I wanted to love this book. I was so super excited to get it, but the recipes fell a little flat. I have many slow cooker cookbooks and many of Martha Stewarts cookbooks, so when I had the chance to review the Martha Stewarts Slow Cooker cookbook, I jumped at the chance. First off, there are lots of recipes, all with full color photos. The recipes though are a little strange. There is Chawanmushi, Duck Carnitas Tacos, and Tom Kha Gai, just to name a few. The ingredient list is a little exotic and not early found in most supermarkets. After thumbing through this book, I found maybe 5 recipes that I actually wanted to make.. So if you are looking for a completely different slow cooker cookbook with recipes unlike any you've ever seen, then this is the book for you. I received a copy of this cookbook from Blogging for Books in exchange for my honest review.
We travel a lot for personal pleasure and do tons of road trips throughout the summer, so you can imagine I was super excited to get the Roadfood book and start trying many of the places it recommends. The book is broken down into different places to eat by state. Some of the places I had never heard of and some I did. I think I was overall a little disappointed in the types of places there were to choose from in this book. Many were diners and some seemed like real dives. I use trip advisor a lot to find new places and have found their ratings and reviews to be a reliable indicator of how good a place is or isn't. Many of the places in this book were not rated so well by trip advisor and so I was very hesitant to try them. It made me wonder how the authors came up with their places that they considered to have the best road food. I do keep this book in my car as a handy reference, but you can safely skip it and use the many resources you have available by just using your smartphone. I received a copy of this book for free in exchange for my honest review from Blogging for Books. All opinions are my own.
