Jul 06 2008
Cookbook Review -The Sneaky Chef by Missy Chase Lapine
The Sneaky Chef: Simple Strategies for Hiding Healthy Foods in Kids’ Favorite Meals by Missy Chase Lapine, is actually one of the best cookbooks I have come across in quite a long while. In much the same style as its predecessor, it is designed to deceive the one with the appetite. It is again, a book filled with purees, except this one is the king-all, as Missy goes far beyond just vegetables, and has created a whole bunch of different purees such as flour blends, fruit blends and bean blends.
My favorite part about this book, besides the nutritional aspect of each prepared meal, is that the recipes were so simple to create and much quicker than I found in the ‘other’ book. Purees can be prepared in advance and frozen in portional sizes, to be reused at a later date.
My other favorite part about this book, is that there was so much information packed into this book. Besides just learning to prepare the purees, it explains why these particular purees were selected, how they benefit you nutrition wise, and lots of other factual, yet useful information.
The recipes were absolutely fantastic. I have probably made 14 different things from the book, and my kids have admitted that every single thing has tasted great. I have five kids, so do get a 100% consensus is extremely challenging in our household. Nobody is any the wiser to my “sneaky” additions to the meals, and I know I am feeding my family well, while still enjoying the same delicious foods we have always enjoyed.
I have heard many mention the fact that it reads more like a book, but to me that would be the uneducated who simply picked the book up and flipped through it. While the book does not contain pictures of the recipes, beyond the information and puree section, is a very easy to use format of dozens of recipes. It also containes plenty of sidebars and tip boxes to give advice and to make cooking with this book easy.
I recommend this book to anyone with children, especially if you have a Miss or Mr. Picky too.
Click here to try a few recipes from The Sneaky Chef
