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Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters' Stuff: Time-Saving Recipes for Busy Moms
When it comes to busy moms trying to create family meals, Six Sisters' Stuff blog is the go-to location for seven million readers every month. Their latest cookbook is a compendium of quick, easy, and delicious family dinner entrees, with all the organization, all the taste-testing with kids, all the hacks to cut the prep time, done by the Six Sisters.
The complete family meal game plan is arranged along seven popular
30 Minutes or Less including recipes Skillet Pork Lo Mein, Parmesan Pork Chops, Ham and Pineapple Pizza Roll-ups, Mini-Spinach Calzones.
5 Ingredients or Less including recipes Easy Gnocchi Casserole, Sweet and Tangy Meatballs, Baked Sloppy Joes, Marinated Pork Loin.
Pantry Essentials including recipes Seven-Can Tortilla Soup, Crispy Coconut Strips with Pina Colada Dipping Sauce, French Dip Crescents, Chili Mac Skillet.
Slow Cooker including recipes Honey Garlic Chicken, Tuscan Soup, Teriyaki Bowl, Mongolian Beef, Chipotle Pulled Pork, Salsa Verde Chicken.
Freezer Meals including recipes Kung Pao Chicken, Country-Style BBQ Spareribs, Beef and Mushrooms, Ham and Cheese Potatoes, Honey Ribs, Beef Stew.
One Pan, One Pot including recipes One-Dish Baked Fajitas, Sunrise Skillet, Mushroom Asparagus Chicken Stir Fry, One-Pan Chili Beef Pasta, Skillet Pizza.
Casseroles including recipes Cheesy Chicken Quinoa Casserole, Country Breakfast Casserole, John Wayne Casserole, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken and Stuffing Bake, Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole.
Each recipe is accompanied by a color photograph."
The complete family meal game plan is arranged along seven popular
30 Minutes or Less including recipes Skillet Pork Lo Mein, Parmesan Pork Chops, Ham and Pineapple Pizza Roll-ups, Mini-Spinach Calzones.
5 Ingredients or Less including recipes Easy Gnocchi Casserole, Sweet and Tangy Meatballs, Baked Sloppy Joes, Marinated Pork Loin.
Pantry Essentials including recipes Seven-Can Tortilla Soup, Crispy Coconut Strips with Pina Colada Dipping Sauce, French Dip Crescents, Chili Mac Skillet.
Slow Cooker including recipes Honey Garlic Chicken, Tuscan Soup, Teriyaki Bowl, Mongolian Beef, Chipotle Pulled Pork, Salsa Verde Chicken.
Freezer Meals including recipes Kung Pao Chicken, Country-Style BBQ Spareribs, Beef and Mushrooms, Ham and Cheese Potatoes, Honey Ribs, Beef Stew.
One Pan, One Pot including recipes One-Dish Baked Fajitas, Sunrise Skillet, Mushroom Asparagus Chicken Stir Fry, One-Pan Chili Beef Pasta, Skillet Pizza.
Casseroles including recipes Cheesy Chicken Quinoa Casserole, Country Breakfast Casserole, John Wayne Casserole, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken and Stuffing Bake, Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole.
Each recipe is accompanied by a color photograph."
184 pages, Paperback
Published September 6, 2016
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Six Sisters' Stuff
15 books191 followersSixSistersStuff.com started in February 2011 with six biological sisters (Camille, Kristin, Elyse, Stephanie, Lauren, and Kendra) who love to cook, craft, and create. After years of living close to one another, they suddenly found themselves living in different parts of the country and used the blog to stay in touch and share ideas.
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December 6, 2016
I didn't love this, I didn't hate it but I think that I was expecting more from this. I looked previously at the Christmas one and it was great, with tons of extra ideas. I really didn't see anything in this that I wanted to go out and make. There was some stuff that looked yummy but nothing that I would put myself through to make. My mother on the other hand told me that we would be keeping this cookbook until we HAD to take it back to the Library. So there you go different opinions.
