I found two boxes of mac and cheese in my cabinet I needed to use. I made two recipes in this book based on what ingredients I had or what I knew, if I bought, would be used. This took a LONG time to make and great day, so freaking cheesy. I love me some cheese, but this was day glow orange and extremely rich once I was done with it. Very hard to eat all of it. I shudder to think what the nutritional information would be if I had it.

That said, hardly any curry taste. Not a winner.

The recipe says "A quick glance at the ingredients here might make you wonder if the chilies and garlic are overpowering. However, a mouthful of this curry will squelch that initial doubt." We made this with reconstituted coconut and serrano chilies. This was too hot for us, and I can take some heat! We've decided to half or at least use less chilies than called for, or even use jalapenos instead of serranos (which is the only of the 3 they usually list - serrano, red Thai, cayenne - that I can redily find in my city) to reduce the heat. It took several minutes for our lips and mouths to stop tingling.

The recipe was ok, and we liked it, but won't make it again. I have some other favorites in this book and keep returning to it.

Well, this didn't work. First, the owner of the Indian grocery where I went told me that nigella seeds were black sesame seeds (they aren't) and that I could use white sesame seeds in their place (you can, but since nigella seeds are different it didn't work). This grocery also didn't sell whole peas, only split, and he said you could easily substitute. Split are quick cooking and won't give the same texture as called for in the recipe, plus the cooking method is different. I cooked them as called for in Pigeon Peas with Chiles and Jaggery on page 426, and went with this recipe to finish. It ended up being a starchy, pasty mess with hardly any flavor.

I know messing with recipes shouldn't be reviewed, but I had no choice since I went off the advice of a well-meaning man who didn't speak much English, but if you are going to make this know that even though I did change one tiny spice and a different way of cooking the peas, it probably will taste very similar, which is not at all.

YUM! This made an excellent side, nice flavor, would make again. Used yellow summer squash for eggplant (book recommends this as a substitute) because it only calls for half a pound and the eggplants were freaking huge at the store. Nice heat and not spicy for the sake of being spicy. Served with naan, basmati rice and pork (I know, I'm not Hindu though!) with bottled Rogan Josh sauce.

This was easy as pie, just some butter and parsley and minced onion slathered onto bread slices and thrown into the broiler. Hubby LOVED it and we've made it over and over.

Very simple recipe of fresh fruit tossed with Cool Whip and lemon peel. Would never have thought to do so. My nectarines weren't ripe enough. The pineapple was marvelous and I often find it too sweet (probably because most of it is canned). Needs another orange, I think. The proportions are off, but it was a fresh and healthier alternative to ice cream for dessert.

Trying to incorporate fish more into our diet, I made this. The salsa was quite tasty, but there is no such thing as a large papaya that will yield 2 cups papaya. The smallest one I could find gave me 6 cups easy. We were eating papaya for days.

As for the recipe...meh. It didn't have much flavor, and I had to substitute mahi mahi as swordfish is not sustainable nor available in my area. I don't think I'll make again.

Dear LORD this was delicious! It was quick, simple, not a lot of chopping and super out of this world and we will be making again, doubling the ingredients (portion sizes super small)...this is the kind of recipe that keeps recipe fanatics going. Gems like this! Worth hunting down this book on ebay or something.

Had to choke this down and force myself to eat it all - it made SO much (and I used Pearl couscous, so maybe that was the culprit). Not very flavorful, either.

This is a definite "make again." All the flavors of Beef Stroganoff and with a crust instead of noodles. 6 servings is VERY small, so we ate this in 4.

Pretty good, nice recipe to have the ingredients in reserve. Served with basmati rice and naan. Could be a little spicier, but I pretty much guess they didn't want to "overdo" the spice in a Betty Crocker magazine for American tastes. Will make again.

This was a very pleasant surprise. We had a cabbage we needed to do something with, and Thanksgiving was upon us, so I found this recipe and only had to buy the two tangerines and red onion, and since I had to use them all went ahead and added this to the sides table. It was not bitter at ALL, like I expected, and was a nice side to balance everything out. In fact, if you hate cabbage, you may be surprised that you're eating it if you don't know. It's got a nice flavor, more tangerine-y that cabbage-y.

Not sure I'd seek it out again unless I had a red cabbage I needed to use, but it was good. It used up half of my red cabbage so I'll probably make it again. Very tasty.

I loved this! Saucy, hearty, flavorful, comforting. I made the potatoes in 8 mounds instead of 6 and reduced the servings to 4 instead of 6 because they seemed really small -- so tasty and calories are 452 this way (Dear Cookbook Companies: Enough of this 6 servings jazz. Too hard to split up!). We used Buffalo instead of ground beef because it was on sale at half price and it was just wonderful. The vegetables I used were left over from a party at our house and the veggie trays abounded. I just weighed out 10 ounces and used them instead of the frozen mixed.

