Cookbooks reviewed: July 5

  

 

Bread & Cookie Cookbook: Homemade Bread and Cookie Recipes to Try in Your Kitchen for Healthy Living by Amelia Rogers

TOC where recipes are listed under various kinds of breads and cookie recipes are all together.

Intro discusses how to make bread at home. Each recipe starts with a title and prep, bake and total time, servings and how many loaves-for bread.

Nutritional info: fat, protein, carbs, calories.

List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.

Some recipe have a LOT of ingredients, be sure to have them all first.

Directions are given. There are NO pictures. Great collection of cookie recipes.

Thera are NO pictures.

 

 

Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 325 Delectable Recipes for Quick, Easy, and Nourishing Meals by Vanessa Olsen

Collection of 3 different pressure cook recipe cookbooks. Great value to have all of these in one place.

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Electric pressure cooker cookbook: 110 amazing recipes for quick, healthy and delicious meals

Table of contents where recipes are listed in meals and food categories.

Intro about the pressure cooker and what it can do for your life today.

Each recipe starts with a title, servings and time to make.

Summary of dish. List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.

Directions are given and some nutritional information per serving: calories, protein, carbs, fiber and fat.

Like smaller portions 1-2 and that you can use PC. would try lobster casserole and small snack items.

Index also includes converting slow cooker recipes to pressure cookers. My unit has both. 

There are NO pictures, lots to choose from.

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Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 115 Quick, Easy, and Irresistible Pressure Cooker Recipes for Amazingly Tasty and Healthy Meals by Vanessa Olsen

This book also starts with table of contents where recipes are listed in meals and food categories.

Each recipe has a title servings and time. Summary of the dish.

List of ingredients and you should be able to substitute for your healthier dietary needs: low fat, low sodium, low sugar and fresh vs canned items.

Directions are given.  Some nutritional information, sometimes 1/6 of recipe, it will state what size is: calories, protein, fat, carbs, fiber.

There are NO pictures.  lots of choices.

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Electric Pressure Cooker Cookbook: 5 Ingredients or Less - 100 Quick, Easy, and Amazingly Tasty Pressure Cooker Recipes for Healthy and Nourishing Meals by Vanessa Olsen

starts with table of contents where recipes are broken up into meals and food categories.

Into talks about pressure cooker itself, why to use it, parts of the unit, buttons and problems you may run into, cleaning, converting slow cooker recipes and more.

Each chapter starts with a title  and  index of recipes in that section.

Each recipe starts with a title, servings, time and summary of the dish.

List of ingredients are included and directions.

Nutritional information is included, not by calories but sometimes 1/2 recipe that includes total calories, protein, carbs, fat-NOT broken into good or bad, and fiber.

There are NO pictures.

Because there are only 5 ingredients some of the recipes call for prepared or packaged foods.

End includes list of healthy pantry staples, chart showing electric pressure cook and stove top cookers for various foods.

 Lot of recipes but I'd rather go the extra to make them healthy by using fresh and not canned items, too much sodium for our diet.

Conclusion and listing of healthy pantry staples, time charts for electric pressure and stove top cookers.