Cookbooks #19: Atkins Best Recipes and #21: Atkins: The Complete Cookbook are the next 2 cookbooks in my Cook the Bookshelf Challenge . These books are grouped together because despite the different titles and covers they are the exact same book! Same introduction, same recipes on the same pages, same photos....exactly the same! About the Book These books are full of recipes that follow the low-carb Atkins plan. I bought them when I went through a low-carb phase a while back. Some recipes call for ingredients that I prefer not to use like Atkins baking mixes, Atkins bread, various low-carb products, and sugar substitutes but there are a lot of recipes that sound great even if you are not following a low-carb diet. The Recipes I Chose To Make: From Atkins Best Recipes I made the Mexican Chicken Salad from page 90. I substituted a regular tortilla for a low-carb tortilla but otherwise kept the recipe the same. This recipe was perfect for a main dish salad. From Atkins: The Comple
Cookbook #18 in my Cook the Bookshelf Challenge is The Asian Cookbook from Parragon Publishing. . The Recipe I Chose To Make I have made several recipes form this cookbook already so I had my daughters decide which recipe I should make for the challenge. They decided on Daam Daam Min (Dan Dan Mian) on page 76. Dan Dan Mian is a Chinese Sichuan dish with a spicy sauce made with preserved vegetables, chili oil, Sichuan pepper, ground meat, and scallions served over noodles. The dish can either be served dry or as a noodle soup, this recipe noted that it is a dry noodle dish. How Was It? I was a little skeptical of this recipe. It called for Sichuan peppercorns, preserved vegetables, and black Chinese vinegar, none of which I had ever cooked with before. It was drier than we are used to for a noodle dish, just as the recipe described, but it was very good. The recipe calls for 2 finely chopped scallions but the directions do not say when to add them to the dish causing me to complet