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5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Cookbook!!, January 29, 2010
This review is from: Delicious! The Very Best of Gluten Free & Wheat Free Cooking; a home style recipe collection for celiacs & wheat sensitive folks (Plastic Comb)
There are now a lot of cookbooks for celiacs in the marketplace. I own many of them, but at times I feel that you need to have been a home economics major to decipher some of the complexities of the recipes. I found this one to be different... and actually more fun to use.
I thought that this author uses more creativity in her selection of recipes as well as in some of the ingredients that she is using. Some of my personal favorites are: Easy chili rellenos casserole, creamy curried chicken casserole, tomato pie, pigs in a poncho, bacon-honey mustard chicken, mulligatawny soup, Mexican albondigas soup, quick and easy griddle muffin bread, parmesan-thyme focaccia, Lou Ann's fruit pie squares, apple cream pie, and Diane's strawberry shortcake cheesecake.
A newly diagnosed gluten intolerant or wheat allergic person is already feeling overwhelmed, especially when they are required to find many ingredients that are somewhat unusual and often hard to come by. This just makes the learning to cook GF more stressful than it needs to be. While, of course, some GF flour blend recipes are mentioned in this cookbook, there are plenty of recipes that will not require the flours, so I could "hit the ground running" and I found some dishes that I could cook up right away without having a chemist's degree....or without many of the flours on hand. The directions were very easy to understand, based on ingredients available in the "real world". The recipes that I have tried taste normal, my family enjoys them and my friends actually look forward to seeing what I am making next from this interesting cookbook.
This is probably a good cookbook for newbies and also for those with wheat allergies, too. Seems like a cookbook to bridge the gap between both of those needs. I have given this cookbook as a gift to friends who were wheat sensitive and they were also very happy to finally have an easy yet interesting wheat free cookbook.
Oh, by the way, I also really liked the "homespun" look of this cookbook and LOVED the fact that it has a comb binding and opens flat and is very easy to use. It's really a great little cookbook overall, and I do highly recommend it!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Lifesaver!, November 15, 2010
This review is from: Delicious! The Very Best of Gluten Free & Wheat Free Cooking; a home style recipe collection for celiacs & wheat sensitive folks (Plastic Comb)
I had 2 challenges facing me when I had to adopt a gluten-free diet: one, I don't like to cook and two, I have a husband that really likes food! Diane's cookbook has been a blessing in helping me with recipes that are not only easy but ones that I can serve to my family and friends with confidence.
I started by mixing up one of the flour blends she recommends and use that in the recipes calling for a flour blend. There are other helpful hints at the beginning of the book. Besure to read them first!
There are many great recipes in Diane's book. The tortilla pizza and basic cornbread have already become staples. We loved the Taco Casserole and Oriental Cashew Chicken and can't wait to try Creamy Curried Chicken & Rice Casserole and the Tuna Noodle Casserole.
I highly recommend "Delicious! The Very Best of Gluten Free and Wheat Free Cooking" to anyone looking for tasty and easy to make meals.
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