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500 Fast & Fabulous 5-Star 5-Ingredient Recipes Cookbook Review

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I got this cookbook from my Mom as a gift. I thought it would be great since I am a student on a budget, and buying 5 ingredients seemed to be very economical. As it turns out, the ingredients for each recipe are indeed easy to find and easy to work with (at least on the recipes I have made). Granted I have only cooked 13 recipes out of this book, which is barely scratching the surface.
In any case, out of the 13 recipes I have tried, only 2 of them have resulted in something that I would make again. The Quick and Easy Lasagne was great, although I added italian sausage and ground sirloin to the recipe. The recipe overall was not much of a deviation from how I would normally make lasagne, so I was sure it would be fine. The next one is the Enchilada Soup. That is some of the best soup I have ever made! Goes great with a chicken quesadilla or even just some crackers. It is also incredibly fast to make. In this case I cheated a little by getting a rotisseri chicken, shredding it the day before, and putting half of it aside for the soup. I just added chipotle seasoning, and it came out great!
Unfortunatly, that leaves 11 other recipes that I have tried and did not like. I had high hopes for the Late-Evening Breakfast Dinner (I think that is the name), however after trying it three different times and wasting a dozen eggs, a package of english muffins, and two cans of corned beef hash, I decided it was time to give up on that one. Getting the eggs to stay on the hashbrown/english muffin base was near impossible, even after making a hashbrown cradle. Although it didn't seem to matter anyway since since baking the eggs turned them into rubber, and would make the already toasted english muffins into frisbees.
The other big disappointment was the Spicy Oven Fried Chicken. I don't have a deep fryer or an iron skillet, so frying chicken (properly anyway) was out of the question. This recipe gave me hope that maybe I could make something that was close to fried chicken. I think the cornflakes killed it for me though. They just didn't seem to taste right after they had been baked. The chicken also ended up with dry spots on the crust, and yes I did add the optional oil to help prevent that. I think panko bread crumbs or even crushed croutons would have been a better option then corn flakes. The buttermilk and hot sauce mixture is something I would carry over though, it added a nice kick.
I won't get to far into the other recipes that I tried, but suffice it say that I am thus far not impressed with this cook book. I will give a few more recipes a try, like the Monkey Bread recipe, but I don't have high expectations for any of them. Maybe its just me, but I have been cooking on my own for the last six years (I'm only 24 cut me some slack :P), and I have yet to have such a run of bad recipes from one cookbook. I am no Alton Brown, but I know I don't suck bad enough to ruin 11 recipes in a row.

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