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| Author: Jessica Seinfeld
Brand: Harper Collins
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  683 reviews
Sales Rank: 622
Media: Spiral-bound
Edition: 1st
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 8.3 x 0.9
MPN: 0061251344
ISBN: 0061251348
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5973
EAN: 9780061251344
ASIN: 0061251348
Publication Date: October 1, 2007
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 I LOVE this Cookbook!! October 26, 2008
~Kudos108~ (Arizona)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I received this cookbook as a gift from my mother, and it has been a total lifesaver for me. I have a very picky husband (a total meat & potatoes- no veggies guy) and a picky toddler to feed. I have been using this cookbook for a month solid- everyday. The comments from my family is that dinner has never been better. Making the purees takes a bit of time once a week, but makes dinner preparation so much faster. I am becoming more brave and adding purees to other recipes. My family, who would not even TOUCH broccoli before have been eating it in puree form in chicken nuggets, chicken soup, beef stew, and so many other things. I reccomend this cookbook for anyone who has picky eaters at home. I actually hide it and they don't know I'm using it- they are none the wiser and what they don't know won't hurt them!! Once you become familiar with it, you can broaden your other recipes as well. I just can't say enough good things about it.
 So far it's been a hit October 14, 2008
s.a.h.momma
The veggie and fruit purees are much easier to make then i thought. I was nervous about all the work, but things are explained well on how to make them.
Also i like that you can switch out whatever purees you want to use in most of her recipes.
So far what we've made has been good. The muffins have been the biggest hit. And I add flax seed meal to mine.
I would not however use these recipes as the only source of fruits and veggies for my family. I just liked the idea of adding more healthy stuff to foods we already eat.
Eating veggies shouldn't be a fight October 13, 2008
SuperiorMom03 (Superior, Colorado)
Love this book! My girls (6, 5 & 3) are not naturally drawn to eating veggies, but they love helping me bake these foods. I don't like that she tries to fake out her kids with the macaroni box on the counter. I have been very up front with my kids about putting yummy healthy food in and they are being VERY honest about what recipes work for our house. There are some recipes that taste too far off the yummy recipes that I already have, but my girls actually asked for the cakes in this cookbook for their birthday parties (1 with pumpkin and 1 with avocado)! I call that success. I have taken her recipes one step further and made most of the other ingredients organic but she's still on the right track with putting veggies on their plates and veggies in their tummies. The puree process is a little long but so worth it if you can do it all at once and freeze it for the week. The pictures were enticing. I just wish there were more recipes!
Cheryl in Cleveland, OH October 7, 2008
Cheryl A. Allen (Cleveland, OH)
This book is fantastic - I absolutely love it. Mrs. Seinfeld is pure genius!
 An very experienced home cook, very disappointed October 6, 2008
M. Weikert (Virginia)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The idea behind this book is great, although not entirely original, but the recipes are NOT great. Let me just say that I have been cooking meals for my family since I was around 13 years old so I know how to prepare simple and complicated meals at home and I also bake. My feedback on the recipes:
Banana Bread- Collapsed in the middle, was gummy throughout and tasted like vegetable puree. No one in our house wanted to eat it.
Quesadillas- Never crisped up because the recipe calls for too much puree. They were total mush inside and I couldn't even serve them. We had sandwiches that night!
Chicken nuggets- You can TOTALLY see and taste the spinach puree. They look nothing like the picture. And as another reviewer commented, there isn't enough oil in the pan to cook the chicken properly and the first batch I made was really burned.
Sloppy joes- Another case of too much puree called for in the recipe. They were rather bland and very wet and mushy. The liquid never really absorbed just made it very pasty.
Last night making the sloppy joes was my last go at getting something to turn out from this book. It's been very frustrating scraping dishes full of food made from expensive, organic groceries into my garbage can. I am left wondering if Jessica ever really road tested these recipes, or wasn't able to translate what she was doing that was so "delicious" in her kitchen into workable recipes. Too bad, I really was hoping it would work out!
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