Fast Food My Way
by Jacques Pepin
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Book Reviews of Fast Food My Way
Book Review: easy to prepare, tasty food, easy to understand
Summary: 5 Stars
I can highly recommend this book. If you're a beginner at cooking but you want to impress people then this book is really for you! I'm really a novice when it comes to cooking. Whenever I announced that I wanted to cook at home then suddenly everybody said they would be busy and couldn't come home to eat...Even worse, I'm in love with a boy who is really picky at eating because his mum is really an excellent cook. As soon as I moved in with him, I immediately went to amazon and ordered about 10 cooking books because I think without help from a fabulous chef I can never catch up with his mum. ("a dwarf standing on the shoulders of a giant may see farther than a giant himself."). This book is the one that I turn to most often. Whenever I follow Jacques Pépin's recipes correctly (without skipping some steps) then my food is really tasty. I now can impress my family, my boyfriend, his friends and even his mum :))) Million thanks to Jacques Pépin!!!! Oh by the way, I have to advocate that the food doesn't require much time to prepare. I think it takes me longer to read than implementing the recipe...I'm waiting for Amazon to ship More Fast food my way to my door :)))Book Review: This book dishes up what it promises
Summary: 5 Stars
Wow! I can't say enough about this cookbook. Fast food Jacques' way everyday! I picked up the book about two months ago and I've tried about ten of the recipies. They're all just amazing. Extraordinary results with common ingredients. Common-sense wholesome food. My favorites are: sauteed belgian endives (my friends from North Dakota who never knew what an endive was are now endive fans), the navy bean soup with lamb (in another rendition of this we disposed of the end of our christmas ham and it was awsome-canned diced tomatoes and worchestershire sauce make this soup a show stopper), crab cakes with mayonaise-wasabi dipping sauce (wow my friends fell off their chairs when I pulled this baby out of the oven), the instant vegetable soup (unbelievable, a zuchini, an onion, a carrot, a couple of mushrooms, and that last third of the bag salad--and bang! a cheap man's way to heaven!) the slow baked fish (wow daddy! use any fish-we tried petrale sole and it was awesome!!!) Hats off to Jacques! If the true mark of genius is simple elegance, then Jacques is the Einstein of the kitchen. Who needs restaurants--we eat better at home. Salut, Jacques Pepin!Book Review: Your speed may vary
Summary: 3 Stars
Fast Food My Way
Jacques Pepin
I love Jacques Pepin. I respect Jacques Pepin. I've learned even more cooking technique from him than from Julia Childs. But... Fast Food My Way misses a point about fast cooking - you need to be able to assemble the meal from things that you have on hand, or can quickly pick up on the way home.
For example, the Chicken Bouillabaisse recipe has 25 ingredients. And to be honest, I probably have most of them on hand except for the fennel seeds, herbs de Provence, kielbasa, and Pernod. But 25 ingredients for a quick meal? Really! There's also a fascination with lovely and exceptional ingredients, which, when I'm taking the time to cook a fabulous meal, I might go get. But on a weeknight, am I really going to prepare Salmon tartare on califlower salad? Which has a hardboiled egg garnish? Obviously I should learn to keep hard boiled eggs on hand at all times in case I have to garnish something.
If I view this as another one of Pepin's fine cookbooks, it's a lovely book - interesting recipes, clear instructions, excellent illustrations. But it is isn't about fast cooking.
Book Review: a fast food book we should all read!
Summary: 5 Stars
In this day of the frenzied food.tv hosts trying to dish out some slop in 30 or so, Pepin comes through with the essence of a simple and relatively quick meal. It's not all about the prep time, it's about looking in the fridge and saying "what can I do tonite"....ah yes, creativity. Creativity is all but lacking in the tvfoodie-quickie American cuisine--it's all about how to slam out the slop you see at a chain restaurant as quick as you can.
I breathe a sigh of relief and enjoy the beef stew (yum!) and our family favorite of farfalle and eggs. He has lovely ideas and if you watch the show, he is not freaking out, gesticulating madly and screaming at the tv about how to get the hash out in less than 30.
The book is well laid-out and the photos are lovely complements that only make you want to try more recipes.
The meals are well thought out, tasteful and obviously, family favorites of Pepin. If you don't make a bunch of these regulars, his philosophy should infuse you with the essence of what cooking for a busy family REALLY should be if you value quality of cuisine and life!
Book Review: Fantastic & easy recipes! Very comfortable.
Summary: 5 Stars
First off, you just can't top Jacques Pepin- he just makes you comfortable about cooking no matter your skill level. I bought this book after watching his PBS "Fast Food My Way" series. All of the recipes are easy and quick. Many of them can be done with things you already buy most of the time and he often tells you items that can be supplemented. For example, the "Instant Vegetable Soup" (which is awesome) lists one defined recipe but the accompanying description tells you how it can be made into a variety of other, quick soups with things nearly always on-hand, like potatoes, onions, and cheese. The "Tomato Tartare" has become a weekly staple in my home- everyone loves it. "Cilantro-Walnut Cod", "Egg & Tomato Gratin", & "Quick Tenderloin Stew" were easy and turned out fabulously. The "Warm Chocolate Cakes" are the easiest I've ever made. This book isn't a mega-source of recipes but the ones that are in it are quality. I'm just an average home chef and have had a great experience with every recipe I've tried- all were easy and tasty. I only wish I could mince an onion like he does!