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Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)

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Easy To Follow
What's all the Ray fuss about?
no thank you
Like but don't love
Lots of Variety

Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1400082544
Release Date: 2005-11-01

Book Description

Even your favorite dinner can lose its appeal when it’s in constant rotation, so mix it up! With her largest collection of recipes yet, Food Network’s indefatigable cook Rachael Ray guarantees you’ll be able to put something fresh and exciting on your dinner table every night for a full year... without a single repeat!

Based on the original 30-Minute Meal cooking classes that started it all, these recipes prove that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every night. Rachael offers dozens of recipes that, once mastered, can become entirely new dishes with just a few ingredient swaps. Learn how to make a Southwestern Pasta Bake and you’ll be able to make a Smoky Chipotle Chili Con Queso Mac the next time. Try your hand at Spring Chicken with Leeks and Peas and you’re all set to turn out a rib-sticking Rice and Chicken Stoup that looks and tastes like an entirely different dish.

As a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows, Rachael Ray believes that both cooking and eating should be fun. Drawing from her own favorite dishes as well as those of her family, friends, and celebrities, she covers the flavor spectrum from Asian to Italian and dozens of delicious stops in between. Best of all, these flavor-packed dishes will satisfy your every craving and renew your taste for cooking. With so many delicious entrees to choose from you’ll never have an excuse for being in a cooking rut again.

How about a brand-new 30-minute dinner every night for an entire year?

Tired of making the same old same old, week after week after week?

With Rachael’s most varied and comprehensive collection of 30-minute recipes ever, you’ll have everyone at your table saying “Yummo!” all year long.

It’s amazing what a half hour can do for your tastebuds … 365 days a year!

Customer Reviews:

Easy To Follow.......2007-06-28

Easy to follow recipes... especially a good book for those who are rolling up their sleeves in the kitchen for the first time (i.e. college students/post-college students). I've recommended this book to all my friends who are cooking for themselves for the first time.

What's all the Ray fuss about?.......2007-06-24

Honestly I can't understand what all the fuss is about Rachel Ray. Her recipes are not unique - i've found similar ones just doing a search on the internet, her writing lacks luster, and her cookbooks just don't make me want to come back again to try something else. If I were to buy another cookbook I would go with one by Nigella Lawson. Her recipes are genius but not too difficult, her writing alone is worth buying the book for, and everything I've tried in her books has worked beautifully. She's a much better bet for a good cookbook.

no thank you.......2007-06-23

I can't stand everything about Rachael Ray. She's obnoxious, loud and fake. She pretends to eat food on television and acts like it's the most delicious thing she's ever tasted. I think you need to eat more than a bean to determine the level of deliciousness, Rachael. And I don't think you can determine deliciousness when someone else has removed the food for you. On one episode my mom was watching, she went to take a bite of her muffin, but the camera angle showed that the bite had been taken out for her! She's not a real chef, and she's a mediocre cook.

If I have to hear the word 'yummo' or 'delish' one more time... I might scream myself to death.

Like but don't love.......2007-06-08

I like this book and it does give a lot of ideas and once you start getting the hang of it you can come up with your own recipes and style. I don't like how it's not indexed but food makes finding things a little difficult and many recipes have things one wouldn't normally have in the kitchen but once you do you are good to go. So I like this very much but wouldn't say I love it.

Lots of Variety.......2007-06-02

I have never seen Rachael Ray's TV show, but found that the recipes are pretty easy and we have been able to modify to taste. They general take 30 minutes PLUS prep time though - so they generally take 45 min to an hour for me to prepare.

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no thank you
A review of 30 Minute Meals
A Tasty Symphony Filled with Zesty, Fresh Variations
The Original
Like Rachel, but not this book

30-Minute Meals
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Lake Isle Press
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ASIN: 1891105035

Book Description

Rachael Ray's fans can't seem to get enough of the wonderful recipes featured on her television show, 30-Minute Meals.

Customer Reviews:

no thank you.......2007-06-23

A review of 30 Minute Meals.......2007-05-20

I absolutely love Rachel Ray and her cooking show. I was somewhat disappointed as to how the '30 Minute Meal' book was laid out. There is no real index in the back. I was expecting some different way of layout. I'm sure the recipes are good ones.

A Tasty Symphony Filled with Zesty, Fresh Variations.......2007-01-19

When someone makes a huge impact on American kitchens like Rachael Ray has done in the last ten years, it's well worthwhile going back to the origins of the phenomenon to understand it better. In the case of Rachael Ray, our friendly guide to home cooking that tastes like six hours went into the preparation . . . when the time was much less, that search begins with either her 1998 book, 30-Minute Meals, or the 1999 version.

As background for this review, let me explain that I cook most of my own meals. But my idea of a quick meal is one that takes less than ten minutes. So thirty-minute meals seem like a lot of preparation. But I find myself craving from time-to-time the more subtle flavors that restaurants produce and often plop fresh ingredients of the most unusual sorts into everything to make them livelier. I was pleased to see that Ms. Ray shares my taste for subtle flavors and freshness. I was delighted to see that her ideas can provide the variety I'm looking for without spending much more money or time. In fact, if I make full-size recipes, the left-overs will keep me going through several meals. The extra time in preparation won't be more than an extra five minutes per meal. That's very attractive to me.

