Book Review: 150 Best Recipes for Cooking in Foil: Ovens, BBQ, Camping by Marilyn Haugen

150 Best Recipes for Cooking in Foil: Ovens, BBQ, Camping by Marilyn Haugen

When I was a young boy, I was a boy scout and a girl scout. You see, my mother was the troop leader and I went to all the meetings. I was about the same age as most of the girls, so I got to participate in the meetings.

The boy scouts taught some about outdoor cooking and outdoor living, but the girls learned much more. They learned how to make life outside a lot like it was indoors.

One thing they taught was cooking in the coals of a campfire using foil. Well, 150 Best Recipes for Cooking in Foil: Ovens, BBQ, Camping by Marilyn Haugen would be an excellent resource for those who want to make camping a lot more fun and a lot less like eating a brontosaurus burger cooked until it is burnt.

Once, we boy scouts had to cook on the fire for ourselves and our fathers. The fathers could not help. I made what we called Steak in Aluminum Foil. While the others were eating those burnt brontosaurus burgers and severely overdone hot dogs, Dad and I were chowing down on a delicious steak, potatoes, onions, and carrots. I can only imagine what I could have done had I had this outstanding resource. Even the eleven year old boy that I was could have made great food by following this book.

I have to give 150 Best Recipes for Cooking in Foil all five stars. It is very well-written and has many outstanding recipes.

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Book Review: 300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook's Guide by Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh

300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook's Guide by Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh

Our family is mostly Irish. Therefore, we love anything to do with a potato. This is why 300 Best Potato Recipes: A Complete Cook's Guide by Kathleen Sloan-McIntosh was such a great book for us.

Not only are there all kinds of easy to follow recipes in this book, there are also a lot of “fun facts” about the potato. There is sort or a Ripley’s Believe It Or Else” section in the front of the book where readers are treated to some little known facts about the potato.

These recipes are easy to follow with a good bit of detail for each recipe. It makes following the steps so easy even a husband could follow them.

We think you will love 300 Best Potato Recipes like we do. We give it all five stars and a slab of bacon.

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Book Review: You Can Have It! More Than 125 Decadent Diabetes-Friendly Recipes by Devin Alexander

You Can Have It! More Than 125 Decadent Diabetes-Friendly Recipes by Devin Alexander

 

I have been a diabetic for over 42 years. If one sticks strictly to their diet, they feel like they get their choice of flavored cardboard.

Not so with You Can Have It!. This book has many recipes for some very tasty things. The instructions are so detailed that even I could make them, but I won’t because Suzanne is so good at it.

If you are tired of the same-o same-0 recipes, try this book and see if you don’t enjoy your food a little more.

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Book Review: The Gluten-Free Baking Book: 250 Small-Batch Recipes for Everything from Brownies to Cheesecake by Donna Washburn and Heather Butt

The Gluten-Free Baking Book: 250 Small-Batch Recipes for Everything from Brownies to Cheesecake by Donna Washburn and Heather Butt

The people at Robert Rose continue to bat them out of the park with their great recipe books. The Gluten-Free Baking Book: 250 Small-Batch Recipes for Everything from Brownies to Cheesecake by Donna Washburn and Heather Butt is another grand slam home run for them.

This baking book has many great color photos and is really not just a recipe book, but is more of a mini course in baking and, in this case, gluten-free baking.

The recipes are amazing and easy to follow. There are step-by-step instructions for making small batches of gluten free recipes, including many desserts.

We do think that this book should be read along with Eat Wheat by John Douillard. The combination would be awesome and very instructive for those with celiac disease, and those who love them.

The Gluten-Free Baking Book is very well-written and beautifully illustrated. We give it all five stars and a batch of brownies, too. This would make an excellent Mothers’ Day gift.

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Book Review: Beautiful Bundts: 100 Recipes for Delicious Cakes and More By Julie Ann Hession

Beautiful Bundts: 100 Recipes for Delicious Cakes and More

By Julie Ann Hession

Review written by David.

