Notes about Recipes in this book

• Bacon, lettuce, and tomato soup

  • okcook on January 28, 2013

    This is one hearty soup with all the cheese, bacon and cream. Small portions are in order. Great flavour.

• Cucumber salad with yogurt dressing

  • TrishaCP on August 23, 2014

    This was just ok- I was hoping for something a bit more flavorful. I wanted a fresher tasting salad, so I used fresh dill instead of dried and lemon zest and regular yogurt instead of lemon yogurt. I also greatly reduced the sugar. I thought these changes would have helped, but not enough for me to make this again.

• The best damned chicken I ever ate!

  • okcook on December 03, 2018

    I cooked mine in our Miele Oven rotisserie for 75 minutes at 450F broil. I put a pan filled with two cups of water underneath the rotating bird. The flavours were reminiscent of Jerk Chicken but different. Very, very good. The problem with the recipe is this: instructions are to mix all the dry spices with a small amount of soy sauce to make a paste. It did not make a paste...more a crumble. The recipe also calls for four tablespoons of melted butter to be used to baste the bird during cooking. I put this butter into the spice mix to make a paste and quickly spread it onto the bird before it hardened. I put the bird on a rack in the fridge to marinate for five hours...on the rack so the paste did not stick to the flat surface of the pan it was in. A lot of the paste stayed on the bird during cooking but about half fell off. I just reduced the water off the sauce and served it on the side. I actually have enough leftover to roast another chicken....it's going in the freezer.

• Onion gingered chicken

  • Mrs. L on May 06, 2011

    This requires 18 different spices. I about doubled the size of my spice rack making this. But it was soooo worth it. The complexity of flavors is amazing. Truly one of the best dishes I've ever made. Absolutely make again.

• Cauliflower casserole

  • okcook on November 12, 2013

    This is very nice and especially good for people who aren't that keen on vegetables! The recipe calls for adding two cups of bread crumbs but we thought that would make the dish too dry and so we used about one cup. There is quite a bit of fat in the recipe. Seeing we like vegetables, if we made again, we would use less fat and perhaps even less bread crumb. The flavours are nice.