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Dream Dinners: Turn Dinnertime into Family Time with 100 Assemble-and-Freeze Meals [Paperback]

Stephanie Allen (Author), Tina Kuna (Author)
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Book Description

August 29, 2006

"What's for dinner?"

If the sound of those three words sends you reeling or, worse, straight to the nearest fast-food chain or take-out joint, then relax. Dream Dinners will change all that forever.

With their new cookbook, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna, founders of Dream Dinners, bring the successful philosophy behind their hundreds of assemble-and-freeze-meal stores across America into home kitchens. Dream Dinners offers up one hundred recipes for flavorful meals made with easy-to-find ingredients.

The premise is simple: Scoop or pour ingredients into baking pans or plastic bags, then store the uncooked dishes in the freezer. Later in the week or month, when dinnertime rolls around, just pop one of the frozen meals into the oven. Each recipe is provided two ways: One, prepare just one meal for the night, or two, prepare enough for three meals and freeze the other two. Dinner after sports practice, music lessons, and play rehearsals has never been easier!

In addition to recipes for hearty, family-pleasing classics such as Baked Pesto Ravioli with Chicken, Beef and Zucchini Casserole, and Cider-Braised Pork Loin Chops, Stephanie and Tina give a wealth of time-saving shopping tips and cooking pointers. More than for convenience, eating dinner together provides benefits for the whole family. Study after study shows that mealtime matters. Families who dine together form stronger bonds, and kids get better grades and develop lifelong healthful eating habits. Dream Dinners makes it easy for families to gather around the dinner table and share the ups and downs of the day.

With Dream Dinners, you will spend less time stressing in the kitchen and more time connecting with family and friends.


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From the Back Cover

In Dream Dinners, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna offer 100 recipes for nutritious, family-sized, assemble-and-freeze dinners based on their successful franchise business. Now, with their first cookbook, they bring the Dream Dinners concept into your home. Prepare just one meal, or make enough for three and freeze the extra two for later. Dinner after sports practice has never been so easy!

About the Author

Two busy working mothers trying to balance professional and home lives, Stephanie Allen and Tina Kuna founded Dream Dinners in 2002. Today there are hundreds of Dream Dinners stores across the nation. Stephanie and Tina have revolutionized dinnertime in America, providing an inexpensive alternative to takeout and bringing families together around the table. Dream Dinners has been featured in the New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Time, among others. Stephanie and Tina live in Snohomish, Washington.


Product Details

  • Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  • Paperback: 320 pages
  • Publisher: William Morrow Cookbooks; First Edition edition (August 29, 2006)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0060784229
  • ISBN-13: 978-0060784225
  • Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (49 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #381,144 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1.0 out of 5 stars I just wasted a lot of money..., August 17, 2007
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I am pretty upset. I just ordered a brand new cookbook, followed the recipe for a triple batch of the artichoke chicken casserole (which was about $50 worth of supplies. I knew better...I knew there was no way that 1 1/2 cups of uncooked rice would be able to reconstitute with the amount of liquid in the sauce. But, I trusted the book. What a disaster. I am about to call Papa John's. Here is the corrected cookbook (sorry, I didn't think to check for corrections since I just bought the book).

Woops, there are 45 PAGES OF CORRECTIONS!!!! Seriously? How did this book make it through to publishing? Whoever edited it should be fired. If you go to the dream dinners website there is a link with all of the corrections.

Here are the recipes that have erros:

DREAM DINNERS BOOK
RECIPE REVISIONS/CLARIFICATIONS
Baked Stuffed French Toast
Beef Stir-Fry
Chicken and Artichoke Casserole
Cinnamon Apple Cake
Grammy's Chocolate Chip Cookies
Kielbasa Bean Soup
New England Pot Roast
Penne with Rosemary Chicken
Three Cheese Spinach Soup
Grandma Rue's Peanut Butter Fingers
Cider-Braised Pork Chops
Pork Medallions with Pears
Fettuccine with Chicken and Asparagus
Tried and True Lasagna
Breakfast Eggs w/ Potato Crust
Beef and Corn Enchiladas
Baked Spaghetti
Karlene's Cottage Cheese Pancakes
Cheesy Chicken and Rice Casserole
Margarita Slush
Raspberry Margarita Slush
Baked Shoestring Potatoes
Baked Pasta and Lemon Chicken
Baked Pesto Ravioli with Chicken
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170 of 174 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Where's The Pictures and Sticky Labels? Do not give as a gift., September 19, 2006
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I've been to the Dream Dinners franchise several times now and like about 80% of the meals I bring home. I was hoping the book would provide many of the recipes that I had prepared at Dream Dinners but it doesn't. I can understand they don't want to compete with their franchise stores.
Many of the reheating directions are vague and several of the recipes you don't know whether to freeze the meat in the sauce or freeze them separate. Not one picture, doesn't Morrow Cookbooks have a food photographer? And the labels in the back of the book (for labelling your food) why didn't they make those sticky labels? The book started out at $19.95 less than a month ago, it's already down to $13 on Amazon and even cheaper through other sellers so that should tell you something. Would recommend Super Suppers Cookbook or Don't Panic - Dinner's in the Freezer: Great-Tasting Meals You Can Make Ahead for the same concept but better recipes.

Make sure you visit the dream dinners website. There are over 45 pages of corrections for this cookbook! what? You're telling me that between the authors, editors and whoever else had a hand in this cookbook that there were 45 pages of mistakes? Ridiculous. See the comments, I added where you'd have to go to the website to find them. Thus do not give this cookbook as a gift unless you want to print 45 additional pages and add to the gift bag!

I would also recommend Cook Once, Eat Twice Slow Cooker Recipes (Bertter Homes and Gardens), it's more a slow cooker cookbook where you make two nights worth of meals in the crockpot and then turn the second night's dinner into something different. It's really a good cookbook. Anything is better than this one.
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70 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars So-So...I would recommend another book over this one, September 5, 2006
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I am an avid freezer cooker and have a few cookbooks I like to reference. I have never been to a Dream Dinners business (or any of the others like them) but I thought what the heck, I'll get the book. There are some decent recipes in it but for the most part, a lot of the recipes aren't exactly what I would deam "family friendly" for those of you with small children under 10. My kids eat a lot of different foods but the recipes I did try out of the book did not appeal to them. I found "Don't Panic: Dinner's in the Freezer" by Suzie Martinez to be a much better cookbook for my needs. I use the Make a Mix and More Make a Mix cookbooks alongside the freezer cookbooks to make cooking dinner much easier. I do like that Dream Dinners seems to try to make an effort to have healthier freezer dinners by incorporating egg substitute and fat free products instead of real eggs and full fat items. I was already doing that but it's nice to see it implemented in the book itself to try to make people aware that you can cut the fat without losing taste.
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