Comfort Food: Rachael Ray Top 30 30-Minute Meals

by Rachael Ray

Curl up in front of the fire with the delicious homespun fare of Rachael's comfort food. Treat yourself with these Top 30 meals, a collection of her greatest hits. The perfect way to unwind after a busy day―you deserve it!

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Reference, Food

352 pages, Hardcover

First published November 7, 2000

About the author

Rachael Domenica Ray is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosted the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray. Other programs to her credit include 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, $40 a Day, Rachael Ray's Week in a Day, and the reality format shows Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and Rachael Ray's Kids Cook-Off. Ray has written several cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2006. Ray's television shows have won three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Reviews

[Bell · Rating 1 out of 5]

so glad I got this for free on the library "please take" shelf. Nothing in here sounds good or looks like it would be worth trying. Rachael Ray and her recipes are a phenomenon whose time passed a decade or so ago.

[Sasha · Rating 4 out of 5]

An oldie but goodie from back in 2003.

[Gina · Rating 1 out of 5]

This small cookbook features main dishes (soups and entrees) to be completed in 30 minutes. It is small and slim without much variety. Most of the recipes are OK, but I didn't make a single one from this I would purposefully buy the ingredients to make again. The feta shrimp pasta dish was the best of the bunch, but even that needed some alteration - maybe some kick with crushed red pepper and cut back on the amount of sauce to better feature the shrimp - to make it more to our tastes. I'm a fairly experienced cook, but every recipe I made took me longer than 30 minutes. The amount of chopping or the need to add some cooking time put every recipe over 30 minutes. Although, it should be noted that all were still easy to make.

[Laurie (barksbooks) · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this book as a gift and am going to set it free because I so rarely refer to it. It's very high in calories, fat, and relies heavily on meat & cheese (which we're doing our best to say away from). I made one of the dishes and it took me far longer than 30 minutes. Rachael (like many cooks) seems to forget that we can't all afford to have someone prep our ingredients for us before we set out to cook!

[Melissa · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a good number of recipes in this book that I want to try. The mac and cheese is pretty good and I didn't really follow the recipe down to the last ingredient. I don't remember if this is the book that also has the cheddar cheese soup recipe, but I was very disappointed in that one. Not enough cheddary taste. Too much onion taste. Got chunky. Maybe I'm just not a good cook? ;-)

[Sherry · Rating 4 out of 5]

2. Some of my favorite recipes:
Apricot Chicken
Chunky Guacamole
Black Bean and Pumpkin Soup
Bourbon-Orange chicken
Quick Potato & Carrot Latkes
I'm getting hungry just typing this! The perfect food to take away the chills on winter days

[Lesley Looper · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked looking through this cookbook, but nothing stood out that I wanted to save and try for myself. It's a library book, and someone's torn a few pages out, unfortunately. Makes me wonder what I'm missing!

[Anastasia · Rating 1 out of 5]

I am not comforted by any of these meals.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

The apricot chicken and potato carrot latkes were one of my favorites. Also really loved the rosemary chicken.

[Maria · Rating 3 out of 5]

not really recipes i would cook on a regular basis

[Beka · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not bad, but nothing noteworthy either.

[Ginnie Grant · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one was not to my liking at all. through the whole book, our family only found one recipe we enjoyed and that was veal invertini.