The title of this cookbook is perfect in my opinion. I thought it would offer lots of fun recipes and fun takes on cooking, something we've all been doing A LOT over the last 15 months. And with so many cookbooks and cooking videos and instagram recipes, it's got to be challenging to offer a new take. I'm sorry to dislike the book so much, because I've always enjoyed Carla's videos-which is why I pre-ordered the book in the first place. Her 'spin' suggestions are fine, but after cooking 4 recipes exactly with the original ingredients suggested and finding all of them to be meh, I would worry that the 'spins' would be even greater taste-killers. But then, Carla instructs us to stir the pasta into the sauce until the pasta is "very al dente"-what's the difference between these two? I knew the level of al-dente I wanted so followed my own instincts and the pasta was just right in tenderness, but the cook with less experience might certainly find this confusing.Īnd while there were a few tips, nothing really throughout the book is all that interesting, new, or revelatory. One pasta recipe says to cook the pasta to "very al dente" because it will cook the rest of the way when added to the sauce.
I followed the recipes exactly, am a seasoned cook, and each of the recipes was bland, boring, and not anything I'd cook for anyone else, let alone repeat for my family. Recipes sound good, but I made 5 of the recipes and only 1 was worth repeating-and it's hardly a unique recipe: chopped red cabbage with a mustard vinaigrette.
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