June 26, 2017
A couple of the recipes caught my eye--Skillet Pizza, Eggplant Parm, Slow Cooker Tuscan Soup--but a good many I wouldn't bother with, mostly because of their reliance on canned soup and lots of pre-packaged items, like Stove-Topped Stuffing Mix. Reminds me a lot of how my Mom cooked in the 70s, and as much as I love my Mom and many of the simple (yet bland) dishes she made, my own style of cooking has evolved beyond this and I prefer a little more spice, flair and use of fresh ingredients.
January 16, 2017
Whether you are a busy mom or dad, commuter from work, or just plain don’t have the time to spend hours in the kitchen cooking and preparing meals, this cookbook is what you have been waiting for. The one-stop guide for solving the age-old question-“what’s for dinner?”
From the first page, readers can jump right into the well organized chapters: 30 Minutes or Less, 5 Ingredients or Less, Pantry Favorites, Slow Cooker Meals, Freezer Meals, One Pan- One Pot Meals, and Casseroles, as well as Shortcuts, or Timesavers and Cooking Hacks. For easy identification, handy icons are also provided next to each meal, which may represent more than one category, making the planning even simpler.
Chapters and chapters of mouthwatering dinners and their pictures, explode across the pages. While hacks and ideas for stress free cooking, and future preparation gives readers even more tools, allowing anyone to be a successful home chef. Staying true to their cookbook past, there are ample choices with a wide variety of menu styles, taste preferences for adults and children, as well as straightforward and simple preparation and cooking directions.
With recipes like Ritz Chicken, Green Chile Enchilada Casserole, Slow Cooker Honey Ribs, John Wayne Casserole, Baked Mac and Cheese Freezer Meal, Easy Gnocchi Casserole, and Crispy Coconut Chicken Strips with Pina Colada Dipping Sauce anyone can be the star of dinnertime. Many meals are prepared with real life pantry ingredients such as canned broth or cream soup bases, because lets face it, not everyone has time to run out to the local store, or farmers market ahead of time.
With hectic days, come hectic evenings and some of these meals can be planned and cook ahead for future dinners, and even lunches. From work meetings, PTA, team practices, band, dance, boy scouts and everything in-between, moms and dads alike can find themselves in the horrible situation of trying to plan easy healthy meals for dinner, especially when there is only a short time in-between the many commitments of the day. Six Sisters’ Dinner made Easy, are real fast meals meant for small and large families with food in your pantry, with items you have on hand for a fast healthy go-to meal.
With recipes like this, I couldn’t help but dive right in, with the pleasant result that the finished meal looked exactly like the recipe in the book, while also being flavorful and easy to prepare. Once again, Six Sisters’ hits the mark, making this book the perfect gift for any recipe lover, new bride, or even as a new home gift, as a welcome addition to any recipe shelf.
you can find the rest of my reviews and giveaways in my syndicated newspaper column: For the Love of Books-Dixon's Independent Voice, as well as more of my reviews in: San Diego Book Review & San Francisco Book Review
From the first page, readers can jump right into the well organized chapters: 30 Minutes or Less, 5 Ingredients or Less, Pantry Favorites, Slow Cooker Meals, Freezer Meals, One Pan- One Pot Meals, and Casseroles, as well as Shortcuts, or Timesavers and Cooking Hacks. For easy identification, handy icons are also provided next to each meal, which may represent more than one category, making the planning even simpler.
Chapters and chapters of mouthwatering dinners and their pictures, explode across the pages. While hacks and ideas for stress free cooking, and future preparation gives readers even more tools, allowing anyone to be a successful home chef. Staying true to their cookbook past, there are ample choices with a wide variety of menu styles, taste preferences for adults and children, as well as straightforward and simple preparation and cooking directions.
