The Six O’Clock Scramble: Quick, Healthy, and Delicious Dinner Recipes for Busy Families
The Six O’Clock Scramble cookbook is a companion to Aviva’s wonderful email-based newsletter service that provides busy moms with easy and nutritious meals for their families.The Scramble is a weekly e-mail newsletter that features: Five flavorful and healthy, tried-and-true dinner recipes with side dish suggestions, emailed to you each week. Easy-to-prepare dinners in 30 minutes (or less), most with fewer than 10 ingredients. Delicious, easy recipes like Asian Turkey Burgers, Tortellini Tossed with Fresh Mozzarella, honey glazed salmon and red beans and rice burritos. Includes an organized grocery list so you can print and shop. Perfect for working or full-time parents, or anyone who wants to make easy, delicious home-cooked meals. From O, The Oprah magazine:Aviva Goldfarb had one of those ideas - incredibly obvious, yet nobody had thought of it - that immediately make the pieces of your brain fit together with a neat click. A wife, mother, self-published cookbook author, and organizational ace, Goldfarb realized that for most people 6 P.M. was too late to start wondering what to cook for dinner. So she started the Six O’Clock Scramble (thescramble.com), a weekly e-mail newsletter with five days’ worth of dinner recipes, plus grocery lists. The meals (grilled teriyaki chicken tenderloins one night, baked huevos rancheros another) take about a half hour to prepare and are creative, healthy, unprocessed and kid-friendly without being adult-alienating. A subscription costs $5 a month - a small price to pay for a whole new kind of happy meal. Goldfarb herself is happy, having graduated from the self-publishing business: Next fall St. Martin’s Press will release The Six O’Clock Scramble Cookbook.
Customer Review: Great format - maybe a little more oomph?
Have tried a few of the recipes now and plan to keep making more. I love the format: the weekly/seasonal grocery lists, suggested side dishes, healthy ingredients and the mix of meat and meatless dishes. Definitely a great framework for putting together a weekly repertoire (it makes me braver about thinking up menus on my own, or just augmenting what’s in this book with favorites from elsewhere).
Cons:
Based on the entrees I’ve made so far (e.g. fettucine with chickpeas, Mediterranean chicken), and what I’ve skimmed past, the recipes seem to be on the bland side. I’ve been enhancing as I go - sun-dried tomatoes here, black olives and salt there - but wish the flavors were a little more complex and powerful. Then again, that would probably make the cooking time longer. Will be interesting to see how the more “exotic” entrees turn out.
Have also noticed that there’s a fair amount of cleanup involved - i.e., this is not one-dish cooking. In some cases it seems like you could saute all the ingredients in the same pan if the order was just switched around. Certainly there are other cookbooks for one-pot cooking, but if you’re looking to streamline your nightline routine, be aware there’s work on the back end here. Could be that this is a result of the recipes originating from different kitchens: I’ve found that the Barefoot Contessa recipes, for instance, tend to be pretty efficient, and I’m guessing that’s because they were developed under commercial conditions.
Lastly, I think it would be great if the seasonal menu pages as well as the grocery lists (”Fall,” “Winter,” and so on) had page numbers for each recipe, so that one doesn’t have to flip thru the index in back for each dish.
Customer Review: Great recipes
I enjoy making meals out of this book, however I must admit, they aren’t as kid friendly as they say. Yes, the recipes call for easy to find ingredients (except for the one with mango chutney, can’t find that in Mitchell, SD!), and I don’t consider my kids to be the pickiest eaters (I know pickier!), but I couldn’t get my 5 year old to eat more than half of the recipes I tried. My husband and I loved them, but not the kids. Aside from that, the book did help me make grocery lists with ease and I loved how fast the meals came together.
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Fisher-Price? My First Dollhouse™
My First Dollhouse introduces the fun of dollhouse play with a house that’s just right for even little girls. Chunky, easy-to-hold figures, sweet accessories, lots of room??????and even fun doorbell and phone sounds. Ring-ring! There’s a world of imaginative, nurturing play calling!Age: 2 years +Requires 2 AA (LR6) alkaline batteries (not included)Shipping Note: This item ships via UPS Ground within contiguous United States only. Cannot be shipped to AK/HI, PO boxes, US territories, or APO/FPO addresses.
Customer Review: Entertaining, language building…great purchase!
I gave this dollhouse to my niece for her 2nd birthday. She has had the best time with “her house”. I love our play time together with the house and it has really helped strengthen her language skills. She imitates what she sees others doing in the house and is able to talk about it so much quicker by reinforcing her language through play. She’s even teaching the baby to use the potty! It’s light enough so that she can carry it anywhere she wants, but sturdy enough so if she drops it, it doesn’t break. The pieces are also a perfect fit for small hands. The only drawbacks I see are that 1) you have to pay for the furniture individually, which makes it rather expensive and 2) there isn’t room for everything (I wanted to get her the sister’s room, but it won’t fit).
Customer Review: Love it!!!
My daughter received this doll house for her 2nd bday and she love to play with it. Keeps her busy for quite a while - and that’s very helpful to mommy!! Great for learning hot to pretend play. I suggest purchasing some of the rooms furniture when you buy the house, otherwise it will be fairly empty.
Melissa&Doug Deluxe Wooden Fold&Go Dollhouse with Furniture&2 Doll Figures
Roomy wooden dollhouse with 2 dolls, 11 pieces of furniture, working garage door, and a convenient carrying handle. An adorable “mobile home” that’s solid, lightweight and built to last! Ages 3+. 11.5″ x 16″ x 10″.
Customer Review: Great first dollhouse!
I was looking for a good “starter” dollhouse for my 3 year old. This one is perfect–it’s so easy to break the bank on a dollhouse, and for a child of three, it’s silly to spend too much. So, we decided on the Melissa and Doug ready to go doll house and it has been a real hit. I agree with other posters that it would be nice if the house had a clasp to keep it closed when carrying it, but we’ve been able to make do. If you’re looking for a basic, bare-bones, use-your-imagination doll house for a little one, look no further.
Customer Review: Great dollhouse, even for boys
My son received this for his second birthday and has played with it every day since. The labels were not a problem to remove. The people and furniture are definitely durable enough for toddlers. As someone else mentioned, I also wish that there were more figures and furniture available for the house, although they are the same scale as the old-style Fisher Price people, furniture, and cars, plus many other toy cars fit in the garage. (It’s funny to see the Fisher Price dog taking a bath or watching TV!) As my kids grow older, we will probably decorate the house with rugs, wallpaper, etc.
Plan Victorian Dollhouse
Plan Toys Victorian Dollhouse: 25.2 in. x 12.6 in. x 28.7 in. This elegant dollhouse has 3 floors including the attic. Each floor is accessible with opening panels and realistic sashes that slide open and shut. Additional attic space can also be made into any kind of room your child desires (furniture not included). Ages: 3+ years
Lovely Pink Roses Tea Set in porcelaine. Measures: Teapot - 1 1/2 wide x 1 3/4 tall with the lid on 1 1/4 with lid off Sugar bowl- 1 1/4 wide x 1 1/8 tall with lid on and 9/16 with lid off Creamer - 11/16 tall 3/4 in wide Teacup - 7/16 wide x 6/16 tall Saucer - 3/4 round Large serving Platter 2 1/2 inches wide This set is larger than 1:12 scale. I have another identical set that is appropiate for 1: 12 scale in my store look under 0371
Customer Review: Dollhouse Family
