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5 Ingredient Cookbook: Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food: Quick and Easy Recipes
Looking to save time in the kitchen? And still create amazing food?
This remarkable cookbook has 140 recipes that can be made quickly with a maximum of 5 ingredients, saving valuable time but still providing loads of flavor your family will love.
5 Ingredient Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food is full of quick and easy dishes
Green Pepper HotdishAngel TilapiaSweet and Sour Baked ChickenLasagna FlorentineHidden Valley Chicken BreastsTaco SquaresBelieve It or Not Pork ChopsAnd many more... With just five ingredients, you can have dinner, a snack or a meal on the table in no time flat and this 5 Ingredient Cookbook is the recipe book that will help you achieve it!
Buy the 5 Ingredient Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food now and take the hard work out of creating amazing food!
This remarkable cookbook has 140 recipes that can be made quickly with a maximum of 5 ingredients, saving valuable time but still providing loads of flavor your family will love.
5 Ingredient Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food is full of quick and easy dishes
Green Pepper HotdishAngel TilapiaSweet and Sour Baked ChickenLasagna FlorentineHidden Valley Chicken BreastsTaco SquaresBelieve It or Not Pork ChopsAnd many more... With just five ingredients, you can have dinner, a snack or a meal on the table in no time flat and this 5 Ingredient Cookbook is the recipe book that will help you achieve it!
Buy the 5 Ingredient Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food now and take the hard work out of creating amazing food!
158 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 16, 2015
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Bonnie Scott
54 books14 followersBonnie Scott is the author of dozens of cookbooks, including the Bestselling "In Jars" series, and "Cookie Indulgence". She is an independent web designer and freelance writer for numerous websites. Her latest publications are "Chocolate Bliss: 150 Easy Chocolate Recipes" and "A Taste of Italy: Authentic Italian Recipes". She has degrees in Journalism and Computer Information Systems. Bonnie lives with her husband in Amarillo, TX.
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June 10, 2023
5 Ingredient Cookbook: Timesaving Recipes For Great-Tasting Food is a cookbook by Bonnie Scott. It features a variety of types of meals, such as desserts, snacks, breakfast, lunch, dinner, side dishes, etc.
I’ll just let you know that, while these are five ingredient recipes, a lot of the time, I would need to make other stuff alongside it, in order to make full meals. Some of these recipes focus on the meat portion, so you would likely need something to go along with it. So just be considerate about what recipes you are thinking of using, and whether you might need to make other stuff.
At the beginning of the book, it states that certain ingredients “are not counted” as the five ingredients. Which I think is just a cheat. To me, they certainly count as ingredients. And some recipes sort of try to get around the “5 ingredient” aspect by putting multiple ingredients as one. Such as the recipe for “Raisin Drops”, which lists four ingredients and then the fifth line is “1 cup raisins, soaked for 1 hour in ½ cup rum”. So that’s six ingredients in total. At some points, I counted up to seven ingredients. And a similar example is “No Bake Pumpkin Pie”; they have a list of ingredients, but then they tell you to put it into a “graham cracker pie crust”, which is a something they did not list in the initial ingredients. However, since the recipe is a pie, I think the pie crust isn’t really an optional ingredient; it seems like the author was deliberately doing it this way to get around the five ingredient thing, in my opinion.
As I take a look at a few recipes into the book, I feel like the serving amounts feel off… So, from batches of cookies (and similar things) I’ve made in the past, I know vague serving amounts that a recipe will create. So something with only a few cups total of ingredients would only yield a dozen cookies, or two dozen if they’re really small. But, in the recipe “Black Walnut Cookies”, it states that a recipe like this would “Yield: 5 dozen cookies”… Really? I do not believe that at all. I have made cookies before and, looking at this recipe, there is zero way in which it would yield 5 dozen cookies. If it did, they would be EXTREMELY small. Similarly, with the second recipe, “Tiny Peanut Butter Balls”, it says it will “Yield: 100 to 150 balls.” Which, I know it says “tiny” in the title of the recipe, but I still don’t think such a huge amount is possible with so few ingredients. Oh and “Walnut Lace Cookies” says it will “Yield: 6 dozen cookies”, but there’s 3 2/3 cups of ingredients in total. I just do not think that would yield anywhere near 6 dozen. At most, I could believe 2 dozen. Some recipes do have more realistic sounding outputs, but there are some ridiculous sounding amounts as well.
