mariadnoca
Moderator
I’d copied a recipe from here for a raspberry tart, which led me to find her cookbook used and I thought everybody could use new celebrations recipes. Turns out, maybe not
My review:
The cookbook is broken down by menu, which I’m never that fond of if in the table of contents, they don’t also list what’s in menus. So to see whats in the book, you must page through it. Also, not one recipe says how many it serves. The chicken curry calls for 24 chicken thighs!
However, what stunned me was except for St. Patrick’s Day. I haven’t seen a menu that didn’t include shellfish. As a West coaster shellfish is not super common as something served here, and it’s always expensive. Even in the before times, it wasn’t cheap.
As someone that has family allergic to shellfish there’s pretty much not a single menu that I can use.
And then I had to look it up because I thought this person must be from the East Coast, and sure enough was. Maybe on the east coast lobster is cheap, but not here. (Thinking lobster roll, which isn’t a thing here.) I don’t know if it’s an East Coast thing but serving shellfish at every single gathering you have is just not something you would do on the West Coast. It just seemed very odd to me it was n every menu, and there are menus for occasions one has completely forgotten about like new job, chicken for two (steamed mussels), big raise, and ripe tomato, includes shellfish of some kind. Even the thanksgiving menu has it - lobster and corn soup. Go figure!
Then again, if you wanted more than you could imagine number of shellfish recipes, this might be for you.
(On the west coast we are eating guacamole, not shrimp and stew at our superbowl parties. It’s basically mandatory.)
My review:
The cookbook is broken down by menu, which I’m never that fond of if in the table of contents, they don’t also list what’s in menus. So to see whats in the book, you must page through it. Also, not one recipe says how many it serves. The chicken curry calls for 24 chicken thighs!
However, what stunned me was except for St. Patrick’s Day. I haven’t seen a menu that didn’t include shellfish. As a West coaster shellfish is not super common as something served here, and it’s always expensive. Even in the before times, it wasn’t cheap.
As someone that has family allergic to shellfish there’s pretty much not a single menu that I can use.
And then I had to look it up because I thought this person must be from the East Coast, and sure enough was. Maybe on the east coast lobster is cheap, but not here. (Thinking lobster roll, which isn’t a thing here.) I don’t know if it’s an East Coast thing but serving shellfish at every single gathering you have is just not something you would do on the West Coast. It just seemed very odd to me it was n every menu, and there are menus for occasions one has completely forgotten about like new job, chicken for two (steamed mussels), big raise, and ripe tomato, includes shellfish of some kind. Even the thanksgiving menu has it - lobster and corn soup. Go figure!
Then again, if you wanted more than you could imagine number of shellfish recipes, this might be for you.(On the west coast we are eating guacamole, not shrimp and stew at our superbowl parties. It’s basically mandatory.)