Robin to the Rescue: Quick & Simple Recipes for Delicious Home Cooking

by Robin Miller

200 time-saving recipes from bestselling cookbook author and Food Network celebrity chef Robin Miller that allow you to "Quick Fix It" your way to get home-cooked meals on the table every night, no matter what your schedule."Robin to the Rescue" contains recipes organized by course/main ingredient so you can find recipes for what you're in the mood for fast. For ease of planning, each recipe says how long it will take to prep, active cooking time, and walk-away time (the time a dish can be left to cook without your supervision). A new feature for this book will be that each recipe will allow you to Quick Fix it your way, namely it will tell you how a particular recipe can be turned into a Meal Kit; prepared in a slow cooker; doubled up so you can bank a batch in your freezer for nights when you have no time for meal preparation at all, aside from pushing buttons on the microwave; and/or morphed into another meal you can enjoy later in the week. "Robin to the Rescue" is a uniquely versatile book, allowing the reader to tailor recipe prep to her own particular needs.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Cooking, Nonfiction

352 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2008

About the author

Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.

Robin has been a food writer and a nutritionist since 1990. She is the author of the best-selling cookbook Quick Fix Meals. Her popular show Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller currently airs on the Food Network. Her primetime show Robin to the Rescue premiered on the Food Network in March 2007. Robin's recipes and nutrition features can be seen regularly in a variety of media outlets, including the Today show on NBC, The Early Show on CBS, Good Morning America on ABC, Live! with Regis & Kelly, Fox News Channel, Food Network, HGTV, Guideposts, Cooking Light, Health, Fitness, Fit Pregnancy, Woman's World, and Parade. Robin has a master's degree in food and nutrition from New York University."

Reviews

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This cookbook reminded me a lot of a Rachael Ray cookbook. There were very few photographs of the dishes and some of the food combinations were just strange. Miller claims to have quick and simple recipes, but many of these ingredients people wouldn't normally have on hand. The whole concept of making meal kits and piggybacking on other recipes wasn't very clear. All in all, for the average home cook, the recipes don't seem very easy and they didn't all appeal to me.

[Jennifer Canterbury · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is made to have some of the items you'll need made ahead which makes the preparation for the meal much quicker on busier nights. The chapters are separated by proteins, then side dishes/salads, and desserts. There are meals which can be made into "meal kits" and/or "morphed" into something else with the leftovers.

[Stephanie Denison · Rating 4 out of 5]

While I haven't really tried any of the recipes in this cookbook yet, I have read through it and want to own a copy of it rather than just copy of few recipes from it for the future. I like her approach to cooking and all of the options she gives; each recipe ends with different prep/cooking options such as doing it in the slow cooker instead of the oven or having everything prepped so you can just do the final cooking when you get home from work. While how to do this may seem obvious to some people, it is nice to have it all spelled out for you already.

I read one of her previous cookbooks and wasn't as impressed with it as I am this one. So unimpressed, I don't even remember which one it was. Anyway, I think this one is a keeper.

[Conni Neiswinger · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book has some great strategies to help you get dinner on the table in a flash! Robin Miller shows how to do some prep ahead of time (meal kits) or make an extra meal ahead of time and freeze it for another day (bank a batch). She also tells you which meals work well in your slow cooker and more! The best part is the recipes are really tasty. Because let's face it, if dinner tastes like crap you've just wasted your time and money. I highly recommend this book.

[Aruach222 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Yumalicious. Second of her books. It has a wide variety of recipes and has either a morph, freeze, or slow cooker option for most recipes.

[Beth Ann · Rating 3 out of 5]

Can I just say I'm making the Calzones (pg. 36) tonight for dinner? I like that her recipes are fairly simple and are not time-intensive. I plan to try out a couple of recipes!

[Beka · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some nice ideas. The biggest detraction is that the pictures aren't next to their recipes.

[Kei · Rating 3 out of 5]

Looks good on strict first going through. I'll update after we've tried some recipes.