Six O'Clock Solutions

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Summary: Hands-Down Our Favorite!
Review: This cookbook is fabulous. My husband and I rely on it, and have yet to find a bad recipe. I've just taken my copy in to a print shop to have it ring bound because it's beginning to fall apart from years of use. I keep hoping that the Vancouver Sun Times will publish a sequel. If you like healthy, easy, excellent cooking, this is one not to miss.

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Summary: I use this cookbook again and again
Review: _Six O'Clock Solutions_, a collection of main dish recipes, comes from the _Vancouver Sun_ test kitchen. To be included, a dish must take no longer than 30 minutes to prepare, from start to finish. The recipes are easy and forgiving,.. and draw on worldwide influences -- Italian-style pasta dishes, Asian-inspired chicken sauces, French seafood stews, etc. Assuming you have a reasonably well-stocked pantry (balsamic vinegar shouldn't be a stranger), you'll find that you can prepare most of the recipes with ingredients you already have on hand. Best so far? It's a tossup between Glazed Apricot-Walnut Chicken and Chicken Breasts with Mushrooms and Creamy Mustard Sauce.

A chart at the back of the book shows which recipes are low-fat, which are especially fast to prepare, which are good candidates for entertaining, and which have the highest KAF (kid acceptance factor). Each recipe is accompanied by suggested side dishes.

The _Vancouver Sun_ has also produced a cookbook called _Five Star Food_. I hope they continue the theme and write cookbooks featuring four, three, two, and one!