Review: An easy read with quick and healthy recipes - my mouth won't stop watering...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 21, 2013
The first thing I could gather when I picked up "Quick Low Carb Book: 37 Delicious Low Carb Recipes In 15 Minutes Or Less" was that the author, Julia Cruise did not just do a few Google searches a keyword or two in mind and used the "first and best" info uncle Google spat out within her book. She clearly did her homework with accurate statistics from the various health institutes concerned.The author clearly takes her recipes and her sheer love and passion for fast and healthy cooking to the next level with a number of low carb and mouth-watering recipes. If I could use myself as an example, a non-seasoned cook but an author spending 90% of my time either writing OR reading and then probably another 5 to 8% meditating about more ideas I'd like to write about, healthy cooking time is fairly restricted at this point in time.Each recipe starts off with an amazing and high-quality image of the completed meal which made me feel as if I could reach out my fork and have a taste through my PC's screen. A short description just adds to the mouth-watering effect and then she continues with the list of all the delicious and easy to find ingredients one needs for the recipe. Finally the "proof is in the pudding" with the cooking instructions.Notes to author: Personally, only because I am an author myself and I critique my own work quite strictly until I'm satisfied - I'd add a table of contents by formatting the book in MS Word if possible and setting it up to use certain headline styles for the different levels. I'd like to click through to each recipe from the side of my Kindle app instead of having to scroll up to the TOC at the beginning of the book.Portion sizes - Being a single person myself, I am not concerned about it particularly myself but I'd imagine a family of five would want to have some idea of how many servings each recipe comes down do, compensating for planning ahead.Would I recommend this book? You bet! In fact, I am already deciding between Pad Thai with Shrimp or a Falafel Wrap! An easy read with quick and healthy recipes - my mouth won't stop watering...