Review: Few recipes, relies on commercial products
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 31, 2012
I picked up this book free during an Amazon giveaway. Collection of a few homestyle main and side dishes, sent to the publisher by readers of their earlier cookbooks.There is nothing here especially original, but the recipes rely on ingredients most kids will like: pasta, tomato sauce, ground beef, potatoes. Some of the recipes include ingredients for which I saw no purpose, such as the baking powder in the dry coating for Oven-Fried Chicken. Other recipes don't seem to have been thought through, such as Judy's Pizza Rolls which I would expect to come out too soggy to hold. Nor is there any interest in healthy cooking, as the recipes rely on high-sodium commercial products such as spaghetti sauce and cream of mushroom soup. There is a big chunk of white space between each ingredient in the ingredient list, which is wasteful and somewhat confusing. (The directions section is double-spaced.) There is no table of contents, so you'll need to bookmark the recipes you want to find again. If you get the chance to pick it up free, as I did, it's worth looking through. Otherwise, save your money for better, healthier recipes.