This book is so helpful, especially if you are cooking for a crowd or you have picky eaters. There is something in this for everyone. The recipes are easy to follow. The photography is good. The monkey bread muffins, mini corn souffles, and philly cheesesteak sloppy joes were all delicious. There are many recipes in here to add to our rotation.

Family life today just seems to be getting busier and busier, so The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook sounds like the perfect solution for modern, busy lifestyles. With this in mind, I was really excited to review this new cookbook from Carole Jones publishing November 1st, 2020, from Adams Media.

Jones lays out the cookbook nicely, starting with a primer on cooking with frozen ingredients, then moving onto the recipes in easy-to-understand categories such as:
• Breakfasts
• Sides
• Chicken Dishes
• Beef and Pork Dishes
• Fish and Seafood Dishes
• Vegetarian Dishes
• Desserts

The introductory section to cooking from frozen is excellent, outlining helpful tips in regard to how frozen ingredients differ from fresh on the stove top or in the oven.

With the prevalence of low carb dietary choices among American consumers today, I was a bit surprised to see the recipe book was fairly full of higher-carb option. However, there are a few lower-carb options, as well, for those on keto, whole 30, paleo, and related meal plans. Some offerings that this reviewer is excited to try include:
• Tropical Yogurt Parfaits
• Sweet Pea and Bacon Salad
• Citrus Basil Cod
• Blackened Lime Mahi-Mahi
• Cheesy Vegetable Soup

The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook is an excellent choice for busy families who don’t mind traditional, high-carb, American dishes, or for those who would love to use it as a stepping-off point for learning how to cook from frozen.

A big thank you to Carole Jones, Adams Media, and NetGalley for providing a complimentary Advanced Reader Copy in exchange for this honest review.

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If you have a hard time finding fresh produce or store/freeze - this is a fabulous cookbook for you.
Many ingredients are already frozen- no need for fresh.
Faster meal preps as well. All meals can be cooked in 30 or less. Book offers side dishes, chicken, beef, soups and desserts. Great for moms on the go!

Interesting concept for a cookbook. Found myself distracted by the question of whether cooking from frozen was food safe? But otherwise a great title.

This book has some great recipes and then some random strange ones. Overall a nice way to use frozen ingredients but nothing innovative in terms of dishes.

The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook is a technique and recipe collection by Carole Jones. Released 6th Oct 2020 by Simon & Schuster on their Adams Media imprint, it's 192 pages and available in paperback and ebook formats.
This cookbook embraces an interesting (and appealing) concept: how to get tasty food on the table in 30 minutes using at least some frozen ingredients. The only times I had ever done that before were for things like frozen fish fillets, frozen pizza, french fries, and smoothies. Admittedly, smoothies are included in this collection, but the author presents so many more creative ways to incorporate frozen convenience foods in everyday meals.

The recipes are arranged thematically by chapters: breakfast, side dishes, chicken, beef & pork, fish & seafood, vegetarian, and desserts. Each recipe includes an intro description, ingredients listed bullet style (measurements in American standard only, metric conversion tables in the back of the book), and step by step instructions. Nutritional info: calories, fat, protein, sodium, fiber, carbs, and sugar, are included at the end of each recipe.

The recipes are what I would classify as "everyday fancy" - perfectly attainable and do-able but without hugely involved effort or expensive (weird) ingredients. The ingredients will be readily available at any moderately well stocked grocery store.

The photography is not plentiful. At a rough guess, probably 15-20% of the dishes are pictured. The photos which are there are clear and well done. Serving suggestions are appropriate and attractive. The lack of photos detracted a bit from the overall experience for me.

The recipes are varied and the ones we tried were all tasty and enjoyed by my family. Many of these would be great for cooks who are learning to cook on their own. This one would make a superlative choice for a newly-moved-out student or someone living on their own for the first time. Many of the recipes have large yields (6+ servings), so for singletons, some adjustments will need to be made for leftovers. (I saw that a lot of the recipes would lend themselves very well to meal planning/once a week cooking - so that's something to keep in mind).

