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101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes:
Do you seem to have less and less time to make great tasting food? Would you like help in preparing meals that are quick and easy?
You can put these 5 ingredient recipes together in minutes, not hours, so you have time for the important things in your life.
With 101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes, you'll find everything from soups and appetizers, entrees and side dishes, to breads, salads and desserts - all with only 5 ingredients.
Inside the pages of this 5 Ingredient Cookbook you'll find delicious food that doesn't take long to prepare and includes recipes
Spanish Rice CasseroleGrilled Southwestern BurgersOven Beef StroganoffSmokey ChickenSweet and Sour Green BeansAnd lots more...
Quality and taste doesn't have to take hours of preparation and cooking. You can still eat well by using just 5 ingredients, many of which you will already have in your pantry.
Take the stress out of mealtimes and still give your family food they will love. Buy 101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes today!
You can put these 5 ingredient recipes together in minutes, not hours, so you have time for the important things in your life.
With 101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes, you'll find everything from soups and appetizers, entrees and side dishes, to breads, salads and desserts - all with only 5 ingredients.
Inside the pages of this 5 Ingredient Cookbook you'll find delicious food that doesn't take long to prepare and includes recipes
Spanish Rice CasseroleGrilled Southwestern BurgersOven Beef StroganoffSmokey ChickenSweet and Sour Green BeansAnd lots more...
Quality and taste doesn't have to take hours of preparation and cooking. You can still eat well by using just 5 ingredients, many of which you will already have in your pantry.
Take the stress out of mealtimes and still give your family food they will love. Buy 101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes today!
113 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 21, 2015
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About the author
Victoria Steele
7 books2 followersVictoria Steele is the author of the "101 Quick & Easy" series of cookbooks including a cookie recipe book, chicken recipe book, 5 ingredient recipe book and cupcake and muffin recipe book.
Victoria lives with her husband and son in Dallas, TX where she writes cookbooks along with freelance blog posts.
Victoria lives with her husband and son in Dallas, TX where she writes cookbooks along with freelance blog posts.
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February 11, 2019
Shades of 1950s and 1960s
Paging through this book took me back to my youth and many of the fast and easy dishes of the day that used shortcuts like creamed soups and pudding/jello mixes and miniature marshmallows. Will be revisiting many of these in the near future, albeit with some healthier ingredient choices.
Paging through this book took me back to my youth and many of the fast and easy dishes of the day that used shortcuts like creamed soups and pudding/jello mixes and miniature marshmallows. Will be revisiting many of these in the near future, albeit with some healthier ingredient choices.
July 3, 2017
This book has so many great recipes that are easy to make. Whether you are looking for breakfast, lunch, dinner, desserts it is covered in this book. Most of the recipes are so simple that even a child could make them, with adult supervision for using the stove and oven. I look forward to trying out the recipes in this book.
March 18, 2018
I read a lot of cookbooks and I figured most of these recipes would be old hat, but there were a lot of really good ones in here. Some of my faves are several fruity salads I haven't had since I was a kid, Potato boats, and barbeque hamburgers. And of course there are still the old faves like No Peek Chicken and Beef Stroganoff.
April 23, 2018
Some great and easy recipes
My only complaint about this collection of recipes is that there are no photos. I found some yummy chicken recipes that are quick and easy to make and I actually had all the ingredients on the shelf in my pantry or freezer. Do try the chicken with cranberry recipe!
My only complaint about this collection of recipes is that there are no photos. I found some yummy chicken recipes that are quick and easy to make and I actually had all the ingredients on the shelf in my pantry or freezer. Do try the chicken with cranberry recipe!
April 2, 2023
101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes by Victoria Steele is a 114 page book that aims to provide some simply recipes for you to try. A lot of the recipes say it can be split into four servings. A variety of the recipes use store bought, premade items; such as cans of soup, as an example.
