Review: Reminds me of the way my Aunts always cooked. Great cooks
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 11 9, 2013
As I read through the recipes I kept thinking of my aunts.  They were some very good cooks.  My Mom wasn't and most of what I learned came from my aunts.  There are some great salad recipes that have made me feel lazy.  I have been making too many tossed or chopped salads.  This has sparked my imagination and I will go back to using more vegetables as these recipes have done.  Cooking as you get things from the garden makes you a more imaginative cook because you have to use up all that good stuff.  Canning, drying and pickling saves some of it for winter.  Try hard and you will find ways to substitute your home prepared veggies in place of the fresh.  I found many errors that should have been found in the proof reading.  It slows me down and me yearn for the days when printed books where well proofed and you didn't have to stop and figure out what the author was trying to say.  I did note that there were 3 recipes for cole slaw but they weren't all kept together.  Have to try them all.