Crazy for Casseroles: 275 All-American Hot-Dish Classics

Crazy for Casseroles: 275 All-American Hot-Dish Classics
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Bad recipes

These are too much work!

Worst Cookbook Ever

Best Casseroles cookbook with fascinating informations!

Old School Cooking from an Old School teacher

Crazy for Casseroles: 275 All-American Hot-Dish Classics
James Villas
Manufacturer: Harvard Common Press
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Binding: Paperback

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Book Description

This book illustrates perfectly what authentic, original, regional American cooking is all about. This is food at its most appealing: simple, delicious fare that leaves lots of room for variations and that the home cook can feel proud to serve anytime.

Customer Reviews:

Bad recipes.......2007-02-07

This is a lovely, cheerfully written cookbook, and only one recipe I have prepared from it has been any good. The rest are boring and flavorless. I love casseroles, but I've finally given up on this book.

These are too much work!.......2007-01-21

To me, the whole point of a casserole is "quick and easy," so I want recipes where I just dump things into the casserole dish and put them in the oven. But, like many other casserole and "hot dish" cookbooks, most of the recipes in this book require you to do a tremendous amount of cooking and prep before you put the stuff in the casserole dish -- and, since the ingredients are already cooked, why do they need an hour of baking time? Answer: so they can be called "casseroles" or "one-dish meals". Most of these things could be stirred together and served right after the stove-top cooking process (maybe with minor adjustments), without wasting another hour in the oven. I would also add that many of these casseroles are loaded with butter and are too fattening for me. I took this book out of the library and photocopied about a dozen things -- that was it.

Worst Cookbook Ever.......2004-08-14

I hate to disagree with the glowing reviews for this book but since I relied on the other reviews I had read to buy this book, I thought maybe a differing view would be useful. I am a seasoned cook and can say that this is one of the most poorly written cookbooks I have ever cooked from. I have made 3 recipes thus far. All have had major proportion issues and have lacked flavor. Even corrections I made as I went based on previous experiences could not save these recipes. If you like food that is basic in flavor (kinda like standard cafeteria fare) then you will probably like this book. If you like flavor in your food, then I suggest not buying this one.

Best Casseroles cookbook with fascinating informations!.......2004-03-11

Although it requires some extra time to assemble, I always have plenty leftover to eat on next day. Also, I can freeze them. It is worth of extra labor. We really LOVE Blue Plate Beef and Cheese Noodle and Classic Tuna Noodle Casserole. Those really surprised our guests! Villas really made this close to perfect ones. I enjoyed his details on how he adjusted specific foods and the recipes' history. I like one straight way to a best casserole than trying on many recipes people giving or I find thru magazines. This book is one! Strongly recommend this one!

I also like the big book of casseroles by Maryana Vollstedt. The recipes give ingredients that I have on hand. They are mostly from stratch, not canned ones. Comparing to both book, Crazy about Casseroles is more like Classic, International, and Historic ones while the The Big Book of Casseroles is more on from stratch and similar ingredients on other recipes. I love both books, anyway!!

Old School Cooking from an Old School teacher.......2004-01-16

James Villas has written a book which may succeed in single-handedly succeed in reviving an interest in the great American casserole. I'm not entirely sure what the trendy term `old school' means, exactly, especially as I have mostly seen it in connection with motorcycles, but I am certain that Jim Villas is an `old school' culinary writer and that casseroles are an `old school' kind of food.

Jim Villas, although much younger, belongs to the James Beard school of culinary writing, along with his Beard protégés Barbara Kafka and Marian Cunningham. As he recounts in this book, the American casserole, based on several different European precursors, clearly reached it's apotheosis after World War II and went into eclipse in the late seventies and eighties with the scorning of canned and otherwise processed ingredients.

That the casserole is making a comeback is also clear from both this book and from it's starring role in a recent episode of Alton Brown's very trendy `Good Eats' Food Network show.

In the introduction to the book, Villas eschews some of the less savory casserole ingredients of yore such as canned meats and vegetables, frozen chives, dried parsley flakes, processed cheeses, liquid smoke, MSG, crushed potato chips or canned fruit cocktail. He is not entirely born again, since he does embrace some traditional casserole roles and ingredients such as canned soups, frozen vegetables, dried noodles, bread stuffings, and leftovers. In fact, some themes are so close to the `Good Eats' episode that I suspect Alton Brown may have used this book as a reference for his show.

