Quick & Easy Cooking For Busy Cooks

15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes: Instant Recipes for Dinners, Desserts, and More by Dana Carpender — Recent studies prove that low-carbohydrate dieting works to take weight off and improve cholesterol. As more and more people switch to the Atkins diet or variations of it, they will need recipes! 15 Minute Low-Carb Recipes offers over 200 recipes that can be made in 15 minutes or less. This book offers all-new quick and easy recipes that will be a godsend to low-carbers everywhere.

The Can Opener Gourmet : More Than 200 Quick and Delicious Recipes Using Ingredients Already in Your Pantry by Laura Karr — In the tradition of the bestselling Cake Mix Doctor, Laura Karr turns your routine dinners into delicious, nutritious, and easy-to-prepare gourmet meals. How many times have we thought to ourselves, "I'd love to cook a great meal, but who has the time?" Laura Karr understands this universal dilemma and has discovered a great way to cook up our favorite dishes in half the time, and often for half the price, using the convenience of foods from cans and jars. Reminding us that canned food is nutritious, preservative-free, and available year round, Karr shares over 175 of her coveted family recipes, including Curried Chicken and Artichoke Salad, Fettuccine with Pumpkin Cream Sauce, and Turkey Tetrazzini — all delicious and all prepared quickly, with the flip of a lid!

Frantic Family Cookbook: Mostly Healthy Meals in Minutes by Leanne Ely — Move over June & Ward Cleaver — The Frantic Family is here! Ward and June Cleaver don’t live here anymore. They’re icons of a bygone era—an era where housewives wore girdles and pearls to vacuum the living room. Where dinner took two hours to make and the kids walked home from school to freshly baked cookies and a glass of milk. Fifty years later, Mom most likely has a demanding job as well as a whole slew of responsibilities—like carpool, schlepping kids to lessons and practices as well as feeding that same hungry family every night. She’s most likely the one who does everything from grocery shopping to taking the dog to the vet. She’s Mom, capital M. The Frantic Family Cookbook is designed with this family in mind. The author comes from the same reality and recognizes what it is to be a harried family still wanting to serve a healthy meal come dinnertime. The Frantic Family Cookbook is fun, humorous and sprinkled with tips and kitchen insight. All the recipes in Frantic Family are tasty, quick and (mostly) healthy, with the added benefit of being cost-conscious.

Quick & Easy Cookbook: More Than 200 Healthful Recipes You Can Make in Minutes by American Heart Association — In our hectic era, who has time to spend hours in the kitchen creating tasty, healthful meals? Yet when we try to eat fast, we almost always resort to eating fat (think: fast food). This indispensable cookbook from one of the most trusted names in the health field breaks the fast-fat connection. Nearly every one of its mouthwatering, low-fat, low-cholesterol recipes can be prepared in under 30 minutes. Here is the opportunity for millions of Americans to start living the more healthful lifestyle they know they should.

American Heart Association One-Dish Meals: Over 200 All-New, All-in-One Recipes by American Heart Association — Juggling work, school, family, and home seems to be the norm in today’s hurried world. Many of us often grab a quick bite and keep on moving, sidelining healthful eating habits and nutrition. How wonderful it would be to wind down after a long, hard day with a wholesome, home-cooked meal. Now, the American Heart Association, America’s most trusted authority on heart-healthy living and diet, presents a brand-new cookbook that can help. One-Dish Meals is designed for the millions of health-conscious Americans who are always on the go.

Family Fun Fast Family Dinners: 100 Wholesome Kid-Friendly Recipes Your Family Will Love by Deanna F. Cook — In a hurry to get dinner on the table? Before your kids start raiding the snack cupboard, take a look at this collection of super fast recipes from Family Fun magazine. Here you'll find dozens of delicious dishes that will appeal to kids-and their parents. The recipes, from Apricot Chicken Drumsticks to Fish Fingers to Baked Ziti, take anywhere from only five minutes to an hour to prepare, so parents can choose just the right meal to fit their busy schedule.

New Food Fast by Donna Hay — This book delivers what it promises — New Food Fast. Whether you've got 10, 20 or 30 minutes to make a meal, Donna Hay gives you the ideas, recipes and inspiration to create great dishes using fresh and interesting ingredients in next to no time. With busy people like herself in mind, Donna has solved the daily what's-for-dinner dilemma with a book full of fast, simple, tempting and satisfying answers. Keep this copy of New Food Fast on the kitchen bench and, even in your busiest moments, you'll never be left wondering what's for dinner.

Frozen Assets Lite and Easy: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month by Deborah Taylor-Hough — The best-selling author of Frozen Assets: how to cook for a day and eat for a month is back with a book designed specifically for anyone looking for low-fat meals plans (including vegetarian options). It utilizes an even simpler design for once a month cooking through weekly "mini sessions". This great technique allows you to customize your menu quickly and easily and cook in advance for a week, two weeks, three weeks or more! Deborah Taylor-Hough who is the quintessential "once-a-month cooking" expert, once again shows how to increase time at the family table, while decreasing time in the kitchen. Imaging being able to pull homemade Turkey Tortilla Casserole, Marinated Lime Chicken, Linguini with Vegetables, or Broccoli Tofu Quiche out of the freezer and into your over. Beside the culinary magic Taylor-Hough pulls off, she also saved $24,000 in five years with this method and shares her secrets here!

Frozen Assets: How to Cook for a Day and Eat for a Month by Deborah Taylor-Hough — This book offers relief to those tired of eating restaurant fare or expensive, overpackaged convenience foods at the end of a hard day. Bulk cooking, the practice of preparing numerous meals and freezing for later consumption, was a survival strategy the author employed after the birth of her first child. After a decade of experimentation, she shares her menu ideas, recipes, and tips for shopping and preparing these thrifty, frozen treasures that can simplify the daily meal rush.

It is a very good cookbook and I have yet to find a recipe that didn't turn out as it was supposed to.—Norm Peterson, Arizona
My hubby keeps looking in the cookbook, and asks "when will you cook this recipe?"—Lori Hamby, Florida