This book is a wonder of efficiency. Like a good chef who wants to be able to provide lots of variety from a restaurant kitchen, Ms. Ray takes just a few ingredients, a few ways of preparing foods and turns those basics into virtually infinite zesty, fresh variations.

I especially appreciated that she doesn't require me to learn dozens of new cooking methods, each of which is fraught with potential error. I only need to do two new things: Add cooked garlic to many dishes and reduce cooked anchovies into a seasoning. Neither activity is anything I would have tried without this book. I've seen, smelled and eaten too many disasters where the person cooking didn't have the garlic and anchovies under control. With Ms. Ray's guidance, you can't miss. She even has pictures to demonstrate and instructions to explain what to do.

So what's in the book? Pastas (simple from your cupboard, complex like from a restaurant -- but still fast to produce, pestos, and some heartier options); salads to either complement the pastas with freshly made dressing or to serve as entrees . . . include warm salads; better tasting, healthier versions of the most popular take-out foods (pizza, sandwiches, burgers, Tex-Mex, Indian, and Asian); and great comfort foods whether from the Mediterranean menu, Tex-Mex, or northern Continental foods.

Ms. Ray has a great instinct for what's healthy, featuring lots of foods low in fat . . . or healthy fats like olive oil. In fact, the only adjustment you need to make to any of the dishes is to substitute whole wheat or whole grain pasta for regular pasta to reduce the glycemic load.

The book is as friendly as it can be. Everything is treated in a humble, simple way. Even measuring is simplified so you can get away from running your kitchen like experiments you did in high school chemistry.

Don't know anything about cooking? No problem. With this cookbook, you'll wow most people with the tastes and freshness you deliver. They'll never realize it didn't take you long.

Spend the added time you gain eating and laughing with those you love!

The Original.......2007-01-08

This is a great recipe book for all Rachael Ray fans. Though her other books -- particularly 30-Minute Meals 2 -- are more accessible for beginner cooks, the original volume has a lot to offer. The meals in this book are all relatively easy to prepare, allowing oneself at least an extra 10 minutes for prep work (a common critique of Rachael Ray is that her recipes aren't *really* "30-minute" meals). The meals are quite tasty to boot; I especially like Rachael Ray's pasta dishes -- truly her forte.

This book may be difficult to navigate for impatient cooks, as there's no index. But the chapter sub-headings are quite helpful (e.g., pizzas, tex-mex, etc.). And besides, part of the pleasure of cooking is diving into a new cookbook and skimming the collection of recipes in its entirety. This approach to reading a cookbook helps one get a "feel" for the author's approach, flavor, and overall cooking "philosophy."

Rachael Ray's philosophy is based on clear, simple directions and "classic" dishes with a homemade twist. Her recipes are at times challenging, but I personally think a cook doesn't get "better" if he or she doesn't encounter a challenge every now again. Highly recommended to all.

Like Rachel, but not this book.......2007-01-08

Good recipes, but the books is laid out very strangely, and virtually no photos. Very disappointed, altho I do like Rachel a lot. Better off getting these recipes off the Food channel web page.

Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes

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It's Real Alright!
Great Ideas...
Tasty book!
A really good cookbook
Where are the pictures

Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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ASIN: 1400082536
Release Date: 2005-03-29

Book Description

No pasta? No dessert? No way! Everything in moderation, says Rachael Ray. After all, some days only chocolate or spaghetti will hit the spot.

In Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Get Real Meals, the bestselling cookbook author and Food Network star serves up another helping of creative, hassle-free recipes that are ready to rock your tastebuds in less than thirty minutes. The latest addition to Rachael’s runaway hit series of 30-Minute Meals cookbooks is designed for cooks who want to look and feel great but long for the fun and the flavor that’s missing from their extreme low-carb meals. Why fill your shopping cart and your stomach with processed, low-carb cereals and breads that taste like cardboard when you can eat the foods you crave? Here, at last, are recipes for those who just cannot and will not live totally carb-free: Pasta dinners made mostly with proteins and vegetables and only a couple of ounces of pasta per servings, fresh Thai and Mexican lettuce wraps, take-out-style stir-frys, and tons of burger ideas—with and without the buns. And when you’ve just got to satisfy that sweet tooth, even nonbakers (like Rachael) will flip for Nutty Creamsicle Pie, Stuffed Roasted Strawberries, and other surprisingly easy dessert recipes.

With more than 150 new dishes, plenty of time-saving tips, and a generous serving of Rachael's “you can do it” attitude, 30-Minute Get Real Meals proves you don’t have to go to extremes to eat healthy.

Rachael Ray confesses that there’s pasta in her pantry, and she isn’t afraid to admit that chili is just an excuse to snack on corn chips. On the other hand, she also confesses that it’s more fun to shop for clothes when she’s eating fewer carbs. So what’s a carb-frustrated cook to do these days? Don’t go to extremes, says the force of nature behind Food Network’s 30-Minute Meals. Get real! With a little creativity and less than half an hour, now you can watch your carbs and eat them, too. Satisfy your carb-starved cravings and still mind that waistline with more than 150 healthy, delicious recipes—including Rachael’s first-ever section devoted just to desserts:

•Snacks and Super-Supper Snacks

•Burgers Gone Wild

•Take a Dip: Fondues

•Salads that Stack Up

•That’s Souper

•Well-Rounded Square Meals

•Pasta: Come Home Again

•Desserts? Yes, Desserts!

