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Summary: meal ready on time
Review: This book has some great recipes! One of them is 'Beef Burgandy' on page 19. My husband and I really enjoy this one. We don't entertain a lot so I can cut these recipes in half. But the crockpot is the best way for any woman or man to have a hot meal waiting for them when they get home from a long, hard day at work.
This book is truly a gift to share with others. Just like my new beverage of choice that replaced my morning brew. Its called s oyfee and taste so wonderful with no caffeine or acids. Organic and made from soya! Bye bye acid stomach and hello healthy tummy! Google it under "acid free coffee".Anyone who buys it will not be disappointed.
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Summary: dump-it and serve-it
Review: This is the WORST cookbook I have ever read. Obviously, these recipes were neither taste-tested nor selected for any criteria other than someone submitted them and they "must be published." Bottled cheese product, canned soups, little or no seasoning in many recipes and the repetition...oh, the repetition: BBQ meatballs, cocktail meatballs, Italian meatballs, easy meatballs, festive meatballs and the list goes on. If you've got a can of cream of mushroom soup, American cheese, or corn flakes...voila...you can re-name your meatballs and you have another amazingly insipid recipe to add to the collection.Let the book speak for itself. Nothing could say it better than this recipe for "Hot Chicken Sandwiches" (found on page 123); "1 large chicken, 1 cup of water." (That's it, no seasonings, no salt, even.)
"1. Place chicken in slow cooker. Add water." (You've got to admit it's easy.)
"2. Cover. Cook on low 6-7 hours." (Simple, too, if not time consuming. But, I guess you've got to have some spare time on your hands to think up recipes like this.)
"3. Debone chicken. Mix cut-up chicken with broth.
4. Spoon into dinner rolls with straining spoon to make small hot sandwiches. Top with your favorite condiments." (What??? Like ketchup, or bottled cheese sauce or ???? Boy howdy, can't wait to whip up a batch and invite over some friends to see their faces when I serve this to them!) Don't waste your hard earned cash. I once worked at Macy's where the employees assembled a collection of favorite recipes on goldenrod mimeograph paper. That was twenty years ago, and I am still using some of the recipes in that "book." "Fix-it" probably can't be, just "Forget-it."
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Summary: dump-it and serve-it
Review: This is the WORST cookbook I have ever read. Obviously, these recipes were neither taste-tested nor selected for any criteria other than someone submitted them and they "must be published." Bottled cheese product, canned soups, little or no seasoning in many recipes and the repetition...oh, the repetition: BBQ meatballs, cocktail meatballs, Italian meatballs, easy meatballs, festive meatballs and the list goes on. If you've got a can of cream of mushroom soup, American cheese, or corn flakes...voila...you can re-name your meatballs and you have another amazingly insipid recipe to add to the collection. Let the book speak for itself. Nothing could say it better than this recipe for "Hot Chicken Sandwiches" (found on page 123); "1 large chicken, 1 cup of water." (That's it, no seasonings, no salt, even.)
"1. Place chicken in slow cooker. Add water." (You've got to admit it's easy.)
"2. Cover. Cook on low 6-7 hours." (Simple, too, if not time consuming. But, I guess you've got to have some spare time on your hands to think up recipes like this.)
"3. Debone chicken. Mix cut-up chicken with broth.
4. Spoon into dinner rolls with straining spoon to make small hot sandwiches. Top with your favorite condiments." (What??? Like ketchup, or bottled cheese sauce or ???? Boy howdy, can't wait to whip up a batch and invite over some friends to see their faces when I serve this to them!) Don't waste your hard earned cash. I once worked at Macy's where the employees assembled a collection of favorite recipes on goldenrod mimeograph paper. That was twenty years ago, and I am still using some of the recipes in that "book." "Fix-it" probably can't be, just "Forget-it."
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Summary: Great Book!
Review: This was a definite surprise! I love the recipes because when you are truly not having the time to pull off an extravagant meal, the last thing you want to do is to have to run to 3 different stores to get the ingredients. Most of the recipes contain ingredients I already have at home. I know there was a complaint about the duplication, but I agree with reviewers from the first book that it gives you a choice if you only have certain ingredients. It's not like you don't have enough different types of recipes in there to choose from. The sweet and Saucy Chicken is excellent as well as the Harvest Kielbasa. I also agree that the ingredients might be somewhat processed, but as someone who is cooking for a Celiac allergic to wheat, you can always work around them....and there is plenty there that are not processed foods at all. Great job with this book!
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Summary: Live's up to their first book!
Review: When I saw this book come out I grabbed it! I have the previous book "Fix it and Forget it" and loved it. This one live's up to the predecessor. I barely knew how to cook before these 2 books. Now I can cook even without the slow cooker. This is a GREAT beginning cookbook, not just for entertaining.
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Summary: Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes are Fast...
Review: While some persons fault this book and the Fix-It and Forget-It Cookbook by the same authors, for using processed foods...Good and Ranck never said that the recipes did not include them. Many of us have to use canned foods, vegetables and soups, but with these cookbooks, we can make them taste GREAT! If you take offense to canned foods, you don't have to use them. There are plenty of recipes in this book that don't include them. So if you want tasty food without a lot of fuss, ready for guests or family, this set of cookbooks is excellent. Enough recipes to keep your crockpot hot for years to come. This new cookbook is for more than just entertaining--my family loves the recipes that have been tried so far!
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