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Summary: Best Cookbook Out There
Review: This book is used more often than any other book in our house. Every single recipe in this book is absolutely delicious; and simple! I wouldn't dream of working in the kitchen without Dana Capender's book.
I've recommended this book to many of my friends; if you want to eat low carb, you have to have this book!
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Summary: A must have for any Low Carb Dieter
Review: We absolutely love this book!! We joined the low carb lifestyle just a few months ago and finding really good tasting low car recipes was rather difficult, until now. The main course dinner's are awesome and great tasting.
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Summary: IrishMike
Review: This is the first time I wrote a bad review about a cook book. Normally I can over look many small nit picking issues, but this book is the sloppiest cook book I have ever purchase.
The editing is terrible and the recipes lack some of the most basic nutritional information. When looking for a listed recipe that list the recipe on page 182 I find that that page has different recipes. However, I finally find it on page 192. If a person is trying to lose or maintain their weight total calories per serving is very important, not just carbohydrates. This book does not list total calories or calories per serving. The book forces the reader to determine if a recipe is 100 calories or 500 calories. There are many other cook books available that are better prepared and supplies the basic nutritional information that one requires to make healthily eating choices.
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Summary: tell me something I don't know
Review: I returned the book because I found it to be worthless in my kitchen. It might as well be titled "500 Recipes -- 450 of which you already know but I thought I would stick them in here anyhow". I didn't need a recipe for mayonaise or instructions on how to cook shrimp. Instructions on how to make a chef salad?!?!? A whole chapter on different things you can put in an omelet? This book just wasn't worth the money and wasn't worth the space it would take up on my shelf. I was looking for NEW ideas. It might be helpful for someone entering a kitchen for the first time.
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Summary: Pretty good book
Review: Overall, I think this is one of the better "low carb" cookbooks, with fairly creative recipes. My one complaint is that too many of the "500 recipes" are fairly simple variations - way too many recipes for various omelets (which are fairly self evident if you've ever seen a breakfast menu at any restaurant in the US). But overall, the recipes are good without an excessive reliance on obscure ingredients (although there are a few that call for soy powder and the like). But on balance, good basic everyday cookbook for low carb recipes.
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Summary: This book is a MUST HAVE !!!!!
Review: EVERY Recipe we have tried has been INCREDIBLE! Recipes are very simple to read and understand with ingredients that are found in your local grocery store! I also got the 15 minute low carb book also written by Dana Carpender, also a must have!! the homemade Terriaki Sauce is fantastic, and I love the homemade salad dressings! How much easier can it get!! This has made our low carb lifestyle Much easier to stick with and gives us a great variety in food preparation vs.the same ole' eggs and bacon day after day!! :)
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Summary: very basic but good
Review: The book didn't deliver as much as it, at first, appeared to. 470 pages of recipes and no photography sounds like a lot of recipes. Many of the recipes are so basic you wonder who wouldn't know that boiled shrimp means boiling shrimp in a pan of water with some seasoning. But "Unbelievably Easy Shrimp" gets half a page for this 3-ingredient recipe (2 qts. water, a pound shrimp, salt). The balance of the page is a recipe for cooking fish: 1 piece of fish, 1 tbs. butter, with parsley and lemon wedge for garnish. How to broil a steak (olive oil, steak) gets a page, then variations of steak go on for pages and pages. "Southwestern Steak" is steak served with guacamole. "Cajun Steak" is steak sprinkled with Cajun seasoning. "Garlic Butter Steak" is steak with garlic butter spread on it. There are about 2 of these recipes per page. It's the same with the egg and omlet recipes. The same basic recipe idea is repeated over and over with a flavor variation. The most major flaw with the book, however, is the index. My pet peeve with cookbooks is to use cute recipe titles and then index them alphadetically according to those titles. Under "sauces," to pick an example, there is "Dana's No-sugar Ketchup" listed in the "D"s. Why not list it "Ketchup, no-sugar" so you can find it if you go looking for "ketchup?" Also under "sauces" there is "Low-carb Steak sauce" in the "L"s and "Reduced-carb Spicy Barbecue Sause" in the "R"s. It makes it very hard to find a recipe. The back cover of the book touts "Chocolate Mousse to DIE For" and I have yet to be able to find that recipe. It's not in the index under "chocolate," under "mousse," or under "desserts." Less annoying but still detracting was the font that was used. It made the recipes somewhat difficult to read. Even with these flaws, it is still a low-carbohydrate cookbook worth having, especially if you don't have one yet and are new to low-carb cooking. I liked the author's personality as it came through in her introduction and ingredients sections. She comes across as an ordinary, regular person. She is not dogmatic or preachy or pushy or "know-it-all."
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Summary: Great Cookbook - even without photos!
Review: Like the reviewer below, I've never been drawn to a cookbook without photos. However, low-carb cookbooks just aren't there yet. Even though I loved the author's "How I Gave up my Low-Fat Diet & Lost 40 Pounds", I decided to check this book out of the library to see how well I'd like it. Well, I was sold, and am buying the book. Wonderful recipes abound, and the first 40 pages contain useful info on ingredients and low-carb products, and there are also tips at the beginning of each section. If you are committed to low-carb, this book is a good investment.
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Summary: Yummy..
Review: This book has really great recipes. I am new to Low Carb dieting and this has really been great. It makes the change so much easier.
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Summary: Highly Recommend
Review: I highly recommend this book. It contains recipes that I would never have thought possible on a carb-controlled diet. The "heroin wings" (named as such since they are so addictive!) recipe we had last night was to die for (the cheese sauce for broccoli was also great). Don't make the mistake of assuming you have to give up all your favorite foods - or eat meat, meat, and more meat for dinner every night. The key to sticking to a low carb dieting plan for the long haul is to go on a quest to find low-carb substitutions for all your favorite foods. Pick up this book and you'll have a great variety of recipes for pizza, breads, deviled eggs, mock mashed potatoes, and even a Kahlua recipe for good measure. In closing, this book contains a lot of variety (500 recipes) for the low-carb lifestyle.
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