Clay Pot Cookbook: Traditional & Healthy Recipes for Slow Cooking, Stews & Braising | Perfect for Home Chefs & Healthy Eating

I have my grandmother's copy and I love it. A lot of Asian cookbooks suggest clay pot dishes. This cookbook is clear and simple to use with many original recipes I've seen nowhere else. This book was printed decades ago and covers dishes from around the world. The recipes hold up to the test of time in flavor, health and variety. This is not fatty, add a can of soup to everything, midwestern cooking from the 1970's. These recipes came out of a new movement forming in California that promoted the use of fresh, clean-tasting ingredients- principles being rediscovered today. The back cover sums up for who: Gourmet cooks, organic cooks, low-fat cooks, experimental cooks, amateur cooks!My favorites are the Monterrey Jack Rabbit, Beggar's Chicken, Garden Fresh Chicken Breast and the Herb Oatmeal Bread. The bread I found worked better in a clay bread pan (like from Pampered Chef) than a round clay pot. The Rabbit dish includes fresh herbs, brandy, dark beer, shallots, mushrooms and a touch of jack cheese. The bread recipe is the favorite among my very picky, all organic, vegetarian friends. The author's description was dead on: "This unusual loaf is worth every second at the 3 1/2 hours it takes from start to finish. Be sure you make enough of it as it will take on a cookie-like disappearing act. Be careful about the ingredients, especially the oatmeal; get a good one like John McCann's from Ireland, and spurn the instant." This was the first bread recipe I ever made from scratch! 6 herbs, pine nuts, sour cream & honey. Yum!Fish recipes are simple and tasty. I thought I was sick of plain old white fish until this book. The list of ingredients for most recipes are short. Often the entire meal is prepped and cooked in 30 to 45 minutes using two or three fresh herbs, a base of white wine, and a final ingredient to mix with the base leftover in the pot after cooking- such as sauteed mushrooms or sour cream and capers.