Notes about Recipes in this book

• Marmalade chicken

  • dinnermints on May 08, 2018

    Huh....this got rave reviews on the website, but I didn't think it was that great. The sauce could use more cornstarch (took more like 15 minutes to thicken if not more). I'd maybe try adding tahini, and/or as one reviewer did, add cooked sweet potato. Maybe some herbs, too - fresh rosemary and/or thyme, maybe parsley. Could switch it up with a different jam, add some garlic.

  • Lisentric on February 01, 2026

    This will be a go to easy weeknight meal. I thought the sauce thickened up nicely and in a short amount of time. The flavor was sublime, not sure if it was due to the quality of the Seville Orange Marmalade. Unlike the other reviewer, I thought there was plenty of flavor just as it is.

• Borscht

  • mharriman on February 28, 2020

    Very good. I liked the steaming of the beets in this preparation. I had more beets than the recipe called for and it took about 40 minutes to steam them. Because I had more beets, I used 4 cups of reduced sodium beef broth (instead of two cups) and that was perfect. After cooling The beets, the remainder of the soup was fairly quick cooking. The sour cream and horseradish topping added complexity and enhanced the flavor of the soup quite a bit. Good enough to repeat.

• Pork chops au poivre

  • mharriman on January 29, 2020

    Delicious. Very easy and pretty quick to prepare; the sauce is luscious considering it’s made from so few ingredients. I used two travel size / mini brandy bottles which were ample for sauce covering four chops. Because I was making a side dish, I popped the pork chops in a 250 degree oven, in a baking dish covered with foil for 20 minutes, and they were still juicy and slightly pink inside at serving time. Served with fingerling potatoes and Swiss chard.

• Shrimp tamale casserole with three sisters black mole

  • JCBaldassare on May 17, 2023

    https://www.acefitness.org/resources/everyone/healthy-recipes/1926/shrimp-tamale-casserole-with-three-sisters-black-mole/