Customer Reviews:

It's Real Alright!.......2007-06-24

This is a must have book for busy parents who need to feed their munchkins quick and healthy meals. Recipes from this book keep baby smiling all the time. And they help keep dad from being mistaken for a grounded blimp. The meals are savory and delicious. Now if I could only have Mrs. Ray over to cook one for us some night---that would be a great treat!

Great Ideas..........2007-05-12

If you're looking for some REALLY "YUMM-O" healthy recipies, this is the place to go! Rachael does her thing yet again with a fabulous book making some "lower" carb meals and some really tasty eats! Pick this up, it's highly recommended.

Tasty book!.......2007-05-08

This cookbook has some great recipies that my girlfrind and I love to make and eat.

A really good cookbook.......2007-04-15

Lately I hadn't been inspired to cook and try anything new and I was tired of eating the same old stuff over and over again. I bought this book without thinking much about it because I desperately needed some new idea in my cooking. I think this is a very good cookbook with some drawbacks. The recipes have been mostly delicious and I have been able to succesfully modify many of them with ingredients I have on hand.

I didn't realise this was a low carb cookbook, but that doesn't bother me too much. I can always add some carbs to the recipes if I wanted to.

I am a little dissapointed with the huge number of fish recipes in this book. With the CDC warning us to avoid fish as much as possible, I don't see the point of having all these fish recipes. That section of the book is a waste to me although I have been trying using pork and chicken instead of the fish with some very amazing results.

Some of the recipes call for too much meat, but that can be easily remedied, but cutting back on the meat and using more veggies or an extra salad. I also try to use less oil whenever possible.

I would have liked to see some more pictures. There are only a few pictures in this book and I was immediately drawn more towards those recipes with the pictures.

I am not too crazy about the index in this book. The index is categorized by the name of the dish. I would have liked to have a separate index categorized by ingredient.

All in all I find the recipes very tasty and I can see myself using this cookbook for a long time to come.

Where are the pictures.......2007-04-15

I love Rachel Ray on TV and this what influenced my purchase of the book. I was disappointed that the majority of the recipes had no pictures. I really like knowing how the food should look.

Semi-Homemade 20-Minute Meals (Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade)

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Great book for Easter Dinners or any dinners
i think sandralee is great
Fast good food
Grab a can of frosting and a spoon and curl up with this book soon!
Mmmm, it's all good

Semi-Homemade 20-Minute Meals (Sandra Lee Semi-Homemade)
Sandra Lee
Manufacturer: Meredith Books
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ASIN: 0696232634
Release Date: 2006-11-07

Book Description

New York Times best-selling author Sandra Lee is back with more fast and fabulous family-friendly recipe.

Sandra brings her Semi-Homemade cooking approach of 70 percent store-bought, 30 percent homemade to create super-quick meals in 20-minutes or less--from start to finish.

Irresistible recipes for main dishes, sides, appetizers, desserts and more are included along with a foolproof list of at-the-ready convenience foods to make dinners in a dash.

Customer Reviews:

Great book for Easter Dinners or any dinners.......2007-04-09

I was going to the grocery store to find something special for Easter dinner for my husband and I, something like a roast or another expensive piece of meat. First I stopped at the bookstore at the Mall, that's where I spotted Semi-Homemade 20 Minute Meals. I love Sandra on the Food Network so I bought the book. I looked through it for ideas for my Easter meal. Even though we have chicken quite often, I thought Kahlua Jerk Chicken sounded special. Then when it suggested Hawaiian Sweet Potatoes I knew it would be for us. It was so simple to make and was extra special for our Easter meal. The suggested buttered rice went perfect with it. Now we will be having Triple Chocolate Double Strawberry Sundae Sandwiches for dessert tonight. How easy! I love how the book suggests the side dish to go with the main course. That is always my dilemma, what goes with what? This is a great book and I will buy more.

i think sandralee is great.......2007-02-25

i have three of her books, i think she is great . i do alot of enetertaining and she cuts the work in half. i get alot of great ideas from her recipes...diane

Fast good food.......2007-02-11

We used the recepies and they are easy & fast and good!

Grab a can of frosting and a spoon and curl up with this book soon!.......2007-02-08

This book seems to have been written using the strict editorial scrutiny and attention to detail shared by the Midwest Book Review. Given the frequent grammar, spelling and punctuation errors, it almost makes you think the book was ghost-written. The often incomprehensible directions, missing steps and incorrect ingredients make these recipes true adventures! Grab a can of frosting and a spoon and curl up with this book soon.

Mmmm, it's all good.......2007-01-19

I've tried just a couple of receipes so far and they have been awesome. If you like salmon, try the broiled salmon with pesto mayonaise, delicious. Another good one is the tortilla soup. They have all been easy to make and really do only take 20 minutes to prepare and eat. I can't wait to try more.

Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids

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Inspiring!
Another Rachel Ray Success
if your kid likes to cook, s/he'll probably love this
OK. Not great.
Not for my kids...

Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Lake Isle Press
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Binding: Spiral-bound

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ASIN: 1891105159

Book Description

Kids rock! says Rachael, and it seems the feeling is mutual. Young people number among her biggest fans. For them she has created a fabulous collection of age-specific recipes with a high cool factor.

Customer Reviews:

Inspiring!.......2007-06-27

My 9-year old son has expressed an interest in cooking, so I thought he would enjoy this and ordered it as a surprise. He and his friends actually surprised me by going through it, not asking for any help from mom, and creating many of the recipes in the book (or their own variations thereof!) I think it's a great way to get them creating in the kitchen and would strongly recommend it for all kids. It can get pretty messy without direct supervision though!

Another Rachel Ray Success.......2007-06-14

The recipes are easy and tasty. Different sections can be used by kids of younger and older ages. My only complaint would be that a lot of the recipes are not exactly low calorie!

if your kid likes to cook, s/he'll probably love this.......2007-06-11

My 8-year-old niece loves the Food Network, especially Rachel Ray and Sandra Lee. So i got her Rachel Ray's Cooking Rocks for Christmas this past year. She was so excited, and we immediately hit the kitchen. She loves it. Let me just say, that if you are looking for gourmet, keep looking. Rachel Ray is definitely not gourmet, even her adult recipes. But this book does have real food, not corny clown-food, like "miss piggy pancakes" which require arranging smiley faces on your food. Most of the recipes require few ingredients, and they are divided by age group, based on how complex the recipes are (i.e., how much "grown-up help" you need). One note: nothing in the book, at least for my 8-year-old, takes 30 minutes -- try double that -- especially the things that involve chopping and whatnot.

OK. Not great........2007-06-03

First of all, a qualifier. I bought this book for my son who is showing an interest in cooking and is 11. So this review is not mine even thought I've checked that the review is written by someone older that 13. Ben's first step was to look through the book and mark recipes that looked good -- there were at least 20. However, the organization confused him. Rachel Ray tends to be a little too cutesy for his age group and he didn't think that all the recipes he selected were easy enough for him even though he stuck to the selections that were meant for him. He has made a few, some were OK some were not. Some were just plain weird.

Not for my kids..........2007-04-08

I don't think Rachael Ray has kids and it shows - alot of these recipes are for things most kids won't eat OR things that are not very good for them, lots of fat, sugar, processed food etc. The book is cute-looking but has not been very useful in cooking with my kids. There are other better kids cookbooks out there or even cookbooks for adults with easier, healthier recipes. Also - no pictures of the food, just Rachael and kids - my kids really like to see what a dish will look like - it makes them want to cook the recipe.

Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook

Average customer rating:

Not quite 30 minutes, but still great.
Great as always
don't buy if you have all her other books
great buy
Nice introduction to Rachael Ray's style

Classic 30-Minute Meals: The All-Occasion Cookbook
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Lake Isle Press
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ASIN: 1891105302

Book Description

An outstanding collection of Rachael Ray's best 30-Minute Meals, now in one volume. Features over 150 meals selected from 8 of Rachael's best-selling titles.

Customer Reviews:

Not quite 30 minutes, but still great. .......2007-06-27

I have to agree with some of the other reviewers that a lot of these recipes (unless you're a pro, which I am not) take longer than 30 minutes. However, they definately take less than 60 minutes, which I'm still very pleased with. Plus, everything I have cooked so far is just DELICIOUS! I started getting sick of making things out of cookbooks for just "so-so" meals. This cookbook, however, has restored my faith and I always look forward to trying a new recipe out of it.

Great as always.......2007-05-29

Love this book as always it is an easy read so I can follow it, now if my daughter will just leave it where I can find it as she love to see anything with Rachael Ray

don't buy if you have all her other books.......2007-05-21

I am disappointed in this book. Yes, it is a good collection of recipes but if you have all her other books then you already have all these recipes. For some reason I thought it was a new book and didn't read any of the reviews on it. (which I should have because then I wouldn't have bought it) It does say in small letters on it that it is a collection of best recipes, or something like that. This would be the perfect book for someone to have who is new to Rachael Ray or in need of learning quick cooking.

great buy.......2007-05-13

great easy recipes. If you don't like to cook or if you do, this is for you.

Nice introduction to Rachael Ray's style.......2007-04-22

This is a useful compilation of 30-minute meals from Rachael Ray. The book is nice and glossy, with a plentitude of pictures of Ms. Ray, from childhood to present that help to personalize the volume. As most readers know, she has had shows on television, featuring her cooking suggestions as well as a more recent talk show. But that is secondary. The primary task of any cookbook is to provide interesting and doable recipes. Let's take a look at what is within this book.

First, and this is something important to me, there are lots of recipes! Often, in fact, two to a page.

