-- A focus on great meals in 20 minutes or less! A better time-promise than the competition! -- Clear, easy and functional line-art shows technique and equipment -- not cartoony. Families today have less time than ever to sit down and enjoy a meal together! And who has time to cook? Making the most of precious minutes in the kitchen has lead to one of the biggest trends in home cooking - the quick and easy meal. Filled with delicious recipes that the family - including the kids- will love. The Complete Idiot's Guide "RM" to 20-Minute Meals gives you a variety of recipes that look much more difficult and time consuming than they are. Recipes focus on timesaving meals - such as using prepared sauces as a base for your dish, adding prepared components to your meal and shortcutting time intensive techniques. Create terrific appetizers; soups, salads, meat dishes, pasta, seafood, kid favorites, vegetables, breads, sweets and more in under 20-minutes per recipe. Complete with time saving techniques and ingredients, Chef Dimmick also includes menus for feasts such as Easter, Thanksgiving, July 4th, brunch and dinner for the boss!

No more burnt offerings! Whether it’s nachos or crock-pot kielbasa, a party, something quick for the kids’ lunch, a romantic date night, or dinner-for-one, this guy-friendly cookbook features over 230 real-food recipes for everything from vegetables, pasta, and desserts, to leftovers, appetizers, and grilling. Instead of relying on shortcuts, canned food, or unhealthy processed ingredients, it pares down complex cooking instructions, explains basic cooking terms, figures in prep time and cook time, and allots larger portion sizes. • Notes high-salt or high-cholesterol recipes. • Includes more than 230 recipes. • Provides special tips, advice, and recipe construction for beginners, plus bigger portion sizes for hungry men.

Cook these recipes up-and keep blood sugar down. With over 325 delicious and healthy recipes, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the Glycemic Index Cookbook is an invaluable reference for choosing foods according to their GI-a system of classifying carbohydrate-based foods by how much they raise blood sugar. Diabetes, insulin resistance, heart disease, and obesity may be avoided by following the glycemic index. Practical and easy to use, this is the one cookbook anyone concerned with their blood sugar will want to have in the kitchen. • More than 325 recipes • Includes both the GI value and a GL (glycemic load) rating for each recipe • 18 million people in the U.S. have type 2 diabetes and the number is growing

- Includes over 500 delicious recipes for busy people - Offers a more budget-friendly resource compared to competing titles in the same category

The only pressure cooker book written with a trained chef. ? Features over 200 delicious recipes.

Presents more than 330 recipes for hors d'oeuvres, finger foods, and snacks, including cognac cream shrimp, quick lamb spead with feta and garlic, and toasted grilled pita with parmesan.

In The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guys, chef and author Tod Dimmick brings a guy's perspective to dozens of recipes from Sloppy Joe's, Chili, Nachos, and Wings to Beer Can Chicken, Skillet Ham and Eggs, Crock Pot Kielbasa, and Garfield's Lasagne. Whether it's for a large crowd ("Firehouse Cooking"), the kids ("Recipes Even Kids Will Eat"), date night ("Food for Love"), or Appetizers ("Food for the Big Game"), men of all ages will find something to love in this unique, "guy's only" cookbook. Complete with chapters on vegetables, pasta, desserts, leftovers, nice dinners, picnics, grilling, entertaining, and Mexican food, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Cooking for Guysalso features chapters and recipes to go with specific appliances including the oven, stovetop, broiler, and slow cooker. It also covers basic cooking terms and methods as well as spices, rubs, and secret sauces.