Notes about Recipes in this book

• French chicken in a pot

  • debberdee on June 12, 2013

    Moist, flavorful and spectacularly easy. One pot: stove-top brown in dutch oven, cover and place in the oven.

• Chicken piccata

  • chawkins on April 11, 2013

    I usually just wing this, but eat your books help me locate a recipe quickly. Have to admit that the addition of shallots, deglazing with chicken broth instead of wine and mounting the sauce with butter all helped in improving the end result, not a big difference, but better than mine nonetheless.

• Eggplant Parmesan

  • emiliang on August 27, 2013

    Have been looking for a simple but delicious version of this classic for a long time, and I think I've just found it. Used store-bought breadcrumbs rather than fresh. Preparation and cooking took about 90 minutes start to finish.

  • chawkins on September 05, 2017

    Very good, but be prepared to do a lot of dish cleaning. You need to use two colanders to drain the salted eggplant, a bowl to catch the drippings. Food processor is used to make fresh bread crumbs and process the canned diced tomato for the sauce, two pie plates for dredging, two half sheet pans with wire racks to place the coated eggplants, two more preheated half sheet pans to bake them in, a wide spatula to flip them, a pan to cook the tomato sauce and another pan to assemble the final dish for baking.

• Applesauce snack cake

  • emiliang on October 19, 2015

    Delicious. Keep the applesauce in the fridge and add it to the warm apples in the blender. That will bring the whole mix to room temperature.

  • Analyze on March 12, 2019

    This is SO good! The base cake has a wonderful apple flavor and a great texture. I tried both this recipe, and the Oat-Nut Streusel variation. My husband, who doesn't normally like oat streusel or sweet quick breads, loved the streusel variation. I actually preferred this original version with the cinnamon-sugar topping, as in my opinion it complements the apple flavor in the cake better, and actually makes the cake taste more apple-y. You can't go wrong with either version, or try half and half like I did :) I already have several apple cake recipes that I love, and didn't think I needed another, but I did! I'm excited to try the ginger-cardamom version next. Personally, we had it for breakfast, but this would be great with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream too.

• Applesauce snack cake with oat-nut streusel

  • Analyze on March 12, 2019

    This is SO good! The base cake has a wonderful apple flavor and a great texture. I tried both this recipe, and the original (no streusel). My husband, who doesn't normally like oat streusel or sweet quick breads, loved the streusel variation. I actually preferred this original version with the cinnamon-sugar topping, as in my opinion it complements the apple flavor in the cake better, and actually makes the cake taste more apple-y. You can't go wrong with either version, or try half and half like I did :) I already have several apple cake recipes that I love, and didn't think I needed another, but I did! I'm excited to try the ginger-cardamom version next. Personally, we had it for breakfast, but this would be great with whipped cream or vanilla ice cream too. P.S. A tip I read online and am eager to try next time: Leave the applesauce in the fridge. Instead of waiting for the dried apple & cider mixture to cool, blend them at once, to bring both to room temperature sooner.