Customer Reviews
Small book, hearty but healthy meals - By: Elise, 11 May 2008 
This mini book of healthy eating casserole recipes is one of my favourites. It has meat, poultry, fish & vegetable casserole/stew recipes. Most of those that I have tried have been delicious. Like any cookbook, there are some recipes that you take one look at & say to yourself "I don't think I'll bother". In this book, however, there are extremely few that do that for me & every one of the recipes that I tried, I have enjoyed.
All of the recipes have a fat, fibre & kilojoule count after it (to approximately work out calories from kilojoules, divide by 4), so that if you are dieting you can decide if the recipes are for you - to give you an idea, the highest fat content is about 16.2g per serving & the calorie count about 700 (that is for a one-pot dish including vegetables & rice). Many of the recipes, though, have only about half of this level of fat & calories. Don't think of this as a book just for those on a diet though, the recipes don't compromise on flavour in favour of low calories.
In the centre of the book there is a double page of different mashes for serving with casseroles to give the traditional casserole & mash a "twist".
Like most Australian cooking it is a mixture of eastern & western influenced recipes, e.g. hungarian goulash, clay pot chicken, curries, boeuf bourguignon, cajun-style gumbo, tagines, chilli con carne, osso bucco etc. The recipes which I can particularly recommend from this book are the boeuf bourguignon, chilli con carne (Aussie style with chunks of casserole steak rather than mince) & the green pea mash (do this & mashed potatoes on a cold winter's day). I admit that these mainly reflect my own carnivorous tastes, & plenty of the others are also very tasty. In general the recipes are easy to make, & as long as you are not totallly inexperienced as a cook, they should pose you little difficulty.
One brief word of slight warning, 9 of the 50 recipes are veal casserole recipes - they're not very practical for the UK, as some use large quanitities of veal - neither easy to get nor cheap enough to use except for a celebration in the UK (unless you're a lot better off than I am).
Australian Womens Weekly: CASSEROLES-delicious 1 pot wonders - By: , 26 Mar 2004 
A friend of mine loaned me this book as inspiration for a dinner party I was giving recently. The problem was that every recipe is displayed with a colour photograph, so just about everything in the book looked so scrummy it was hard to chose what to make.
I opted for a dish that my friend had made herself & recommended to me. My chicken with lemon & rosemary turned out to be extremely simple to make, impressive to look at AND as tasty as hell! (Even my meat & two veg eating dad ate & enjoyed it!!)
I have tried several of the recipes so far & been delighted every time. (I have got Chicken Gumbo & Beef Diane on the menu this weekend, my mouth is watering as I type).
Not being from Oz myself, I found that I could not understand some of the words in the ingredients lists (what the heck is a green onion or a Kumara, & was I expected to mug a supermodel to provide the 'lovely legs' needed for the chili tomato chicken?). Thankfully Ms Moss & Campbell were saved, as I discovered that there is a thoughtfully provided glossary at the rear of the book to ensure that those of us not familiar with terms from down under didn't do anything too drastic in our quest for culinery perfection.
I am hugely into the art of food (a foodie you might say), & own an enormous collection of cookery books, but I know that this book is an essential addition to my library.
As I know that very soon this borrowed copy will probably be prised back from my clammy fingers by my remarkably patient friend, I have just ordered it from Amazon, along with a host of other Australian Womans Weekly cook books (on the off-chance they are as good as this one).
I can only hope that they arrive before my friend does!
