I am reviewing another cookbook. This time it is about a specific appliance and way to cook--the pressure cooker. I remember my mom having one of these and her cautioning my siblings and myself to be careful around it. She would even have us leave the room the first few times she would take the pressure out of it so we were always kind of scared around it.
I had purchased one a few years ago, used it a few times, and haven't used it for a while so I thought some new recipes might be just the thing to liven up my weeknight meals. Pressure cookers are great when you want a fast meal as they hardly take any time at all to cook so they really are a good thing to use when time is tight.
This cookbook however has a lot to be desired. It does indeed have 500 recipes but it is very uninteresting. From the cover to the last page it is very plain and ordinary. There is a small section in the middle of the book with some pictures of the completed dishes. The lack of a picture for each recipe is a major flaw as far as I'm concerned. Had I realized how few pictures are in this book, I would never have even been interested in reviewing it. To me, a picture of what the dish will look like when completed is a must.
The book discusses the safety issues I spoke of earlier and helps to reassure new cooks to the pressure cooker. It is nicely divided into different types of foods and has more simple and more complex recipes. It also has recipes that use more simple ingredients and more exotic ones. If you don't mind very few pictures in your cookbooks than this is for you. If you like pictures like me, then you probably will want to pass on this one.
I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review
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