Monday, March 11, 2019

Book reviews for Mar 11






Grandpa Went to Heaven by Amber Richards
What I like about this book are many things.
Author explains to the parents at the end what to focus on and not make things complicated for young children.
Pictures with words are easy to understand with things the young children is familiar with.
Reassuring that this is one thing you don't have to go overboard on with the recent death of your loved one.



The Geyser Girl of Yellowstone Park by Myrtle Brooks
Story of Old Faithful and the girl who lives inside the hot springs.
What I liked about this book was detailed descriptions of the nature in the area.
There are many stories inside this book.
One is about the Halpens, Ned who is a cavalryman/ranger in the park who spends his life keeping law and order.
Fllower of the Steam Basin is another and I like how others she trusts teach her words and other useful life lessons as she goes from the hot springs life to one of a girlfriend of one who lives in town/comes to visit during the summer months.
Story of Ned goes many decades and how each one has a link to the park and keeping order.
Best part of the book for me was the vow Flower of the Steam Basin makes when her mother dies.  She also runs with the wild animals in the park as if they are her sister.. She is at ease with them and helps others survive the traps and other harmful things that occur.



Instant Pot for Beginners: Easy, Delicious Recipes Made Simple by Multiple Authors
Book starts with TOC where recipes are broken up into meals.
Intro talks about the instant pot.
Each recipe has a title, servings, time and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sugar and low sodium and fresh vs. canned products.
There are NO pictures.  There is NO nutritional information.
Recipes do not start at the top of a page so you might miss them.
Some ingredients may be hard to find at your local store.
There is quite the variety of dishes to choose from.
Other works are linkd to view online.



Clean Eating: A beginner’s Guide to Eating Clean, Avoiding Toxins, and Feeling Great. Including Recipes! (Healthy Eating Series Book 1) by Faye Froome
Book starts with TOC: intro conversion tables, nutrition, recipes where chapters are broken up into meals.
Into talks about clean eating, what it is and how you can use it also, benefits and what foods to avoid.
Few color photo throughout and also foods that are allowed on this diet.
Recipes start with a title, servings list of ingredient where you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs. canned products.
There are NO pictures.
Nutrtional info-not sure if it's by servng: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, prtoein, carbs and fiber.
Some recipes have American and British measuremnts in the same recipe so it might take a bit of time to translate them into one or the other language.




 Power Pressure Cooker XL Cookbook: The Quick & Easy Power Pressure Cooker XL Recipes - Healthy, Fast & Delicious Electric Pressure Cooker Recipes by Tina B.Baker
Book starts with  TOC wehre cahpters about the pressure cooker and recipes are broken up into meal categories.
Intro talks about the pressure cooker. Free bonus ebook is included.  Controls of the cooker are included, benefits of using it, how to operate proply  and what each button does.
Troubleshooting and cook guide is inncluded.
Each recipe has a title, prep, cook time, servings nad list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat,low sugar and fresh vs. canned products.
Directions are given and some nutritional value per seving: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, figer and protein.
There are NO pictures.
There are very few small color photos of the item.
Mango cake would be my choice to make.





Baking Cookbook – Fast and Easy Recipes for Busy People Bakery Bread Cupcakes - Easy To Prepare - Quick Cook by Janes Wish
Book starts with a table of contents where it lists the recipes, not in any specific order.
Each recipe includes a title, prep and bak time and servings.
Medium size colorful photo. List of ingredients and how to make the dish are included.
There is NO nutritional information.
Contains many favorite everyday dishes that everybody would treasure having a copy-all recipes in one place.
Some of the recipes use British measurements with American making the recipes a lot longer to translate before you actually can make them.
Raw PB date bars would be my choice for a quick energy nutritious bite.



The Everyday Soup Cookbook: Delicious Low Fat Soup Recipes Inspired by the Mediterranean Diet (Free Gift): Healthy Recipes for Weight Loss (Souping Diet Detox and Cleanse Book 1) by Alissa Noel Grey
Book starts out with TOC where there are chapters about the Meditterean diet and recipes are not in any specific order.
Intro starts out about the diet and how to follow along.
Each recipe has a title, servings, prep time and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar and fresh vs. canned items.
Directions are given.
There are NO pictures. THere is NO nutritional information.
Like light chicken soup the best ofr nutritional value-everything is fresh.
Love the use of herbs to get just the right flavor of the dish.
Like combination of flavors.
Bonus recipes included: smoothies.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.