A big redneck like me has had no end of fun picking on the ladies who brought bundt cakes to the church dinners. “Hey, Ida Mae, there’s a hole in your cake!” However, Ida Mae will get the last laugh when she brings one of these Beautiful Bundt cakes to the church dinner.

What is not to enjoy when Ida Mae brings a sausage stuffed bundt cake? And, who is not gonna like a turkey meatloaf bundt cake?

There are step-by-step instructions for each recipe and, just to make sure that “Even a Redneck can do it”, there are step-by-step pictures for many of the techniques involved in making these eye-opening, mouth-watering delights.

From classic pound cakes, s’mores cakes, all the way up to red velvet bundts, you will love these cakes.  There is even a two potato bundt cake in here. Since this fat redneck is allergic to sweet potatoes, we will have to substitute some other potato.  But it sounds and looks delicious. A mac and cheese bundt?  Really?

Ida Mae will be the one laughing while Jimmy Joe asks for seconds or even thirds of these wonderful, easy to make, bundt cakes.

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Book Review: It’s Just Better...in a Bowl! By Debra Abeling

It’s Just Better...in a Bowl!

By Debra Abeling

This book is great!  It’s Just Better...in a Bowl! is loaded with healthy, appetizing recipes that are - you guessed it - served in a bowl.

Debra Abeling, the author, suggests that serving food in bowls helps with portion control, temperature control, and mess control. You won’t be chasing that carrot all over the place if you use a bowl instead of a plate. :)

Debra gives lists of the following:

Ideas for meal prepping

Substitutions for various ingredients

Which foods are in season when

Which produce is typically high in chemical pesticide residue and which isn’t

Essential kitchen tools

And a host of other helpful information!

It’s Just better... in a Bowl! is a well-written, easy-to-follow book full of ideas and recipes to help one in his or her quest for a healthier diet. This book earns 5 stars.

Warning: Reading through these recipes will make you hungry! We can’t wait to try Oven-Baked Stuffed French Toast Bowl!

Hop over to Amazon and get your own copy today so that you can drool over this recipe(pg 29) and many more as you start eating your way to a healthier life!

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Book Review: 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals By Camilla V. Saulsbury

200 Best Sheet Pan Meals

By Camilla V. Saulsbury

If you are looking for a way to cook a complete meal with very little mess and not a lot of work, 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals by Camilla V. Saulsbury is loaded with great ideas to help you with just that.

This book has many full-color illustrations. The recipes call for the use of just one sheet pan.  

Who would have thought to cook breakfast potatoes and eggs at the same time, in the same pan?  What about fried chicken and beans cooking in the same pan, at the same time?

We give 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals all five stars.  The recipes are easy and creative.  Most are very frugal.  We think your family will love these meals.

You may want to buy two copies so you can share one with your friends.  No doubt, they will be asking you for your recipes.

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Book Review: The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes By Candice Hutchings

The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes

By Candice Hutchings

If you are trying to eat healthier, but have a difficult time giving up meat, The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes By Candice Hutchings might be just the right thing for you.

Let’s face it, meat tastes good.  But, we all know that too much meat is not good for us.  In the Bible, Daniel and his friends were able to show themselves to be superior to the others by abstaining from meat and eating only vegetables, and drinking water.

Well, you don’t necessarily have to give up the taste you crave. The Edgy Veg gives you simple, easy to follow recipes to get the taste you crave and still eat healthy.

The vegan in you will love The Edgy Veg.  The carnivore in you will be glad you got it, too.

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Book Review: Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes By Douglas McNish

Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes

By Douglas McNish

We would all love to eat healthier, at least most of us would.  But, how do you eat health foods without giving up taste and variety?  Well, Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes by Douglas McNish has the answer.

