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Casserole Queens Cookbook: Put Some Lovin' In Your Oven With 100 Easy One-Dish Recipes (2014)

by Crystal Cook(Favorite Author)

3.56 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1299161669 (ISBN13: 9781299161665)

languge

English

genre

Food & Cookbooks

publisher

Clarkson Potter Publishers

review 1: Jessica RC will lead this discussion on Sunday, March 10, 2013, 2-3pm.Each month we'll ask you to make two recipes from a designated cookbook: we'll choose the first recipe and suggest that you make it for yourself at home; you'll choose the second and bring it to share during our discussion. We'll meet to discuss both recipes and we'll have a potluck of tasty treats! Our recipe choice is the World's Greatest Chicken Pot Pie on pages 48-49. Note: Pearls, pumps and aprons are optional attire for this discussion!Meeting Notes: We had a wonderful discussion about The Casserole Queens Cookbook and sampled the following recipes - Chicken Tetrazzini, Crab Cheese Quiche, Empanadas, Broccoli Rice and 2 versions of the Orange Date cake. Everyone agreed that the Chicken Tetrazzin... morei was delicious. The other recipe reviews were each a mix of Yummy or Meh (So-So).... There were no complete misses.Some miscellaneous thoughts - Most everyone agreed that we used a lot of pots/bowls/utensils in these recipes. The end result was worth it, but there is a fair amount of clean up. One participant thought that the 9x13 pan was too big for some of the recipes and used the next smaller size pan (7x11?) with fine results - especially for the World's Greatest Chicken Pot Pie. She remarked that she didn't have to "stretch" the phyllo dough to cover the casserole. Another participant mentioned that the "Tips" were very helpful and provided welcome support. Finally, one participant tried the Idea-Generating Margarita and gave it a big thumbs up!Our rating is 3.5 stars.
review 2: There are problems with checking out cookbooks from the library. First, you might spill applesauce bread batter on one of the pages. This can be hard to clean off. Second, you might not want to give the book back, which means frantically writing down all the recipes you tried and loved as well as all the other recipes you wanted to try. Or the ones you might want to try some day. Sigh. I tried several of the dishes from this cookbook and renewed it twice. But alas, it is now back at the library. On its shelf. I hope pages 34 and 35 aren't stuck together. (That applesauce bread was really good). These girls are funky chicks. They are awesomely pro-cream of mushroom soup and are all for Spam and Velveeta. They love it when their foods touch each other on the plate. They are pin-up pretty and retro rad. I first heard about the Casserole Queens when I saw them take on the immortal Bobby Flay on "Throwdown." I tried the "Corn Dog Casserole." I admit, it sounded gross to me, too. But it was DEElish! I also love Oh Boy! Broccoli Casserole, Crescent Rolls and Swiss Cheese Breakfast Casserole, and Frenchy Bake Casserole. I am going to sound like a broken record, but did I mention that the Applesauce Bread with Chocolate Chips was really good? Yummo. These ARE your mama's recipes. Or your meemaw's. Being modernistas in the kitchen, these kindly cookies DID offer plenty of tips for healthifying most of the dishes. And the last chapter is a beauty: you will learn how to make the basics: pie crusts, chicken and beef stock, homemade cream of something soups, you know, that kind of thing. My only "beef" about her recipes (pun totally intended, since the CQ's also love ground beef) is that I really, really wanted more pictures. This is a keeper. less

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