The book opens with a very worthy introduction on casserole `hardware' materials and sizes plus advice on freezing casseroles. The casserole pantry repeats the theme of a reasonable use of prepackaged ingredients, citing Campbell's condensed cream of chicken, cream of mushroom, and cream of celery soups as essential. Some recipes even state that he tried to create the casserole with a homemade replacement for the Campbell's product and found the home brewed substitute wanting.

The names of casserole types are a feast for the crossword puzzle addict. There are quiches, stratas, scrambles, pilafs, pies, perloos, surprises, suppers, shroupes, royales, supremes, puddings, bakes, gratins, souffles, cobblers, crisps, crunches, and delights. Some of these names such as quiches, pilafs, and souffles indicate that the author may be coloring outside the lines a bit here and there, but I do not find this a criticism of the book. It adds to the value of the book as a source of good one-dish meals centered on the American classic. The author also seem to color outside the lines a bit when he includes some of his own recipes, but as Jim Villas has recently acquired the status of a classic American writer, I will give him a pass to contribute classic recipes himself.

Book Description

This summer's not just hot...it's crazy hot.

It's been a year since the hottest au pairs ever saw the Hamptons, and they're certainly older -- though not necessarily wiser. Or drama-free.

Eliza, Jacqui, and Mara thought they'd be spending the summer apart, but when Eliza's new stepmother finds herself in need of some nannying help around the megamansion with the step-monsters, Eliza makes a call...and Jacqui and Mara wind up with two first-class tickets to the Hamptons.

After ruling her first year at Parsons, Eliza, the up-and-coming starlet-turned-designer, is opening her own boutique on super posh Main Street. But it's not just Eliza's career that's on the fast track -- her relationship with Jeremy is too. Too bad he's moving too fast for Eliza to keep up.

Brazilian beauty Jacqui is trying to be a good, responsible au pair. But it's tough when there's a hot British photographer following you around, telling you to quit your job and become an international supermodel. All she wants is to make enough money to pay for NYU...so what happens when she gets a much bigger offer?

After getting fired from her travel-writing job and dumped at the airport by her journalist boyfriend, Mara settles for a summer chasing toddlers once again. There's one benefit to nannying: She'll have plenty of material for the novel she's writing about being an au pair -- and an It Girl -- in the Hamptons. Nothing's going to distract her from the task at hand...except perhaps her old flame, Ryan Perry.

Can our three favorite Hamptons girls survive the craziest, hottest summer yet?

Customer Reviews:

Buying Books Out of Superstition=Unfavourable Reviews.......2007-07-18

Okay, I'm going to say something right now that's probably going to make me sound utterly insane. For the past three years, I have read one of Melissa de la Cruz's Au Pairs books every time I have vacationed in Canada.

Why? Well, it really has nothing to do with de la Cruz's genius as a writer. After reading the first two books, I thought she might have some talent, at least for the teen girl set, but after reading another book of hers, the utterly awful Blue Bloods, I decided: no. She doesn't. She can do a good job of writing about meaningless nonsense and making it seem halfway decent, but when it comes to anything serious, she can't write.

So why did I decide to even read either Sun-Kissed or Crazy Hot, nevermind actually buying them at the bookstore when my pathetic small-town library didn't have them?

Because I. am. a superstitious. freak. And I had enjoyed my previous trips. So I thought the books were good luck. Which I became even more convinced of once my 2006 trip was great, too.

Hence, why I bought Book 4--even though my mind was telling me the same thing it had told me once The Princess Diaries and The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants series grew to 4 books after satisfying endings in their third volumes (Sun-Kissed's ending was similarly satisfying--Eliza was with Jeremy AND was a fashion designer, Mara wasn't with Ryan but was going to the right college for her, and Jacqui had learned some important lessons about romance and was ready to do whatever it took to get into college the following year. Satisfying, especially as Ryan had started to really. annoy. me.)

And now it's looking like, out of these three series, The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants (and Ann Brashares) is the only one who had the talent/integrity to keep the quality going into stories after Book 3. Meg Cabot's later volumes of The Princess Diaries dragged. Mia and Michael fight about stupid stuff. Mia and Lilly fight about stupid stuff. Various couples break up, other various couples get together. Characters who were previously simply mentioned to add some humour are given personalities. Michael's not a virgin and Mia freaks out. Annoying.