There is even a recipe for brownies that are actually healthy for you.  We are from Gulf Coast Texas.  Therefore, chili is a must.  There is a recipe in Raw, Quick & Delicious! for chili made with raw ingredients. There is no cooking required.

If you or a loved one has been wanting to eat healthier but did not want to give up taste, now you can have both. We give Raw, Quick & Delicious! all five stars.  The recipes are easy to follow and there are many color photos to entice you to try the recipes.

This would make a great gift for anyone on your list!

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Book Review: 150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked By George Geary

150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked

By George Geary

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the way to a redneck man’s heart must entail deep-fried maple bacon donut bars.  It is a good thing that 150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked by George Geary has a recipe for that.

No matter how you love your donuts, 150 Best Donut Recipes is bound to have the right recipe for you.  It is chock full of color photos and it gives instructions that are simple to follow.  There are even step-by-step numbered illustrations for making some of the recipes.

We give 150 Best Donut Recipes all five stars.  We love it and we know you will, too.  This book will make a great holiday gift for that wannabe baker on your list.  Psst, there is even a recipe for Elvis donuts in here.

Even if you don’t know a teaspoon from a teacup, you can make these simple, easy-to-follow recipes.  

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Book Review: 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 By Jill Snider

175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2

By Jill Snider

We were sent a review copy of 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes Treats for 1 or 2 free of charge for the purpose of writing this review.  

We are empty-nesters.  We went from a household that once had as many as 6 people, all the way down to 2. Talk about an adjustment.

There was a time when we would have to make multiple batches of cookies just so everyone could have one or two.  We did not have to send out invitations to the kids’ birthday parties because we already had a house full.

Now that all the kids have gone on to do their things, we have had to adapt.  175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 is a good tool for us to have in the toolbox because there is such a difference.

Empty-nesters like us need books like this to help us reduce the servings of the treats we make.  The book is well-written and easy to follow.  

If you love shortbread cookies like we do, you simply have to try this book.

We give 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 all five stars.  We think you will, too.

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Book Review: Aquafabulous: 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba By Rebecca Coleman

Aquafabulous: 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba

By Rebecca Coleman

Who would have thought it, you can make a substitute for eggs in many recipes with bean water?

We were sent a review copy of Aquafabulous 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba for the purpose of writing this review.

We have been trying to live healthy for a while now.  We have reduced our intake of animal products as much as possible. But some things are hard to give up, like cake and omelettes.

Aquafaba, which is really just water drained off of beans, can be used in place of eggs in many recipes.  Who knew?

The author, Rebecca Coleman, teaches readers the basics in the first part of the book and then she gets into actually making many tasty treats.  She even helps us with recipes for the beans that are left over after making the aquafaba.  

If you are trying to eat healthier, Aquafabulous 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba would make a great addition to your kitchen library.

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Book Review: Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes By Christophe Adam

Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes

By Christophe Adam

We were sent a review copy of Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes written by Christophe Adam without charge for the purpose of writing this review.

Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes is a wonderful book.  It is really a simple, step-by-step course in how to make eclairs.  

The instructions are wonderful and very easy to follow. If you have trouble following written instructions, no problem.  There are pictures to take you step-by-step through the process.

By following along in Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes one could very easily make eclairs that would be the hit of any party.  One word or warning though, once you make some of these creations for your own party, your guests will want you to make them for their parties, too.

We think Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes deserves all five stars.  We think you will, too.



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Book Review: 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes

175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes
By Marilyn Haugen & Doug Cook, RD, MHSc

We were sent a review copy of 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes so that we could try it out and see what we thought about the book.

If you have just gotten your Nutribullet and are looking for great things to try out, this book is for you. There are smoothie recipes galore. This book has a little bit of everything. There are kid-friendly recipes, smoothies, soups, dips, and more.

We really love our NutriBullet and 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes makes a great companion to it. We plan on trying most of these recipes.

We give 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes five stars on our scale of zero to five stars. We think you will enjoy it, too!

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