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Book ReviewsDairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook |
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Book: Dairy Hollow House Soup & Bread Cookbook
Written by: Crescent Dragonwagon |
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Average Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5
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Idiot's Guide to Super Soups!
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5 / 5
I am a terrible cook, but for ten years I have astonished my wife and made some very impressive soups from the recipes in this collection. These soups are better than anything I have ever had in a restaurant (I've never been to Crescent's B&B;, however). Warning - you may never be capable of opening a can of soup once your tastebuds have been altered by this cookbook. I've got to try her Veggie Cookbook!
Good to the last spoonful!
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5 / 5
Crescent Dragonwagon's Soup and Bread has kept my family fed in style (with never a complaint from the most finicky of eaters). My local supermarket is decent (but not a gourmet mecca) and I groan when I open a cookbook to find the recipes made entirely of exotic and expensive ingredients. (After all that money and effort, you might as well have gone to the author's restaurant and plonked down your plastic.) Crescent, however, can turn simple ingredients into a feast. I turn to this book when I have "nothing" in the house for dinner and don't have time for a supermarket run. It always amazes me that I can get results like this with a relatively small effort. Her stories of Dairy Hollow House give each dish an "atmosphere." Her Gumbo Zeb recipe is the best gumbo I have ever had, and this is from a girl who spent years in Louisiana drowning in many incredible bowls of it. My husband inadvertedly renamed the recipe when he was raving about the dish and I told him it was by Crescent Dragonwagon. At our house, it's called "Green Dragon" Gumbo. It's brilliant. (Make it and you'll know what I mean.)
Winter Bliss
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5 / 5
This is the BEST cookbook ever for soups. It has made a Sunday soup tradition in our house during the winter months. I pick out a different recipe each week and savor the leftovers throughout the week. My favorites are Chick Pea Soup Mamusia, Broccoli and potato curry, Muligatawny.....You can't go wrong with this one!
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