Easy Rotisserie Chicken Meals: 50 recipes for shredded chicken (Family Cooking Series Book 2) by Debbie Madson
Each recipe starts with a medium size color photo and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar and low fat products.
Directions are given.
Table of contents has recipes broken up into main food groups.
Each recipe starts with a title, list of ingredients and  directions.
There is a small color photo at the end of the recipe.
There is NO nutritonal information available.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.




Simple Recipes for Easy Homemade Face Scrubs and Body Exfoliants: Organic Beauty on a Budget (Herbal and Natural Remedies for Healhty Skin Care Book 1) by Vesela Tabakova
First talks of important of natural ingredients, table of contents where scrubs and other recipes are not broken up into any specific order.
Intro about face scrubs and why make them at home, basic ingredients and general rules.
Each recipe starts with a title and list of ingredients and how to mix them and apply.
There are no pictures. There are SO many recipes and all using fresh ingredients.
Body scrubs for every season-so cool. About the author is included at the end.



Instant Pot MultiCooker Cookbook: Easy Recipes for Fast & Healthy Meals by Limon Biswas
Book starts off with benefits and uses of the instant pot. Q&A included. Table of contents where chapters are broken up into meals.
Handy charts: rice to water.  Each recipe starts with a title, list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat and low sugar products.
Directions are given also. along with serving suggestions.
Has listing of servings, prep and cook times, Page length color photo is in the book, just NOT alwasys right near the recipe.
There is NO nutritional information.
Like the variety of what is offered and I know how to make it healthy for us. About the author is included at the end.
A KEEPER! even without the nutritional information.




Tasty Backyard Party: Outdoor Cooking Recipes For Delicious Barbecuing & Grilling by Josh Andrews
Starts with TOC where recipes are broken up by food category.
Free ebook offer and intro about grilling outside. Measurement conversion, dry weight charts are listed.
Each recipe starts with a title, medium size color photo total time, prep, level and servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary need: low sodium, low fat, and low sugar products.
Servings options are also given. Directions are also given.
There is NO nutritional information.
Like the variety of the recipes available.
Lobster tails would be my choice-not really a burger though.
Love side dish recipes at the end, great idea for a complete meal.





Bread Baking For Beginners by Dorit Griffin
Book starts with a table of contents where different breads have their own chapters.
Intro talks about how this book will help if, being a newbie to baking bread.
Another chapter tives you gudelines for items wyou will need along with basic steps, kneading, removing the bread.
there are few color photos. Each recipe starts with a title, servings, cooking time. List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low sugar and low fat products.
Prep steps are included.
Confusing with some recipes as it never tells you how long to let eh bread sit or how long to cook it before it starts into another recipe.
Some recipes also have a medium color photo. There is NO nutritional information.
Each recipe does NOT start at the top of a new page.
Some ingredients you may find hard to locate at the store: tapoica flour, ptoato starch, xanthan gum,  and za'atar.
Pumpkin muffins would be my choice to try. Would like to also try the pita bread as we do use it quite a bit.
Includes an index for the recipes at the end by chapter-not page numbers.



Japanese Takeout Cookbook Favorite Japanese Takeout Recipes to Make at Home: Sushi, Noodles, Rices, Salads, Miso Soups, Tempura, Teriyaki and More (Takeout Cookbooks 6) by Lina Chang
Book starts with Table of conetnts where recipes are broken up into meal categories.
Free ebook offer and other works by the author.
Intro talks about Japanese food and how its culture matters.  Good history of how the meals came to the US.
Another chapter lists ingredients and what each is and why it's important to your health.
Some color photos.
Each recipe starts with a title, servings, prep and cook time, medium sized color photo and list of ingredients.
Directions are given and there is no nutritional information available.
Not sure if you can substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fat, low sugar products.
Some of the dishes look very nutritous and appitizing.
Love the basic steps about how to make sushi, comes with photos also.
Also like that it gives you serving suggestions. Might be difficult to find some of the ingredients: sake, mirin, wasabi root, chinese mustard, etc.
Desserts even look appealing to me.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end. Converstion cooking and oven temperature charts are also included at the end.




