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Summary: Perfect (almost)...
Review: My mother bought this book and I ended up receiving it due to my not-so-surreptitious glances and its frequent disappearance from the shelf. This book is a repository of the most classic and tempting foods I can imagine. They are presented with the Martha Stewart Living twist. For example, although I was curious to try the macaroni and cheese (Sharp white cheddar plus Gruyere? Hmmm...) this dish has become frequently requested and often talked about. Now onto the potato dishes and beyond! I phrase my only complaint as a warning: if a reader attempts to make certain recipes from scratch beginning to end, be prepared to spend some time :)! Thanks for reading.
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Summary: Perfect (almost)...
Review: My mother bought this book and I ended up receiving it due to my not-so-surreptitious glances and its frequent disappearance from the shelf. This book is a repository of the most classic and tempting foods I can imagine. They are presented with the Martha Stewart Living twist. For example, although I was curious to try the macaroni and cheese (Sharp white cheddar plus Gruyere? Hmmm...) this dish has become frequently requested and often talked about. Now onto the potato dishes and beyond! I phrase my only complaint as a warning: if a reader attempts to make certain recipes from scratch beginning to end, be prepared to spend some time :)! Thanks for reading.
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Summary: Delicious and Simple!
Review: The first recipe I made from this book was the fudge brownies. They were scrumptious! Soft, moist and sooo chocolaty! Most of the recipes here are pretty easy to make without alot of "odd" or hard to find ingredients. I must admit though, watching her (T.V.) show somewhat regularly has helped in decyphering a few of Martha's "upper-crust" cooking terms and names for more common items. This book is great for quick and easy meals and snacks for that rainy or snowbound afternoon. The photos of the finished dishes are both helpful and mouthwatering.
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Summary: Delicious and Simple!
Review: The first recipe I made from this book was the fudge brownies. They were scrumptious! Soft, moist and sooo chocolaty! Most of the recipes here are pretty easy to make without alot of "odd" or hard to find ingredients. I must admit though, watching her (T.V.) show somewhat regularly has helped in decyphering a few of Martha's "upper-crust" cooking terms and names for more common items. This book is great for quick and easy meals and snacks for that rainy or snowbound afternoon. The photos of the finished dishes are both helpful and mouthwatering.
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Summary: No Wonder Martha's Getting Chunky!
Review: The photos alone are worth the cost of the book! So far I've made the macaroni & cheese, and the blueberry pancakes. OH MY GOD! Deeelish. Great collection of recipes.
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Summary: Enjoyable!
Review: This book is not only about comfort food, but it made me a little cozy while I was reading it too! The recipes are not too complicated and the pictures are a delight to behold. Definitely a book worth buying.
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Summary: Martha Hits The Spot With This One!!
Review: This book really captured the essence of comfort food for me. The recipes are simple and satisfying; my particular favorites are the macaroni and cheese and the chicken pot pie, delicious versions of American classics. Beautiful photography doesn't hurt, either. Martha only gets four stars for this one, since I agree with an earlier review that points out that this is less of a book and more of a magazine. A little too delicate for the amount of use I give it.
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Summary: Sometimes simple is best.
Review: This book really captured the essence of comfort food for me. The recipes are simple and satisfying; my particular favorites are the macaroni and cheese and the chicken pot pie, delicious versions of American classics. Beautiful photography doesn't hurt, either. Martha only gets four stars for this one, since I agree with an earlier review that points out that this is less of a book and more of a magazine. A little too delicate for the amount of use I give it.
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Summary: I was disappointed.
Review: This is a thin book with a limited number of recipes. No doubt each recipe leads to a tasty product, but my overall reaction was "there's nothing really new here." In the meat categories -- beef, chicken, lamb, pork -- there are only two or three recipes at most for each critter. Personally, I could not recommend this particular cookbook to anyone.
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Summary: Essential for Foodies!
Review: This was the first cookbook I ever purchased and it is still the one I use more often than any in my growing cookbook library. So much so that the pages are falling out and I may have to get a new copy.
I purchased "Comfort Foods" because the photographs of the food looked so good they made me groan like Homer Simpson.
Recipes listed included new twists on the classics I loved as a kid: Roasted chicken, meatloaf and mashed potatoes and the best from-scratch brownie recipe I have ever encountered in my life. One bite of these brownies and you will NEVER go back to brownie mixes
For the more daring, also included are some Indian, French and Italian dishes I never knew I loved until I tasted.
Be forewarned: the recipes are specific! Some dishes (like meatloaf) require a ruler. This may turn some people off but for a beginning cook like me, I prefer having detailed instructions because they cut down on the chances of me making a mistake.
Every time I pull a beautiful, perfectly golden roast chicken out of the oven, my twenty-something friends look at me like I'm a wizard. I now have people over for homemade meals and frantically trade recipes with my Grandmother.
It is honestly due in large part to my purchasing this book. Everyone learning to cook starts somewhere. For me personally, this was a great introduction and money VERY well spent.
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