( 5 reviews )
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Posted: Feb 5 2009
My granddaughter has her first apartment, and finding it difficult to cut down recipes to serve one. I really wanted something basic that was not too difficult, nothing exotic, using ordinary ingredients. I think this cookbook was did not fill my expectations.
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( 1 of 1 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 6 2008
Whilst the recipes are for the most part interesting, and not that hard to prepare fairly quickly, they fail to take account of the predicament of the single person - it's six o'clock, been a rough day, time to think about what to fix for dinner, and here's a fun-looking dish . . . but oops, I'm missing that container of crème fraîche I saw once in a gourmet store. Wait, here's another mouth-watering meal - but I don't have a spare fennel bulb in my windowbox garden. Darn, don't have a fresh sweet fig either, so much for that one. Here's a good one! I even have half a mango left from the last recipe, wonder if it's still . . . blast, it's gone bad in the fridge. The heck with it, I'll just zap a frozen meal in the microwave and list this book for sale as a barely-used book on Amazon . . . it'll take less time than driving to the store to get the stuff I don't have. Pity.
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( 8 of 9 found this review helpful ) Posted: Apr 6 2008
Whilst the recipes are for the most part interesting, and not that hard to prepare fairly quickly, they fail to take account of the predicament of the single person - it's six o'clock, been a rough day, time to think about what to fix for dinner, and here's a fun-looking dish . . . but oops, I'm missing that container of cr??me fra??che I saw once in a gourmet store. Wait, here's another mouth-watering meal - but I don't have a spare fennel bulb in my windowbox garden. Darn, don't have a fresh sweet fig either, so much for that one. Here's a good one! I even have half a mango left from the last recipe, wonder if it's still . . . blast, it's gone bad in the fridge. The heck with it, I'll just zap a frozen meal in the microwave and list this book for sale as a barely-used book on Amazon . . . it'll take less time than driving to the store to get the stuff I don't have. Pity.