Four stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

The recipes themselves are not very groundbreaking, but what’s interesting here are the ways in which frozen ingredients are incorporated. Really, this is a cookbook to help you feel confident using frozen vegetables and frozen fish and other such ingredients, and honestly I really like that. Cooking with frozen ingredients can be a bit mystifying: when should you defrost something? How do you deal with all the melting and splattering? But this cookbook lays out some guidelines, including the astonishing fact that you can cook frozen fish without thawing it first.

As for the recipes, they aren’t particularly creative or unique, but they do give you a good place to start practicing the techniques you’ve learned.

Since I could not download a copy for my Fire Tablet I was unable to review. The concept sounds interesting but I read on a Fire Tablet and protected PDFs don't work

It honestly never occurred to me that you can cook food that you have just removed from the freezer! (I'm a fairly new cook.) One of my pet peeves is having to thaw meat out on time.

So this book was an eye-opener for me. One of the first things I will do is cut up my ginger and freeze them because in the past they always grow mouldy on me! Really glad to learn that fish and other seafood can be cooked straight from freezer!

Having said that, I think it would have been tremendously beneficial if there had been a chapter on how to prepare veggies and even cook meat for freezing so that you don't have to buy precut or precooked food in bags. Those get very expensive where I live. The chicken recipes all involve meat that are frozen but precooked as are some of the beef dishes..

I was quite surprised to discover some recipes with ingredients where the only things frozen were the garlic and onions, and one other frozen veggie.

Overall, I have gleaned some really useful tips from this book and am grateful, but I had hoped for more.

Thank you Netgalley and Adams Media for this ARC. This is my honest opinion.

What a handy book to have on the shelf for busy people -- especially all the people who may have stocked up their freezer or even purchased a second one in light of the COVID 19 pandemic. I have already earmarked several to try. I typically have some "emergency" proteins and veggies in the freezer, but usually prepare them in the most minimal of ways. This will give me the chance to make them shine.

I really liked this cookbook. It took some everyday ingredients and made them into things I haven't thought to try. I especially liked that they had nutrition information for every recipe and most of the recipes were easy to modify to different tastes.

This title is a solid option for beginning cooks. Many of the recipes jazz up the frozen ingredients with copious uses of butter and cheese. The only cook that needs that direction is a new one. I also might recommend it for a new parent given the ease of many of the recipies

I am not that great of a cook but there are several recipes in this book that look like yummy. I am excited to try them!

It is nice to be able to cook dinner in 30 minutes or less. But it’s even better to make dinner when I feel like eating it instead of right before the fresh ingredients are about to spoil. Enter the 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook to solve both problems.

With 100 recipes, neither you nor your family will be bored eating the same old dinners anymore. Just based on my own preferences, I cooked three recipes: Tex-Mex Rice and Beans, Jerk Chicken with Mango Salsa, and Pot Sticker Soup.

All the recipes are delicious and varied tremendously. The Pot Sticker Soup has the umami flavor that I love. I have never used pot stickers in a soup. It is now both my, and my famously picky husband’s, favorite meal. Even though I wasn’t able to find frozen mushrooms, I used fresh and they worked fine. The Tex-Mex recipe is great too. It was perfect for Meatless Monday. The Jerk Chicken is very convenient and yummy. It tasted great with just a cup of rice as a side dish.

Overall, I'm looking forward to trying other easy recipes using mostly frozen ingredients from this book. The only negative was the lack of photographs for all the recipes. However, each recipe includes the calories and other nutritional information. 4 stars for the 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook!

Thanks to Adams Media and NetGalley for a copy in exchange for my honest review.