With recipes like Ritz Chicken, Green Chile Enchilada Casserole, Slow Cooker Honey Ribs, John Wayne Casserole, Baked Mac and Cheese Freezer Meal, Easy Gnocchi Casserole, and Crispy Coconut Chicken Strips with Pina Colada Dipping Sauce anyone can be the star of dinnertime. Many meals are prepared with real life pantry ingredients such as canned broth or cream soup bases, because lets face it, not everyone has time to run out to the local store, or farmers market ahead of time.
With hectic days, come hectic evenings and some of these meals can be planned and cook ahead for future dinners, and even lunches. From work meetings, PTA, team practices, band, dance, boy scouts and everything in-between, moms and dads alike can find themselves in the horrible situation of trying to plan easy healthy meals for dinner, especially when there is only a short time in-between the many commitments of the day. Six Sisters’ Dinner made Easy, are real fast meals meant for small and large families with food in your pantry, with items you have on hand for a fast healthy go-to meal.
With recipes like this, I couldn’t help but dive right in, with the pleasant result that the finished meal looked exactly like the recipe in the book, while also being flavorful and easy to prepare. Once again, Six Sisters’ hits the mark, making this book the perfect gift for any recipe lover, new bride, or even as a new home gift, as a welcome addition to any recipe shelf.
you can find the rest of my reviews and giveaways in my syndicated newspaper column: For the Love of Books-Dixon's Independent Voice, as well as more of my reviews in: San Diego Book Review & San Francisco Book Review
September 10, 2016
The recipes in this book all look to be very simple, fast, and basic, with ingredients you will probably have on hand in your home. Since the focus of the book is making dinner easy, the book is divided into sections of 30 minutes or less, using your crockpot, one pot/pan meals done on the stove, freezer meals, and with 5 ingredients or less. Every single recipe includes a picture of what the finished meal should look like. Also, there are great tips and ideas spread throughout the book -- one is "Kitchen Shortcuts and Time-Savers" and another is "Cooking Hacks" (like how to tell if an egg is fresh). This is not a spiral-bound book, but the pages and covers are heavy duty and, like the other cookbooks from these sisters, seem like they will hold up well with lots of use. I honestly don't know how much I would reach for this book, as there were probably only 10-20 recipes that honestly caught my eye; however, I really think this would be a great book for me to have my teenage daughters use when it's their turn to make dinner because, again, the recipes look to be very simple and basic, nothing too fancy but easy enough for them to follow along and prepare a great meal for our family.
September 20, 2016
I love to cook and I love to read cookbooks, and Six Sisters Stuff is one of my favorites, both to read online and to read their cookbooks. I liked that they use ingredients that I have on hand and their recipes are usually quick, easy and delicious.
I loved the way that this cookbook has a bunch of different sections depending upon what kind of recipe/how much time you have to make the recipe. The 30 minute or less section will be most helpful on days when you haven't had any time to think of dinner. And I love a good slow cooker dinner. It's always a great feeling knowing you made dinner first thing in the morning and don't have to think about it any more!
I have had a great time making recipes out of this one. There were a couple of breakfast casseroles that I wanted to try, I couldn't decide which one to make, so I tried a half of each. They were easy to prepare and they both tasted amazing!
I love that each of these recipes is a family friendly (picky-eater friendly) healthy meal that I will be able to make quickly and easily. I LOVE this cookbook!
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I loved the way that this cookbook has a bunch of different sections depending upon what kind of recipe/how much time you have to make the recipe. The 30 minute or less section will be most helpful on days when you haven't had any time to think of dinner. And I love a good slow cooker dinner. It's always a great feeling knowing you made dinner first thing in the morning and don't have to think about it any more!
I have had a great time making recipes out of this one. There were a couple of breakfast casseroles that I wanted to try, I couldn't decide which one to make, so I tried a half of each. They were easy to prepare and they both tasted amazing!
I love that each of these recipes is a family friendly (picky-eater friendly) healthy meal that I will be able to make quickly and easily. I LOVE this cookbook!
