Egg Flower Power Soup (vegetarian) - p50

Review: I had never heard of Flower Soup before. It was pretty good. I'm just not a make-soup kind of person. It's so cheap to buy. I'd rather buy it. And it took me forever to eat all this soup. The recipe made a lot of soup.

Score: 4/5
Prepared: 11/15/09

Tremendous Tiramisu (vegetarian) - p211

Review: My husband reviewed this one. He really liked it. Couldn't taste the ricotta but his only complaint I think was user-error. He felt that the top layer of ladyfingers was not saturated enough and the bottom may have been too saturated. I guess I should have poured the coffee in a different bowl and transferred it but I was afraid that it would fall apart. Oh, finding the ladyfingers was pretty difficult. I checked Lowe's Food, Food Lion and Harris Teeter in the cookie section and the bakery. Finally got lucky at my 2nd Harris Teeter try.

Score: 4.5/5
Prepared: 11/15/09

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Bacon-Bundled BBQ Shrimp (200 Under 200 Cookbook)

Review: This could be the BEST recipe in this whole cookbook. It is freaking awesome. Even my husband asks for it. To be fair, I use lowfat bacon instead of turkey bacon but the points were the same when I put them in so I think it's fair game. And tastey. You should try this.

Score: 5/5
Prepared: 11/15/09

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Upside-down Pumpkin Cheesecake (vegetarian) - p272

Review: I'm not sure what happened here. Again, something with cream cheese was sour. But I checked the cream cheese before I used it and it tasted fine. I don't know. The initial taste was promising but that after taste was sour. Very strange. I WANTED to eat this, I just couldn't. :(

Score: 2/5
Prepared: 11/15/09

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Creamy Banana Pumpkin Pie Pancakes (vegetarian) - p270

Review: These were just messy. Definitely did not form cute little pancakes which I was so looking forward to. Hard to get them to cook through too. So basically, they were like banana-flavored mush. I mean, they tasted good. But HG said that they would take 3 min/each side to cook and they were not ready. I'll stick to my traditional pancakes, thanks.

Score: 3/5
Prepared: 11/14/09

Citrus-y Stir-fry Shrimp - p90

Review: This recipe made a huge serving...of snow peas mostly. The suggested cooking time was a little short for stir-frying the snow peas and too much for the mushrooms. LOL, cooking the shrimp was like a magic trick. And I was mad about it. I had written down the ingredients without reading the recipe (like any normal person) and ended up buying frozen raw shrimp that I thawed to make this recipe. JUST to boil before putting in the stir-fry. Definitely would have splurged for already cooked shrimp for this one! But, the magic trick was that HG said it would only take 30 second to cook the shrimp, but literally, they hit the water and turned pink. I've never seen that before!

Anyway, to the recipe. It was pretty bland overall. Maybe it needed some sauce to go over it after the stir-fry or something added to the stir-fry. Technically, I forgot the water chestnuts but they don't really add flavor anyway, just crunch. My husband added more soy sauce to his dish and said it helped but I wasn't up for adding more of that, so I just don't know. It was a good portion but the flavor was missing something...

Score: 3/5
Prepared: 11/13/09

Layered Berry Custard Crostata (vegetarian) - 196

Review: I'm not sure if I'm big on phyllo but these were delish! Technically, this was supposed to be 2 servings but I had points to spare so I gobbled it up. Not sure I could have stopped myself otherwise. They are a little bit troublesome, in that you have to bake the phyllo but not too much. I definitely would make these fancy looking things for a Girls' Night. FYI - this recipe makes two 2pt treats or one 5pt treat!

Score: 5/5
Prepared: 11/13/09

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