Kid Food: Rachael Ray's Top 30 30-Minute Meals

by Rachael Ray

Rachael guarantees, Yes, your kids will eat it! These Top 30 kid-friendly meals, a collection of her greatest hits, will have the whole family asking for seconds. Break the weeknight routine with hassle-free cooking and delicious results.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

144 pages, Spiral-bound

First published September 21, 2005

About the author

Rachael Domenica Ray is an American cook, television personality, businesswoman, and author. She hosted the syndicated daily talk and lifestyle program Rachael Ray. Other programs to her credit include 30 Minute Meals, Rachael Ray's Tasty Travels, $40 a Day, Rachael Ray's Week in a Day, and the reality format shows Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off and Rachael Ray's Kids Cook-Off. Ray has written several cookbooks based on the 30 Minute Meals concept, and launched a magazine, Every Day with Rachael Ray, in 2006. Ray's television shows have won three Daytime Emmy Awards.

Reviews

[alice · Rating 5 out of 5]

I would recommend this book to people who love to cook like ME.It has a whole lot of recipes.If you like Rachael Ray and her recipes I think you would like this book.If your a kid I think you should ask your parents for permission before you start to cook.

[Katy Lovejoy · Rating 5 out of 5]

I don't remember much about Rachel Ray but these recipes sound delicious

[ஐ Katya (Book Queen)ஐ · Rating 1 out of 5]

Okay, first of all my kids wouldn't eat Pesto Pit-zas with Spinach & Broccoli or Creamy Tomato-Basil Soup. (This is after all, a kids cookbook).

However, the instructions at the front of her cookbook really turn me off anything by Rachel Ray. I'll quote:

"Don't measure with instruments, use your hands. You're not baking or conducting experiments for the government - just feel your way through.

How to measure Rachel's way:
A handful = about 3 TBsp
A palmful = 2 TBsp
Half a palmful = you to the math
A pinch = about 1/4 tsp
A few good pinches = about 1 tsp
Once around the pan = about 1 TBsp of liquid
Twice around the pan - more math: about 2 TBsp, 3 or 4 would be 1/4 cup"

I don't know how anyone can cook consistantly when measuring this way. However, even if you find a way to get used to doing it that way, it's NOT the way to instruct someone else on how to cook something for the first time that they've never made before. I have never found a Rachel Ray cookbook I like for this these very reasons: inaccurate measurements along with recipes regular families wouldn't eat.

If it matters, the cookbook does at least have photos in it of each completed recipe.

[Vanessa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rachel Ray is one of my best cooks all her recipes are amazing and when i follow them thet turn out wonderful and i continue to follow there stuff and when my family comes over i love to bake with them and she's incredible one day i wish i can make my own recipes one day

[Kori · Rating 1 out of 5]

It's obvious Rachel Ray doesn't have kids

[Kristin · Rating 3 out of 5]

well, so far, my kid hasn't jumped with joy for the stuff i've made from the cookbook. hopefully his tune will change. i've liked it, though!

[Rachelee]

idid

[Michelle Kelly · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not for me

[Tara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good resapes for four!