Review: A waste of time!
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 03 28, 2014
I'm an avid vegetarian cook and LOVE to use my slow cooker to create all kinds of recipes. I was looking forward to browsing through and using the recipes in this book but it's a big disappointment.I'm wondering if all of the recipes in this book were actually even made, let alone tested for accuracy more than once? Some of the amounts of ingredients used etc, seem to be out of wack,For example:in the Mushroom Lentil Barley Stew,there is a whooping 2 teaspoons full of ground black pepper!That is a lot of pepper, for any dish.The vegan chili has 2 teas. of cayenne pepper, again seems rather excessive.The Spicy Corn Chowder has:1 teas. cayenne, 2 teas. salt and another teas. of black pepper.Another thing I noted that I thought was rather strange for a vegan (supposedly healthier?) type of cookbook was in the Easy Rhubarb Cake,  the recipe calls for a box of white cake mix and an envelope of flavored gelatin (which is not a vegan product!)Makes me wonder if this author took some of the family recipes and tried to just 'veganise" them for this book.Most of the recipes include a teaspoon of salt sometimes more, which for anyone who is trying to cut down on sodium, is not always required, if a recipe has enough other seasonings (herbs and spices) to bring out the flavors, in a healthier way.Some other reviewers here have mentioned using chicken stock in some recipes too, again, how could the author miss something this glaring in a vegan cookbook?Deleted from my kindle already.