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The Co-Op Cookbook: Delicious and Healthy Meals in Less Than Half an Hour

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In The Co-Op Cookbook, Rosemary Fifield (Education Director at the Co-op Food Stores in Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire) provides the health and budget conscious kitchen cook a compendium of tips for planning ahead, hints on using a kitchen more efficiently, directions for preparing and using fresh ingredients, ideas for substituting ingredients (including seasonal produce and grains), and an informative introduction to the principles of cooperative ownership. From Grampa's Saturday Night Kale, Asian Spicy Rice, and Sicilian Spirals, to Apple Harvest Chicken, Tarragon Surimi, and Cold Turkey Salad, Highly recommended for any family kitchen cookbook collection, The Co-Op Cookbook showcases recipes taken from traditional cuisines featuring Italian, Asian, and Mexican influences, adapted to please even the most discriminating palate. Virtually all of these mouth-watering main-dish recipes can be prepared in 30 minutes or less!

As you know, cookbooks abound and most serious cooks have a plethora of good cookbooks in their kitchen library. Though this small paperback (100 recipes) has some interesting aspects about it, overall it doesn't stack-up well.

After trying various recipes, such as Chicken Pozole and Chicken Palermo, my guest and I came away unimpressed. The dishes were generous but the flavor in most recipes was just fair to good. There are no photos or drawings and the first 25 pages of the book deal with the 150 years of the Hanover Co-Op. The strength of "Co-Op Cookbook" is in the cooking time (30 minutes or less), the easy to follow instructions and most of the recipes ingredients are those that you would normally have.. This cookbook doesn't have the verve of the great cookbooks available today. Conditionally Recommended.

Great ideas for a quick meal for my family of 2 adults and 5 kids! Easy to execute, original ideas. Great flavors and new ideas.