Second, there is quite a variety of recipes--from pizza (Puttanesca pizza) to other pasta dishes (Pasta al Forno) to meat dishes (e.g., maple-mustard pork chops with grilled apples) to vegetable dishes (Seared greens with red onion and vinegar) to deserts (Black-and-white ice cream sandwiches). And so on. Characteristics of her recipes include the liberal call for "evoo" (extra virgin olive oil). Also, she uses a wide array of herbs and spices that "spice up" the recipes nicely.

A couple quick examples. . . . "My Sister Ria's Lazy Chicken." This features boneless chicken breasts, evoo, thinly sliced potatoes, thinly sliced onions, crushed tomatoes, small zucchini thinly sliced, and accompanying elements, such as a "couple glugs" (ugh) of white wine, Montreal steak seasoning, basil, oregano, and Italian cheese (shredded). Key point: These are easy to acquire ingredients. The instructions are straightforward; this is a 30-minute dish that will satisfy. I have made this for my family, who are often picky in their tastes, and the end result was appreciated by all.

A simple dish for watching sporting events on TV. "Pigskin Potatoes." Ingredients: Potatoes, evoo, and Montreal steak seasoning. Get the oven heated up to 425 degrees. Slice the potatoes lengthwise into thin wedges. Toss the outcome with evoo, to coat. Then, sprinkle on seasonings to one's taste and put wedges onto a cookie sheet. Finally, stick them in the oven until golden brown. Tasty munchies during a television session with football and other sporting events.

And so on. . . .

In short, this is, first, a nice introduction to the cooking style of Rachael Ray. Second, and more important, there are a lot of easy to make and tasty dishes presented in this volume. Not all are as easy, of course. But, in the end, this is a welcome addition to my library of cookbooks.

Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals

Average customer rating:

An Early Cross Between Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8 and Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook
Yumm........Yummmm......Yummmmmm....
Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals
Fast, easy and delicious!
Rachel multi-tasks!

Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals
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30-Minute Meals

ASIN: 1891105116

Book Description

Rachel Ray puts the fun back into entertaining with this exciting collection of recipes, all designed to feed a crowd or smaller gathering in 30 minutes or less.

Customer Reviews:

An Early Cross Between Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8 and Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook.......2007-03-07

Some will call this book Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals 3. I beg to differ. In fact, Get Togethers is an earlier cross between two other superb Rachael Ray books, the recent 2, 4, 6, 8 (published in 2006) and the older Open House Cookbook (originally published in 1999 and reprinted in 2005).

What are the main differences? In the Open House Cookbook, Rachael is mostly looking at parties, holiday gatherings, and larger dinners. Since this is an early book, it leans heavily to Italian cuisine and spiced up versions of traditional American fare. In 2, 4, 6, 8, the perspective is from a couple who occasionally add 2, 4, or 6 people for some meals or don't mind having a leftover meal.

Get Togethers is also aimed at social occasions, but it has a focus more on the traditional sizes of serving 4-8. There are a few special dinners for two. Reflecting Rachael from 2003, this book is less based on Italian menus and provides more adventure in cuisines and seasonings.

If you want to throw a big party, Open House Cookbook provides more choices. If you want to do something special for two, 2, 4, 6, 8 has more choices.

I found the breakfast and brunch ranges in Get Togethers to be a limited, often built around frittatas and scrambled eggs. By comparison, the lunches are terrific for their range, imagination, and eye appeal. She also provides some excellent ways to provide snacks for cocktail parties and watching sports on television. Another section takes major holidays and provides fast ways to serve eight.

In terms of 30-minute thinking, I'm sure Rachael can do all of these menus in that amount of time. I'm also pretty sure I couldn't do any of the menus for 8 or more in 30 minutes. But I'm sure I could be done in less than an hour.

One of the best parts of the book comes in the beginning where she provides a list of prepared items you can use straight from the store and describes a number of ways to present your meal to dress up the occasion.

The book had a number of excellent menus and recipes that I recommend including:

Brunch alcoholic drinks; Southern comforts brunch; Tex-Mex brunch; Backyard bistro luncheon; Havana luncheon; Big burger lunch; High tea in low country; A dip in the Mediterranean; Snack attack party; Lite bites party; Seductive supper; Baja blowout; Seven samurai plus two; Meat and potatoes a deux; TV dinner for two; Express lane dinner date; Three cheers for chili; Couch coaches' nachos; Tailgate with gusto; Big wrap tailgate party; Halloween; Thanksgiving; Italian Thanksgiving; Everyday Thanksgiving; Happy Hanukkah; UK for a Queen; Cooking for 10 in 30; Night light; Positano dinner; Road to Morocco; Cooking for 10 in 30 Italian style; Cooking for 8 in 30 French style; and German heirloom.

The small, but elegant, number of photographs display lovely ways to present the recipes.

If you cannot afford to buy all three cookbooks, you'll probably find that Get Togethers will fit more of your entertaining needs than either of the others.

Yumm........Yummmm......Yummmmmm...........2007-01-27

More delicious RR recipes in 30 minutes or less. These are presented in menu form and are delish! I have made several and people rave about the food. Most of it is pretty good for you too! No shake and bake here, folks, this is the real deal. If you want to feel like you are eating out everyday,make these recipes. They are not difficult or weird....just REALLY TASTY!

Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals.......2007-01-09

Book was a repurchase. When mother was visiting she fell in love with the book. Easy reading and good food. My wife gave her our copy. I had to replace it! Excellent book with great recipes for quick prepare real meals.

Fast, easy and delicious!.......2006-01-14

"Get Togethers" contain some wonderfully delicious recipes!
One just cannot go wrong with Rachael Ray. Talented as can be, she makes Cooking fun! I never bought recipe books while raising my children, too many ingredients (so I thought) & too much work with them running around. NOT SO! The Mother/Father of today can zip up a great meal fast with the children running around with Rachaels recipe's. Try it:-) betcha like it! Jeannie!

Rachel multi-tasks!.......2005-10-20

More fine, quick recipes from one of my favorite cooks. Rachel knows how to reduce a recipe to its basics without compromising the taste. On the day it arrived, we found a recipe that had to be shared -- the Chili Casserole. I look forward to trying most of the others. I go back to Rachel Ray's cookbooks time and again -- many of her recipes have become standards in my cooking. But she can sure multi-task! I rarely do one up in thirty minutes until I have done it several times.

Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals: What to Keep on Hand, What to Buy Fresh for the Easiest-Ever 30-Minute Meals

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Probably will not buy any more of her books
Ingredients
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Great idea, poorly executed--neither delicious nor 30-minute meals

Rachael Ray Express Lane Meals: What to Keep on Hand, What to Buy Fresh for the Easiest-Ever 30-Minute Meals
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Clarkson Potter
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1400082552
Release Date: 2006-04-18

Book Description

How can you get a wholesome, delicious dinner on the table without spending time on long lines at the supermarket? Rachael knows how!

Her secret weapon is keeping plenty of versatile, flavorful ingredients in the cupboard, fridge, and freezer, combining these staples with just a few fresh items—never more then ten—to create delicious meals for every night of the week. In Express Lane Meals, Rachael provides her personal go-to list of must-have items—so you can do a big shop every week then simply zip through the Express Lane to make any of these 30-minute meals.

She divides the recipes into three categories: “Meals for the Exhausted,” “ Meals for the Not Too Tired,” and “Bring It On! (But, Be Gentle).” No matter which you choose you’ll learn handy tricks and shortcuts to get the most impressive-looking meals on the table in 30 minutes or less.

These are Rachael’s quickest and easiest recipes yet and a breeze to shop for—because you shouldn’t have to spend all of the time Rachael saves you in the kitchen standing in line at the grocery store!

RACHAEL RAY IS A VERY BUSY LADY . . .

And she knows you’re busy, too. But that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a delicious, healthy, and home-cooked meal every night of the week. Not when cooking is as simple as this!

In Express Lane Meals, Rachael Ray is back and faster than ever! With her latest batch of recipes this beloved Food Network phenomenon takes her 30-Minute Meal concept to the next level, creating recipes based on staples from a well-stocked pantry and just a few fresh items—so few you’ll never be stuck on a long grocery line again.

YUMMO!

Customer Reviews:

Probably will not buy any more of her books.......2007-06-29

I recently recieved this book and have found a few recipes I want to try. However, living in a small rural western town, some of the ingredients are unavailable. Not really a problem for me since I susbstutute ingredients quite often.

My biggest problem with this book at the moment is the index: totally useless. As I thumbed through the book perusing, I found a recipe entitled "Steaks with Tangy Corn Relish and Super Cheese and Scallion Smashed Spuds." A day later, I wanted to find the recipe for the corn relish...I looked in the index under "C" for corn...nope, not there. "R" for relish...not there either. Oh, I remember, it was listed with steak in the recipe...looked under "S" for steak...nope, not there either. I finally find it under "B" for beef.

Another recipe in the book included a Spicy Citrus Salsa...can't find it under Salsa or Citrus, but it is listed under "C" for Chorizo.
Maybe it would be faster to thumb through the book until I find what I'm looking for?

I want to try the recipes for the condiments - to go with other dishes I make, but I'm having a very difficult time of finding that specific recipe. When I do find the recipe, it's rather difficult to separate those specific ingredients and directions from the rest of the recipe.
I will be making good use of a highlighter in this cookbook.

Ingredients.......2007-05-09

I'm new to cooking fresh food daily and am actually starting to like it. This cookbook has been tremendously helpful in that the recipes are quick and easy and the 'to-buy' list is usually short. The portions are generally for 4 and there's only 2 of us so we always have left-overs, which freeze or reheat nicely. I'll go through the book and buy 2-3 meals worth on Monday (it's still fast, maybe not express though!) and basically be set for the week.

I wish the cookbook had a list of the recipes that use the fresh-purchase ingredients. This would make it easier to use up the fresh-purchased ingredients if not used in one recipe. I still recommend this for quick, easy, tasty meals.

Lots of good easy recipes.......2007-05-07

I've cooked several recipes in the book and it really didn't take me much more than 30 minutes to make them. Everything was "YUM" as Rachel would say.

Rachael Ray's Master Ingredients: For Best Results, Use This List with Another Rachael Ray Cookbook.......2007-03-23

If you only buy one Rachael Ray cookbook, avoid this one. Why? It has the least number of good recipes of any of her major cookbooks. And frankly, her best recipes in other books are much better.

