C Elias

Green Smoothie Recipes & Other Healthy Smoothie Recipes: Discover Over 50 Easy Smoothie Recipes - Breakfast Smoothies, Green Smoothies, Healthy Smoothies, Lunchtime Smoothies, Yogurt Smoothies, Special Occasion Treat Smoothies and Fruit Smoothie Recipes by C. Elias
TOC lists recipes in groups. Intro about making smoothies. Notes and benefits are discussed. Each recipe starts with a title and has a 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 tips are noted at the end of the recipes.
There are NO pictures, NO nutritional information.
Like flavor combinations.
Conclusion lists other works by the author.… (más)

I did get this book free in exchange for an honest review. It starts out with a pretty indepth explanation of slow cookers, what you willl need for your own family, shapes, sizes and types. It had a lot of little tidbits about the use of slow cookers that I hadn't heard before, so that was good. I got my first and only slow cooker almost 18 years ago when I got married and have used it a lot, have never needed to replace it. There was a bizarre comment near the start about pigs- they shouldn't be eaten, because they are what they eat and they will eat anything and are beset with parasites that are difficult to kill, even with cooking. I thought maybe the author had religious reasons for including that, but there was no explanation.
Some other reviewers had their panties in a wad because many recipes included using "a can of soup" or some other prepared prepackaged food that would have preservatives, etc. But, I think that the author is only telling us about slow cooker recipes-s/he isn't required to also tell us how to do substitutions (make your own soup or broth or whatever to put in there if you don't want to use a can- I do it all the time!). I tried a couple of the recipes, and did as I always do and changed something if I wanted to. Especially in a crock pot. For the most part, I think this book is full of good, usable ideas. There are a lot of things that were a bit over my head, too, like the use of wine or cooking alocohols-something I don't ever intend to do. I think those types of recipes were too many in number and I'm betting a lot of people probably won't use them. But, I could be wrong! I think it was well written and user friendly. the beauty of a slow cooker is that you can take a recipe and then do what you want, with ingredients, with time cooked, heat settings, etc. So, yeah, I think it was pretty good!… (más)