Comfort Food Fix
Ellie Krieger
copyright 2011 - Eliie Krieger
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Comfort Food Fix promises to take our favorite comfort foods and remake them into healthier dishes.
I have used some of Krieger's recipes in the past and been well pleased with them. However, this book has been a bit of a disappointment. First, I found few recipes that resembled anything that I call comfort food! [I said few... there are some, however.] These were the more sophisticate of choice, evidently! [Perhaps it's simply my own down to earth choice of comfort foods that makes these seem a bit beyond what I like.]
I also found that while fats were reduced in almost every recipe, sodium seldom took more than a minimal dip, with a few exceptions. However, those exceptions substituted other items that totally remade the dish instead of simply allowing the dish to remain as true to original form as possible. [Give me Diabetic Cooking magazine any day!]
The recipes were "okay" that I tried, and I am sure there will be more that I will yet try, I just do not care for the four I picked at random to sample, and I especially can't call them "comfort food".
The layout was superb in the book, and the photography was excellent.
While I did not like the few recipes I have tried thus far, I still have to give this book...
...Five Stars and...
...a Thumbs Up!
****DISCLOSURE: This book was provided free of charge by Amazon Vine for exchange of a non-biased, independent review.
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