If you are going to buy more than one of her cookbooks, definitely look at and consider picking up this one. Why? It has a convenient list of what to stock as your base ingredients for many of Rachael's 30-minute meal recipes. The list will save you a lot of time with future 30-minute meals as you use recipes from other Rachael Ray cookbooks.

What is the strength of the 30-minute meals concept? You can arrive home late after a hard day at work and put together a tastier meal than most people do who arrive home on time and not tired.

What are the weaknesses of how Rachael Ray pursues the concept? I usually see two: You need to already have the right ingredients on hand (or you spend another 20-30 minutes with a trip to the store); and you need to be a very fast chopper and multitasker for the most difficult recipes and menus.

I'm not very good at keeping a master list of items stocked, I chop slowly, and I don't multitask very well. So I focus on Rachael's recipes that happen to match what I have in the house and don't require much chopping or multitasking. Fortunately, most of her recipes that I think taste best fit into that category. Whew!

But if I'm going to do more with 30-minute meals, I need to carry a larger and more diverse inventory. This book gives the list to me that I need to plan and stock that inventory. If that's all you want to use the book for, I suggest you just borrow a copy from the library and jot down the list. If you want a more permanent version, buy a used copy and cut off the cheat sheet on the inside of the back cover that lists where to find the staples and condiments items in the grocery store. On pages 14-16, you can also cut off (and laminate) the lists of all the items you need and suggested places to store them in your kitchen or pantry.

I'm usually quite a big fan of Rachael's recipes. In 242 pages, I only found a few handfuls of recipes that interested me. Here they are:

Spinach-artichoke cheesy tortellini
Open-face blue moon burgers with 'shrooms
Cowboy spaghetti
Smoky black bean and rice stoup
Hungry man bloody-mary burgers and spicy garlic-roasted broccoli
Chicken with scallion-lime sauce and sweet carrot rice
Chicken, chorizo, and hominy stoup
Bacon bit burgers with smoked gouda and steak house smothered onions and baby spinach salad
BLT soup
Fillets of sole Francese and lemon-basil pasta
Red snapper with sweet anchovy-pine nut sauce and caramelized zucchini
Smoked paprika chicken
Everything lo mein
Ginger chicken and noodles with veggies
Black bean, chicken, and chorizo burritos
Bacon-wrapped halibut with seared cherry tomato sauce
Spicy black bean soup with limed-up shrimp
Smoky chipotle-chicken corn chowder with salsa salad

As you can see, most of these are pretty simple dishes. The book is divided into three parts (meals for the exhausted--76 pages, meals for the not too tired--104 pages, and bring it on!--43 pages). If you are always exhausted after work, you'll be disappointed in the relatively few recipes for you.

I think that where the book went wrong was in trying to keep down the number of ingredients you might have to buy specially for one meal. If you are going to have to pick up a few items anyway, what are a few more? It's not like the store is busy on most week nights after work.

If you've watched Rachael on television, you also know she works fast and easily with great energy, and displays wonderful chopping and mixing skills. Keep that in mind when you pick out a recipe from this book to try out. It may take you a lot longer than 30 minutes if the chopping and multiple steps are substantial.

Great idea, poorly executed--neither delicious nor 30-minute meals.......2007-03-19

As a mother of two small children, I don't have much time to cook. I'm always on the lookout for easy AND delicious meals. When I saw this cookbook at the bookstore, I got very excited. The title of the book, "What to have on hand, what to buy fresh for the easiest-ever 30-minute meals," sounded too good to be true.

Well, it was. Whoever came up with the title is a marketing genius. It was exactly what I wanted. (Well maybe, not "exactly" what I wanted. If it were the "easiest and delicious" meals, that would have hit the jackpot.) Unfortunately, however, the book itself falls short of its title. I tried a handful of recipes and found that...

1) I'd have to have a bigger kitchen to keep all of the things on her list in stock. I just don't have the space for all of the things Rachel Ray said I should have on hand.

2) The meals I tried were not always "easy" and often required 30 minutes for just prepping! Some required both my husband and I prepping for 30 minutes! Infuriating!

3) I think I only tried one meal that actually tasted good enough for me to want to cook it again.

This book was a huge disappointment. I almost gave it 1 star, but I reserve that designation for the absolute worst books. Plus, the idea of the book is a good one, hence the two stars.

Veggie Meals: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals

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Another hit from Rachel Ray!
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Thanks, for Quick & Easy Vegetarian foods that tastes good, and don't have weird ingredients.!
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Good food, but a lot alike

Veggie Meals: Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Meals
Rachael Ray
Manufacturer: Lake Isle Press
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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30-Minute Meals

ASIN: 189110506X

Book Description

This second volume in the 30-Minute Meals series offers tempting recipes for main-course veggies, veggie pastas, and salads.

Customer Reviews:

Another hit from Rachel Ray!.......2007-06-07

This is another super book from Rachel Ray. I just love her 30 minute meal books and programs. Admittedly they take me a little longer than the 30 minutes, but still speedy and well worth pursuing. Who can argue with preparing a dinner party in half an hour?

