Bowl Food: Comfort Food for People on the Move

Chunky Food Cookbooks

by Kay Scarlett, Laurel Glen Publishing

In a nutshell, bowl food is relaxed eating. Depending on the mood, any cook can slow simmer a fiery curry, put together a luscious pasta dish, or simply toss a few fresh ingredients in a wok. With 200 recipes illustrated with color photography, this book takes the tedium out of salad and pasta without all the mess.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

400 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2002

Reviews

[Monika · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5* Some very nice looking recipes in it.

[Deodand · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's ridiculous how many times I have used this book. It is easily the most-used recipe book in our house. You do have to watch out for the lashings of whipping cream, though. Some of the recipes are delicious but will kill you if you eat them too often! Experienced cooks will be able to work around the excessive calories.

The other complaint is that many ingredients are hard to find. That is true - I scratch my head over the amount of recipes that call for kaffir lime leaves or ketsap manis. I live in a big city that's very multicultural, so I don't really have a problem finding stuff. Most of the exotic ingredients are either garnishes or can be substituted without damaging the original intent.

[Beth · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've thoroughly enjoyed every meal I've made from this book. It covers a variety of accessible recipes from international cuisine themes with and without meat, features beautifully photographed shots of each dish, and is reasonably well organized. One not-quite-complaint is that recipes frequently demand ingredients not automatically on hand in the American kitchen, but on the upshot this provides a good excuse to start stocking sambal oelek, kecap manis, and ponzu.

[Saleris · Rating 4 out of 5]

The recipes are readable, in the format I like - some white space around each recipe in order to write your own changes as you try it again and again.

I won't make the recipes containg meat or meat products (e.g. chicken broth or beef stock), but the ones I will try are good and easily substitutable.

[Jeanne Mac · Rating 5 out of 5]

Got this book from Costco a year or two ago. Has beautiful pictures of food. : ) Decided to work through thee recipes this year.

Spicy Squash and Coconut Squash Soup - Squash is not my favorite but this is really good. 2-28-08

[Adrian Brown · Rating 3 out of 5]

Calls for a few too many hard-to-find ingredients.

[Reema · Rating 4 out of 5]

quick simple recipes. nice variety of ethnic cuisine.