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: Chapter Six: Breakfast Before Class includes some of Harry's favorite breakfasts like fried sausage patties, porridge with cream and treacle, the classic English fry up, traditional English marmalade, lots of fried foods and the odd one out-cinnamon pull-apart breakfast rolls. That last one sounds good and is topped with cream cheese icing. This section is very classically British and what I would expect to be served at Hogwarts. It's time to pass the magic on with this brand-new edition of the classic and internationally bestselling phenomenon that is Harry Potter! 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. To be fair ... I did actually read/skim over this cookbook WANTING to love it. And I still love the idea of it. But I didn't actually try cooking any of the recipes.

So many recipes within Harry Potter are normal, everyday items in England and, like Bulchoz, always wondered what does the food taste like?This dazzling gift book brings together beloved characters, unforgettable moments and iconic locations from Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone all the way through to The Deathly Hallows. It's the ultimate magical miscellany, filled with facts and fun about the wizarding world, beautifully catalogued and brilliantly explored. Despite the copious amount of issues I had with this, there are still some dishes that I would really like to try. Some of them include Christmas Pudding Ice Cream, No Bake Chocolate-Bottom Pumpkin Tart, and Almond-Ginger-Peach Treacle Tart. 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. Not particularly easy looking recipes. Again ... kind of depends on what you're looking for in a cookbook. Willing to put forth a little effort? This might be just the thing for you. Most of it was a little complicated for my tastes, much as I think it would be grand to plan an HP party. So much of Hogwarts's magic revolves around food - from the Great Hall tables to home-cooked recipes a la Mrs. Weasley's wandwork.

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?

Some of the recipes are great. I totally enjoyed the Yorkshire pudding with our roast (we did pork since I don't eat beef; otherwise the recipe was exactly the same). My husband loved the treacle tart, but it wasn't my thing...but it was a good recipe. I also made the English Strawberry Trifle, which was very complicated but worth every moment of sweating in the kitchen. You can't get that type of food from a box. The Shepherd's Pie was also quite tasty (and relatively simple). There are also cake recipes to imagine what types of cakes Harry's friends would send for his birthday while the Dursleys were on a diet. None of these cakes is traditionally British. 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. Chapter Two: Delights Down the Alley contains varied dishes like ice cream, burgers and chocolate pudding. Again all of these seem very American to me and yes I've been to England and lived there with a host family for a few months. The most amusing but necessary recipe is how to make a proper cuppa. They forgot to strain the leaves and pour the tea into cups LOL! Dinah Bucholz, a huge Harry Potter fan and food lover, has always been interested in what the characters are eating.

This extraordinary collection is a fantastic gift for all Harry Potter fans, young and old - sure to take pride of place on any bookshelf! This book is an unauthorized cookbook printed as if it were an old book with parchment papers and purpleish ink. Each chapter has a theme and contains paraphrased quotes from the American editions of the books. I prefer the British editions but this cookbook is solely for an American audience.But then I began going through the cookbook, and I would definitely hesitate before giving it to anyone younger than 13 or 14. Frying, hot ovens, lots of dicing — none of these are activities I would allow a preteen to even think about doing! My daughter ended up in the Emergency Room one night from a knife cut on her palm — and she was 14! I don’t know who was sobbing more: her or me. 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. Grease an 8x8 inch square pan and set aside. Combine the sugars, butter, heavy cream treacle and cream of tartar in a medium saucepan. Cook over medium high heat, stirring constantly, until the butter is melted and the ingredients are combined. Was down the sides of the pot with a pastry brush dipped in hot water if sugar crystals form on the sides, to prevent recrystallization. Clip a candy thermometer to the side of the pot and continue to cook without stirring until the mixture reaches 240 degrees on the candy thermometer. Chapter Three: Treats from the Train has the fun stuff mentioned in the books like pumpkin pasties and pumpkin juice. There are also pancakes (with a sidenote on Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day and classically British pies. I might try a bite of pumpkin pasty if someone else made it but nothing else Nulla più di una bieca operazione commerciale che sfrutta il nome del mago più famoso del mondo per vendere copie di uno pseudo ricettario...ricette che non hanno niente a che vedere con la saga della Rowlings, spiegate male e impreparabili...la ricetta più interessante? Il gelato: prendete una pallina di gelato alla crema e mettetela in una coppetta, poi aggiungete una pallina di gelato al cioccolato, una pallina di gelato alla nocciola e ricoprite il tutto di granella di pistacchio...questo è il livello del libro.

But, as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, so is the proof of a cookbook in how many recipes the reader can use. I copied down more than 40 recipes — which is great as far as I’m concerned. OK, so I haven't yet tried out any of the recipes, so I won't rate it yet, but just from reading it there are some things I noticed:

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This book seems to be targeted at children (there are several references to 'your friends' and 'your parents') but apart from the Bacon and Eggs most recepies look bloody complicated. There are a lot of pasties (I have made pasties several times and still don't get the dough right...) and instructions like 'Let cook for and hour but be careful, don't let it get to hot as it might explode'. Probably not the ideal choice for 13 year old HP-fans. Now I'm not saying it shouldn't have these recipes but some kind of rating system from 'Children can make this on their own with some supervision from adults' to 'children can watch adults from a safe distance while they try not to blow the kitchen up while cooking' would have been a good idea. While the blurbs paraphrasing episodes from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series have generally been entertaining enough (although also often much too repetitive in scope and feel, and to such an extent that I actually ended up skimming quite a large chunk of the second part of The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook as far too many of the presented examples of Harry and his friends enjoying different types of foods actually just ended up feeling as though one was reading the same types of scenarios over and over again), I cannot really say that I have at ALL appreciated the manner in which author Dinah Bucholz has approached her 150 odd recipes. For since all of the recipes featured in The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook are of course and naturally United Kingdom based and that a goodly number of them also do appear as being potentially rather difficult and complicated to make, with intricate instructions as well as sometimes necessitating ingredients with which many American and/or Canadian cooks might be not that familiar, I for one would have assumed that Dinah Bucholz to also the include at least a SOME pictures, some accompanying photos of what the end products would and should look like (and that there are NO accompanying visuals whatsoever featured and presented in The Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook, this really does make me quite massively and personally livid).