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Cookbook Project, Books #81 and 82
Aug. 4th, 2009 01:38 pm"Cooking With Mickey, Volume 2"
No author listed for this one; it's a collection of recipes from restaurants at Disney World and Disney Land. This is another in my collection of travel-souvenir cookbooks. We went to Disney World for our honeymoon, and among other kitsch (including the obligatory bride and groom mouse ears), I had to pick up a cookbook, and this one seemed the most interesting. Alas, it didn't include any actual recipes from the restaurants we wound up eating at, and after a quick read-through when we got home, it has been sitting unused and lonely on the shelf.
The biggest problem was finding a recipe that was sized for two, or able to be turned into leftovers. But the recipe for Coconut Almond Chicken with Pommery Mustard Sauce looked like a good choice - serves 2, no crazy or obscure ingredients, and feasible on a worknight timescale. And it was actually quite good. The recipe didn't specify whether to use sweetened or unsweetened coconut, so I went with the latter (I am still hesitant about sweet or sugary main dishes), so the coconut flavor was fairly subtle, but it was still there, and the mustard sauce was just excellent. Good enough to make me put this book onto the 'use again' list, most likely with an eye towards desserts.....
"Come & Eat,' Pillsbury
And back to the glossy checkout lane booklets. This one I actually bought while I was in vet school - it focuses on quick, cheap, easy recipes, and during clinics, that's what I needed. Given that I was living on Hot Pockets, oatmeal, and the kindness of my roommate (Hi![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gmkieran! I still adore you!) most of the time, convenience food that I cooked myself was not as distasteful as I find it now.
A lot of these booklets have turned out to be surprisingly useful, hiding actually decent recipes. This, alas, is not one of them. It's full of scary and fake-laden acts involving Pillsbury Biscuits. The recipe for the Biscuit Tostada Grande looked safe enough, though. There are many decent recipes involving a bread product topped by refried beans, seasoned meat, cheese, and tomatoes.
This, alas, was not one of them. Oh, it wasn't actively bad. It was just bland, squishy, and in general far more work, effort, and cost than other, better dishes designed along the same theme. It would have been much easier and tastier to take the same ingredients, spice them to my own taste, and wrap them in a tortilla. This booklet is about to go into the recycle pile, I think.....
No author listed for this one; it's a collection of recipes from restaurants at Disney World and Disney Land. This is another in my collection of travel-souvenir cookbooks. We went to Disney World for our honeymoon, and among other kitsch (including the obligatory bride and groom mouse ears), I had to pick up a cookbook, and this one seemed the most interesting. Alas, it didn't include any actual recipes from the restaurants we wound up eating at, and after a quick read-through when we got home, it has been sitting unused and lonely on the shelf.
The biggest problem was finding a recipe that was sized for two, or able to be turned into leftovers. But the recipe for Coconut Almond Chicken with Pommery Mustard Sauce looked like a good choice - serves 2, no crazy or obscure ingredients, and feasible on a worknight timescale. And it was actually quite good. The recipe didn't specify whether to use sweetened or unsweetened coconut, so I went with the latter (I am still hesitant about sweet or sugary main dishes), so the coconut flavor was fairly subtle, but it was still there, and the mustard sauce was just excellent. Good enough to make me put this book onto the 'use again' list, most likely with an eye towards desserts.....
"Come & Eat,' Pillsbury
And back to the glossy checkout lane booklets. This one I actually bought while I was in vet school - it focuses on quick, cheap, easy recipes, and during clinics, that's what I needed. Given that I was living on Hot Pockets, oatmeal, and the kindness of my roommate (Hi
gmkieran! I still adore you!) most of the time, convenience food that I cooked myself was not as distasteful as I find it now.A lot of these booklets have turned out to be surprisingly useful, hiding actually decent recipes. This, alas, is not one of them. It's full of scary and fake-laden acts involving Pillsbury Biscuits. The recipe for the Biscuit Tostada Grande looked safe enough, though. There are many decent recipes involving a bread product topped by refried beans, seasoned meat, cheese, and tomatoes.
This, alas, was not one of them. Oh, it wasn't actively bad. It was just bland, squishy, and in general far more work, effort, and cost than other, better dishes designed along the same theme. It would have been much easier and tastier to take the same ingredients, spice them to my own taste, and wrap them in a tortilla. This booklet is about to go into the recycle pile, I think.....
