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A review by wanderaven
Six Seasons: A New Way with Vegetables by Joshua McFadden
3.0
I was very excited to get this one when it was released and have made a few recipes from it since.
Another reviewer has already written how I feel about it (unfortunately)... it's okay. We have a back-to-baseline easy weeknight meal, which is basically jarred spaghetti sauce, sometimes augmented with a couple garlic cloves and 1/2 a pound of meat, spaghetti, and steamed broccoli. I was excited for his recipe of rigatoni with broccoli and sausage, which I was imagining to be an elevated version of our go-to. And it is... kind of. I mean, sure, ricotta is always going to elevate a dish (one of those guaranteed improvements, like frying something or sprinkling some raw sugar on muffins before baking, etc), but honestly, all the recipe taught me was that I could spoon some ricotta on our regular, easier meal and be happier. His meal was good, but I won't make it again - wasn't worth all the extra effort for a slight improvement. I use this as a specific example, but I've made 4-5 other recipes with the exact same response afterwards - this was quite a bit of work and great (+$) ingredients, but it was just okay.
Just, I suppose, disappointed, ultimately. Not what I expected from my original perusal of the book and recipes.
Another reviewer has already written how I feel about it (unfortunately)... it's okay. We have a back-to-baseline easy weeknight meal, which is basically jarred spaghetti sauce, sometimes augmented with a couple garlic cloves and 1/2 a pound of meat, spaghetti, and steamed broccoli. I was excited for his recipe of rigatoni with broccoli and sausage, which I was imagining to be an elevated version of our go-to. And it is... kind of. I mean, sure, ricotta is always going to elevate a dish (one of those guaranteed improvements, like frying something or sprinkling some raw sugar on muffins before baking, etc), but honestly, all the recipe taught me was that I could spoon some ricotta on our regular, easier meal and be happier. His meal was good, but I won't make it again - wasn't worth all the extra effort for a slight improvement. I use this as a specific example, but I've made 4-5 other recipes with the exact same response afterwards - this was quite a bit of work and great (+$) ingredients, but it was just okay.
Just, I suppose, disappointed, ultimately. Not what I expected from my original perusal of the book and recipes.