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Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids Review
User Submitted Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids ReviewsAugust 19, 2008 Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids The kids love to make recipes from this cookbook. It is great that the recipes are separated by age groups (for difficulty). The recipes are pretty good, too. I like that it has a spiral binding inside the hard cover. June 6, 2008 Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children? "Cooking Rocks!" was Rachael Ray's first venture into kid-friendly cooking. It's a cut above "Yum-O!" in its simplicity,and it's clearly made for kids. "Cooking Rocks!" translated her half-hour hits into family accessible recipes. "Cooking Rocks!" is colorful, easy-to-use,and the division of labor between adults&kids is reasoned out. There are recipes clearly aimed at kids-like Fruit "Sushi",Worms&Eyeballs, and Ray's ubiquitous "Pasta,Cheese,and Trees." It's whimsical without being overly cute. There are also meals adults&kids can enjoy alike,such as Tomato,Basil,and Cheese Baked Pasta,as well as Cinnamon-Apple Nachos with Peanut Butter Sauce. On the other hand, as befits a Dunkin' Donuts spokeswoman,the recipes contain a lot of fat and sugar. This is from a woman who started her Yum-O! charity to combat childhood obesity. There are also Ray's usual unholy food combinations. The Chicken Catch-a-tory Ravioli Stew is a sure recipe for constipation. The Hot Dog Pizza with sugared cucumber slices (pickles?) sounds indigestion-inducing. The pizza cheeseburgers are from Ray's "throw it together" philosophy. Yuck-O! "Cooking Rocks!" is a mixed bag. Not great, not awful as its follow-up. It's mediocre. May 7, 2008 Ray's Kid Cookbook I enjoy cooking. The Kitchen is like my science lab, it is great to taste and try new things in the kitchen. A cookbook written with children in mind can either talk down to kids or can treat them like equals. most of this book treats children like equals. However it is cutely illustrated with cartoony images of Rachel Ray, which to me, belittles the kids. The recipes are family oriented cooking tasks that kids and adults can make together. It has plastic slicked stock is the kind I think most cook books can use This book is good cook book for family and people that want to teach children to eat well. I like what is here..if you have kids and want to have your children to learn to cook, this is your book Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD April 9, 2008 Rachael Ray A friend of mine has this book, she is a school teacher. I figured that since I don't know how to cook, I could learn from this book... I didn't but it was a cool book.. January 20, 2008 Everything that's wrong with America You are not selling kids on healthy eating if you shill for Dunkin' Donuts at the same time. There are literally thousands of better food role models to have your children follow. Rachel Ray and her slimy, hyper-sanitized ilk are little better formers of youthful opinion than are the folks at McDonald's (and dear god I hope that we all are trying to aspire beyond McDonald's). If you and your child go ahead and make Mark Bittman's simple Minimalist recipe from the NY Times, you will develop in both yourself and in the child the ability to eat with a varied palate and to try new things that don't come from cardboard boxes or wherever Ray gets her pre-packaged goodies. Bonus: If time is of the essence, Bittman can provide you with 101 meals in 10 minutes each (plus time to boil pasta). How To Cook Everything: Simple Recipes for Great Food January 13, 2008 Great cookbook! My son, 9, is a budding chef and fan of Rachael Ray. He loves this cookbook because it is fun to read and the recipes are yummy! I love it because it is broken down into age oriented categories. The recipes spam from easy recognizable (with funny names at times) to ones a bit more discerning, perfect for a child chef who is a serious devotee of cooking shows! The spiral binding makes this book very usable for small fingers. January 6, 2008 NOT WORTH THE MONEY, YUCK! I love Rachael Ray. I love her enthusiasm, her moxie, just her good 'ole zest for life. She is fun to watch and gets you really involved in the meal at the same time urging you to try new things. She should not have published this cookbook. The ideals in it are nice. Cook with your kids, teaching, learning etc. etc. Create some wholesome family time etc. etc. ABSOLUTELY. Great ideas, great concepts. HORRIBLE RECIPES. Seriously, just plain bad. I am an uneducated semi-gourmet cook. Meaning, I am an excellent cook, everyone has always loved my food and I can cook just about anything under the sun (with or without recipes), BUT, I have not been to culinary school. Even so, these are terrible recipes!!!!! They not only taste terrible, they don't make alot of culinary sense. I am not bashing Rachael. Just this cookbook. Don't waste your money folks, look elsewhere, but continue to cook with your kids, it is time well spent! December 12, 2007 This book should be called, How to Poison Your Kids by Rachel Ray This is just plan bad, take my word for it, your kids will not eat anything in this book, unless they are into eating out of your garbage, please stop giving your money to this muppet of a cook and peruse the book store for some better kid's cook books. October 1, 2007 Great kids cookbook This cookbook is lots of fun. Almost all of the items are meals a child will enjoy cooking and eating. My kids couldn't wait to eat the "Worms and Eyeballs." Some of the spices are a bit heavy for a younger child however but it is easy to tone down to your own tastes during preparation. Definately a worthwhile purchase. September 4, 2007 Recipes Look Good, But They're Not I've tried two of the recipes in the book, and they're not too good. The Middle Eastern Rice Bowl has a lot of chicken (I don't really like chicken.). The Thai Rice Bowl had a weird flavor to it. There are so many recipes that look good in there, like the Fuji Apples and Peanut Buttery Caramel Dip, but now that my mom says that the recipes are "off", I don't think they will taste that good. Remember, this is a kid's opinion, so you might not agree. For more Cooking Rocks! Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals for Kids reviews click here.
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