Book Review: Beautiful Bundts: 100 Recipes for Delicious Cakes and More By Julie Ann Hession

Beautiful Bundts: 100 Recipes for Delicious Cakes and More

By Julie Ann Hession

Review written by David.

A big redneck like me has had no end of fun picking on the ladies who brought bundt cakes to the church dinners. “Hey, Ida Mae, there’s a hole in your cake!” However, Ida Mae will get the last laugh when she brings one of these Beautiful Bundt cakes to the church dinner.

What is not to enjoy when Ida Mae brings a sausage stuffed bundt cake?  And, who is not gonna like a turkey meatloaf bundt cake?

There are step-by-step instructions for each recipe and, just to make sure that “Even a Redneck can do it”, there are step-by-step pictures for many of the techniques involved in making these eye-opening, mouth-watering delights.

From classic pound cakes, s’mores cakes, all the way up to red velvet bundts, you will love these cakes.  There is even a two potato bundt cake in here. Since this fat redneck is allergic to sweet potatoes, we will have to substitute some other potato.  But it sounds and looks delicious. A mac and cheese bundt?  Really?

Ida Mae will be the one laughing while Jimmy Joe asks for seconds or even thirds of these wonderful, easy to make, bundt cakes.

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Book Review: It’s Just Better...in a Bowl! By Debra Abeling

It’s Just Better...in a Bowl!

By Debra Abeling

This book is great!  It’s Just Better...in a Bowl! is loaded with healthy, appetizing recipes that are - you guessed it - served in a bowl.

Debra Abeling, the author, suggests that serving food in bowls helps with portion control, temperature control, and mess control. You won’t be chasing that carrot all over the place if you use a bowl instead of a plate. :)

Debra gives lists of the following:

Ideas for meal prepping

Substitutions for various ingredients

Which foods are in season when

Which produce is typically high in chemical pesticide residue and which isn’t

Essential kitchen tools

And a host of other helpful information!

It’s Just better... in a Bowl! is a well-written, easy-to-follow book full of ideas and recipes to help one in his or her quest for a healthier diet. This book earns 5 stars.

Warning: Reading through these recipes will make you hungry! We can’t wait to try Oven-Baked Stuffed French Toast Bowl!

Hop over to Amazon and get your own copy today so that you can drool over this recipe(pg 29) and many more as you start eating your way to a healthier life!

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Book Review: 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals By Camilla V. Saulsbury

200 Best Sheet Pan Meals

By Camilla V. Saulsbury

 

If you are looking for a way to cook a complete meal with very little mess and not a lot of work, 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals by Camilla V. Saulsbury is loaded with great ideas to help you with just that.

This book has many full-color illustrations. The recipes call for the use of just one sheet pan.  

Who would have thought to cook breakfast potatoes and eggs at the same time, in the same pan?  What about fried chicken and beans cooking in the same pan, at the same time?

We give 200 Best Sheet Pan Meals all five stars. The recipes are easy and creative.  Most are very frugal.  We think your family will love these meals.

You may want to buy two copies so you can share one with your friends.  No doubt, they will be asking you for your recipes.

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Book Review: The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes By Candice Hutchings

The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes

By Candice Hutchings

If you are trying to eat healthier, but have a difficult time giving up meat, The Edgy Veg: 138 Carnivore-Approved Vegan Recipes By Candice Hutchings might be just the right thing for you.

Let’s face it, meat tastes good.  But, we all know that too much meat is not good for us.  In the Bible, Daniel and his friends were able to show themselves to be superior to the others by abstaining from meat and eating only vegetables, and drinking water.

Well, you don’t necessarily have to give up the taste you crave. The Edgy Veg gives you simple, easy to follow recipes to get the taste you crave and still eat healthy.

The vegan in you will love The Edgy Veg.  The carnivore in you will be glad you got it, too.

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Book Review: Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes By Douglas McNish

Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes

By Douglas McNish

We would all love to eat healthier, at least most of us would.  But, how do you eat health foods without giving up taste and variety?  Well, Raw, Quick & Delicious! 5-Ingredient Recipes in Just 15 Minutes by Douglas McNish has the answer.