The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook is aimed at allowing you to produce a meal or recipe with very little planning, in a short space of time with frozen ingredients. It wasn't quite what I had hoped for as I didn't find many of the recipes that appealing, and sometimes only one or two of the ingredients were from the freezer. I felt as though defrosting in the microwave defeated the object. I was hoping for a few really quick time saving recipes with wholesome ingredients all mainly frozen. The recipes are probably more appealing to the US market, and I'm sure lots of other people will find it very useful.

BOOK REVIEW
5 Star Cookbook!

This is my type of cookbook! meals in 30 minutes PLUS no need to thaw ANYTHING.

I really liked this cookbook in the fact it went into details about how to avoid Mushy frozen foods. My whole life I had always assumed you couldn't cook certain foods from frozen or if you did they would become to mushy or less flavorful. The 30 Minute Cooking from Frozen takes you through the steps fro non mushy greatness and flavorful-ness that last through the cooking process.

When searching for cookbooks, I have three things I look for. 1. Are they healthy recipes. This day in age, It is so important to find recipes to better your health as according to the Global Obesity Levels, America is one of the most obese countries (36.2% as of 3/27/2020). The second thing I look for in a cookbook, is if I can make the meals quick, but taste like you spent all day making the dish. People used to value their time in the kitchen, This day and age however, families are lucky if they get time as a family at the dinner table, But less have the time to prepare a healthy meal. These recipes are 30 minutes from start to finish! What a win!!! Lastly, I look at the recipes themselves. I like to find cookbooks that have recipes that I am familiar with, with easy to find ingredients. A huge turn off for me, is buying a cookbook and then getting home to realize, the recipes have a ton of ingredients you can't find easily in stores. 30 Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook. Is a simple cookbook but yet teaches you new techniques, brings lots of flavor and is ideal for the busy family. No more takeout because for forgot to thaw dinner out before you left for work!

Thank you to Netgalley and Adam's Media for providing this cookbook in exchange for my honest review. This book can be found to purchase on 10/6/2020!

This book was not what I thought it would be. I sometimes forget to take anything out of the freezer for dinner and end up trying to use the instant pot to go from frozen to dinner in an hour. I had thought this cookbook would help with that, but instead it used a frozen item such as chopped onion as the frozen ingredient. Also it used prepares frozen foods that I don’t usually have on hand or use. Overall this was not a useful book for me. Also needs more pictures!

I loved the idea of this, but sadly, it didn't live up to my expectation. For a cookbook, it actually is a must (I think) to include pictures of the final product together with the recipe. As a consumer, I wouldn't know if a recipe is appetizing or not by just reading the name of the dish and ingredients then imagining what that supposed to look like. As a nutrition major, I wanted to know how did the author come up with the nutrient content per serving of each dish. If one will put nutrient contents in a cookbook, I want to know where did they got all those numbers from. Because, it's not that easy to conclude that this new recipe have this amount of nutrients without actually having to test its biochemical properties or at least consult a Registered Nutritionist-Dietitian. This may not be important for other people, but it's important to me and the author deliberately put those in this cookbook, so don't say I'm nitpicking things here.

I received an advanced copy of The 30-Minute Cooking from Frozen Cookbook, by Carole Jones. This is a great cookbook, some of the chapters are breakfast foods, desserts, vegetarian meals, fish, and side dishes. I cannot wait to try the recipes, in this book.

I really liked the idea of this book, as I often forget to take things out of the freezer in enough time. I was disappointed to find out that most of the main dishes used things like bags of frozen precooked chicken strips, or they used meat that would need to be fully thawed.
Recipes did include nutritional info and we're split into chapters on Breakfast, Side Dishes, Chicken Main Dishes, Beef and Pork Main Dishes, Fish and Seafood Main Dishes, Vegetarian Main Dishes, and Desserts. There were photos for some of the recipes (probably around 20%). The dishes sounded good and had a variety of flavors, but some just used a few frozen veggies and other fresh or thawed ingredients. The book could be more useful for people who are short on time, but I find the precooked meats to be fairly expensive and was hoping for a book that used more unprocessed but still frozen items.
I received an ARC in exchange for an honest review.