Another thought I have is that a lot of the instructions are very limited. And I don’t think they’re formatted very well; so a lot of them just have a paragraph of steps clumped together. When I’m following recipes, stuff like that isn’t great for me. So it can be difficult to see what step I’m up to. A bunch of the instructions just aren’t clear to me.
So one of my primary considerations, when reviewing cookbooks, is ingredient availability. From my perspective, looking over the ingredients of these recipes, I think there’s quite a lot of ingredients that I would not have access to. There’s a variety of pre-made items being used. For example, a couple of recipes I noticed lists “almond bark” as an ingredient. I certainly would not be able to buy it, as I found out when I looked on a few websites for local retailers. So, if I were to try and make this recipe, I would first have to make the almond bark, in order to use it as an ingredient. Another example is the recipe “Cheese Chili Loaf”, which uses “2 cups Bisquick baking mix”. I have zero idea what that is. And, looking at it on a search engine, there are multiple different types of these mixes. So, even if I did have that available to me, I certainly wouldn’t even know which one to choose. The very next recipe has the same problem. A pizza recipe uses “pepper sauce”, which I have no idea where I would find that; it’s not even specific about the type of sauce it would be. There are lots of different types of sauces with pepper in. “Green Pepper Hotdish” has an ingredient listing of “1 lb. hamburger”…? So they want be to use a fully made hamburger? One that’s already been prepared by a company? What? My closest guess is that they mean “hamburger meat”… But I really wish they’d be way more specific for ingredients. They have the same problem for other ingredients, such as listing things such as “2 eggs” in some cases, which is flawed because eggs come in a variety of different sizes. Using a different size egg can change the texture of a recipe; so while the author uses one size, you using a different size might change the recipe, because you would be using more or less than their version, and your version would have a different texture than the author’s.
Overall, it’s a mediocre recipe book. But I feel like it fails the five ingredient theme because it relies way too much on prebought and premade ingredients, with all sorts of canned soups, etc. Plus a bunch of the recipes have more than five ingredients. For me, there’s way too many recipes that I wouldn’t even be able to make because I wouldn’t be able to get the ingredients. And a lot of the recipes are things I just don’t think I’d enjoy. While there are a few recipes I think I might like, I think I’d prefer to find more detailed recipes for such things elsewhere. I’m just glad that I got the book free. I would be annoyed if I had paid actual money for this, considering how few recipes I can actually use from it. My main problem is that there are way too many ingredients that wouldn’t be available here, such as specific brands of soups and sauces. I do not recommend this book. If you do buy it, I hope you enjoy it a lot more than I did. :)
I’ll just let you know that, while these are five ingredient recipes, a lot of the time, I would need to make other stuff alongside it, in order to make full meals. Some of these recipes focus on the meat portion, so you would likely need something to go along with it. So just be considerate about what recipes you are thinking of using, and whether you might need to make other stuff.
At the beginning of the book, it states that certain ingredients “are not counted” as the five ingredients. Which I think is just a cheat. To me, they certainly count as ingredients. And some recipes sort of try to get around the “5 ingredient” aspect by putting multiple ingredients as one. Such as the recipe for “Raisin Drops”, which lists four ingredients and then the fifth line is “1 cup raisins, soaked for 1 hour in ½ cup rum”. So that’s six ingredients in total. At some points, I counted up to seven ingredients. And a similar example is “No Bake Pumpkin Pie”; they have a list of ingredients, but then they tell you to put it into a “graham cracker pie crust”, which is a something they did not list in the initial ingredients. However, since the recipe is a pie, I think the pie crust isn’t really an optional ingredient; it seems like the author was deliberately doing it this way to get around the five ingredient thing, in my opinion.
As I take a look at a few recipes into the book, I feel like the serving amounts feel off… So, from batches of cookies (and similar things) I’ve made in the past, I know vague serving amounts that a recipe will create. So something with only a few cups total of ingredients would only yield a dozen cookies, or two dozen if they’re really small. But, in the recipe “Black Walnut Cookies”, it states that a recipe like this would “Yield: 5 dozen cookies”… Really? I do not believe that at all. I have made cookies before and, looking at this recipe, there is zero way in which it would yield 5 dozen cookies. If it did, they would be EXTREMELY small. Similarly, with the second recipe, “Tiny Peanut Butter Balls”, it says it will “Yield: 100 to 150 balls.” Which, I know it says “tiny” in the title of the recipe, but I still don’t think such a huge amount is possible with so few ingredients. Oh and “Walnut Lace Cookies” says it will “Yield: 6 dozen cookies”, but there’s 3 2/3 cups of ingredients in total. I just do not think that would yield anywhere near 6 dozen. At most, I could believe 2 dozen. Some recipes do have more realistic sounding outputs, but there are some ridiculous sounding amounts as well.
