Review: Fun recipes, with some cool ideas
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 6, 2014
This book 5 gets stars in spite of some of its Kindle glitches (recipes a bit out of alignment so you have to parse out which amounts match to which ingredients occasionally), and in spite of its not having any pictures. I showed some of the recipes to my sister, an avid cook.  She said, "No pictures? I'm not interested!" Even so, this is a fun, practical recipe collection with useful ideas.I'm not a fan of the Atkins diet, having seen firsthand the damage it can do.  But I do enjoy low carb dishes and fix and eat them on a fairly regular basis.  They're satisfying and suit my current dietary needs very well, as long as I don't get off-balance.  But this book is not much help to those on low fat diets.As the author notes, this is not a book for the truly novice cook.  You need to know, for example, that 2 1/2 cups cannot possibly refer to the amount of salt needed in a recipe.  I found her use of avocado particularly interesting, though I like the taste of avocado so well on its own it'd be a sin to change that taste with the addition of chocolate.  Check this out while the getting's good (and cheap).