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Chapter Nine: Holiday Fare has everything from English muffins to homemade marshmallows and Christmas pudding for kids and eggnog for kids (alcohol free). I'm not sure why stewed tripe and onions sounded like a good idea to include. Goulash doesn't sound appealing from the name but looking at the ingredients I can see some kids might try it but probably wouldn't like it. I received this book as a gift from my son, who knows how much of a Potterhead I am. For that alone I would treasure it, but it goes beyond that. It is, essentially, a work of art in and of itself. But I was a bit confused as to who the intended audience was. Initially, I thought it was a cookbook aimed at children. The introduction seems to make it seem so, and I thought, what a great idea! Lure boys and girls into the joys of cooking by exploiting — er, capitalizing — on children’s love for the Harry Potter books and movies. Each recipe references a dish or treat mentioned in one of the seven Harry Potter novels, complete with quotation and citation.
Discover all the most popular LEGO Harry Potter minifigures as well as rare and unique minifigures you may never have seen before in the LEGO Harry Potter Character Encyclopedia - the ultimate handbook for fans of LEGO Harry Potter. A LOT of space is used for the quotes mentioning the food and then telling more about that scene in great detail. You know, I've read the Harry Potter books. More than once. I've watched the movies. I'm quite familiar with the stories...as I assume are most people reading this book. We don't need to be told that Harry is best friends with Ron. These parts could have been shorter. With plenty of hilarious jokes from the magical world of Harry Potter, this weasingly witty joke book is perfect for every muggle and wizard alike. I love Harry Potter. I love food. I love the food from Harry Potter. Reading about treats like butterbeer and treacle tarts used to make me want to be a witch just so I could enjoy them. I thought this book and I would get along great. Unfortunately, this cookbook is mediocre at best. It starts with a nice introduction and has some helpful hints. I did like the way it was divided, which was by location. That way you could look specifically for food from Hogwarts or at the Weasleys'. The steps are numbered, and the recipes are peppered with hints and fun historical facts, as well as guides for making substitutions, which I appreciated. I also liked that each recipe came with a paragraph explaining which book and chapter the recipe was from, along with some context.Enter the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in this Unofficial Cooking Wizardry Magical Recipes Book!
The author imagines Petunia's pudding from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets as a strawberry trifle. Esta reseña será un poco peculiar porque os voy a hablar de un recetario ambientado en el universo de Harry Potter. Puede ser que parezca una lectura típica, pero la verdad es que este libro me ha sorprendido para bien. Para empezar, este libro contiene alrededor de unas 150 recetas muy variadas, por lo que cocina tenemos para rato. Además, su división por capítulos es un punto a favor porque, más o menos, puedes localizar las recetas sin ningún tipo de problemas. Cocina con Harry Potter está dividido en diez capítulos titulados: Dinahs first experience with baking occurred when she received for her ninth birthday a toy mixer from her mom that actually worked. She mixed up a chocolate cake batter without following a recipe and then poured the brown glop into plastic bowls and set them in the oven. Thankfully, she forgot to turn the oven on. Whether wizards, Muggles, friends or foes, find out about all your favourite Hogwarts students and teachers, as well as creatures and other characters. Meet Harry's friends Ron, Hermione, and Ginny; Hogwarts' teachers including Dumbledore, Snape, McGonagall and Sprout; plus Hagrid, Dobby, and other popular characters from the Wizarding World.Las recetas están muy bien explicadas. En la parte izquierda de la página tenemos los ingredientes y en la parte derecha una anécdota real sobre el plato en cuestión. En la siguiente página (o siguientes páginas) nos encontramos con las instrucciones, claramente explicadas, para realizar nuestra deliciosa comida o bebida. The way the recepies are sorted is less-than-ideal. There's a chapter for the food Harry had with the Dursley's, another for the Weasley's, the Hogwarts. So for every chapter you get proper dinner, cakes, sweets, desserts etc. Now if they would at least fit together, so that all the dinners mentioned in the Weasley-chapters would go particularily well with the desserts but you can just about combine everything with everything else. Sorting them differently would have made more sense. A recipe for Bacon and Eggs? Really? Actually it's two recepies for Bacon and Eggs and then another for bacon. Has anybody ever needed instructions on how to make bacon? Real cooking takes some effort, people. Real cooking isn't about throwing three ingredients into the microwave and hoping it doesn't taste like rubber when it comes out. These recipes are the REAL DEAL. Real cooking, real home cooking. So it will take some effort.
I will first make the same complaint everyone else is making: there's no pictures. Not one. There's 150 recipes of delicious sounding things, and not a picture among them. It was pretty disappointing. Okay, so being one of the few people who actually has cooked out of this recipe book, I wanted to say a few things about it.The recipes, some of which are old English traditions, are also tied in with the Potter series. The book includes where the students or other characters enjoyed the particular dish. Since reading this book, I've kindled a huge passion for cooking and baking. I've found excuses to try recipes out on anyone and everyone I know.
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