Notes about Recipes in this book

• Deviled potato salad

  • PennyG on September 22, 2019

    I have made this recipe countless times over the years. Easy and always a winner!

• Pecan-crusted chicken tenders and salad with tangy maple barbecue dressing

  • tisayw on January 09, 2024

    I was gifted this cookbook back in 2003 and realized I don't think I've ever cooked from it! I had some chicken tenders in the freezer and surprisingly had all the other ingredients on hand. I questioned the addition of orange zest in the breadcrumbs that coat the chicken tenders, but it was very pleasant and gave the chicken tenders a little zing I wasn't expecting. This dish got two thumbs up from my husband and five year old, so will definitely make again.

• Hot buffalo chicken sandwiches

  • bpilger on August 08, 2022

    The sour cream sauce needed more seasoning, maybe add the butter hot sauce to the sour cream mixture. Or make it like the stuffed potatoes.

• Five-spice beef and pepper stir-fry and rice with smoked almonds

  • bpilger on January 14, 2021

    Very good, yummm!!!

• Sausage calzones

  • averythingcooks on October 27, 2019

    This book has been long gone from my collection BUT a copy of this recipe is in my permanent collection. Maybe I have a tube of pillsbury pizza dough ready to make a 1/2 recipe on a weeknight or maybe I make my homemade dough on the weekend - either way - these sausage, veg , ricotta and mozzarella calzones are always a popular dinner treat :)

• Spaghetti alla carbonara: bacon and egg "coal miner's" pasta

  • louie734 on November 12, 2014

    Yeah, that's right, 5 stars for a Rachael Ray recipe. I'm not ashamed. She got me started cooking for myself back in the day, and I'm still using this recipe. Comfort food from what's in the fridge.

• Honey mustard barbecued chicken

  • ajs on July 05, 2010

    Very nice.

• Meatball and macaroni soup

  • BethNH on October 02, 2017

    My husband requested this soup for dinner which I hadn't made for many, many years. It's basically a simplified version of Italian wedding soup. It's relatively quick and easy and makes for a satisfying dinner.

• Tomato basil panzanella

  • Cheri0570 on September 16, 2020

    I did not write a comment so must have been so so.

• Eggplant caponata and herb polenta

  • Jaswany on January 22, 2012

    My wife loved thie recipe, but I thought 30-minutes was bit of an exeration of how long it would take to complete. I would say it's actually a 60-minute meal.

• Double-duty dinner: stuffed chilies with beef, rice, spinach, and cheese

  • kateiscoooking on November 13, 2022

    We wound up with two bags of stoplight peppers... A brilliant suggestion from my hubby was stuffed peppers. I had in mind ground beef or bison, rice, tomato and spinach. This is the one recipe that came up. Loved it! I wound up using ground bison and a 28 oz can of crushed tomatoes instead of the tomato sauce. I also used frozen chopped spinach instead of fresh. And, then I put the pepper jack cheese into the stuffing mixture. Finally, I used bell peppers instead of poblanos. Best stuffed peppers I've ever made!

• Fennel slaw salad

  • wester on May 20, 2010

    Good bastardisation of Sicilian food. Plumping the raisins in orange juice is a good idea, but it was a bit much orange juice to add it all to the salad. I added 2-3 tablespoons and that was plenty, more would have made the salad quite wet. Also, I thought the salad was a bit sweeter than I like it. Next time I will use ordinary red wine vinegar or lemon juice instead of the balsamic.

• Ribollita-bread soup

  • cjannace on January 31, 2013

    A delicious, easy to make soup. Comes out delicious every time.

• Great grilled vegetables

  • cjannace on August 21, 2014

    I had picked up some large shitake mushrooms at the farmers market and knew I wanted to grill them up somehow. We used eggplant, onion, and bell peppers with the onions but used Rachael's instructions for grilling. The result was absolutely delicious. Definitely a recipe we will be using again!