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I was very disappointed in this book. I had expected much more. There wasn't enough variety or types of smoothie recipes for me, and the ones that were there weren't to my liking. I ended up giving the boook away.
Get this book.even if you don't intend to use all the recipes theygive you ideas.you can make some of them healthier, should you choose.Worth it.
It's a quick guide, very concise and easy reference. I found very helpful for me.
si lo que buscan es un libro de recetas, es un buen librito (es pequeño), tiene buenas recetas y los ingredientes en general que pueden usarse en estas bebidas, algunos tips también, no es profundo pero si lo que quieres son recetas, ahí lo tienes.
And, this is not a five-page throwaway. Keane in that these two little books do not profess to be a comprehensive work on smoothies. I strongly believe that among the true top 50 smoothies are at least five containing alcohol and at least five with at least one vegetable ingredient such as either tomato or carrot juice. Even `The Smoothies Bible', the best general book on the subject has no `adult' recipes. This feature justifies the otherwise annoying slim Jim book format where pages are more than twice as long as they are wide.A not inconsiderable virtue of this book is the fun names given to all the recipes, divided up into five chapters concentrating on:Back to Basics: Classic recipesSmoooothies: Recipes heavy on dairy.Rx Smoothies: Recipes focusing on especially healthy combinations.Outrageously Decadent: Lots of chocolate and sweets.Black Tie Only: An adult swim with rum, cordials, and other ethanolic pleasures.A second feature of this book not found in any of the bigger volumes is a chapter on garnishes. For those, in detail, you want to go to `The Smoothies Bible' or `The Ultimate Smoothies Book', especially the latter if you have a juicer and like to use it. The first reason is that there is not a single recipe in the book with a vegetable ingredient.
The second reason is that this book contains no smoothies with any alcoholic ingredients. Even the smoothies with names copied from famous alcoholic drinks such as the Mint Julep contains no alcohol. `Ultimate Smoothies' by Donna Pliner Rodnitsky and `The Best 50 Smoothies' by Joanna White are the fourth and fifth smoothies books I am reviewing and it is appropriate to review them together and not review them in the same context as the first three, `The Smoothies Bible' by Pat Crocker, `The Ultimate Smoothies Book' by Cherie Calbom, and `Smoothies for Life' by Daniella Chace and Maureen B. It is only claiming to have 125 from among the best recipes for smoothies, freezes, and blasts. And, the book gets extra credit for including a very nice selection of recipes that include alcohol in some form or another. I anticipate reviewing at least one more book on smoothies, but for the moment, if what you really want is just a collection of good, fun recipes, then `Ultimate Smoothies' is for you.Even if you are just into smoothies for the fun of it, this book has excellent nutritional information for each recipe, nicely located in a box at the bottom of the page, at the same place on each page so you can easily flip through the recipes with an eye on the calorie count to find ones which fit a particular calorie range or low fat recipes or low carb recipes or low sodium recipes or high beta-carotene recipes or high or low whatever the nutritional fad of the day may be. If your primary interest is in health, get `The Smoothie Bible'. It is entertainingly written and the recipes are clearly written, although I would have liked metric measurements to accompany the English units.
They just profess to be little books on `the best' recipes.It is painfully obvious from the outset that the second of these two, `The Best 50 Smoothies' does not live up to its title. There are 29 recipes including the same nutritional analysis as we get for the smoothie recipe. Thus, I dismiss this book from further consideration.The `Ultimate Smoothies' is a different story altogether. While it contains no vegetable ingredients, I will forgive it, as it makes no claim to being a collection of all the best recipes. This is a not inconsiderable virtue as some garnishes can easily double the calories of the serving, although many, such as the fruit chips are very low in calories.If you want only one book on smoothies, especially if you plan to use them with entertaining, this is clearly the best of the crop. Otherwise, this book is highly recommended.
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