Rachael Ray 365: No Repeats--A Year of Deliciously Different Dinners (A 30-Minute Meal Cookbook)
by Rachael Ray
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Author: Rachael RayEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-11-01
ISBN: 1400082544
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Clarkson Potter
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Book Review: Brilliant Variations to Allow You to Reuse Ingredients
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been reading my way through Rachael Ray's cookbooks as fast as I can. I originally started with her books because I was fascinated by the idea of 30-minute meals. After sampled some of her dishes, I found that she's brilliant at putting in lots of flavor and variety into quick meals . . . the kind you associate with six hours in the kitchen and expensive restaurants where you might go for a major wedding anniversary.
The only drawback I've found so far is that her better cookbooks use many ingredients that I don't usually have on hand. That means that a major shopping expedition needs to precede having lots of 30-minute meals.
That's okay, but my frugal side worries about buying a lot of things that I'll use once a month and will sit in the cupboard the rest of the time.
Rachel Ray 365 (actually it's 366 recipes because she wants to account for leap year): No Repeats deals with that concern of mine in a most delicious way. Ms. Ray takes a number of her better dishes and shows you have to make variations that use mostly the same ingredients . . . but which no one will think of as being the same dish. I liked that approach for another reason. It doesn't take much turkey and chicken for me to be tired of dishes that feature them. With this book, I can usually substitute beef, pork, or fish. As a result, I thought this book presented me with a great expansion in choice of tastes, flavors, and eating experiences.
I like spicy foods, especially Mexican, Spanish, Thai, and Indian dishes. 365 is full of wonderful choices if that's what you like.
But if you have young children who like things a little blander and more traditional, you'll find at least 200 dishes that will thrill any such family.
Although her book doesn't have many photographs in it, you'll quickly sense that she has a strong visual sense that will reward you with different appearances and eating experiences. Let's look at that elegant food, swordfish: She's as likely to have you roll it up as finger food as she is to serve the fish, for instance, as a traditional filet on a lovely dinner plate.
Look at the choices you have just for swordfish (which most people just broil with a little seasoning):
Balsamic-glazed with capers and grape tomato-arugula rice
Grilled in a salad
As burgers with lemon, garlic, and parsley
In Sicilian-style roll-ups with fennel and radicchio salad
Cutlets with tomato and basil salad
Steaks with raw puttanesca sauce and roasted capers
That's way beyond the variety I've experienced with swordfish in 60 years.
Imagine what she can do with pasta!
Although you can read front to back (or back to front) which I did originally, the index is well designed to help you pick up ingredients, flavors, and styles that appeal to you. If planning a week's menus, I suggest you start with the index. In addition, the recipes are grouped by themes in the front matter starting on page xii (perfect pasta, on the light side, super fast suppers, make your own take out, big bowls, romantic dinners, burgers, good for a crowd, to serve 1 or 2, fancy fare, pick of the chix), vegetarian foods, and comfort foods.
As always, the best part is the way that Ms. Ray can come up with a variation that will strike your fancy. Here are a few of the more than one hundred that I marked for future consumption:
Texas T-bones
Oregon-style pork chops
Citrus-marinated chicken and orange salad
Salsa stoup and quesadillas
Mostly green curry chicken over coconut jasmine rice
Halibut soup
Balsamic-glazed swordfish with capers and grape tomato-arugula rice
Whole fish with ginger and scallions
Uptown down-home chili
Cod croquettes and red bell pepper gravy
Crab salad lettuce wraps
Cuban sloppy joes with smashed yucca, tomatoes, plantain chips, and mojo sauce
Flounder francese
Chicken tortilla soup with lime
Ham and cheese stuffed pork chops
Indian spiced vegetables
Fa-schizzel my schnitzel
Lettuce tacos
Spanish fish and chorizo stoup
Shrimp martinis and Manhattan steaks
Sweet pea soup with parmigiano toast
Ham and Swiss crepes with chopped salad
Veal scallopine with Dijon sauce, asparagus, and avocados
Spanish-style pork chops with chorizo
Lemon and artichoke risotto with shrimp
Don't miss this book. It'll brighten up your life!
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