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This cookbook has some really tasty recipes; they run the gamut from time consuming to easy, so depending on what you have time for, pick the recipe. Spicy chicken chili, burgundy beef, and gourmet Chinese chicken salad are a few of my favorites. PLUS, proceeds from the sale of this book benefits the Junior League of PDX, which serves the disabled, the elderly, women and children, the arts, historic preservation, and the environment... does banging around in the kitchen get any more noble than that?!