There is even a recipe for brownies that are actually healthy for you.  We are from Gulf Coast Texas.  Therefore, chili is a must.  There is a recipe in Raw, Quick & Delicious! for chili made with raw ingredients. There is no cooking required.

If you or a loved one has been wanting to eat healthier but did not want to give up taste, now you can have both. We give Raw, Quick & Delicious! all five stars.  The recipes are easy to follow and there are many color photos to entice you to try the recipes.

This would make a great gift for anyone on your list!

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Book Review: 150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked By George Geary

150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked

By George Geary

If the way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, then the way to a redneck man’s heart must entail deep-fried maple bacon donut bars.  It is a good thing that 150 Best Donut Recipes: Fried or Baked by George Geary has a recipe for that.

No matter how you love your donuts, 150 Best Donut Recipes is bound to have the right recipe for you.  It is chock full of color photos and it gives instructions that are simple to follow. There are even step-by-step numbered illustrations for making some of the recipes.

We give 150 Best Donut Recipes all five stars.  We love it and we know you will, too.  This book will make a great holiday gift for that wannabe baker on your list.  Psst, there is even a recipe for Elvis donuts in here.

Even if you don’t know a teaspoon from a teacup, you can make these simple, easy-to-follow recipes.  

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Book Review: 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 By Jill Snider

175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2

By Jill Snider

We were sent a review copy of 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes Treats for 1 or 2 free of charge for the purpose of writing this review.  

We are empty-nesters.  We went from a household that once had as many as 6 people, all the way down to 2. Talk about an adjustment.

There was a time when we would have to make multiple batches of cookies just so everyone could have one or two.  We did not have to send out invitations to the kids’ birthday parties because we already had a house full.

Now that all the kids have gone on to do their things, we have had to adapt.  175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 is a good tool for us to have in the toolbox because there is such a difference.

Empty-nesters like us need books like this to help us reduce the servings of the treats we make.  The book is well-written and easy to follow.  

If you love shortbread cookies like we do, you simply have to try this book.

We give 175 Best Small-Batch Baking Recipes: Treats for 1 or 2 all five stars.  We think you will, too.

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Book Review: Aquafabulous: 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba By Rebecca Coleman

Aquafabulous: 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba

By Rebecca Coleman

Who would have thought it, you can make a substitute for eggs in many recipes with bean water?

We were sent a review copy of Aquafabulous 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba for the purpose of writing this review.

We have been trying to live healthy for a while now.  We have reduced our intake of animal products as much as possible. But some things are hard to give up, like cake and omelettes.

Aquafaba, which is really just water drained off of beans, can be used in place of eggs in many recipes.  Who knew?

The author, Rebecca Coleman, teaches readers the basics in the first part of the book and then she gets into actually making many tasty treats.  She even helps us with recipes for the beans that are left over after making the aquafaba.  

If you are trying to eat healthier, Aquafabulous 100+ Egg-Free Vegan Recipes Using Aquafaba would make a great addition to your kitchen library.

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Book Review: Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes By Christophe Adam

Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes

By Christophe Adam

We were sent a review copy of Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes written by Christophe Adam without charge for the purpose of writing this review.

Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes is a wonderful book.  It is really a simple, step-by-step course in how to make eclairs.  

The instructions are wonderful and very easy to follow. If you have trouble following written instructions, no problem.  There are pictures to take you step-by-step through the process.

By following along in Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes one could very easily make eclairs that would be the hit of any party.  One word or warning though, once you make some of these creations for your own party, your guests will want you to make them for their parties, too.

We think Eclairs: Easy, Elegant & Modern Recipes deserves all five stars.  We think you will, too.


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Book Review: 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes by Marilyn Haugen & Doug Cook, RD, MHSc

175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes
By Marilyn Haugen & Doug Cook, RD, MHSc

We were sent a review copy of 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes so that we could try it out and see what we thought about the book.

If you have just gotten your Nutribullet and are looking for great things to try out, this book is for you. There are smoothie recipes galore. This book has a little bit of everything. There are kid-friendly recipes, smoothies, soups, dips, and more.

We really love our NutriBullet and 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes makes a great companion to it. We plan on trying most of these recipes.

We give 175 Best Superfood Blender Recipes five stars on our scale of zero to five stars. We think you will enjoy it, too!

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