30 Minute Meals Recipes includes Easy Dinner Recipes, Healthy Dinner Ideas and Simple Recipes that can be made in 30 Minutes or Less for Busy Moms, Dads & Other Professionals! [Kindle Edition]

C Elias (Author)

Book Description

UPDATED VERSION JUNE 2012 (customer reviews noted)
NB Kindle book now with clickable Table of Contents

This is researched collection of international, traditional and currently popular recipes that have been modified and put together into an easy book to read - to provide quick and easy dinner recipes and lunch recipes that you can use and repeat all year round.

Just some of the reviews below... "a well-done collection of simple, useful recipes..."

"...a nice-sized collection of recipes for anyone no matter what your tastes might be..."

"There is as much accent on healthy diet as on fast cooking. "

"...I love this book, the ingredients used in the recipes are not hard to find..."

This is a well researched collection of recipes for a 30 minute dinners and meals - over 2 months supply of vegetarian, gluten-free, meat and fish recipes, soups and pasta dishes, and you will have plenty of choice for meals and dinner ideas - to mix, match and add to and you will soon be cooking up quick, family favorites every week!

Some of the recipes you will find inside:
Lentil Kidney Bean Soup
Garbazano and Tomato Soup with Shells
Red Pepper Soup
Speedy Noodle and Beef Entree
Minced Beef, Onions and Peas
Curried Coconut Chicken Over Rice (GF)
Mushroom Chicken on a Bed of Wild Rice
Cheesy Mushroom Chicken Fettuccine

Product Details

• File Size: 188 KB
• Print Length: 98 pages
• Language: English
• ASIN: B005DR1Z04
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray: Enabled
• Lending: Not Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #346,560 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 43 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I WAS SNOOKERED!! May 1, 2012

By N. Blackburn

Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase

This book is plagiarism at its' finest!!

I had originally given this cookbook 5 stars. However, I went in to grab a recipe for a fish dish and was totally surprised to see a recipe for a dish I had pulled off Allrecipes a while ago and have made to the point that I have it memorized. So, rose petals off my eyes, I went in and started to research the authors other "recipes" and found EVERY ONE that I had searched is on Allrecipes. Now..I wanted to give this author every chance in the world..maybe she had posted the recipes to Allrecipes, but NOPE they were posted by other people!! Can you say FRAUD??? She has the cajones to be charging people almost $7 for stolen recipes!

Here are just SOME examples of the author's recipes (some with a bit of moderations made, but not enough to call them her own!) and the all recipes link:

Cowboy Hash: [...]

Spinach Green Enchilada Sauce:[...]
Grilled Rock Lobster Tails: [...]

Baked Milk Fish: [...]

Blackberry and Balsamic Chicken Dish: [...]
The list goes on and on!!!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Simpler, Tastier, Healthier. August 3, 2011

By Chinmay Hota

Format:Kindle Edition

The book is built on a simple premise: to guide you to put together healthy, tasty but simple meals in the limited time that modern life affords you: about 30 minutes to be precise. `Busy moms, dads and other professionals' may take heart, they may not be indulgent in the art of cooking, but they would not be guilty either, for neglecting this important chore, or feeding decadent food to their loved ones. There is as much accent on healthy diet as on fast cooking.

The author lays a great emphasis on Gluten Free ingredients. Gluten in food, we are told, hinders absorption of vitamins, so essential for good health. Thus wheat is a strict no no, for gluten watchers. But other whole grains are great health boosters, which should form part of any healthy meal.

The author also guides you about which oils to prefer, which seasonings to pick and even on cooking ware. When it comes to the recipes you really enjoy the choices laid out before you. Foods for all occasions and tastes: you name it and the book has it. There are chicken, beef, pork, fish, ham bacon recipes of all styles, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Italian, and American. Then there is a great range of choices on vegetarian, vegan and vegetable dishes.

The sections on Soups and Extras were my special favorites. There are eleven types of soups from bean through rice to noodle soups. The Extras, comprising mostly of salads will delight you for their simplicity and food value.

'30 Minute Meals Recipes' has definitely made my cooking simpler, tastier and healthier.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A Very Thorough Book of SIMPLE Recipes! July 29, 2011

By R. Elba

Format:Paperback

It is so nice to run across a book such as this. A lot of "easy" and "quick" recipe books are little more than pamphlets. 30 Minutes Meals is a nice-sized collection of recipes for anyone no matter what your tastes might be. Each recipe is intended to help you create simple but overall healthy meal for you and/or your family.

I appreciated how the author, C. Elias, began with several pages discussing the overall methodology, an overview of how we can make healthier choices, and discussed cooking nonstick pans and more. Especially important today is the concept of gluten-free when needed for those with allergies and this book addresses that issue well by including several gluten-free recipes.

Then the fun begins! The first section includes a multitude of Vegetarian dishes all of which take a half-hour or less to make! And we find that these kinds of dishes do not have to be a main course for those of us who are not vegetarians. We often cook dishes like these, such as the Rice Stuffed Mushrooms (which are gluten-free here by the way!) as a side dish to our meat item. Doing more than just spooning a veggie onto the plate next to the meat is a nice bonus to meals and these are all SO fast to prepare in this book that you'll have time to go the extra step if you want to spruce up your family's plates.

The chicken, fish, and soup sections just go on and on with recipes that are quick to make and easy. Let me say that the author obvious has a lot of fun in the kitchen because all of these recipes, and the front and back sections, are each written with a friendly, upbeat tone that makes you want to try each one. This is a book I HIGHLY RECOMMEND for any busy cook who wants to maximize your time in the kitchen!

More About the Author

Cressida Elias BA Hons, is a children's author and author of recipe collections.

She has written books and articles on healthy eating, health & fitness, and collected and researched recipes for her healthier recipe books. She has worked in Public Relations for a UK Health and Wellness Centre, been editor for a Health Magazine, is a Researcher, Writer and Expert author in Health and Fitness at Ezinearticles and for a diet and fitness website Effective-Diets.com.

She has travelled the world, and is passionate about learning and researching healthy food, eating, cooking recipes, natural remedies and organic products and presenting these in an easy to read format to encourage healthy living for everyone.

Cressida also writes children's books and has written poetry, a short film script and film reviews for a Soho magazine.

Cressida is happily married to Joe, has 2 young sons, Luc and Max, a baby daughter, Bonnie and a step-son, Jacob.