Carole Roth Giagnocavo

This is a fun, basic cookbook. It takes me back to my Philadelphia roots. You are not going to find any fancy food in this cookbook. You are going to find easy, wholesome, old fashioned recipes. It’s also not exactly a low fat cookbook either but that is half the fun of these kinds of cookbooks – at least for me. It takes me back to my childhood and to the foods that my mother used to cook.

The recipes are sometimes not as well written as you might find in other cookbooks and it is helpful to have some cooking experience but that doesn’t mean that a new cook wouldn’t be able to muddle through – it’s more a matter of experience; for example – in the bread recipe I show you below the bread is put on to rise for 45 minutes and the next step tells you to bake it at 375°. Nowhere does it leave the time to preheat the oven. So without the experience you are left with risen loaves and a cold oven. Or your oven is sitting hot for 45 minutes if you thought you needed to preheat it at the beginning. A silly thing I know but as I noted – experience.

There are sections for soups, appetizers, canning, casseroles, main dishes, breads, desserts and sweets. There are also a lot of little tips and tricks all throughout the book as well as plenty of stunning photos of Amish/Mennonite country. At the beginning of the book is a delightful introduction about the history and lifestyle of the Amish.… (lisätietoja)