For Rachael Ray Fans Who Want More Vegetarian Choices .......2007-02-21

Having read several of Rachael Ray's cookbooks, I am always struck that she is usually more generous with providing meat or poultry-based choices than vegetarian ones. That made me curious about seeing this book. What would her 30-minute vegetarian choices look like?

I was pleasantly surprised to find that most of the dishes don't include eggplant, which I'm not fond of. And many of the dishes call for artichokes, asparagus, beans, mushrooms, peas, peppers, tomatoes, and spinach which I like very much. She also makes generous use of standard Italian cheeses, all of which I like.

The book is organized into six sections:

Menus
Soups
Salads
Risotto, Pasta, and Italian Vegetable Entrees
Make Your Own Asian Take-Out
Snack Suppers: Stuffed Potatoes; Sandwiches; Dips; and Spreads

The menu section is quite brief with four three-course menus and six two-course menus.

The soup section is one of the best parts. Every soup looked great, and many contained helpful time-saving directions. Here's a list of the more intriguing ones to me:

Chili; red beans and rice soup; three bean soup; black bean soup; pumpkin and black bean soup; Southwestern corn and pepper pot soup; escarole and white bean soup; chick pea and cannellini minestrone; and gazpacho.

The salads section is also a treat. She does a good job of upgrading from a standard salad without making a lot of extra work. Here are some of the more intriguing choices:

Asparagus salad; white bean salad; tabouleh salad; anti-pasta salad with bagna cauda dressing; Greek vegetable salad-stuffed pitas; baby spinach salad with pears and walnuts; spinach salad with blue cheese and scallions; and couscous salad with scallions and ginger.

The risotto options seem perfectly good. I wonder how well they will taste without meat and poultry-based stock. I suspect they will need more spices to upgrade the flavor in the absence of those ingredients.

The pasta section starts with some good pesto recipes for quick results. For the most part the other pastas didn't excite me.

The Asian take-out section has only seven recipes in it and seems thin for someone who is willing to eat tofu . . . which isn't included in the cookbook as an ingredient.

In snack suppers, I liked the recipes for spinach calzones, bean burritos, quesadillas, spinach artichoke dip, white bean dip, red pepper and sun-dried tomato spread, wild mushroom spread, spicy hummus, and her four pit-zas.

I haven't gone looking for vegetarian cookbooks lately, but I suspect that there are ones with many more recipes, more variety, and more complex flavors. And I assume that they all take a lot longer to prepare.

But for what I'm looking for, Veggie Meals provides more than what I need.

Thanks, for Quick & Easy Vegetarian foods that tastes good, and don't have weird ingredients.!.......2007-02-08

I am very new to vegetarian meals, and use to think vegetarian diets mostly consisted of tofu, eggplant, cucumber, and artichokes. I was glad to find Rachel's book that offers vegetarian foods that involve many different types and styles of foods: Salads, Soups, Asian, Italian, Snack Meals. I have cooked many recipes from this book, and can say they all have turned out great, don't take a long time to cook, and are very visually appealing. The soups are very good, as are the Asian and Italian recipes. My kids have enjoyed the food, too. If this book had color photos of each dish, it would be fabulous.

Thanks Rachel Ray.......2006-08-15

I have previously read many of Rachel Ray's cook books and had always wished there was one with more vegetarian recipes. Well, this one is just that. Simple, 30 minute meals that taste great and are easy to make.

Good food, but a lot alike.......2006-07-10

I've made several dishes from this book, but I have to say a lot of them are so similar that it's not like a new recipe. I'm a big fan of RR's cook books, and granted this is one of her earlier ones. Her other cook books don't have many vegitarian meal- she loves her meat. So, this was a great idea. As she says in the beginning that her fans asked her to make it, and that's what she did. I gave it 3 stars because the recipies are good, and easy to follow. But there are too many that are so similar.

Comfort Food: Rachael Ray Top 30 30-Minute Meals

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Finally!
gift
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Comfort Food: Rachael Ray Top 30 30-Minute Meals
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ASIN: 189110523X

Book Description

Curl up in front of the fire with the delicious homespun fare of Rachael's comfort food. Treat yourself with these Top 30 meals, a collection of her greatest hits. The perfect way to unwind after a busy day--you deserve it!

Customer Reviews:

Finally!.......2007-06-22

After serching through many recipes for the perfect Macaroni and Cheese, Rachel Ray has created such a recipe. Her Macaroni and Cheese with sausage, tomatoes and cheese is awsome! Easy to assemble and very tasty.

gift.......2007-05-14

purchased as a gift for my nephew who was recently divorced and wanted some ideas for quick meals for himself.

No such thing as too much Rachael Ray!.......2007-03-09

Rachael Ray's sparkling personality is reflected in this wonderful little book. The recipes are simple and quick, just as you would expect. The book itself is a nice size; the colors, graphics and print are clean and easy to read through. Not only does this book make a nice addition to my collection of cookbooks, but is one that I actually use as more than just decoration.

simple cookbook.......2007-02-16

This is a very simple cookbook, with clear instructions and it yields good results.

Great cookbook.......2007-01-11

Gave this as a gift but had a chance to browse through it first - now I want to get one for me!

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