Quick & Kosher - Recipes From The Bride Who Knew Nothing Hardcover – November 13, 2007

This is a great cookbook even if you’re not Jewish. My partner and I leave a copy on our dining room table and plan out our Friday evening dinners using this cookbook as a menu like you get in a restaurant. We tag the pages we like with Post-it‘s through the week, and then go back and select what we’re going to make for Friday. The recipes are exquisite delicious interesting and super healthy. I’m not personally a good cook but using these recipes I am told I am quite the chef.

Quick and Kosher recipes from the bride who knew nothing.Pros (theres a lot of them)1.Fun to read- In between recipes, Jamie tells us her hilarious cooking fiascos2.Simple recipes- most are just mix and dump, all don't require any appliance except maybe a blender3.Few Ingredients- Most of her recipes use typical ingredients found in most kosher pantries4.Quick!!!- here's the biggie all her recipes take less than 15 minutes (yes folks 15 minutes on the FIRST try)I've seen other "quick" cookbooks where prep time can be an hour!5.Delicious recipes- With Jamie, you don't have to compromise taste for time. Her quick easy recipes taste good!I've tried dozens of Chocolate chip cookie recipes but her's is my go to recipe. It's quick and yummy!6.Passover section- Jamie gives simple conversions that can make a nice chunk of her cookbook kosher for passover as well! So you also get quick and kosher for Passover! 2 in 1!7.Menu ideas- There are menu ideas for all minor and major Jewish holidays8.Wine- There are wine suggestions with every recipe even the desserts! There is also an interview with a winery!9.Interviews- Jamie interviews a butcher, grocer, produce and fish guy on how to get the best meat fish and produce as well as more info about the Jewish food market.Cons1.Desserts- with just 15 minutes, most of her desserts are more on the plain side. There aren't too many Wow! desserts.2.Ingredients- Jamie is all about saving time and uses many processed ingredients. Some may say, "I don't need to buy a cookbook to tell me to bake my chicken with duck sauce". If that's you maybe buy a different cookbook with more elaborate recipes.This cookbook is prefect for a new bride (I got one for my sister a bride who has no idea how to cook) or for someone who doesn't like to fuss in the kitchen.

I originally bought this cookbook for a new bride who did not know how to cook. I have to admit that once I opened Quick & Kosher, I couldn't put it down! I enjoyed reading the author's stories and comments. The photographs are beautiful and inspirational. The recipes are truly quick and simple, but delicious. To date, I have purchased 10 copies of this wonderful book. I had to keep one copy for myself. The others were bought as gifts: two for new brides, two for my twenty-something sons, and the other five for friends who have been married from 19 to 35 years with two to seven kids! If someone likes to spend hours in the kitchen creating exotic dishes with many ingredients and steps to follow, then this is not the cookbook for them. I have already made many different dishes from the cookbook and my family and friends have raved about each selection. I get periodic calls from all of the gift recipients updating me on their latest creations and thanking me over and over for buying them their copy of Quick & Kosher. This cookbook is for everyone who needs to cook, wants delicious meals, but wants to get out of the kitchen!

Was not there at the shower to see bride's reaction, and don't really know if she actually DOES NOT KNOW anything about cooking. (She is daughter of friends). However, from what I saw when I received this book, it is a wonderful shower gift and had great recipes. Most seemed very easy to do. I will definitely be buying this again for similar purposes (young brides, shower gifts) , perhaps even for myself. Always great to learn new recipes, even if you've been married for a long time.

Darn good cook book for the type of cooking it presents, Kosher.

Needed to find recipes that reminded me of grandma's kosher kitchen. I was watching JLTV when an episode starring Jamie Geller came on.Just like the title said, it was quick and kosher.

Delicious, easy-to-follow recipes!

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This cook book is fantastic. Has a wide range of recipes with large colour photographs. The only problem I had was as the book is from America, the measurements are in cups not grams.