Review: Top 'O The Morning to You!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 12, 2012
You can tell that it is almost St. Patrick's Day because there is suddenly a plethora of Irish cookbooks - Irish Bread, Irish Stew, Irish Irish and of course, Irish Breakfast.The Man Cave Irish Cookbook: How To Make A Traditional Irish Breakfast In The Man Cave (The Man Cave Irish Cookbook Series)is another to add to the list.I'll be honest with you.  This is the third book about Irish Breakfast that I've read this morning, so I'm a little bit jaded.  There is only just so much you can say about breakfast. Matt Thompson does do a pretty good job of saying it though, in a very nicely laid out way.  One of the things I particularly like about the Man Cave cookbook series is that they are very well laid out for both reading and cooking, with a well done Table of Contents (interactive, to get you there in a hurry, though I do wish he would figure out how to get it to also interface with the Kindle Navigation Menu!) and a thoughtfully included link to take you back there at the end of most recipes.Besides a discussion of the traditional Irish Breakfast and Ulster Fry,The Man Cave Irish Cookbook: How To Make A Traditional Irish Breakfast In The Man Cave (The Man Cave Irish Cookbook Series)contains recipes for Soda Farls (biscuits cooked on a griddle), Potato Farls, Irish Wheaten Bread (though this is actually soda bread), Homemade Irish Cream and Irish Coffee. I do have to wonder what recipes for Irish Cream & Irish Coffee are doing in a breakfast cookbook, but perhaps that is just me.Three Stars.NOTE:  If you haveThe Man Cave St. Patrick's Day Cookbook: More Than 50 Awesome St. Patrick's Day Recipes For Partying In The Man Cave, the recipes for Really Easy Potato Farls, Homemade Irish Cream and Irish Coffee also appear in that book.