Review: CAN'T WAIT TO TRY THE LESS CONFUSING ONES by Bill's wife
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 05 19, 2013
The best cook in my family was my Aunt Lorine. Oh, how I loved her biscuits. When I asked for her recipe, she just sorta laughed and said there wasn't one. She just put in the ingredients until they felt right. She did say to be sure I used self-rising flour.I can thank God she did have a recipe for her butterscotch pie. YUM!!This book is a bit like Aunt Lorine. In some instances I will never be able to reproduce exactly what the author intended because too, too many of her recipes call for a piece of mango or two pieces of apple. Since some of her other recipes call for one-half of a large papaya (for instance), or one-fourth cup  of another fruit, diced, I don't understand why some recipes are written in amounts we readers can understand while other recipes are so abstract you wouldn't feel comfortable guessing the amount.But that is the only thing I find wrong with the book. The author creates a list of foods to relieve inflammation and swelling, things I'm beginning to deal with since I've retired. She discusses these foods prior to the recipes, then surprise!! As each group of recipes is introduced she sneaks in a few more anti-inflammatory foods, foods that probably didn't warrant a chapter all their own.I would like to add a P. S. to the reader's vast treasury of knowledge. She recommends spinach. My husband can't have spinach because it's high in oxilates. Don't know if I spelled that right.  He can, however, have kale. It's just as rich in all the vitamins and won't cause another kidney stone..