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Rachael Ray's 30-Minute Get Real Meals: Eat Healthy Without Going to Extremes (Paperback)
by Rachael Ray
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A very nice collection of recipes, especially burgers and soups, with strong Italian flavors with few Italian carbs. |
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Author: Rachael Ray
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
Pub. in: March, 2005
ISBN: 1400082536
Pages: 256
Measurements: 9 x 7.4 x 0.9 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00956
Other information: ISBN-13: 9781400082537
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- Awards & Credential -
Rachael Ray is a best-selling cookbook author and host of three top-rated Food Network shows; this book ranks the #572 in books out of millions on Amazon.com as of February 25, 2007. |
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30 Minute Get Real Meals is one of many Rachael Ray publications brought to you by the immensely likeable lady from the cable channel known as the Food Network. This cookbook is like many of Ray's books in the sense that it stresses meal making that doesn't consume much time.
With this book, Ms. Rachael turns a new page in several different ways. For starters, she has changed publishers from very small Lake Isle Press to very large Clarkson Potter. One small difference to the good is the fact that the recipe font has changed from Ariel to Times Roman. The fact that it has a much richer appearance is irrelevant. Oddly, the color of the type for the recipes is still in a hard to read light blue with ingredients highlighted in a dark red. The font change makes the light color a bit easier to read, but if you had problems with the color of the type in Rachael's last book, then browse this one before buying.
The biggest difference in the substance of this book is that the recipes are no longer put together to form two or three course meals the way they are on the TV show. Almost all recipes stand alone in chapters organized by type of dish rather than occasion or theme. That this is a bigger change than the emphasis on low carb cooking shows that the emphasis on low carb cooking does not change the nature of her dishes all that much. Rachael still focuses on building dishes with strong flavors such as the Italian classics balsamic and red wine vinegar, garlic, Parmesano Reggiano cheese, Prosciutto ham, Italian sausage, anchovies, sun dried tomatoes, capers, and olives.
Overall, this is a good cookbook that could have been better with a few enhancements and a little more talk, nutritional contents, and some more photos would make this cookbook a notch above its competitors and make it more rounded and complete. If you like Rachael, you will like this book, although if you like Rachael's show and don't have any of her other books. This book has a very nice collection of recipes, especially burgers and soups, with strong Italian flavors with few Italian carbs.
- From quoting B. Marold and Bryan Carey
Target readers:
Busy-working people, food lovers, housewives, professional cooks, or hotel and restaurant managers.
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Rachael Ray appears daily on the Food Network as host of 30-Minute Meals, $40 a Day, and Inside Dish. She is the author of nine best-selling cookbooks, most recently 30-Minute Get Real Meals. Rachael lives in the Adirondacks. In 1998, she met with an independent Manhattan publisher about turning her bundle of recipes into a book. 30 Minute Meals ended up being produced that same year and sold 10,000 copies locally. On October 19, 2005, her food and lifestyle magazine, Every Day With Rachael Ray, hit store shelves, followed a week later by her 11th book, 365: No Repeats, which offers a different dish for every day of the year.
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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!
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Green and White Lightning Chunky Chicken Chili
4 servings
2 tablespoons vegetable or canola oil (2 turns of the pan)
6 6-ounce boneless, skinless chicken breasts, cut into bite-size pieces
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 medium yellow onion, thinly sliced
5 garlic cloves, finely chopped
1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and finely chopped
2 tablespoons ground cumin (2 palmfuls)
1 tablespoon ground coriander (a palmful)
1 cup mild or hot tomatillo salsa (green salsa on Mexican Foods aisle)
4 cups chicken stock or broth
1 can (15-ounces) cannellini or Great Northern beans
1 handful fresh cilantro, roughly chopped
1 handful fresh flat-leaf parsley, roughly chopped
Juice of 1 lime
Shredded Monterey Jack or Pepper Jack cheese, for garnish
1 individual lunch-box-size bag of corn chips, optional and not that dangerous
Heat a medium soup pot over medium-high heat with the vegetable oil. Add the chicken to the hot oil and season liberally with salt and pepper. Cook for 2 to 3 minutes, stirring frequently. Add the onion, garlic, jalapeño, cumin, and coriander and cook for 3 to 4 minutes, continuing to stir. Add the tomatillo salsa and the chicken stock. Bring the chili up to a simmer. Add half of the beans. With a fork thoroughly mash the other half of the beans, then add to the chili. This method will help to thicken the chili. Simmer the chili for 10 minutes. Remove the chili from the heat and add the cilantro, parsley, and lime juice.
Serve each bowl of chili with a little shredded Monterey Jack cheese on top. Oh, and go ahead, have a chip or two! I crush up a small bag and stir them right in!
Confession:
To be Honest, I eat chili as an excuse to eat corn chips. I rarely need a spoon as all: one chip, two chips, three chips... well, it can get ugly is all I’m saying. To help keep my corn chip obsession in check and still feel satisfied, I buy one individual lunch-box-size bag of chips. This way I don’t have that big gorgeous bag of chips dangerously calling my name from the cupboard. If I don’t have then, I don’t eat them. I exert my self-control at the supermarket.
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Sally Engel (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-25 00:00>
I really enjoy cooking, but sometimes the thought of being in the kitchen for hours is a little too much to handle. Enter this fantastic cookbook that contains delicious, healthy and super fast meals. To be able to cook a good meal in the time it takes to defrost and cook a frozen entree in the oven is a real treat.
All the dishes that I've prepared from this cookbook have been extraordinary. You can tell that they are all well thought out in that they are very tasteful and the tastes all compliment eachother instead of competing. (Thank you Rachael for your Creamy Polenta and Bolognese Sauce!)
Probably my favorite thing about this cookbook (besides the super fast meal prep) is the inclusion of carbs. I know that everyone is saying no to carbs, but I just can't say no altogether and finally someone (Rachael Ray) agrees with me: carbs in moderation is OK.
This is an all around great cookbook and I'm glad to have it in my kitchen. |
Dennis Mitton (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-25 00:00>
Another great cookbook from Rachel Ray. No haute cuisine here - just easy, delicious, healthy meals that take a short time to prep. Great for singles not wanting to spend much time in the kitchen or, like me, couples with little time at all. We use her recipes to save time and still enjoy a home cooked meal.
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Lucille Magilacutty (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-25 00:00>
This cookbook, is in my opinion Rachel Ray's best one yet. It's creative, original and very tasty. Never boring. It suits all my cooking/diet phases from low cal to low carb and everything in between. The best part about her recipes is that they are easy to tweak if you should come across an ingredient that you don't much care for without losing the flavor of the dish. I love the stuffed tomatoes! I bought this book as a birthday gift for my sister and almost couldn't give it to her, I did, and I went back to the store the next day and bought it for myself. Some opinions are just evil and nasty. Some can't tolerate watching Rachel's show and that's okay, the show is probably geared towards viewers who don't have a stick up their... anyway. Great book and even greater gift! My sister loved it too!
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Suzannah L Crowder (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-25 00:00>
As a busy mom, I used to believe that the words fast and healthy never went together when talking about food. Rachael has changed my mind forever!
Rachael's latest offering gives the reader exactly what is needed to get a quick and healthy meal on the table that the kids will actually eat. Now if she'd just come over once a week and watch the kiddos while I have a nap, this mom thing would be easy. Thanks Rachael!
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