Honestly, despite the book being titled “101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes”, there’s a LOT of missing information and I feel like this missing content means that a lot of beginner cooks might not understand a variety of the stuff… And reading over it, I can’t work out a variety of stuff going on. Some ingredients are missing from lists, such as in “Popcorn Balls”; the ingredients list does not include popcorn, despite it even being an ingredient from the title. This is bad because, if cooks don’t see the ingredient in the list, it means they might not buy or prepare it for the recipe. And the cooking instructions are often missing key details which makes them difficult to understand, and they use terms which beginners might not understand; without more research. In the recipe “Fettuccini Alfredo”, it lists the ingredient “1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, divided”…? But what does that even mean? Does it want it grated, sliced, etc? Other information is missing in areas, such as in “Roasted Ro-Tel Chicken”, it doesn’t include what temperature to cook the meat at in the skillet, or how long that will take. It says to “brown on both sides”. However, depending on the temperature, it can brown the outside, but not cook the inside enough; such as cooking on too high a temperature.
I feel like the book definitely needs an editor to look over it. So the book puts the ingredients on the left side of the page, and the cooking instructions on the right side. Yet, with many recipes, such as “Frozen Pea Salad”, it has four ingredients in the ingredients list and then step one on the instructions side of the page just says “Mayonnaise to moisten”, which I presume was meant to be in the ingredients side…? But even then, it’s missing valuable information because it doesn’t list how much mayonnaise I would need. I think having an editor would definitely solve this; they could go over the book and make sure it’s sorted properly, and that the cooking instructions are more readable.
Looking over the ingredients in several recipes, I would definitely need to substitute some things, if I were to make them for myself. For example, in “Spicy Chicken Wings”, it lists “1/2 cup Durkee’s RedHot Cayenne sauce” as an ingredient. I don’t have that available to me, so I would need to find an alternative. In “Cheese Olive Wraps”, it lists “1 (5 oz.) jar cheese spread”, which I don’t even know what that is, so I think I would have to avoid that. In several recipes, it lists premade soups, which I doubt I’d have available to me.
Despite being “5 Ingredient Recipes”, there are some recipes that have more or less than that amount; in “Fettuccini Alfredo” there’s seven ingredients. In “Roasted Ro-Tel Chicken”, it has six. In both of these cases, those extra ingredients are salt and pepper, but it still exceeds their own theme of the “5 Ingredient Recipes”. In some recipes, such as “Broiled Pork Chops with Apple”, it kind of cheats the “5 Ingredient” bit by having “Salt, pepper and rubbed safe to taste” on one line, and “Cinnamon and sugar” in another. So I feel like the author thinks that if it’s just on one line, it counts as one ingredient? But, for me, that’s multiple ingredients, just placed on the one line.
Overall, I really didn’t like this book. There are so many missing bits of information; and the instructions feel so lacking. Plus, there are so many ingredients that I wouldn’t even have access to. So, even if I did want to make the recipes, I wouldn’t be able to make many of them. As for the recipes themselves, some of them sounded like I definitely wouldn’t enjoy eating them, in my opinion. I recommend avoiding this book. I am just so glad that I got it when it was free on Amazon, at one point. I would be so mad if it had cost me money.
-Note: any excerpts are used for review purposes only.
Honestly, despite the book being titled “101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes”, there’s a LOT of missing information and I feel like this missing content means that a lot of beginner cooks might not understand a variety of the stuff… And reading over it, I can’t work out a variety of stuff going on. Some ingredients are missing from lists, such as in “Popcorn Balls”; the ingredients list does not include popcorn, despite it even being an ingredient from the title. This is bad because, if cooks don’t see the ingredient in the list, it means they might not buy or prepare it for the recipe. And the cooking instructions are often missing key details which makes them difficult to understand, and they use terms which beginners might not understand; without more research. In the recipe “Fettuccini Alfredo”, it lists the ingredient “1/2 cup Parmesan cheese, divided”…? But what does that even mean? Does it want it grated, sliced, etc? Other information is missing in areas, such as in “Roasted Ro-Tel Chicken”, it doesn’t include what temperature to cook the meat at in the skillet, or how long that will take. It says to “brown on both sides”. However, depending on the temperature, it can brown the outside, but not cook the inside enough; such as cooking on too high a temperature.
