Grab a Bag Cookbook [Hardcover]

Frances Barrineau (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 4, 2000

Recipes that begin in a bag with the dry ingredients and are completed later with the liquid ingredients when ready to be prepared. Recipes for quick meals, snacks and beverages. Grab a bag from the pantry shelf and complete in a jiffy. Assemble the dry ingredients, seal in a plastic bag and complete later with the liquid ingredients. You have a bag control: no sugar, sugar, sugar substitute, caffeine, no caffeine, salt, less salt, no salt, salt substitute, eliminate a spice,.add a spice substitute, a spice or herb, and you know what is in the bag. Great for gifts, guests and gatherings

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About the Author

Frances Barrineau is a native South Carolinian. She was educated in South Carolina but moved away after marriage. Her husband s career took her away from her hometown of Lancaster and she did not return to live until his retirement. They have returned to their hometown and built a home there. The cookbook was started , put on the shelf, and started again many times. With encouragement from her family and friends the book was completed. She never attended any formal cooking schools but was fortunate to have a mother and grandmother who taught her all the basics. I never wanted to be gourmet cook, she says, but I did want good food that could be prepared with the little effort without buying prepackaged or frozen food. I like to know what is in the food I am eating and serving to my family and friends or giving as gifts. The idea of the bags resulted from being away from her kitchen, trying to prepare a recipe and not having the necessary ingredients, especially the spices and herbs. These items can be expensive to buy for just one teaspoonful or one tablespoonful when you already have them in your kitchen. It is so much easier and less expensive just to prepare them at home and put in a plastic bag. It not only saves money but also time. She loves to create and find better ways of doing things. She believes in recycling and also likes the challenge of making something from nothing or using an item in a different way. She lives with her husband and three cats, none that was chosen except for the husband. Cats have a way of finding her house. She has three daughters and five grandchildren.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 203 pages
• Publisher: Father and Son Publishing (June 4, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0942407512
• ISBN-13: 978-0942407518
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,592,373 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars nothing like what I was looking for, April 7, 2011

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Lisa Roloff (Ottawa, Illinois United States) - See all my reviews

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Perhaps I and my cooking skills are a bit beyond this book and it's my fault I didn't like it, but for me there wasn't enough "mix" and too many fresh ingredients.I don't want to have to add more than a couple of fresh ingredients when using a mix or it's not convenient. If I have to fuss this much with things, what the heck I will make it from scratch anyway. This is not the book for you if you are looking for mixes as gifts, for camping, or for your emergency supply pantry. there are just too many "extras" needed to complete each recipe.

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing in the extreme, March 6, 2009

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D. Vozniak (Detroit, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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I purchased this book because I live alone and work full time. I like cooking with whole foods as much as possible, and I hoped that this book would give me ideas on ways to speed up the cooking process - recipies for meals that I could make up the dry ingredients for and be able to quickly cook with few additions.

Unfortunately, this is not the book for that. First of all, it is very much geared toward how to make gifts, not day to day meals. Secondly, when the recipie is for salt, pepper and dried chives and the rest of the nine or ten ingredients are added when the dish is cooked, there is no reason to make up the "bag".

I found nothing useful in this book and I am very disappointed.

6 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Grab A bag Cookbook, August 19, 2000

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Grab a Bag Cookbook (Hardcover)

My wife has a very busy schedule raising three children and working, This book has significantly improved the quality of meals in our house while reducing the time spent in the kitchen. The other benefit of this book is it has eased the turmoil of preparing the weeks grocery list and saved us money and time. For anyone with a hectic lifestlye who likes to eat (not at resturants all of the time) this book is for you. I'm not 12 I'm realy 39 but the computer is smater than me.