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Cooking with All Things Trader Joe's | 
 enlarge | Authors: Deana Gunn, Wona Miniati
Publisher: Brown Bag Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  25 reviews
Sales Rank: 13739
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 10 x 7.8 x 0.8
ISBN: 0979938414
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780979938412
ASIN: 0979938414
Publication Date: May 2008
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 A great cookbook if you live near Trader Joe's August 18, 2008
I haven't had the cookbook long enough to evaluate many of the recipes myself--you can look to other reviews for that. (I'll echo, though, that many of the recipes are extremely simple. For me, that's a good thing.) The only other thing that I would like to add is that this cookbook is definitely limited by the fact that Trader Joe's will inevitably discontinue items that are important for certain recipes. The authors have a list of recommended substitutions on their website, though. You can find the website by Googling the name of the book. Once you find it, just click on the tab labeled "substitutions." The website also has a blog that the authors update regularly. They appear to read all of the comments and respond to many of them. They seem very friendly and quite helpful. One gets the impression that they recognize that this book is potentially a gold mine for them, and they want to support it as well as they possibly can. For example, they do TV appearances, etc. to promote the book.
All in all,I'm certainly glad that I bought the book.
 It's about time! July 21, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I love this cookbook - it is the perfect companion for a Trader Joe's junkie like me. I've tried many of the recipes
and had nothing but success.
Outstanding! July 17, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I've been a Trader Joe's fan for nearly 30 years and a vegetarian for the same amount of time. I love everything about their store - their prices, their unique selections and health-oriented products.
As a home chef, I pride myself on creating new and delicious meals and making it an event. I received my hard cover book from [...] a few days ago and put Post-It notes throughout the book.
I've made four recipes in two days. There is nothing worse than spending the time to purchase the ingredients, following the recipe exactly as instructed only to have it turn out to be tasteless. In case that happened, I made two meals on the same day, as a back up.
The Caper-lovers Chicken and Eggplant (I omitted the chicken) was just excellent. I made a sausage for my husband and a meatless sausage for me. Not knowing if we would like this, I prepared the Creamy Lemony Linguine - I wrote, "wow" on page 59 of the book. My husband and I aren't big eaters but we both went back for seconds on both of these entrees.
Equally delicious are the Black Bean and Ricotta-Stuffed Portabellas. It says serves two but we could have easily shared one. I served this with asparagus and Hollandaise sauce and this tasty dish could be served as the entree rather than a side dish. Again, just in case we didn't like this recipe, I made the Tortellini and Chicken Sausage Soup, again, keeping my vegi sausage and the the other sausage separate while cooking. I used TJ's Greens with Envy and TJ's dry Tortellini with Mixed Cheese Filling - and I made a note on page 64, "just delicious"! I did a taste test before serving and added just a touch of salt.
We couldn't get enough of this wonderful soup, either! I have so many TJ items in our pantry, not knowing exactly what to do with them. This wonderful book, Cooking with all things Trader Joe's, has answered all my questions and I can't wait until I get to the other 30+ Post It notes I have flagged for the next recipes I want to make.
Thanks to the authors, Deana and Wona, for writing this book - it's a 10.
 Big Disappointment July 17, 2008
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
I was looking forward to this book. I had prepared a vegetarian casserole that was featured as an Amazon excerpt and it was great. I had expected more recipes that involved interesting combinations to produce a unique item. They are few and far between. Instead I get things like "Greek Party Spread" which involves dumping containers of hummus,tzatziki, etc in separate bowls and serving with veggies. Not my idea of a recipe. Better choices are the books by Andrew Schloss (Homemade in a Hurry and Almost From Scratch)
Trader Joe's turns over too many items for this book to be useful June 23, 2008
7 out of 13 found this review helpful
I'm just home from my first shopping trip with the book. It took as long to shop as it would have to cut up veggies and make sauces myself. The problem is that my TJs didn't have essential ingredients (e.g frozen green garbanzos for the green garbanzo salad; refrigerated Balsamic Vinaigrette for the Balsamic Green Bean dish.) So I would be all over the store gathering the other ingredients, then look for the missing ingredient only to find they didn't have it, so then I was all over the store replacing the ingredients I couldn't use after all. I had read that the authors would update the book online, but I've googled and can't find any update that would have warned me of missing ingredients or suggested alternatives.
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