Julia Rutland
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The Christmas Movie Cookbook: Recipes from Your… von Julia Rutland
Such fun and delicious looking recipes!
101 Lasagnas & Other Layered Casseroles by Julia Rutland is an ideal combination of the old and new (style wise and recipe wise) and will be a useful addition to any kitchen.
Maybe I should start with what I mean by old and new style. I grew up with recipe books that had wonderfully written recipes that were easy to follow but with few pictures. In fact, the more pictures I usually found to be an indication of less well explained steps in the written recipe. This is all broadly speaking, the presence or absence of pictures is not a guarantee of anything except how many pictures there are and, sometimes, how much prettier the book is to display. I don't display my cookbooks and I care far more for well-written recipes. So, in this book, we have fewer pictures than many of the prettier display recipe books but more than when I was growing up. But the recipes are well written, easy to follow, and don't require a picture for either each step or the final result if you're an experienced cook. Visually, results vary no matter how well one follows a recipe, so aiming for a picture rather than a delicious meal might not be the best approach to cooking.
That said, if you really like pictures, you may be disappointed in that aspect of the book but the recipes themselves will not disappoint. This weekend we had rainy cool weather (ideal for this kind of food) so we tried two of the recipes since we had the ingredients on hand. By the way, one of them did have a picture and my result did not look just like it, but it was certainly delicious. The other did not have an accompanying picture, so as far as I'm concerned, it turned out looking perfect.
I recommend this to people who like to cook and eat casseroles and lasagna. The variations are fun and even the tips in the front of the book are useful. While there are not a lot of pictures, the book is still very attractive, so if you have your cookbooks on a shelf in a visible place, it won't embarrass you.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mehr)
Maybe I should start with what I mean by old and new style. I grew up with recipe books that had wonderfully written recipes that were easy to follow but with few pictures. In fact, the more pictures I usually found to be an indication of less well explained steps in the written recipe. This is all broadly speaking, the presence or absence of pictures is not a guarantee of anything except how many pictures there are and, sometimes, how much prettier the book is to display. I don't display my cookbooks and I care far more for well-written recipes. So, in this book, we have fewer pictures than many of the prettier display recipe books but more than when I was growing up. But the recipes are well written, easy to follow, and don't require a picture for either each step or the final result if you're an experienced cook. Visually, results vary no matter how well one follows a recipe, so aiming for a picture rather than a delicious meal might not be the best approach to cooking.
That said, if you really like pictures, you may be disappointed in that aspect of the book but the recipes themselves will not disappoint. This weekend we had rainy cool weather (ideal for this kind of food) so we tried two of the recipes since we had the ingredients on hand. By the way, one of them did have a picture and my result did not look just like it, but it was certainly delicious. The other did not have an accompanying picture, so as far as I'm concerned, it turned out looking perfect.
I recommend this to people who like to cook and eat casseroles and lasagna. The variations are fun and even the tips in the front of the book are useful. While there are not a lot of pictures, the book is still very attractive, so if you have your cookbooks on a shelf in a visible place, it won't embarrass you.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley.… (mehr)
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