Foodi Multi-Cooker Cookbook For Beginners: Top 500 Quick, Easy and Delicious Foodi Multi-Cooker Recipes to Pressure Cook, Air Fry, Dehydrate, and More by Emma Rollins
TOC where chapters are broken up into meals.  Introduction about how hand picked the recipes are especially for beginners.
Benefits are also discussed, functions and buttons of the multicooker. Trouble shooting tips also for this pressure cooker.
Each recipe includes a title, prep and cook time and servings.
List of ingredients and you should be able to subsitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sugar, low fat and low sodium products.
Directions are given and servings suggestions.
There are NO pictures. There is NO nutritional information.
A lot of these recipes could be made in pressure cooker I have but this cooker is also an air crisper which is an added feature that I will be looking into-just one more device off my kitchen counter if I can get many devices into one item.




Soup Recipes: The Ultimate Recipe Guide by Jackie Swansen
Starts with free ebook offer and TOC where the recipes are not in any specific order.
Each recipe starts with a title, prep time and servings.
List of ingredient, love that they are using low fat and low sodium products. Directions are given but there is
NO nutritional information. There are NO photos.
Don't understand why some recipes mix measurements: (American and British, why not convert this for us?)
There are links that also take you to an online site to get that recipe-not sure if Canadian Living agrees with this practice.
You also may find it hard to find some items, mostly herbs and spices as  they are not common to most.



Proper Pasties: How To Make An Award Winning Cornish Pasty by Billy Deakin
Starts with acknowledgements and wall of fame link along with a disclaimer.
TOC includes recipes broken up into different pasty making lists.
Starts with a foreword about the area of Cornish and a bit of history about the pasty.
Some color photos. The country even has championships to name the winners of the best tasting ones.
Chapter starts with a list of ingredients to make a pasty and each ingredient has a few paragrphs aobut the best you can buy.
Section about the crimp fascinated me separating it tino pie, turnover or a pasty.
There is so much information  and I really just want to get to the recipes.
Each recipe starts with a title, brief summary of the dish, servings.
Ingredients are listed in British along with American measurements along with how to make the pastry and the filling.
There are no pictures for individual recipes. There is NO nutritonal information.
Appendix lists other pasty shops and their location in Britain.
Tips on how to make pasty and further reading resources are listed at the end.




Salads in Jars Cookbook: Healthy, Quick and Easy Mason Jar Recipes by Louise Davidson
Starts with mason jars and how they can be used for many purposes.
TOC where the recipes are not in any specific order.
Free ebook offer. Introduction about how to make your lunch so different than what others are having by pulling out your salad in a jar.
Tips for preparing and packing salads is given.
Recipes start with a title, servings and list of ingredients which you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low sugar, low fat and low sodium products.
Dressing section is also listed along with how to make the dish. 
There are NO pictures. There is some nutritional information based on grams per single servings: calories, fat-NOT broken up into good or bad, carbs, protein and sodium.
Love that you can make the dressing to go with the salad all in one container and seal it so it won't spill inside your lunch bag.
Other works by the author are highlighted at the end.
Measureing equivelnet chart is listed at the end and oven temperature chart also.





South Beach Diet: Ultimate Guide for Beginners with Healthy Recipes and Kick-Start Meal Plans by Emma Green
Starts with TOC and how they use phases and then food categories.
Intro talks about metalbolism and  different phases of foods that will keep you going all day long.
Allowed vegetable chart is included  and legumes, sauces and seasongs, meats, .
Each phase has a meal plan for 5 days giving you the page number of the recipes included in this book.
Each week a new item is added to the meals.
Each recipe starts with a title, small color photo and what phase it is, prep and cook time and servings.
Nutritional info per servings: calories, total carbs, protein and total sugars.
List of ingredients and you should be alb eto subsittue for your healthier dietary needs: low sodium, low fats and low sugar products.
Instructions are given.  Shrimp cocktail would be my favorite to try because you are making the sauce yourself and can control the sodium.
Conversion charts are listed at the end along with other works by the author.

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