American Heart Association One-Dish Meals: Over 200 All-New, All-in-One Recipes Review & Ratings

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My partner and I cook real home cooked meals every night, but we don't always have tons of time to do it. Plus, since I've been working to lose weight, we've been looking for recipes with reasonable portion sizes, with more vegetables, which are lower in calories. We're only in our 30s and don't have any heart problems, but bought this cookbook for more general health-conscious reasons. We own over a hundred cookbooks, and this is our new favorite. We've had it for about four months now, and cooked a few dozen recipes from it, a number of them multiple times. Most of them have received either excellent or good reviews from both of us. Only a handful haven't worked well, and even those weren't bombs -- we think that they only needed minor tweaking to match our personal tastes better.
We're the kind of people who sit down once a week and choose recipes to cook that week before making up the grocery list. We put sticky notes on the top of the page to mark the selected recipes and then move the notes to the side to mark ones we've tried and liked well enough to note for later. Well, this book looks like a *forest* of sticky notes. Some weeks, we cook every night from this single cookbook. I love the variety of recipes, the detailed nutritional information, and the fact that most (maybe all?) of them only use one pot (a lot of other "one dish" or "one pot" cookbooks have you make pasta or rice separately). He loves the fact that he doesn't have to keep asking, "Honey, is this one on your diet?" Because everything in this book is fair game -- which is strangely not true of a lot of the other supposedly healthy cookbooks I have, once you look more closely at the recipes. We both love the results: not too fancy, just good, solid food for a weekday evening that's interesting but doesn't take too much time or effort. And the dishes never taste "diet."
This cookbook is great for people who want to make just a single dish, and maybe supplement it with a simple salad or a piece of good bread. If you (or someone in your family) won't be satisfied without separate meat, vegetable and starch courses on your plate, this isn't the cookbook for you. If you're happy with one bowl that has the vegetables, starches, beans, meat (or not), etc. all mixed together, dig in.
A fair number of the recipes use frozen vegetables and/or canned tomatoes, which is helpful for busy cooks who like to use lots of vegetables but only shop once a week and worry about the veggies going bad by the end of the week. At the same time, the recipes don't depend on using prepared foods (like mixes) as short-cuts, which is a pet peeve of mine with the fast-preparation books (the exception: an occasional can of cream of something soup). They assume you have spices in your cupboard and can get fresh herbs, but most recipes don't require hard-to-find ingredients.
The recipes do not include time estimates, which is a minus. Still, they are pretty consistent about giving good estimates for each step, so you can add up the cooking times yourself (not like a lot of books, that have steps you have to guess at, like, "simmer until just tender" and "while X is cooking, chop Y and then add it"). The recipes range widely in cooking/prep times, with some very fast (~20 minutes), many in the 30-50 minute range (including periods of simmering when you don't have to watch the pot and can be cleaning up the kitchen), and some that involve roasting for an hour or more or slow cooking for even longer.
No, there are no pictures in the book. But you get over it. The directions are clear (hooray!), and you can picture well enough what you should end up with.
Some of the dishes that we've tried so far and liked: lentils bourguignon; creamy turkey and wild rice soup; chicken ravioli Italiano; salmon and pasta with baby spinach; chicken and double mushroom stew; poblano chicken with rice; beef and barley stew; chipotle pork posole; fennel braised with red lentils; cassoulet with zesty tomato sauce... etc. If you have a hundred cookbooks, you're not going to find a lot of brand-new things that you've never seen before. However, these recipes have already been tweaked to make them healthier, so we don't have to guess about making substitutions. And they've clearly been tested more throughly than most, because they (almost always) work right the first time, which is more than I can say for most cookbooks!
All in all, this is a great find, and I highly recommend it.

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