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
February 5, 2017
This is the perfect cookbook for busy people. It's chock full of recipes that either can be slow cooked or made in less than 30 minutes. Several have 5 ingredients or less; they also have a section on freezer cooking, for people that do that. There are a lot of processed ingredients here, and I wish there were more healthy recipes, but you can adjust the ingredients to fit your preference and use fresh where they use canned or frozen, etc. The strongest chapter (for me) was the slow cooker meals; they also have a lot of pork chop recipes, which is something I'm always looking for.
This is the perfect cookbook for busy families; it's not a special occasion cookbook and the dishes are kind of 'safe', but if you've got a half hour or so to get dinner on the table, this book is good to have around.
This is the perfect cookbook for busy families; it's not a special occasion cookbook and the dishes are kind of 'safe', but if you've got a half hour or so to get dinner on the table, this book is good to have around.
December 1, 2016
I really liked this book and picked it up because sometimes I need time-saving recipes. I did find that that was the case with many of these recipes. I got a chance to try quite a few before I had to give it back to the library and several all my family members enjoyed. They do have more on the canned stuff, but that was okay for me because I knew going in this was time saving. I loved the different categories organization especially. One of their better cookbooks fror me.
September 3, 2016
Another fun addition to the Six Sisters' cookbook collection. Great pictures, uncomplicated recipes.
September 9, 2016
I really enjoy the Six Sisters recipe books. Good pictures and approachable recipes. A few too many processed ingredients, but overall excellent for a busy cook.
February 7, 2017
I made two recipes: the slow cooker teriyaki bowl and the seven-can tortilla soup. Both we're bland and sad.
I did like how easy they were to make, but I like to really enjoy my food.
I did like how easy they were to make, but I like to really enjoy my food.
December 26, 2020
These six sisters are a favorite of mine. I adore many of their recipes and cannot wait to see what they come up with next. :)
April 26, 2018
Pictures of Recipes? All are pictured.
Commentary on Recipes? Very little.
Nutrition Facts? No
Recipe style? Pantry cooking.
Any keepers? Yes, the Italian Beef Slow-cooker Sandwiches.
The recipes are pretty basic, so it felt like I've seen them a dozen other times. Not a bad choice if you're clueless about what to make and need some advice. I missed the commentary on the recipes. I'd like to know why the "Best Pork Chops Ever" recipe was so much better than the half dozen other pork chop recipes in there.
Commentary on Recipes? Very little.
Nutrition Facts? No
Recipe style? Pantry cooking.
Any keepers? Yes, the Italian Beef Slow-cooker Sandwiches.
The recipes are pretty basic, so it felt like I've seen them a dozen other times. Not a bad choice if you're clueless about what to make and need some advice. I missed the commentary on the recipes. I'd like to know why the "Best Pork Chops Ever" recipe was so much better than the half dozen other pork chop recipes in there.
March 30, 2017
I've seen recipes from Six Sisters' Stuff before, and I've really liked them. My bad for not realizing I'd just stumbled across their healthy recipe category by chance, because these certainly aren't. When I'm looking for recipes, I'm not looking for something that uses a can of whatever, I'm looking for things that use actual real food ingredients. It is possible to cook time-saving meals without the use of a bunch of processed food. But even leaving that out, it seems their #1 solution to make a meal fast, is to add soy sauce. The whole reason I'm in such a hurry is because I have a toddler who wants her food NOW, and no toddler (nor any other kid... nor adult for that matter) should be getting that much sodium in one meal, and certainly not on a regular basis. Even reduced-sodium soy sauce is not low sodium by any stretch of the imagination.
3 stars for the tips, which I really did like, and I'd happily pick up a book of 6 sisters cooking / meal tips. I'll stick to their website for recipes, where (and I just looked to verify) I can find recipes that are both quick, and healthy.
