THE LOW-CARB BARBECUE BOOK - by Dana Carpender

Tell us which recipes you've tried from this book and what you thought of them, whether they were great or duds. Don't post the actual recipes here because of copyright issues. If you've tweaked one of the recipes to come up with your own version, feel free to post it in the recipes section at the top of this forum.

NOTE: Let's use a separate thread for each cookbook that we review.

Simple Onion Burgers - page 134

Although I pan-fried mine, they were pretty tasty with a lot of onion flavor. I cut the carbs a bit by using homemade low carb Onion Soup Mix instead of the commercial kind. I didn't bother to take a photo because they just look like hamburgers. I rate them 3 out of 5.

Simple Almond Crust - page 236

I used a slight variation of Dana's recipe in the Individual No-Bake Strawberry Cheesecakes recipe. I added a little salt because the crumbs tasted a little flat without it. Her recipe actually makes enough for two 9-inch pie crusts or 16 servings. There was way too much for one crust. You can use the crumb mixture, after baking, as you would graham cracker crumbs in recipes. I recommend browning them as directed for 10-12 minutes, stirring the crumbs after half the time for even browning. You'll get about 2 1/4 cups of crumbs from the recipe. I rated this 3 out of 5.