Customer Reviews

The Cook-Ahead Cookbook (Nitty Gritty Cookbooks)

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This cookbook is great. It can make any idiot a cook ahead gourmet...and I am indeed a kitchen idiot. The instructions are very clear from how to prepare a dish, to how to freeze it (and the types of containers), to how to best prepare it once it comes out of the freezer. GREAT cookbook. Get them while they last, you won't regret it!

This is not an idiot's guide to freezer meals as the other reviewer reports. There is only a short paragraph about do's and dont's for freezer e.g. buttermilk and yogurt and breading do not freeze well, This is a book with recipes for chicken beef and pork that you are supposed to thoroughly cook, then store in freezer containers, then microwave or reheat on the stovetop. I am not kidding. This book does not deliver on its premise at all.

Most of the chicken recipes require searing the chicken before finishing the meat by stewing or baking.

This book did move me in an irritation to look at my regular cookbooks for meals that would freeze well. So far, I have found that Fuschia Dunlop's Hunan pork stir fry dishes can be frozen and steamed. Also, I have baked Italian hot sausages and then packed them in containers with raw green peppers and onions to be reheated in the oven whenever I need a savory dish.