Rice Cooker Meals: Fast Home Cooking for Busy People

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Rice Cooker Meals: Fast Home Cooking for Busy People contains 60 quick and easy meals you can make in a rice cooker, most in 30 minutes or less. Enjoy delicious, multicultural recipes that are less expensive and healthier than fast food. Includes Mexican, Italian, Tex-Mex and Cajun recipes! And one-pot cooking means less mess to clean up! You'll see how easy it is to cook jambalayas, seafood dishes, pastas, "casseroles", soups, rice side dishes, and various vegetable recipes including potatoes, cabbage, and sweet potatoes. "IN A RICE COOKER?" Yes, they're all cooked in a rice cooker. Here are a few recipes from the book: Easy Chili, Mexican Rice, Tex-Mex Pasta, Shrimp Jambalaya, Cabbage Casserole, Cajun Pepper Steak, Chicken Fried Rice, Rice & Shrimp Pilaf, Chicken & Sausage Gumbo, Chicken Fajita Stuffed Potato, Black-eyed Pea & Sausage Soup, Candied Yams with Marshmallows, Easy Smothered Potatoes & Sausage, and Black-eyed Pea & Sausage Jambalaya. The cookbook also has two indexes so the recipes are easier to find: indexed by chapter and indexed in alphabetical order. It has numerous testimonials from good cooks affiliated with the LSU AgCenter Homemaker Clubs. They tested the recipes and gave their honest opinions. It includes short articles about time-saving tips on food preparation, how a rice cooker knows when the food is cooked, how to teach children to safely cook with a rice cooker, how to brown meat in a rice cooker, plus many more.

Customer Reviews ::

headed for the used book bin -- or the recycle can - Paul Nienaber SJ - WINONA, MN United States
At 20 cents a recipe, this is a still poor bargain. I wish I'd known this book was written by the founder and owner of the company that publishes it; the editorial board's review may have been less than critical. The fact that it's short may be a mercy -- it's long on high-fat, high-sodium recipes, and seems to have been play-tested exclusively in Louisiana (jacket quotes notwithstanding). You'd better like bell pepper -- more than half of the 60 recipes include it. I've seen church-bazaar cookbooks that have more variety and have more careful editing. ("Flip the roast over, it should be turning brown." is an example of the compelling prose and comma-splice writing style; and I'm sorry -- three hours fiddling over a roast is not "fast home cooking for busy people".) Find another book to go with your rice cooker -- this one isn't it.