Jayme's Reviews
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Clean Food: A Seasonal Guide to Eating Close to the Source with More Than 200 Recipes for a Healthy and Sustainable You
By Terry Walters
Sterling Epicure - 2009
Baby Spinach Salad with Mustard Vinaigrette : page 117
I'm all for throwing a few recipes that barely qualify as recipes into a book so newbies have somewhere to start, but if you're going to do something simple then I feel it's even more important that it be perfect. The dressing for this was way way too vinaigery for anybody to possibly like. It was easy enough to fix, it's just a dressing, but if I were a newbie I would have been really discouraged that even this simple salad I was trying to make failed so terribly. This recipe did pair strawberries with mustard vinaigrette though, something I wouldn't have done myself and which ended up being delicious.
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Black Bean Patties with Pineapple Guacamole : page 123
50% hit 50% miss for me. The black bean patties were very bland. It seemed like they had a lot of great flavourful ingredients packed in there, but they came out tasting very beany. But, to save the day, pineapple guacamole comes out of nowhere! It was delicious and when piled 3" high on your boring bean patty it becomes an awesome meal.
One note on the flax in the burgers. This was a new thing for me, but instead of beating the water and flax to make it gooey, Walters just sits the flax in the water, by the time you're ready to add it to the patties it's turned into a gelantanous blob of awesome. I'm going to remember that one!
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