Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: 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: 9780312366254 ISBN: 0312366256 Label: St. Martin's Griffin Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: February 20, 2007 Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin Release Date: February 20, 2007 Sales Rank: 40567 Studio: St. Martin's Griffin
Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You don’t have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect today’s healthier diet, this revised edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at 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, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals!
Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as: --Baked JambalayaMexican--Chicken Lasagna--Chicken Taco Salad--Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork--Veal Scaloppini--And more! Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!
What Others Say
Wonderful
Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day was a great help in organizing my month. It helped make family meals a time to enjoy rather than pulling my hair out. Thanks!
Disappointing and unhealthy
I had been looking forward to using Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day to save time in cooking but was really disappointed with the recipes. Most of the book has meat recipes and hardly any vegetarian recipes which makes for a very unhealthy and unbalanced diet. Also, the ingredients on the whole were not natural and unhealthy.
Decent cookbook, but so many typos!
This is a good cookbook that helps you organize yourself for a monumental cooking task. But you have to check and double check each list and recipe because there are SO MANY typos in this cookbook. I don't think there was an editor.
In addition, almost every single recipe calls for meat, making it great if you "cannot" live without meat, but not so great if you are a vegetarian or aspiring to reduce your meat consumption.
On the plus side, the majority of the recipes are really easy, and it's quite nice to have a full freezer and know exactly what's for dinner tonight.
Wonderful, but buddy-up the first time!!
My husband and I used to do this together before we had our son and we were both working. Later I found that a two-week version was easier by myself. You'll save lots of $$ by not eating out, but don't forget to get things out in time to thaw for the day you want to eat it. RE: the updated version - on a radio program the author said one of the main differences was leaving more uncooked until the day the meal was needed, then dumping it in a crock pot so the wonderful cooking smells could be enjoyed the day it is eaten. Some things, however, would still need to be cooked on cooking day, but this would make cooking day easier, too, I would think!
LOVE IT
The first plan I tried was one month plan D. I was concerned about portion sizes and flavor of the recipes. We are alomost finished with the first month's food. Everything was delicious, you never know with recipes, there were some dishes that I made notes to (add more chicken, needs more gravy) but other than that, they were all great dishes. We have a family of 6 and some of the meals are only for 4, that was not a problem at my house, we added a bread or extra fruit or vegatable and we ALWAYS had leftovers (usually only one portion). Finally I feel like my family is eating appropriate portion sizes. This really has saved me a huge amount of time and money. I figured with the one month plan each dinner cost my family about $2.23 per ... Read More