And as for de la Cruz's characters? Ach.

Eliza and Jeremy seem utterly unable to talk about anything important. Mara's boyfriend leaves for Europe for his job, without her only because she screwed up and didn't renew her passport. She whines and pines for Ryan. Who of course is still `meant to be with her' because of course that makes perfect sense, for the couple who continually makes up and breaks up to just be `perfect for each other.' Ach. I cannot stand those sort of relationships, which at their level of drama only exist in fiction. And Jacqui finds some perfect small-town boy by chance and then he leaves the story, only to weirdly show up again at the end, and dates an Australian photographer in the meantime (who I really didn't mind--other people kept calling him a cad but de la Cruz did nothing to show that he's a cad. Therefore, how can readers think he is one?) named Marcus.

Then Mara's boyfriend David shows back up, and once again: "He's a cad, he's a jerk, he's a this, he's a that" from Eliza, Jacqui, Ryan--but HOW DOES HE SHOW IT? HOW? Quick answer--he doesn't. He and Ryan have one overly-competitive game of mini-golf but he never reaches the Jerk Levels that you'd've thought he'd be reaching for people to say he is one. In the scenes between him and Mara, things seem fine, maybe he's not the perfect guy for her, but he's not a jerk. I think de la Cruz is just being lazy--with David, Marcus, pretty much everyone. Even with the characters she wants readers to like, she just has people say a bunch of stuff about them without ever showing their kindness or whatever in action. Which is what MATTERS. Actions, lady. Actions. (More on David near the end)

Oh, and what else bugs me? Let's see. First of all, Natasha Bedingfield? Ach. I despise her music. There are way better lyrics that could've been chosen for beginning-of-book poetry. The lyrics de la Cruz chose (from the way-too-ubiquitous `Unwritten') don't even make any sense to the context of the book. I don't really feel like thinking too hard to come up with a `quotable' song for this, so here's my first two thoughts: `Boys on the Radio' by Hole (sure it's Hole, but it's still `light' enough as to not scare the tweeners) or `Dancin Days' by Led Zeppelin (and she mentions Led Zeppelin in the book, so there we go. Even if she was just trying to do it to seem cool to someone like me, she already has concluded it won't scare the tweeners.) And there've got to be quite a few other things better than `Unwritten.'

And--Mara's `blog.' The `blog' she hopes to turn into a bestselling book. Firstly--I despise chick lit. That's why I don't read it or try to imitate its style in my writing. I don't mind books that deal with relationships. But I don't like it when The Relationship is the Main Focus of the Book. It should be a subplot, as it very seldom can carry the entire thing.

Melissa de la Cruz tries to paint her character Mara Waters as `serious talented writer' material--but she never coughs up the goods. In book 3, she has her magazine job--but we never get to see any of her writing. We're just supposed to believe it's good.

Oh, that it had stayed that way. We get to see her work in Book 4--this is after she's apparently spent all year getting accolades at Columbia for being a talented writer--in the form of her blog.

Her blog is awful. It's not well-written. It reads like emotionless cutesy chick-lit without an ounce of talent behind it. In fact, it reads like what a blog written by a nineteen-year-old de la Cruz might sound like. Not a nineteen-year-old serious writer. I know what a blog by a nineteen-year-old serious writer sounds like, I'm writing one! And then, by the end of the book, we discover that, oh wait--Mara Waters never was just some girl from Massachusetts. She never was an original character with an original storyline. No, because at the end of the book Mara gets a book deal. To publish a chick-lit novel called The Au Pairs. (While she's apparently in Venice with Ryan telling her readers that "Italy is just like home, only with better pizza." Idiot. Italy is NOT "just like home" if `home' is small-town Massachusetts, as it is for Mara. Italy is "just like home" if `home' is Italy. Period.) With a cover depicting three girls in bikinis "without a kid in sight." Mara is de la Cruz's author-insertion character, I was just too stupid to see it after book 3. And I've done a bit of author-insertion in my own work, I won't lie, but...this is too much. It's one thing to write a fantasy involving yourself and Whatever Boy You're Crushing On when you're fifteen...it's quite another to have one of your main characters, who ends up at the same college you did, write your book. And then pass the book off to readers as "genius."

