Customer Reviews

The Essential Mormon Cookbook: Green Jell-O, Funeral Potatoes, and Other Secret Combinations

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This is definitely a great book for Mormons! The recipes taste great and don't take an entire day to prepare. The average recipe serves 6-8 people. My four kids eat what I make when it is from this cookbook. The other thing I love is that the book aranges the recipes by season, so all the ingredients are in season. Also, the recipes fit the occasions and weather. However, if you are on a diet this would not be the book for you. However, seeing that I lost 30 pounds when I finally quit dieting 6 years ago, and instead focused on eating regular normal meals, I'm not a fan of low-fat, low-carb, low calorie, vegetarian meals. If you aren't either, this is a great little cookbook!

I love this cookbook! It has many of the recipes I remember when I was young plus ones I've enjoyed over the years at friends' homes. And the recipes are easy to follow, filled with ingredients I already have in my home, and they don't try to turn me into the next Martha Stewart. The author allows short cuts...which is the way I like to cook. These recipes have definitely passed my family's taste test, especially when they ask me to make the items again!

I thought this was a fun cookbook with lots of easy favorites. It is divided into seasonal categories. It is well written and is in an eye pleasing format. It contains no pictures, which is why I did not give it 5 stars. It contains a variety of recipes that are handy to have in one book, such as Spinach Dip, Carrot cake, pie crust, apple crisp, lemon bars, enchiladas, etc. I am looking forward to using this book.

Our city library has this book, so I decided to check it out before buying it. The appearance of book is funny - it looks good on a shelf, but trying recipes from there? no way! Too much fat, oil, mayonnaise, sugar.

I liked the Broccoli Salad recipe though :)

I just won 1st place at our office chili cookoff using the Taco Soup recipe. I've also made the chicken enchilladas (another big hit)! I've given this book as a gift to my daughters and to other girlfriends. You don't have to be LDS to enjoy this great cookbook.

I have used this cookbook for my family of 10, every recipe has been enjoyed, these are "traditional" favorites! Makes a great shower/bridal gift with boxes of green jello!!!

The Essential Mormon Cookbook offers a wide selection of old-fashioned home-style recipes reminiscent of rib sticking Midwestern cooking. This is one of the reasons why I love this cookbook as it offers recipes that will remind you of the ones cooked by Mom or Grandma.

Some of the recipes you will find in this cookbook include:

Green Chilies and Eggs

Fiesta Dip

Sloppy Joes

Hearty Six Hour Stew

Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Frosty Cranberry Salad

Soft Chocolate Cookies

Soft Sugar Cookies

Lasagna

Chicken Alfredo

Baked Ham and Egg Squares

Butterscotch Rolls

Bride's Biscuits

Amazing Apricot Chicken

Creamy Chicken and Rice Dish

Corn On the Cob In a Thermos

Recommend.

I have a blog that teaches people how to cook with Freeze Dried Foods and this cookbook has sooo many recipes that I can tweak by replacing some FD ingredients and what I get from the grocery store and it still turns out wonderful. I recently did the Blueberry Muffin Recipe and they are just so delicious!! This is a must have cookbook. To view my recipe using the FD blueberries click on my blog [...]. Thank you!

Joyce Sowards

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I have a cupboard full of cookbooks, but I use this one 9 out of 10 times. It is full of the most practical recipes for families using ingredients you are most likely to already have on hand. Some of my very favorite recipes were found in this book, like Luscious Lemon Bundt Cake. Also includes recipes for classics like Sloppy Joes, Funeral Potatoes, etc.

This is a sturdy, spiral-bound book, which is easy to cook with, as you can stand it up, if desired. The recipes are written in an easy to follow form, and you don't find yourself hunting for ingredients or finding one you didn't see when you are halfway through preparing the dish.

They are segregated by season, and then there are categories within each season, like "Pot Luck", "Gourmet to Go", "In the Garden", "Love Thy Neighbor" (which I need to look at, since a neighbor just died).

At first, I was disappointed that there weren't pictures but I believe the recipe directions are clear enough to get a pretty good idea of the results. And if it were illustrated, there wouldn't be room for as many recipes!