Hardly in the Kitchen: Real Meals in 20 Minutes - 100 Recipes for the Busy Food Lover

Rating:
Summary: Some appealing recipes, but unusual ingredients
Review: If you normally cook with red chiles or lemongrass stalk, or stock your kitchen for asian cooking, finding the ingredients won't be a hardship for you. Otherwise, that would be biggest obstacle to enjoying this book.

The book contains a few simple recipes such as French Onion Soup, Nachos, or Fettuccine all'Alfredo. However, most recipes have an asian slant such as Thai Fried Rice, Spicy Beef, Chicken Goujons (think of chicken strips with a spicy bread crumb covering), or Bengali-style Vegetables. The displays for Asparagus Rolls with Herb Butter Sauce and Stilton Burgers offer a fresh approach to old standbys.

Every recipe has a photograph of the end result plus illustrations of each of the ingredients and each step of the production process. It is a very attractive book.

If you are looking for new ideas, this book may inspire you. To date, I have not cooked a single recipe, although I think I will eventually go to an asian market and expand my cooking horizons.

Rating:
Summary: Some appealing recipes, but unusual ingredients
Review: If you normally cook with red chiles or lemongrass stalk, or stock your kitchen for asian cooking, finding the ingredients won't be a hardship for you. Otherwise, that would be biggest obstacle to enjoying this book.

The book contains a few simple recipes such as French Onion Soup, Nachos, or Fettuccine all'Alfredo. However, most recipes have an asian slant such as Thai Fried Rice, Spicy Beef, Chicken Goujons (think of chicken strips with a spicy bread crumb covering), or Bengali-style Vegetables. The displays for Asparagus Rolls with Herb Butter Sauce and Stilton Burgers offer a fresh approach to old standbys.

Every recipe has a photograph of the end result plus illustrations of each of the ingredients and each step of the production process. It is a very attractive book.

If you are looking for new ideas, this book may inspire you. To date, I have not cooked a single recipe, although I think I will eventually go to an asian market and expand my cooking horizons.