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	• The Six O'Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families Aviva Goldfarb St. Martin's Griffin, 2006 - 336 pages average customer review:based on 42 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Quick & easy, not always delicious

This cookbook is great if you're looking for fast meals you can whip together without a lot of fuss. There are probably 200+ recipes in this book so in there you'll find at least a few things you like! Having found just one or two meals we'll add to our list of favorites makes it worth buying.

Having said that though, I didn't find the meals terribly interesting or incredibly tasty. Some don't even appear all that healthy, but I suppose 'healthy' can mean different things to different people. Some recipes were pretty good, like Goddess Chicken - but how can it be bad with a bottle of delicious dressing dumped in with artichokes and sun-dried tomatoes! Other things seemed more like cookbook space fillers, such as 'taco night' (brown ground meat, serve with standard fixins'). There were a few recipes we tried that made me say, 'where's the flavor?' (like pasta with beans). And looking at the ingredients, it just wasn't in there, nothing magical happened upon cooking.

I didn't find the weekly menus all that helpful since I wasn't interested in a good number of the recipes, but overall it was worth the purchase. It's a little hard to navigate sometimes, as it's arranged by season and not by type of protein/pasta/cuisine, so I spend a little time just flipping through pages each week and picking out recipes to try that week. It won't replace my other favorite cookbooks (like my favorite from Cooking Light), but it's nice to have on hand for some quick & easy dinners.

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Perfect everyday cookbook

My cooking life would come to a screeching halt without this book. This is the cookbook I turn to when I've been working all day, look at the clock and think, "Oh no, what can I make for dinner within an hour that everyone will like?"

This book goes beyond the simple kid-friendly recipes, and provides a happy medium ground between food that kids will definitely eat and food that adults want to eat. It introduces kids to new spices and condiments (curry, peppers, dijon mustard, etc.) in ways that appeal to them and ease them along the path toward eating more sophisticated food. My kids are 5 and 2 - notoriously known as the "picky eater" phase. Both of them have liked many of the recipes I've made from this cookbook. Some they haven't liked, so I just make a notation and move on. There's so much here, it's virtually impossible not to find many that will appeal to any family.

Beyond the fact that the recipes are just plain good and crowd pleasing, most of them can be made with ingredients that you are most likely to already have in your pantry/fridge/freezer. At the beginning of the cookbook, Goldfarb provides a checklist of basics so you can stock up on anything you might be missing. This book has saved our family lots of dollars in takeout food. Highly recommended.

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Very Flexible Cookbook

I checked this book out at the library, but had to have one of my own. I like it because, as it says, the meals can be put together very quickly and usually don't require any unusual ingredients. It is so flexible. We eat a lot of meatless dishes, and this cookbook has many of those dishes, or offers a meat-free alternative, such as soy products. The recipes all look delicous, healthy and no-fuss. The recipes I have tried, (Cheese Quesadillas with Lime Pesto, Salmon Burgers) were delicous and went over well with the family. The book is divided into Seasons, and at the end there are several short sections at the end of the book - Simple Side Dishes, Beyond Cheerios - ideas for feeding babies and toddlers, and School and Daycare snacks and lunches. One of my favorite features is that the nutritional information is included for all the recipes in the main sections. My list of recipes I'd like to try is very, very long. I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves good, healthy food but doesn't have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen.

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Great Addition For Everyone's Cookbook Library

My daughter in law had this cookbook. I looked through it and fell in love with it. I purchased one for myself and use it at least 3 times a week. Recipes are easy to follow and contain "normal" ingredients. So far, my husband has liked every one I have tried! I would recommend this to all women who need some new ideas for meals.

Is it possible to fall in love with a cookbook?

I absolutely love this cookbook! I love having everything planned out and the recipes are so accessible. I've tried a lot of other cookbooks that promise to only take 30 minutes, but this is the first cookbook I've tried that actually delivers on that promise. I love that I can print out the shopping list for the week, find all the ingredients at my local grocery store, and when it comes time to cook I'm actually interesting in eating the dish. There's a great variety and every recipe tastes great. My son actually told me the other day that he misses tacos and spaghetti; we just haven't needed to make the old stand by's.

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The Six O'Clock Scramble cookbook is a companion to Aviva's wonderful email-based newsletter service that provides busy moms with easy and nutritious meals for their families.

The Scramble is a weekly e-mail newsletter that features:
Five flavorful and healthy, tried-and-true dinner recipes with side dish suggestions, emailed to you each week.

Easy-to-prepare dinners in 30 minutes (or less), most with fewer than 10 ingredients.

Delicious, easy recipes like Asian Turkey Burgers, Tortellini Tossed with Fresh Mozzarella, honey glazed salmon and red beans and rice burritos.

Includes an organized grocery list so you can print and shop.

Perfect for working or full-time parents, or anyone who wants to make easy, delicious home-cooked meals.

From O, The Oprah magazine:

Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - incredibly obvious, yet nobody had thought of it - that immediately make the pieces of your brain fit together with a neat click. A wife, mother, self-published cookbook author, and organizational ace, Goldfarb realized that for most people 6 P.M. was too late to start wondering what to cook for dinner. So she started the Six O?Clock Scramble (thescramble.com), a weekly e-mail newsletter with five days? worth of dinner recipes, plus grocery lists. The meals (grilled teriyaki chicken tenderloins one night, baked huevos rancheros another) take about a half hour to prepare and are creative, healthy, unprocessed and kid-friendly without being adult-alienating. A subscription costs $5 a month - a small price to pay for a whole new kind of happy meal. Goldfarb herself is happy, having graduated from the self-publishing business: Next fall St. Martin?s Press will release The Six O?Clock Scramble Cookbook.

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