Review: Yum!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 02 11, 2013
My local grocery store had avocados on sale this past week, which gave me 4 really ripe ones I needed to use. This book was offered for free yesterday and today I decided to use it to make "something" for dinner. I tried the Balsamic Guacamole and it was delicious! I did change it just a bit as I didn't add black pepper because I don't care for the taste of black pepper then added about 1/2 tsp onion powder in it's place. I'm sure if I had liked pepper in my food, I wouldn't have wanted the onion powder in it. Then, still hungry, I made the Hot Avocado Lunch Dip. Oh. My. Goodness! It's even better than the Guacamole.As I peruse the book, I see several more dishes I'd like to make. Avocado was not something we ate growing up, nor was it very popular in our area and I probably still would not have tried anything beyond guacamole with my nachos had I not gotten this book.Bonus one is the fact that there are suggestions from the author to adapt the recipes so that you can make the recipes anywhere along the eating continuum - from strictly vegan to omnivore and still have something that tastes good.A second bonus was that the pages are well formatted (at least in my Kindle cloud reader), I didn't notice any spelling errors and the recipes all seem to be intact - a problem I've had with some ecookbooks that will fail to list some of the needed ingredients or not telling in the directions when to add the item to the recipe.And finally, the author took the time to make sure that international users would be able to use the book and have the correct measurements and cooking temps conveniently available (nothing like having to have your internet connection to Google going in the living room so you can cook in the kitchen).