Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It – Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too!
May 14, 2011 by admin
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Skinny Italian: Eat It and Enjoy It – Live La Bella Vita and Look Great, Too!
- ISBN13: 9781401310356
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Eat Spaghetti and Still Fit Into Your Skinny Jeans To many of us, “diet” is a four-letter word. And rightfully so. Starving yourself thin or keeping track of each bite like pennies in your checkbook is no way to live. So what’s a girl with skinny jean dreams supposed to do? Teresa Giudice has the answer. In fact, she was born with it. The first-generation Italian-American mom of four and svelte star of The Real Housewives of New Jersey credits her knockout figure to her Old
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A review from someone who has made a few dishes,
I have actually tried two of the recipies which I think is more important than just basing the book on your personal opinion of Teresa Giudice. I made the Farfalle con Piselli and followed the recipie exactly. It calls for a chopped medium onion and 1/3 cup light cream, which, once put over heat like instructed to, the light cream evaporates and you are left with a pile of barely coated onions that you have to add to pasta. I had to add almost the entire pint of light cream to get it to a consistency that can be added to pasta, then, it was bland so I added nutmeg to give it flavor. Next up, Old World Pizza Dough. Not too bad, but tasted EXACTLY like what you can buy in the grocery store. No point in buying the ingredients for the dough when you can buy a $2 bag and it tastes and bakes the same. The next day, I was at my dad’s and my stepmom was making pizza dough and using the recipie that comes with the Cuisinart food processor, which I just got. Her dough looked great, so I went home and made it and it was so much better than Teresa’s! Not only did it taste better, but this book that is supposed you help you get into your skinny jeans calls for 1/4 cup olive oil compared the the Cuisinart one which calls for 3 teaspoons! Pasta Cacio e Pepe and Skinny Pasta Al Burro are almost the same dishes, the only differences are that one uses spagetti and one uses fettuccine, and the skinny pasta has an addition of two ingredients, butter and oil! Why make a cookbook where two of the recipies are almost identical? Not to mention the fact that those two recipies are pasta with grated cheese on them, that’s it. Not exactly an intricate italian dish. I have a lot of better, tastier recipies that I have found by simply googling around.
I give this book two stars because it does have a lot of information on oils and herbs and spices and the drinks look good (although I didn’t try them, I don’t think you can mess up a bellini too bad). I don’t get why Teresa (or Heather) didn’t write a cookbook with better Italian recipies and drop the whole weight-loss aspect of the book. Just give some good full-fat Italian recipies that taste good-not every cookbook has to be a diet book. Unless you are a big Teresa Giudice fan, not worth the money as I don’t feel it’s a real cookbook, more of a component to the Real Housewives of NJ show.
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OK,
the book was ok not much of a cookbook had few recipes in there. But this book is very imformative does tell u some good stuff from spices to canning ideas
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Great Italian Beginner Cookbook!,
Teresa’s heart and humor shine through on each page. She gives you insights into real Italian cooking with delicious recipes that are easy make and not only does she share some of her family’s treasured recipes, but also she offers up some helpful tips and advice on how to stay in shape while living a fulfilling life.
The one and only thing that kept me from giving this book 5 stars were the references to Danielle. Skinny Italian is filled with sweet stories about the Giudice family but the negative remarks about Danielle don’t fit in with the love of family Teresa displays through out the book. If all references to Danielle had been excluded I think this book could have been a great resource for those looking to learn how to cook authentic Italian food, especially to those who don’t watch the show and have no idea who Danielle is.
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