Soccer Dad

Cookbook review

I am not helpless in the kitchen, but no one would confuse me with a great cook. Most of my Fleishig (meat) cooking involves lots of potatoes and onions. (Potato Kugel, soup, chulent - a stew for the Sabbath that's cooked overnight in a crockpot.)

I enjoy making Challah in our bread machine. (Though I'm better off leaving the brainding to my 15 year old daughter. And if I left it to my 4 year old daughter, I'd probably also get better results than when I do it.)

Most of the recipes I use come from Shul cookbooks, which are designed to be accessible for the masses.

However our daughter recently got Kosher by design; Kids in the kitchen by Susie Fishbein, and my early experiences with it have been wonderful. I've only made two of the recipes but both are on a level that I can undersand and follow. I really like the vegetable (alphabet) soup; it's better than what you get out of a can and it's really not too much of a production.

My wife made some pareve fajitas that were great, and again pretty easy to make.

And the Mac and cheese recipe is much better than what you will get out of a box and not that much more work.

So let me give five potholders, my highest rating for cookbooks to Kosher by design; Kids in the kitchen; a cookbook for the rest of us.

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