Title: for inspiration only
Product review: We have made about 15 recipes from this book. The recipes are "easy" but they aren't very good. You can't follow the recipe as written and expect to get something that tastes good. The author seems to be unaware of basic cooking techniques like frying the onions before adding the rest of the ingredients. Many recipes have shortcuts that sacrifice flavor, but also do things in very long convoluted ways that don't add flavor. Many of the recipes simply taste like chicken without any other flavor, and they only got the chicken flavor because we substituted chicken broth or bullion for water. I made a pork cooked in milk recipe. It took forever, was very labor intensive, and didn't taste very good. I made the same thing using a cooks illustrated recipe - it was way easier and tasted 1000 times better.This book is probably good for people that don't actually follow recipes but just use them for inspiration. I prefer recipes that work - ie cooks illustrated.
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