Review: Deliciously flavorful, easy and inexpensive meals
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
Our family eats lots of organic chicken.  It's less expensive than wild caught fish or organic beef.  I am always on the hunt for how to prepare chicken in new and interesting ways.Our family also loves Chinese food, so buying this book was a not brainer for me.  Let me tell you, this book is amazing.  The recipes are flavorful and very easy to make.  The other night I made the "Chinese Five Spice Chicken."  Everyone in my family raved about it.  My ten year old daughter gobbled hers up.  I modified the recipe a bit by using more garlic and using a less five spice (since my family is new to five spice, I thought I'd be light handed with it).I highly recommend this book.  It contains inexpensive dishes that are a breeze to prepare.  The flavors are superb and the book is easy to navigate.UPDATE 7/22/2013:  Today I made the "IN Credible Chicken and Oyster Sauce."  It was amazing.  It calls for oyster sauce and hoisin sauce.  With lots if fresh broccoli florets, this meal is both healthy for you and full of flavor.  Yet again, my family loved a recipe from this cookbook.  Everyone said it is a "do over."  I did make the rookie mistake of burning the sesame oil that this recipe calls for.  I had to throw it out (it smelled AWFUL).  It's very easy to burn sesame oil.  To help me with this problem, I added some canola oil to sesame oil in the skillet.  That worked like a charm.  I made a couple modifications to this recipe:  I added straw mushrooms while sauteing.  Also, our family added a touch of soy sauce to our individual servings.