Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day (Paperback)
June 24, 2009 by TheChef
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Product Description
Since the first edition of Once-a-Month Cooking was published in 1986, its proven, practical method has helped hundreds of thousands of families reduce their cooking time and still enjoy nightly home-cooked meals. You don’t have to be a super savvy chef to pull your family together each week for these light and simple, easy-to-prepare meals. Revised to reflect today’s healthier diet, this revised edition explains how to: plan ahead, spend less time at the supermarket, cut down on prep time, group similar kitchen tasks together to get them all done at once, make kitchen clean-up more manageable, and use the freezer, computer, and your head to create a month full of delicious meals!
Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as:
–Baked JambalayaMexican–Chicken Lasagna–Chicken Taco Salad–Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork–Veal Scaloppini–And more!
Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!
Contains many easy, prepare-ahead recipes for dinner time success such as:
–Baked JambalayaMexican–Chicken Lasagna–Chicken Taco Salad–Slow Cooker Cranberry Pork–Veal Scaloppini–And more!
Whether you are a busy parent on the go or you just want a quick dinner to warm your spirit, you’ll be instantly hooked on this cookbook classic and its fool-proof Once-a-Month Cooking method!
About the Author
Mimi Wilson is author of Holy Habits: a Woman’s Guide to Intentional Living, and an internationally-known speaker who has lived in Congo, Ecuador, and Jordan. She and her husband Calvin, a physician, currently live in Denver, Colorado.
Mary Beth Lagerborg is Director of Media at MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers). She is a speaker, the author of Dwelling: Living Fully from the Space You Call Home, and editor with Karen J. Parks of Beyond Macaroni and Cheese. She and her husband Alex live in Littleton, Colorado.
Mary Beth Lagerborg is Director of Media at MOPS International (Mothers of Preschoolers). She is a speaker, the author of Dwelling: Living Fully from the Space You Call Home, and editor with Karen J. Parks of Beyond Macaroni and Cheese. She and her husband Alex live in Littleton, Colorado.
I made my first set of meals a couple weeks ago, and I’ve really enjoyed the benefits of this cooking method. However, I had a lot of trouble with the cookbook. Like a previous poster, there were so many errors in this cookbook. One of the recipes was missing an entire part of the recipe’s directions, and I had to improvise. Also, I realized quite quickly that I needed to actually sit down and read every single recipe to make sure that all the ingredients and prep work processes had been recorded properly, because there were many errors there too. Most of the recipes have turned out great, but this book would be so much better if someone had just taken the time to really proof read everything. I plan to make another set of meals in two weeks from now, and I’m definitely going to use the recipes, but make the shopping lists myself, and read all the recipes to carefully record all the prep work involved, plus make sure I’m not going to be stuck with a half-missing recipe!!!
This is such a great book. The author does ALL the organizing for you, so all you have to do is get plenty of rest the night before the big cooking day! It all pays off in huge time dividends throughout the ensuing month, when dinner is a matter of several choices that are ALREADY MADE! I loved it!! This book would’ve gotten a 5-star rating if it had a spiral binding like the older version. It was MUCH easier to keep open throughout the day of cooking. Still, I have given this book as a gift and the recipient loved it too.
If you own the first OAMC from 1999 I wouldn’t spend the money to get the revised and expanded edition that just came out. What is considered expanded I guess is the chapter on accompaniments. But I’m sure you already have several cookbooks that include side dishes already. One of the side dish “recipes” is crudites which calls for snap peas, jicama sticks, carrot, celery sticks and red pepper strips. Not sure you need another cookbook for such a “recipe”.
It also is the exact same verbiage from the 1999 cookbook and 90% of the recipes are the same. The ones eliminated were the ones you could guess wouldn’t freeze well; namely the milk based dishes. They have been replaced by other meals in the new cookbook. So if you have the previous version just skip the milk based freezer meals.
Still a good cookbook and Mimi and Mary Beth are the leaders in once a month cooking.
5.0 out of 5 stars
More please than expected
I did a 2 week cooking session and was not sure if we would enjoy all the meals. We are ale to stretch this into 4 weeks with other quick and easy family favorite meals (tacos,…
4.0 out of 5 stars
Loved it
I love the book it has wonderful recipes and the grocery list is very helpful. I am still on the two week menues but hope to start doing the once a month recipes soon.
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Great Sensible Meals!
LOVED this cookbook….my husband is a meat and potatoes kind of guy and this cookbook had “realistic” recipes that had simple ingredients.
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Fill your freezer!
After looking through this book and realizing that it has everything laid out for you (a list of meals for two weeks or one month, the actual grocery list of things you’ll need…
5.0 out of 5 stars
Terrific Recipes
I checked this book out at the library and I loved the recipes so much I came on here to buy it. We loved all the recipes, they were easy to make and everything turned out…
3.0 out of 5 stars
onec-a-month-cooking
Good reference book but too much work at one time, use the recipes though and space it out for two or three days.
3.0 out of 5 stars
good for organizing, but not as advertized
Once-a-Month Cooking, Revised and Expanded: A Proven System for Spending Less Time in the Kitchen and Enjoying Delicious, Homemade Meals Every Day
For the most part,…
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Pretty Good
This is a good book with a lot of good ideas, but the only problem is that the recipes and meal ideas don’t contain many vegetables … otherwise a good book
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Wonderful
This book was a great help in organizing my month. It helped make family meals a time to enjoy rather than pulling my hair out. Thanks!
1.0 out of 5 stars
Disappointing and unhealthy
I had been looking forward to using this book to save time in cooking but was really disappointed with the recipes.