“Somewhere close behind air and water is the need for food.”
― L.J. Martin, Cooking Wild & Wonderful
― L.J. Martin, Cooking Wild & Wonderful
THE PHONY
GOURMET
By: Pam
Young and Peggy Jones
Genre:
Non-fiction, Cookbook
Back years
ago when I read S.H.E.written by these two
ladies I learned a lot about organization.
I recently wrote a review about that
book and decided to look into more books by them.
While I learned
a lot from S.H.E. I am sad to say I was not overly impressed
with “The Phony Gourmet”. I was hoping
for quick fix recipes that weren’t based on already prepared foods like
Whoppers from Burger King that you harvest the ingredients out of and throw in
a crust.
Sorry ladies, but if I am going
to go to Burger King to get a Whooper I’m going to eat it in its original bread
product, not skin it and replace the bread with a crust. That defeats the entire purpose of going to
Burger King in the beginning.
Now if I was
still mystery shopping to the point I was getting burgers for free three times
a day it might be a recipe I’d consider just for a change in texture, but on a
day to day basis. Nope!
I also didn’t
care for their fake cooking hints, like cooking your peelings from your carrots
and such in a bundle to make your family think you’ve been cooking. I don’t know about your households, but that
would really cause problems in mine. If my guys smell food, they expect food to
eat.
After
reading several of the 75 recipes in the book I simply skimmed the rest because
quite frankly this was not a cookbook in my estimation.
In fairness
to them though I am pretty much a scratch cook and make a lot of my own mixes
as evidenced by my blogs Patterson’s Pantry
and Patterson’s Pantry Recipes. Although I do love a good shortcut recipe on
my busy days. These were not the ones
for me.
My overall
for this book was a C-. Sorry ladies.
Jan who is
too much a foodie for recipes like what is in this cookbook in OK
