AnyBook4Less.com	Find the Best Price on the Web Order from a Major Online Bookstore
Home  |  Store List  |  FAQ  |  Contact Us  |
Ultimate Book Price Comparison Engine Save Your Time And Money Keyword AuthorISBN

Title: 1001 Four-Ingredient Recipes by Gregg R. Gillespie, Peter Barry ISBN: 1-57912-207-8 Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Pub Pub. Date: October, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95

Your Country USA Canada United Kingdom Australia Austria Belgium France Germany Italy Netherlands Switzerland Currency AutoUSD CAD GBP EUR AUD CHF Delivery Only cheapest delivery All delivery options Include Used Books Are you a club member of: Barnes and Noble Books A Million Chapters.Indigo.ca

Average Customer Rating: 4 (1 review)

Rating: 4
Summary: For those who absolutely must have a recipe
Comment: This is a niche market cookbook excellent for those just learning to cook and for those who compulsively must have a recipe. Thus one gets such complex recipes as "Parsley Leaf Potatoes" (roast russet potatoes and top with flat leaf parsley) and "Parsley Potatoes" (steam new potatoes and top with snipped parsley) ... Well it does get the author to his 1001 recipes more quickly. One also gets recipes that you must be a kid to appreciate - fish sticks wrapped in crescent dinner rolls.

But once one gets past some of the absurdities, the cookbook provides some very good introductions to basic home cooking flavors and mixtures: corn with bell peppers, fresh green peas with garlic, curried green beans, cucumbers in sour cream. It's strength, however, is that it moves beyond the standard pantry:
dandelion greens, eggplant parmigiana, bamboo shoots with chili sauce, shallots, steamed taro with swiss chard.

The recipes never exceed 4 ingredients plus pantry items. The instructions require only minimal cooking experience. Occasionally the recipe includes variations but the normal pattern is for variations to be separate recipes.

The recipes are printed 3 to a page - a random sample pair of pages gives an idea of the breadth of the material: on the left "Pressed Lamb Loaf with Herbs", "Prosciutto with Pasta Sauce", "Quick Lamb Fricassee"; on the right "Quick Ham and Pineapple" "Red Flannel Hash" and "Rice and Cheese with Frankfurters". The odd juxtapositions provide entertainment when one scans for a recipe.

Even an experienced cook will find some interesting recipes, but the real value of this cookbook is for those just learning what might go with what.

Similar Books:

	Title: Desperation Dinners! by Beverly Mills, Alicia Ross, Mary Lynn Blasutta ISBN: 076110481X Publisher: Workman Publishing Company Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $13.95
	Title: Better Than Take-Out (& Faster, Too) by Pamela Marx, Matthew D. Wittmer ISBN: 1930085028 Publisher: Perspective Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95