The Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin’ in Your Oven with 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes
The Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin’ in Your Oven with 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes
Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock make a mean Chicken Pot Pie, elevating the classic recipe with white wine and fresh tarragon. Their recipe won them such a following in Texas that Bobby Flay took notice and challenged them to a Throwdown. It turns out that the Casserole Queens, as the duo is known, are much more than one-hit wonders of the one-dish dinner. They have built an entire business around revamping the ultimate quick-fix dinner for modern tastes.
In The Casserole Queens Cookbook, they share their fresh, updated, from-scratch recipes for traditional dishes. Tuna Noodle is brought up a notch with a homemade cream sauce and a kick of cayenne pepper; Halibut Enchiladas with Salsa Verde are surprisingly light and vibrant; Manda
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This casserole cookbook provides some good information regarding this type of dish. Crystal Cook and Sandy Pollock – the casserole queens included about 100 recipes. The book contains some family classics like beef stroganoff and four cheese pasta, savory casserole, such as osso bucco, prime rib, lighter casseroles, and sides, breakfast, desserts and some from scratch recipes including pizza dough and pie dough.
They talk about different casserole dishes/containers, how to make a towel apron, what to have to be prepared both in the pantry and with equipment. They give good simple practical advice such as how to cut calories and freezing tips. There are icons included for the recipes: freezes well, time saving short cuts, vegetarian friendly, Crystal’s favorite or story, and also Sandy’s. There are only a few pictures of the dishes in a 16 page color section; but these are simple recipes and the missing pictures are not critical to your success.
Our family favorites have been the Spam casserole try it, if you like the taste of ham, you might be surprised at what a good thing Spam is; and the ziti bake, which not only tastes good but also contains 5 cups-1 ½ pounds of zucchini- for those of you with gardens or generous friends. I have also used other varieties of squash successfully.
This is not a book for the confirmed gourmet cook, instead it is a cookbook for those who would like to prepare good wholesome meals, possibly freezing some and have some agreeable family fare.
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|Super fattening, processed ingredients…,
This was one of several cookbooks I received for my birthday (I let it be known that I wanted to do more cooking and then everyone got me cookbooks!). I was really excited about the book because (a) I am originally from Austin (where CQ’s are from), (b) I love everything retro–the cover of this is so cute! and (3) I need more easy dinner ideas! I don;t have a big family or anything, but I like the idea of making one-dish meals that I can parcel up and freeze.
I feel a little bad giving this a 2 stars because the intro is very charming. But when it comes down to it, a cookbook (for me, at least) is about the recipes. I was actually pretty horrified by the contents. I am not a super-health nut or anything, but sheesh! Corn dog casserole? Cans of cream of Mushroom and cream of chicken soup throughout??? And seriously, there is a has brown side dish with 1 cup of butter, an 8 oz container of full fat sour cream, and a can of the cream of mushroom soup. I did, however, make the chicken ranch casserole for my boyfriend for nostalgia sake( his mamaw used to make it for him). Meh. It was ok. But wow, I expected something really neat with this cookbook and it’s just bland recipes from the 1970s. That said, I’m not sure who this cookbook is supposed to be for. Fat and calorie-wise, they only seem appropriate for teenage boys who play football or recently rescued shipwreck victims.
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|So-so,
I was really disappointed by this book; I love casseroles and was looking forward to lots of fun and creative new ideas. That’s not what this book is. The recipes here are ones that have been around for decades (I know, because I’ve made them!) Some have minor tweaks, but not many. With that said, this would be a fine book for a college student or someone who is brand new to cooking. But not what I was hoping for at all.
Also, I agree with the other reviewer regarding the cream of soups and generally fattening recipes. Definitely a throwback to the seventies, but I preferred the Laurel’s Kitchen Recipes version of 70s cooking.
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