15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes: Instant Recipes for Dinners, Desserts, and More |
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| Title: | 15-Minute Low-Carb Recipes: Instant Recipes for Dinners, Desserts, and More |
| Author: | Dana Carpender |
| Publisher: | Fair Winds Press |
| Type: | Book / Paperback |
| Publication Date: | October, 2003 |
| ISBN / ISBN-13: | 159233041X / 9781592330416 |
| List Price: | $17.95 |
| You Save: | $5.74 |
| Amazon Price: | $12.21 |
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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.
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Customer Reviews:
• Carpender Is The Master Of Low Carb
21 June, 2009
What, meals in 15 minutes? That's impossible or so I thought. It's the low carb that is freaking me out because I'm carbohydrate junkie. Not only are there 100's of recipes in this easy-to-read cookbook. There are explanations, descriptions of appliances needed, and techniques details and convenience foods. The ah-huh moments for me were:
Ice cube preservation - spoon left over sauce into ice trays, freeze and use them later
Interesting short cuts - minced garlic in oil, jarred grated gingerroot, crushed pork rinds and tapenade
Little known nutritional facts - phytochemicals in onion, rice protein powder, the power of vinegar and vege-sal.
Carpender proves that low carb doesn't mean no taste. The recipes are quick, cost-effective and delicious. The following recipes get two thumbs up meaning you should eat now and often:
Parmesan Chicken Breasts
Lettuce Wraps
Buttered Salmon with Creole Seasoning
Border Town Chicken Salad
Italian Sausage with Onions and Peppers
Slow Cooker Chicken Guadalupe
There are a few items that instantly yell are you kidding me (because I have crazy childhood memories of eating them in bulk) like 15+ ways to cook cauliflower, multiple ways to fix asparagus and 4 varieties of artichokes. The menu choices in this cookbook will alter your life. Cutting the time you spend in the kitchen will allow for more time for family (or to relax in quiet while your family believes you are slaving away in the kitchen). Carpender thanks for doing the hard work of combining taste and nutritional value into quick low carb recipes. You've made me a new low carb fan.
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- Amazon Customer Review
• Easy And Tasty Recipes
23 February, 2010
As I've said on the other Dana Carpender cookbooks I've purchased, these are easy recipes. They taste great and are low carb. In the 3 cookbooks I've rated of hers, she notes the carb counts and a few other counts at the bottom of her recipes. She explains ingredients in the front pages of the book. I've been cooking one of her recipes every night and I'm losing weight. My husband is too, and he's had a difficult time of trying to lose weight.
- Amazon Customer Review
• My Absolute, #1 Favourite Cookbook (or, How I Learned To Cook Low-carb)
19 October, 2009
In the Spring of 2004, I'd just decided to go on a low-carb diet, but having been a long-time vegetarian, frequent restaurant patron and broke devotee of things like macaroni and cheese, I realised I had no clue how to cook such things. I marched myself into a bookstore, and looked through the low-carb cookbooks. I chose this one, as it seemed the least fussy and certainly I needed quick food options. Looking back, I can't think of a single thing in this book that DIDN'T cater to my tastes, my experience and my lifestyle - quick, low-carb recipes that were easy to follow, easy to make, a variety of cuisines (such as the Chinese, Mexican and Thai foods I'd always made in frighteningly high-carb recipes), ideas for substitutions I'd never thought of, detailed instructions, guides on which vegetables are suitable for low-carbers, guides to specialty products... you name it, everything I was looking for at the start of my low-carb adventure was right here in this book.
I practically lived by it. I tried a new recipe (sometimes two) nearly every day - I discovered new favourites, won over my carb-eating friends and family with these recipes, found new staples, learned how to cook meat, gained so much confidence in the kitchen that I began substituting ingredients for my own recipes and even de-carbing some of my old vegetarian standbys. In six months, I had my energy back, I felt better about life, I had more confidence in myself, and I was over 50 pounds lighter. True, it wasn't solely from this book, but without this book there is a lot I wouldn't have accomplished. The recipes, especially the ones for one-skillet meals, fit right into my crazy life, and I never felt annoyed that I had to make dinner as opposed to spending that same amount of time waiting for takeaway or hitting a drive-thru.
And... I made these recipes on a very, VERY small budget. Most of it was knowing where and what to substitute, where to shop, halving some recipes, taking advantage of sales, coupons, etc... but I did it, and for not much more than I was spending on the aforementioned pasta dinners.
I am also curious as to why so many reviews slam cookbooks (not just Dana's, but a few other favourite authors of mine) for not having pictures or being in colour? Honestly, why is that necessary? If you know what ingredients are, who needs a picture? In my experience, even when I follow a recipe and it comes out delicious, it rarely looks like the picture in the book.
I wish I had a picture of my copy of this book, so everyone can see the tons of notes I've taken on recipes, the wrinkles, oil splatters, reviews... I may need a second copy!
That said, here are some of my favourite recipes:
Chipotle Eggs (an easy-as-pie morning wakeup)
Luau Burgers (not even my bread-eating roommates missed the bun)
Crunchy Peking Burgers (made with ground chicken, these are even better)
Aegean Chicken (chopped olives with garlic can stand in for the tapenade, and provolone can substitute for the kasseri - delicious!)
Salmon In Ginger Cream (probably my favourite fish recipe in the world)
Chinese Steamed Fish (tilapia is delicious and cheap, and this can be modified to an oven recipe easily)
California Tuna Fritters (we like these as a late-night snack, though I only use a tablespoon of the protein powder)
Inauthentic Bulgogi Steak (made a family pack of cube steaks into a raved-about family dinner!)
Asian Pork And Cabbage (Amazing, easy as heck and a mere fraction of Chinese food's carbs!)
Unstuffed Cabbage (my winter dinner standby)
Poultry Hash (ground turkey makes this sublime - another winter standby)
Easy Garlic Creamed Spinach (such a great trick)
Apple Walnut Dressing (Happy Thanksgiving!)
...and last, but DEFINITELY not least, the Jerk Seasoning has become something of an in-demand item whenever I'm invited to a BBQ. It's the tastiest thing I've ever had on a grilled chicken.
I stinking LOVE this book.
- Amazon Customer Review
• So Far I've Only Cooked One Recipe From This Book
12 March, 2010
And let me tell you, that recipe alone was worth the price of this book. Delicious! And low carb??? I'm sounding like an infomercial now, but after trying another low carb recipe book I really wasn't expecting much better.
- Amazon Customer Review
• Cook For Your Family And Be On A Low Carb Diet!!!!
29 March, 2009
This cookbook makes it possible for you to keep on your low-carb lifestyle and only need to cook one meal for your entire family. The worst part of a diet for me has always been is having to fix two meals, one for myself and one for everyone else. Now we all eat together and the same things.
- Amazon Customer Review
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