The Candle Cafe Cookbook

[feline01]

The Candle Cafe cookbook has pictures of some of the recipes but not all. It's a great cookbook (and restaurant in NYC). Here's some reviews and prices. . I've made the diner pancakes, sour cream coffee cake, black bean hummus and a few other recipes that were all great.

[Wildflower]

I bought this cookbook last Wednesday - anyone else have it and use it?

It was kinda an impulse buy, I was at a local veggie deli place getting lunch, and starting flipping through it and just decided to buy it. There are a few recipes that look good to me, but a lot turn me off with lots of asian ingredients that I have no idea where I will find. All of the bean dishes call for kombu, a lot of the recipes call for umeboshi vinegar, shoyu or tamari (can I just use Bragg's in place?), Hijiki and other stuff I am not sure where to find.

Also, even though my partner likes asian food, he can't stand soy-sauce flavored stuff, so I am not sure how much the seasoning will come through.

Anyway, I need to try it out now to post an actual review, but I was wondering if others liked this book or found it useful.

[Tigerlily]

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...720391-8507264

This book got a lot of bad reviews on Amazon, as well.

[Wildflower]

Hmmmmm....

I just read all the reviews and it doesn't sound good...

[Tigerlily]

Maybe try a few recipes for yourself and sell it if you don't like it?

[fiamma]

I just ordered this book and am pretty curious - will let you know when I've had the chance to try a few recipes out

[Aims]

I've had this one for a while and only made the portobello burgers with mango chutney. REALLY yum. But I found a lot of the recipes look really fiddly, sort of. Like making sauces from scratch - of course fresh is best, but I'm pretty lazy.

[fiamma]

I agree. I've made some of the simpler things - French toast, garlic mashed potatoes, really delicious! But I looked at the appetisers section the other night for a dinner party with friends, and gave up, because they were just too complicated, or I didn't have all the ingredients to hand.

[Aims]

There's some gorgeous photos in that book though. The one on the front cover.. gotta give that a go someday. drooly

[Wildflower]

Anyone use this yet?

Any reviews...good/bad recipes?

[fiamma]

Garlic Mashed Potatoes - very easy, very yummy, and one of the few recipes which require less than fifteen ingredients

I'm kind of irritated that they expect me to turn on the oven to roast a handful of nuts, or to always use purified water. Get real, people.