3 stars for the tips, which I really did like, and I'd happily pick up a book of 6 sisters cooking / meal tips. I'll stick to their website for recipes, where (and I just looked to verify) I can find recipes that are both quick, and healthy.
December 12, 2016
Technically this fits my bill for a good cookbook. It is well laid out. It includes pictures of every recipe. It has accessible ingredients and the recipes are realistic. My family might actually eat them and I could realistically prepare them. It was certainly not earth-shattering, but that's probably not really what my family is after in real world meals.
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January 16, 2017“Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters’ Stuff” can help add variety and time saving recipes into preparation for dinnertime.
Here's the link to my review for the Deseret News and a recipe.
Here's the link to my review for the Deseret News and a recipe.
December 13, 2016
Yumminess
I loved the selections of recipes. They look relatively easy to make and the ingredients are simple and most of the items you have on hand. Can't wait to try the ones I've already book marked!
I loved the selections of recipes. They look relatively easy to make and the ingredients are simple and most of the items you have on hand. Can't wait to try the ones I've already book marked!
March 5, 2017
Very simple recipes with nothing unique. A picture for each recipe which always is helpful. One thing a didn't like was many recipes have soy, garlic , ginger combination. Think of something different. Too much cream of chicken soup.
July 29, 2016
Love this cookbook, All of the recipes are so good and so easy!
October 2, 2016
I liked this one, it looked good and had some really practical recipes and tips. Missed nutrition information though. And it was a little heavy on the processed foods.
November 24, 2016
A lot of quick, easy meal ideas using lots of cheese and cream of something soups.
November 6, 2016
This is a great book for quick and easy meals.
December 7, 2016
Picking up later next year
January 4, 2017
Loved it! Many wonderful recipes! My family will eat well this year!
January 13, 2017
I have bookmarked so many delicious looking recipes in this cookbook, and I can't wait to try them!
March 10, 2017
This is my favorite cookbook! In just a week I made 2 things from it, and ohhhh my goodness gracious!
May 10, 2017
lots of tasty looking recipes. I can't wait to try some of them.
May 25, 2017
Has really good and easy meals to make. I will be trying some out later.
December 21, 2017
Notes:
JUNK FOOD
JUNK FOOD
October 28, 2019
The positive things about Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters' Stuff: Time-Saving Recipes for Busy Moms are that there is a photo for every recipe and it is well organized.
However, I found quite a few recipes that seem repetitive in ingredients if not in title and far too many relied on canned goods and soups. I found Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters' Stuff: Time-Saving Recipes for Busy Moms very reminiscent of Ladies club and Church compilation fundraiser cookbooks, which in and of itself is not a bad thing but I have far too many of those from the past 40 years on my shelf already! I found 12 recipes that interest me and only 1 of them is not a recipe I've seen before. I thought the 'Freezer Meal" section was very interesting.
3.5 stars
However, I found quite a few recipes that seem repetitive in ingredients if not in title and far too many relied on canned goods and soups. I found Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters' Stuff: Time-Saving Recipes for Busy Moms very reminiscent of Ladies club and Church compilation fundraiser cookbooks, which in and of itself is not a bad thing but I have far too many of those from the past 40 years on my shelf already! I found 12 recipes that interest me and only 1 of them is not a recipe I've seen before. I thought the 'Freezer Meal" section was very interesting.
3.5 stars
October 9, 2020
I returned the book after getting halfway through it. I like their blog, and I think the recipes are perfect for busy homemakers or working moms. For me, I don’t buy canned soups nor package mixes. I haven’t done so, for 20 years. I like
to support food bloggers (since I’m one myself). I found the photography to be average (we do taste with our eyes). The recipes just didn’t inspire me. However , I do like their Copycat recipe cookbook.
to support food bloggers (since I’m one myself). I found the photography to be average (we do taste with our eyes). The recipes just didn’t inspire me. However , I do like their Copycat recipe cookbook.
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