menu B Dairy says nothing about yogurt
So I have some extra sour cream. But let's move on to the meats section.
Library Version:
Chicken pieces
Chicken breasts
More chicken breasts
Beef round tip
London broil
Sirloin steak
Ground beef
Pork loin
Amazon version:
Completely different quantities of the chicken breasts
Round tip
London broil
Different quantity of the ground beef
Pork loin
So I have sirloin steak and ground beef extra but have to go back out to get more chicken.
I could spend, as I said, an hour picking apart the differences in just Menu B's shopping list. Then there are the different recipies for Menu B. And I mention just Menu B as that was the one I was using. A casual flip through the books shows that ALL the menus are like this.
This has been a tremendous and unexpected waste of money on my part! I estimate I have to go BUY another $30 worth of items to match this supposed "identical" book and have another $50 in items that aren't needed or used but will most certainly perish if not utilized.
As a fellow publisher, I am stunned by the audacity of a publishing house to put forth two so vasty different books as identical. Surely it wasn't to save themselves the few dollars it costs to get a new ISBN number for the newer revision.
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Summary: Does all that sauce just go on top of the Lasagna????????
Comment: I can't use this book in the way it was constructed. I have a husband who can't eat red meat. So I have been trying a recipe here and there and doubling it. My whole family loves Denise's Black beans and Rice.
The recipes we have tried are very good.
Now having said that I too have run into what I can only think of as errors. The other night I put together the Mexican Chicken Lasagna. Now most lasagna's have you layer this, this, that, repeat 3 times and top with remaining sauce. This layers 1 cup of sauce. noodles, chicken cheese, grated cheese, noodles, chicken, chilies, tomato sauce and cheese. After using the one cup of sauce "which barely covers the bottom of the pan", I am dumping approx. three cups of sauce on the top????? Doesn't sound right or look right.
I have used other comments on errors in these reviews to edit my book, so I hope this helps with someone else.
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