This is quickly becoming my favorite cookbook.

Ah. Mac & Cheese. Easy to screw up, though.

This recipe says you could make it with ham or chicken. I made this solely because I had 8 ounces of chicken and some cottage cheese that needed using, and the chicken was tasteless and kind of rubbery.

As for the remainder of the recipe, it could really benefit from some ham. I liked the bread crumb topping. Perhaps even sausage would liven it up a bit. Not a bad recipe, and since I only used it because I needed to use up ingredients, ok there I suppose.

Boring and needed more flavor, but easy to prepare even if I did have to peel and boil potatoes. Still, doesn't get a mark to make again.

I find these recipes in this book to be on the boring, bland side. I LOVE a good, comforting casserole but these seem to be more hit than miss!

So disappointed in this flavorless (which is amazing, considering how much cheese is in it!) soup! A customer gave my husband a huge bag of potatoes and this recipe was choosen solely because I went down the index (the first column of three for potatoes) and it used the most.

Easy to make, sure, but hardly any flavor! Will add more salt and pepper and maybe some green Tabasco to tomorrows, since it made 5 lunchtime containers!

Holy Moly this was DELICIOUS!

Very rarely do recipes look like the picture and this one did. The only differences I did was I only had 3/4 confectioner's sugar instead of the 1 cup the recipe suggests, so I just mixed it with water (not milk as the recipe suggested) until it was a glaze, and I used strawberry pie filling (recipe is specific to apricot, cherry or blueberry). The glaze was perfect, you don't need more.

Super delicious and easy!!! This beats anything you can get prepackaged and is restaurant worthy. This one is a new family favorite and we forsee making this one over and over.

I've made this before, and remember my ex-husband and I devouring this whole from the bread machine. Some 20 years ago, I bet. Looking in the fridge yesterday, I found a handful of pepperoni and remembered this recipe. It took a while to find the cookbook it was in, which I knew was in a bread machine cookbook so I could whittle it down some. The cookbook, a grocery store aisle digest, wasn't in Cookbooker and didn't have a month and year so I made it up. Hopefully if someone else comes up with this in their hand, they'll find it here.

What I remember didn't give me the same results -- the slices of pepperoni whole and baked in (thrown in at the raisin beef), but it could have been my machine, or the softness of the slices...and I just now hacked off the ends and threw them in the toaster and slathered it with Olivio...good, just not what I remember. The crust was too dark (I have a setting on my machine that I can choose and I forgot, bet it was set on "dark"), but the inside is all nice and soft. I'll make grilled cheeses for lunch tomorrow. I'll bet they're marvy.

This was ok. Rather spicy, but I used Herdez Cesara Medium Salsa. It was good and went together in a snap, but I honestly don't see myself making it again. For ease of getting dinner on the table fast, though, I would recommend to someone if they were looking for such a thing. I think my husband liked it better than I did. Served with cornbread.

These were ok. Definitely not "The best darn corn muffins I ever ate." They were more "bready" than "cornmealy" and that's sad. The Best Darn Corn Muffins I Ever Ate were those at Kenny Roger's Roasters, which are sadly gone from this country (mine was a Tuesday Morning and is now a Mission Barbecue) and I miss them SO much. I keep trying corn muffins hoping someday to spark upon something similar. These called for 1/2 cup whole wheat flour - I mean, who does that? - but I tried them out. Not a repeat make, although in all manner of things, edible and just fine, I suppose.

This was better than I expected but I don't think I'll make this again. This was the first recipe I tried out of this book and it encourages me to try another, however. Taste was a bit bland - even with 6 cloves of garlic and red pepper flakes

Pretty good, even if extremely rich - one-sixth of the casserole is 450 calories and 25g fat - was able to make this twice out of the ingredients I bought for it. First two times I served with a baked acorn squash quarter, the third time I can't remember, but the second casserole we made it into 4 servings and it was almost too hard to eat. Worth making again, just make sure you take your statin to combat all the cholesterol.

Had 2 apples, did a quick look-see through my cookbooks as to how to use them up because I'm tired of making A to Z bread (although that's a constant in this household). Found it! Perfect, easily made in my toaster oven. Dave is on a diet and gave me some grief over making him eat deliciousness, but he is losing too fast and nearly starving himself so I'm sneaking calories into him. hahahaha!

Sticky and sweet, cake is a bit too spongy but gets better as you eat it. Recommend not making this in a 9-inch pie pan (I didn't have a cake pan) as it overflowed.

Bland and kinda boring. I had all the ingredients on hand, aside from "riccini" which I googled and found all kinds of pasta shapes so I just use rotini, which was one of the shapes that came up and I had. The pasta baked very crunchy on top due to being exposed to the heat. Made 6 servings and by the 3rd night (there are 2 of us) we were kinda sick of it. I'm sure this book has many wonderful recipes in it but this was meh.