Review: Recipes for Cold Weather Cooking
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 11 1, 2011
Are you already thinking about how you can use that leftover turkey from Thanksgiving? Well this cookbook has a delicious recipe for "Old-Fashioned Turkey Pot Pie." It is simple to make because you use pie crusts you buy at the store, frozen mixed vegetables and cream of chicken soup. How easy is that? Some of the other recipes that will be great to try out this winter include: Sun-Dried Tomato and Parmesan Quiche, Asparagus Shepherd's Pie (ground beef, potatoes, cream of asparagus soup and asparagus), Spaghetti Pie and Beefy Slow-Cooker Pot Pie. Most of these recipes have vegetables in them which is good for you but they have some convenience ingredients like soups as well. This is a great collection of recipes for family cooking.~The Rebecca ReviewP.S. I tried the "Upside Down Mexican Pot Pie" and it needed a bit of help. I added 1 1/2 teaspoons seasoning salt (no salt is called for in the recipe), 1/2 teaspoon parsley, 1/4 teaspoon paprika and lots of freshly ground black peppercorns. Also if you use a 2-quart casserole dish as advised you are going to run into an overfill problem. You need a 3-quart casserole dish! I also left out the zucchini. Once you get everything into the frying pan it is a good idea to keep it there cooking for about ten minutes so everything cooks down a bit before you pour it over the cornbread batter. I may also add some tomato paste next time I make it. Anyway it is full of healthy vegetables so I'm glad I was able to adapt it. The words my husband said as he dug into this dish were: "This is really good." I think I'll be making it again. But do adapt it otherwise it will have no flavor.