Which leads me to further talking about how David was not a jerk. He arranges for Mara to meet with his book-publishing mother after reading some of her blog for a possible book deal. Then he tells her not to bring pages of her blog to the meeting because "that's not what will sell the idea, your image will." He calls her an "entertaining" writer and that her actual writing "doesn't really matter." All of which is true for dealing with his mother. Mara takes all of this to mean, however, that he doesn't actually think she's talented and inwardly fumes because she `spent a lot of time on that blog.' Well, let me just say one thing--she's not talented. If `her' writing is actually de la Cruz's, then no, she's not. And no, I don't think that any serious publisher would really care for it. (Although I will say I was happy that at least Mara wasn't trying to write a book about vampires in New York City--because the next person who tries to tell me that Blue Bloods is `serious work' will die. In fact, when I find it in bookstores I have been known to slip a note into the front of it warning people that it is a historically inaccurate piece of dreck and that they should not buy it.) So the whole thing with Mara getting a publishing deal and `showing David' just seems like wish-fulfilment for me--"Yeah, I'm a serious writer, take that." Ick. And the thing that made me want to scream the most was when Mara quoted Henrik Ibsen when leaving David. If this girl reads Ibsen, why does she write at the level of a seven-year-old? And I suppose I can say the same thing for de la Cruz. (And also--if de la Cruz reads Ibsen, why does she insist on ending the story with each girl having to be with The Boy rather than having some of them, at least, single-but-happy? I mean, I suppose none of the boys were named Torvald, but still these books seem like the anti-A Doll House.)

Oh, and de la Cruz made a serious error of judgment when she named two of her new characters `Midas' and `Marcus' and then made Mara write a blog where she refers to everyone (including herself) by their first initial. Is this M the writer? M who's dating Jacqui? M the fabulous photographer who might like Eliza? Who knows? Who cares? Idiot.

Aside from that--that Eliza is now a renowned designer is annoying and unbelievable (although not as unbelievable as it was in Book 3) and some of the conversations are ridiculous, unrealistic, and seem to have no shred of passion behind them on de la Cruz's part. We're supposed to believe these are real people in real life, but everything seems so FAKE.

So no, Melissa, you are NOT a serious writer, and I'm rather sorry that you seem to be good luck for me. I wish I could say that about someone talented instead.

best beach read.......2007-07-16

This is de la cruzes 4th book in this series. Reading it makes you feel like a young adult again (I'm 39!) Hes book come out late spring and I buy it and save it for my beach week in July! Its the perfect beach read.
I hope you enjoy it also.

Average.......2007-06-19

This is the fourth book in the series. I must admit, its starting to feel a little tired and the storyline is stretched a little bit. Nonetheless, I enjoyed the basic storyline of Mara having to deal with the children once again as Eliza and J. are having too much fun - felt a little like the beginning of the series.

But my chief complaint about this series - and I mentioned in my previous review of the prior book - this storyline pushing the envelope of reality. You really do have to suspend your disbelief if you are going to get through this book. Once again, these "oh so gorgeous women" just happen to ALWAYS be at the right place, at the right time - making rich men fall at their feet and oh look at that - these same men just happen to be "bigshots" in the fashion world and oh look at that what a coincidence our little Eliza is going to be the top up and coming designer at the ripe old age of 19. Right!!!!!

Sometimes, I just could not belief the storyline - but the writing is fun and the girls are likeable.

A fun beach read.

more than just a book.......2007-06-11

melissa de la cruz is a fabulous writer. I have never read a book that had a lot of meaning through the characters. I wish there was more interaction with the kids, but overall, this book was really good.

Hampton heat in the summer returns .......2007-06-01

Hampton heat in the summer returns with the popular Au Pairs. This fourth installment in Melissa de la Cruz's sizzling hot series will surprise and charm readers with new fashion trends, life-changing questions and heartbreaking decisions.

Eliza has finished her first year at Parsons and is looking forward to opening her own boutique with a summer line in the Hamptons. Jeremy helped her get the shop ready, but after earning a large inheritance, he is suddenly talking houses and kids. When he presents Eliza with the huge Neil Lane diamond of her dreams, she wonders why it all feels so wrong. Being set for life with a career and family at 19 is a lot to handle.

Mara spent her first year at Columbia with intellectual boyfriend David. When they arrive at the airport ready for a summer writing job in Europe, an expired passport means no trip for Mara. But David leaves anyway.

