Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
by: Mary-Beth Lagerborg, Mimi Wilson
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 641.555 EAN: 9780312243180 ISBN: 0312243189 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: September 29, 1999 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Sales Rank: 289618 Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
Spend less time in the kitchen and more time with your family...
Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families cut down their cooking time and still enjoy home-cooked meals every night. Newly revised to satisfy today's lower-fat tastes, this easy-to-follow, family-tested cookbook explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time in 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, use the freezer, computer, and our head to create a month full of delicious, nutritious meals and actually have enough time to relax and enjoy them. Once-a-Month Cooking is the perfect cookbook for today's busy lifestyles.
What Others Say
Creative concept could save time in the kitchen....
I really appreciate the ideas listed in Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day, however cooking one day a month has been difficult to include into our lives. I thought the recipes were actually good tasting. The concept presented in Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day is really clever. Recommend Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day to everyone. However, keep in mind that the one day a month you cook will be labor intensive.
Very helpful
I bought Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day years ago and while I would have liked to have had a wider variety of menus, I found Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day very useful. We added our own personalized touch to several of these recipes. We also incorporated some of our own favorites such as hamburger and fries, or spaghetti into the menu plan. The shopping list can be a little tricky to navigate because we always opt to buy spaghetti sauce, not make it from scratch but we were able to adapt the shopping list to our own and if we forgot to pick something up from the store, we improvised. Mainly, Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised Edition: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day got us to redefine our approach to grocery shopping. We had to retrain our shopping/cooking process but it was worth the effort. We cook for two weeks and because we add in our other ... Read More
Wrong Book
I ordered the book that is associated with this review. However, when the book arrived, it had a different cover and didn't have the same recipes as I'd anticipated. I had originally checked the book out from my local library prior to deciding on purchasing it. Although the format is the same, I am somewhat disappointed that I didn't receive what I'd actually ordered. I didn't send it back due to the book container other good recipes.
More of The Same 'Ol, Same 'Ol.
If you have any of the prior published versions, there is nothing new in this current one that justifies the purchase.
One-a-Month Cooking
This is a very practical guide for big-batch cooking. I learned a lot of helpful techniques and the recipes were practical and intice my trying them. It gave lots of guides for shopping and organizing your cooking day.
