Review: Fun, personal cookbook
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 03 1, 2014
Let's get one thing straight right away.  This is NOT a Spam cookbook, despite what is said in some other reviews.  I think, there are maybe two Spam recipes.  I like this author.  I read her other book about being an American living in Scotland.  She is fun.  No, this is not a la-de-dah cookbook for foodies.  It's a basic cookbook of one family's go to recipes for the kind of food you would feed your family.  That is not to say you won't find some special recipes here.  The author mostly cooks from scratch; no doctored up convenience food, for the most part.  She likes to make homemade breads  and other baked goods.  The soup chapter has some interesting soups, such as a tasty corn chowder.  The book is chatty and funny.  So far, I have only tried her mother's deviled eggs made with cream, which were good.  I have a lot more bookmarked to try, including hockey puck cookies, cheddar biscuits, soft pretzels, Scottish shortbread, microwave apple crisp, tuna turnovers, dream pie, several kinds of oatmeal cookies, and even play dough.