The 5:30 Challenge: 5 Ingredients, 30 Minutes, Dinner on the Table

by Jeanne Besser, Susan Puckett

IT'S 5:30. DO YOU KNOW WHAT'S FOR DINNER?

Long commutes and busy schedules leave us all wondering the same thing, but don't worry, because The 5:30 Challenge is the perfect solution to creating healthy and delicious meals in a snap!
Forget the fast food and frozen packaged meals -- with just five easy-to-find ingredients you can have dinner on the table in thirty minutes or less every night, guaranteed. Based on the popular newspaper column from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, these tasty recipes are sure to appeal to any appetite, from hearty dinner entrees to satisfying seasonal salads, zesty soups, and chilies to tantalizing stir-fries, plus pizzas, pastas, and more. You won't believe how easy it is to make great meals such

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking

192 pages, Paperback

First published September 27, 2005

Reviews

[Maria Carter · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is going down as one of my favorite recipe books. Simple, fast and tasty all around. Faves include: Chicken w/ Wild Mushrooms, Tex-Mex Ribs, Cilantro Lime Chicken. I love how the ingredients don't call for any shortcuts therefore you're eating real food. There is also a small footnote on the bottom of each recipe that tells you nutritional values. I didn't think I would care for a book with all text and no illustration/photos but being that there are only 5 ingredients and short, easy to read directions, it didn't matter.

[Jennifer Barr · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't believe it's necessary to limit ingredients so much in order to produce quick and simple meals, especially since they include herbs, spices and sometimes oils among those ingredients. It's just limiting creativity and flavour.