Comments on: Cooking ‘Round the Clock: Rachael Ray’s 30-Minute Meals

By: monkeytot

monkeytot — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:14:44 +0000

Perky Food network (TM) shill rachel Ray both teaches and delites with these quickie recipees.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: tiddlestalon

tiddlestalon — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 19:51:25 +0000

Rachael Ray isnt very attractive but she IS a good cook! Her Mince Pie recipe was shockingly good when combined with 7 oz’s of nutmeg and 2 bowls of brown sugar! A minced Pie wouldn’t be a minced pie without Rachael Ray Ray!
Rating: 4 / 5

By: Monk

Monk — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 18:27:26 +0000

Rachael Ray is so cute and bubbly, how can you not like her book covers? I think the books have something to do with recipes, but I haven’t opened any of them yet, I just like looking at the book covers. She is so cute.
Rating: 5 / 5

By: Nat A. Lee

Nat A. Lee — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:56:31 +0000

this food looked like someone threw it up! i wouldn’t even serve it to my dog, so i wrapped it up in tin foil and gave it to the neighbors. i only suggest this book for all of us who occassionally have unwanted house guests. believe me, they won’t stay long.
Rating: 1 / 5

By: Cinnamon Heart

Cinnamon Heart — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:48:00 +0000

Rachel’s 30 minute meals are unappealing concoctions thrown together quickly from canned, bottled, jarred, and processed ingredients. Rachel relies heavily on tortillas, taco shells, and other “quickie” grocery store ingredients. (I don’t care what you put in a tortilla – I just don’t think of a tortilla as a “meal” but more of a “between meal snack” for Texas cowboys. ) Rachel’s meals are heavy on Tex-Mexxy flavors and hot spices which become tiresomely repetitive. (Why must every dish be overwhelmed with jalapena peppers?) Most of her recipes involve very little actual “cooking” in or on the stove – her recipes essentially involve throwing things together from bottled and canned ingredients found in the fridge or the back of a kitchen cupboard. There’s little real variety in her recipes: tonight we’re having ground BEEF and tomato sauce in a taco shell, tomorrow night we’re having ground TURKEY and tomato sauce in a taco shell, the night after that we’re having ground PORK and tomato sauce in a taco shell, and next week we’re having ground CHICKEN and tomato sauce in a taco shell. You get the idea, don’t you? Rachel’s meals depend heavily on tortillas and taco shells. Every Rachel Ray meal includes a tossed salad – but please! we are busy, important people: we don’t chop, slice, or shred lettuce – we buy it already chopped, sliced, and shredded in one of those plastic bags of romaine lettuce and carrot slivers from the grocery store. Rachel’s 30 minutes meals are for people who can’t be bothered with preparing a decent, substantial meal for themselves or their loved ones and, if you’re one of those people, you’ll find yourself very dependent upon this book. But I suggest cutting back on some of your activites – like TV watching, chatting on the telephone, taking three showers a day, etc. – and using that time to prepare yourself and your loved ones a wholesome, substantial, appetizing meal with a variety of flavors and textures rather than one of Rachel’s thrown-together at the last minute repasts.
Rating: 2 / 5