Category: Reviews
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I Want My Dinner Now!
I was sent this cookbook, I Want My Dinner Now, to review and it’s got some really neat features. First, I love that every single recipe is set up so that you get the ingredients measured for either 2 or 6 servings. So if you want 4 servings you can easily double the 2 servings…
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Mostly True: A Memoir of Family, Food, and Baseball
I’ve just finished this book and it’s delightful! In fact, I kept wanting to interrupt my reading to write up a blog post about it to share it with you all, but that would have meant I had to stop reading it–and the reading won out over the writing. Mostly True: A Memoir of Family,…
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Cheap. Fast. Good!
I’ve been having fun with the new Cheap. Fast. Good! cookbook by the authors of one of my all-time favorite cookbooks, Desperation Dinners, a great book with good recipes that get on your table FAST, with few processed ingredients. They’re definitely not the “dump a can of cream of mushroom soup over some meat and…
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Easy Garlic Chicken Breasts From Saving Dinner
This is from Saving Dinner, which I borrowed from the library after reading so many rave reviews. The recipes in here are fairly simple, mostly use what I consider “real” ingredients, and so far the ones I’ve tried have been quite tasty. There is a lot of recipes for boneless skinless chicken breasts. Perhaps too…
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Book Review: The Warehouse Gourmet
I’ve just received a cookbook to review and have to say I love the concept! The Warehouse Gourmet is out to help you shop the “big box” stores in an economical fashion. None of that overly processed pre-packaged stuff in here. Instead, the book is full of great-sounding recipes for “6 pounds of ground beef”…