I feel like the book definitely needs an editor to look over it. So the book puts the ingredients on the left side of the page, and the cooking instructions on the right side. Yet, with many recipes, such as “Frozen Pea Salad”, it has four ingredients in the ingredients list and then step one on the instructions side of the page just says “Mayonnaise to moisten”, which I presume was meant to be in the ingredients side…? But even then, it’s missing valuable information because it doesn’t list how much mayonnaise I would need. I think having an editor would definitely solve this; they could go over the book and make sure it’s sorted properly, and that the cooking instructions are more readable.
Looking over the ingredients in several recipes, I would definitely need to substitute some things, if I were to make them for myself. For example, in “Spicy Chicken Wings”, it lists “1/2 cup Durkee’s RedHot Cayenne sauce” as an ingredient. I don’t have that available to me, so I would need to find an alternative. In “Cheese Olive Wraps”, it lists “1 (5 oz.) jar cheese spread”, which I don’t even know what that is, so I think I would have to avoid that. In several recipes, it lists premade soups, which I doubt I’d have available to me.
Despite being “5 Ingredient Recipes”, there are some recipes that have more or less than that amount; in “Fettuccini Alfredo” there’s seven ingredients. In “Roasted Ro-Tel Chicken”, it has six. In both of these cases, those extra ingredients are salt and pepper, but it still exceeds their own theme of the “5 Ingredient Recipes”. In some recipes, such as “Broiled Pork Chops with Apple”, it kind of cheats the “5 Ingredient” bit by having “Salt, pepper and rubbed safe to taste” on one line, and “Cinnamon and sugar” in another. So I feel like the author thinks that if it’s just on one line, it counts as one ingredient? But, for me, that’s multiple ingredients, just placed on the one line.
Overall, I really didn’t like this book. There are so many missing bits of information; and the instructions feel so lacking. Plus, there are so many ingredients that I wouldn’t even have access to. So, even if I did want to make the recipes, I wouldn’t be able to make many of them. As for the recipes themselves, some of them sounded like I definitely wouldn’t enjoy eating them, in my opinion. I recommend avoiding this book. I am just so glad that I got it when it was free on Amazon, at one point. I would be so mad if it had cost me money.
-Note: any excerpts are used for review purposes only.
May 26, 2017
101 Quick & Easy 5 Ingredient Recipes by Victoria Steele
Lots of different categories including appetizer, drinks, salads, breads, main dishes, cakes, pies, vegetables, potatoes, cookies,
Some of these recipes I can make in my electric pressure cooker, sauteing the meat first then adding all the other ingredients and cooking for less than 5 minutes.
Like bread recipes, so basic and I can substitute for healthier options of ingredients.
The recipes have a title and list of ingredients and how to make.
There are no pictures and no nutritional information.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
Lots of different categories including appetizer, drinks, salads, breads, main dishes, cakes, pies, vegetables, potatoes, cookies,
Some of these recipes I can make in my electric pressure cooker, sauteing the meat first then adding all the other ingredients and cooking for less than 5 minutes.
Like bread recipes, so basic and I can substitute for healthier options of ingredients.
The recipes have a title and list of ingredients and how to make.
There are no pictures and no nutritional information.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
March 19, 2018
Easy recipes
The recipes are quick and easy to follow. If you don’t have lots of time, try these 5 ingredient ideas.
The recipes are quick and easy to follow. If you don’t have lots of time, try these 5 ingredient ideas.
February 22, 2020
Cool book
Good recipes!! Although they are for 4 - 5 and that means for our family double or triple some they are still really good . I'll be getting another one of her books.
Good recipes!! Although they are for 4 - 5 and that means for our family double or triple some they are still really good . I'll be getting another one of her books.
June 10, 2020
Quick and easy. Great flavors!
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