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Summary: The cooking impaired- unite!
Review: For a good basic/beginner cookbook that is easy, with no complicated ingredients and easy to follow, get this book! There are many tasty and creative recipies that are not the usual meat-and-potatoes fare that will make anyone look like they know what they are doing. Also would make a good present for anyone just starting out on thier own or those of us who just hate to cook
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Summary: Don't miss this one !!!!
Review: I have over 400 cookbooks and this one is one of my favorites...It really allows you to do what the title says...I have used this while teaching cooking classes and it gives easy instruction, uses familiar ingregients and the results are amazing. The desserts are special treats. This is a great gift for the new bride the busy homemaker or those of us who want our friends to think we spent hours preparing a meal for them...
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Summary: Couldn't be easier...
Review: I have the series (which is out of print) and love them. I got this for my sister and she is raving about it and now plans on giving it as gifts as well. I'm a fairly avid cook and baker, but you wouldn't believe how I have fooled my friends with appetizers like blue cheese pear pizza and jarlsburg scallop dip (sorry, both are in the Appetizers 5 in 10 only) that honestly take 5 ingredients and 10 minutes to bake. If you don't have time to read a long cookbook (or skill to implement complex recipes) and want just a few ideas to "freshen up your kitchen repetoire" this is the book for you.
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Summary: Couldn't be easier...
Review: I have the series (which is out of print) and love them. I got this for my sister and she is raving about it and now plans on giving it as gifts as well. I'm a fairly avid cook and baker, but you wouldn't believe how I have fooled my friends with appetizers like blue cheese pear pizza and jarlsburg scallop dip (sorry, both are in the Appetizers 5 in 10 only) that honestly take 5 ingredients and 10 minutes to bake. If you don't have time to read a long cookbook (or skill to implement complex recipes) and want just a few ideas to "freshen up your kitchen repetoire" this is the book for you.
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Summary: Nice for beginners and for accomplished but rushed cooks
Review: I love to cook. I usually find the recipes in popular "Quick Cook" books very disappointing -- bland, overprocessed, and "easy" only because key steps have been left out. Not this little book, whose recipes show a light touch, imaginative seasonings and real taste. I especially like the soups chapter.Of course, these are ten minute meals -- so black bean soup uses canned black beans, not home cooked -- but any dish in the book will beat another night of take-out pizza.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I'm surprised to be the only one here giving this book a less-than-stellar rating. I find most of the recipes impractical in 10 minutes. The authors seemed so bent on their 10 minute goal that they skimped a lot of places, (while on the other hand, there are numerous instances where ingredients were added that were completely unnecessary). If you're looking to make a dish in 10 minutes, get over it - these recipes CANNOT be done in 10 minutes, most of them. Take for example recipes which call for roasted peppers. OK, you can't roast peppers in 10 minutes, so they suggest buying them in a jar. Good enough, but then the recipe calls for the actual number of red peppers to use, which is not the way they are packaged in a jar. Also, I'm sorry, but even a pounded chicken breast cannot be properly cooked in 4-6 minutes. And they aren't really counting the prep time - getting them out of the package, cleaning them, pounding them, etc. Lastly, I have encountered many recipes in the book which call for amounts of ingredients that are unnecessary. For the pita breads with orange butter, the recipe calls for, I believe, 1/2 cup butter and 1/3 cup orange concentrate (which, incidentally, not one person at my party could taste), then the instructions say to brush 4 pita halves with the butter-orange mixture, which leaves about 98% of the liquid unused. A big disappointment.
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Summary: Easy to Follow & Simple
Review: 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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Summary: Great recipes that are really easy.
Review: This book has been an inspiration, allowing me to make all sorts of delicious meals in little time and at little cost. A bonus: because the recipes and ingredient lists are so simple, I have my favorites memorized and I seldom need to open it anymore. Still, it has a valued place on my cookbook shelf.
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Summary: Great recipes that are really easy.
Review: This book is my cooking bible. The recipes are really and truly fast and easy. All of them have been delicious except for one egg plant dish. I think I'm not cooking the egg plant long enough. The best thing is that the husband and guests are impressed - they think the dishes are gourmet.
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Summary: Easy to Follow & Simple
Review: When I checked this book out from the library, I was expecting your typical Campbell's Soup casseroles and whatnot. After the first five recipes I made were fabulous, unique, and restaurant quality, I knew I had to buy the cookbook. By the time it arrived, my mom had already fallen in love with the recipes I'd been making, and ordered her own copy as well! The title is a little misleading; most of these recipes have taken longer than 10 minutes, between pounding chicken breasts, peeling shrimp, boiling pasta, etc. Still, they're quicker than most meals, and they avoid the horrible casseroles that all end up tasting the same. The skillet recipes are particularly good, and the seafood dishes really are 10 minutes from start to finish. The cookbook often calls for more sauce (and particularly, more butter) than is necessary, but the real charm of the book is the novel combinations of just 5 ingredients that make delicious and unique tastes.
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