Jacqui endured a humiliating fifth year of high school to get those NYU credentials and is anticipating another summer with the Perrys. She finds out, however, that they're leaving for London and she has only a few weeks left in the apartment they loaned her.

Eliza's newly-divorced father is living with a female business tycoon, who has five gifted children and no nannies. When Eliza arrives to spend the summer with her dad, she calls Mara and Jacqui --- and the girls are together again in the Hamptons.

Jacqui is discovered as the new It Girl model for two "Saucy Aussie" photographers, and they also feature Eliza's designs. Both girls are busy most nights appearing at parties for this fast-track new life. Mara stays home and takes care of the kids, though she manages to bump into Ryan Perry, who did not go to London. After she receives photographs from David in Europe about how much he wishes she were at the Eiffel Tower or Venice, she writes back and breaks it off. Instead, she spends her time on a blog about her life as a Hamptons nanny and plans to work on a book.

Soon Jacqui has to decide if she's still going to NYU, her longtime dream, or to Paris with the flirty photographer. Eliza gets interviewed constantly about her clothes --- and her upcoming wedding, which has no plans yet. Things come to a head for all three girls, and after an air-clearing session with each other, they return to settle their situations with level heads and hearts.

Readers will wish there was a real Eliza Thompson designing the clothes that are described on these pages, but what's truly memorable is the lovely bond these three young women share. CRAZY HOT will fulfill the future for them in a highly satisfying way.

--- Reviewed by Amy Alessio

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Super Reader.......2007-08-26

The guy in this in an ex-war hero and an excellent car thief, as well as being a crime busting secret agent. A fair bit of the Gone in Sixty Seconds thing going in here, except there is a lot of sex after the career of selling cars.

Lots of ok done shagging here, and when that happens, like most of these sort of books the plot gets pretty light. Here, there is one though, with two women who get involved with the Steele Street crew, and their grandfather, who is a palaeontologist.

Not many diamond smugglers would think of using a dig to smuggle stuff, but there you go.

Crazy Hot is Crazy Good!!.......2007-07-30

Crazy Hot is Crazy Good!! I discovered this series from someone's suggestion on a message board. Boy am I glad I tried it. I love action romance, and Tara Janzen writes with a "Suzanne Brockmannesque" style. It was great!!

Quinn is a reformed "bad boy" who now works in a "top secret" black ops special forces unit called the SDF. The SDF has now employed Regan's grandfather as a special consultant on a project. The problem: Regan's forgetful grandfather has neglected to inform Regan or her younger sister Nikki where he is. She finds Quinn hoping to discover some answers. When Regan and Quinn's paths collide, the fireworks start to fly. A secondary story involving Nikki and another SDF member named "Kid Chaos" was equally exciting. I can't wait to get my hands on their story.

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Absolutely Uniquely Fantastic - WOW.......2007-07-24

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Pure fun excitement and laughs........2006-12-20

Honestly, this book series is in the top book file at my house. Crazy Hot is about car stealing government agents that work for the DSF. All of the teams members are reformed car theifs, dealers, thugs, and the other makings of the under world crime ring, though, how reformed they are seems to be a question. In this first, very funny, exciting, and purely unique book, Tara Jenzen, has given us readers a pure treat. When Regan's grandfather, Wilson, goes missing, the lovely dinosaur doctor if lead to Cisco, Utah, and ghost town that has resently been turned into the hide out of Quinn Younger and Peter "Kid Chaos" Chronopolous the Boy Wonder. While Regan and Quinn deal with hormones they share for each other that have been on the back burner for fifteen years, they face danger, bullets, a pile of 200 million year old bones, and Bette, Jeanette, Nadine and the rest of the cars at the Steele Street garage.
This book was hilarious, and real. Along with Regan, Quinn, Kid Chaos we met Wilson, and Nikki ,Regans kid sister, Jhonny, Skeeter, Travis, and a boat load full of others.

If you want a book that will have you biting your nails, laughting your head off, swaering along with the good guys, and doing all sorts of other things, pick up this book.

Plus, Tara Jenzen must have done her homework, the guns, cars, bones and crime sceen, are done as good as those lusty hormone packed chapters.

Loved it.......2006-08-26

I loved this book. I went straight out and bought the next one. I am reading them in order. It has wit and sex and guys to die for. I hope she is writing more.

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