Review: good recipes flawed techniques
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
This is a nice little cookbook.  It does have some flaws in it however. First of all she suggests using round steak and flank steak, both of which need long slow cooking not stir frying.  Stir frying will yield very tough strips of these meats. You are better off to use sirloin for these beef recipes.Another problem she suggests using corn starch mixed with large volumes of liquid which usually results in lumpy sauce.  You need to mix your cornstarch with a small amount of liquid first to make a slurry and then add the rest of your liquid.One of the things that is my pet peeves is people publishing very small cookbooks and then not having pics of their recipes, she does have pics of every recipe and the photography is good, not great but good.So  it is for these reasons that I gave her a 4 star instead of a 5 star rating