Another thought I have is that a lot of the instructions are very limited. And I don’t think they’re formatted very well; so a lot of them just have a paragraph of steps clumped together. When I’m following recipes, stuff like that isn’t great for me. So it can be difficult to see what step I’m up to. A bunch of the instructions just aren’t clear to me.
So one of my primary considerations, when reviewing cookbooks, is ingredient availability. From my perspective, looking over the ingredients of these recipes, I think there’s quite a lot of ingredients that I would not have access to. There’s a variety of pre-made items being used. For example, a couple of recipes I noticed lists “almond bark” as an ingredient. I certainly would not be able to buy it, as I found out when I looked on a few websites for local retailers. So, if I were to try and make this recipe, I would first have to make the almond bark, in order to use it as an ingredient. Another example is the recipe “Cheese Chili Loaf”, which uses “2 cups Bisquick baking mix”. I have zero idea what that is. And, looking at it on a search engine, there are multiple different types of these mixes. So, even if I did have that available to me, I certainly wouldn’t even know which one to choose. The very next recipe has the same problem. A pizza recipe uses “pepper sauce”, which I have no idea where I would find that; it’s not even specific about the type of sauce it would be. There are lots of different types of sauces with pepper in. “Green Pepper Hotdish” has an ingredient listing of “1 lb. hamburger”…? So they want be to use a fully made hamburger? One that’s already been prepared by a company? What? My closest guess is that they mean “hamburger meat”… But I really wish they’d be way more specific for ingredients. They have the same problem for other ingredients, such as listing things such as “2 eggs” in some cases, which is flawed because eggs come in a variety of different sizes. Using a different size egg can change the texture of a recipe; so while the author uses one size, you using a different size might change the recipe, because you would be using more or less than their version, and your version would have a different texture than the author’s.
Overall, it’s a mediocre recipe book. But I feel like it fails the five ingredient theme because it relies way too much on prebought and premade ingredients, with all sorts of canned soups, etc. Plus a bunch of the recipes have more than five ingredients. For me, there’s way too many recipes that I wouldn’t even be able to make because I wouldn’t be able to get the ingredients. And a lot of the recipes are things I just don’t think I’d enjoy. While there are a few recipes I think I might like, I think I’d prefer to find more detailed recipes for such things elsewhere. I’m just glad that I got the book free. I would be annoyed if I had paid actual money for this, considering how few recipes I can actually use from it. My main problem is that there are way too many ingredients that wouldn’t be available here, such as specific brands of soups and sauces. I do not recommend this book. If you do buy it, I hope you enjoy it a lot more than I did. :)
September 3, 2020
Simple and delicious
This book is great for anyone who wants to eat something yummy but not spend a lot of time preparing it. The recipes are simple and don’t require any weird ingredients. This book is definitely worth a purchase!
This book is great for anyone who wants to eat something yummy but not spend a lot of time preparing it. The recipes are simple and don’t require any weird ingredients. This book is definitely worth a purchase!
November 18, 2025
Great, simple recipes for people on-the-go as well as young cooks
Five ingredients or less and you are done. Such a great collection of simple recipes for busy people as well as young people just starting out. So much savings in not eating out all the time.
Five ingredients or less and you are done. Such a great collection of simple recipes for busy people as well as young people just starting out. So much savings in not eating out all the time.
January 24, 2017
Quick and simple recipes !
I just finished reading this recipe book and I found that it has excellent recipes with so many great ideas . I am pleasantly surprised and look forward to start cooking and share with my family. Enjoy !
I just finished reading this recipe book and I found that it has excellent recipes with so many great ideas . I am pleasantly surprised and look forward to start cooking and share with my family. Enjoy !
September 4, 2015
Good cookbook with lots of good recipes in it. I sure am going to make alot of them. So easy to make .You will like this book.
July 21, 2016
Great easy recipes
Believe it or not pork chops, pizza cups, taco squares. Just a few recipes I know my family will love. Looking forward to making these soon.
Believe it or not pork chops, pizza cups, taco squares. Just a few recipes I know my family will love. Looking forward to making these soon.
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