Jessica Seinfeld's Deceptively Delicious

I just got this book in the mail, and am pretty excited about trying the recipes! I don't have kids -- I'm the one who won't eat my vegetables (I literally gag on many kinds of veggies, so I'm as bad or worse than a 4-year-old)! I've thumbed through the book and the recipes look pretty good, if a bit more work than I usually put into meals. I've never pureed anything and have no idea if things will really taste good, but I'm hopeful. I'll get the necessary veggies on my next shop and give it a try. If anyone is interested, I'll let you know how it works out!

I heard she got into trouble because she allegedly plagiarized the recipes.
That should not detract from their deliciousness tho IMO
Let us know how you get on GroovyYank

Slate has done a review and covered the plagiarism issue.

I heard she got into trouble because she allegedly plagiarized the recipes.
That should not detract from their deliciousness tho IMO
Let us know how you get on GroovyYank

I heard about that, but it's really not clear if she plagiarized anything. She sent her book to a publisher two weeks after the other woman sent her book to the same publisher (and was rejected because she wasn't deemed as marketable). The timeframe is so close that I don't see how she could've stolen anything. Possibly the publishers who had seen the first book made suggestions to Seinfeld, though, based on what they saw in the first book (I have no idea, that's just something I wonder)? I originally wanted to go with the other woman's book though just because of the possibility, but then I heard it was a thin claim. The books were about the same price (after shipping differences) and reviews sounded like the Seinfeld book was more what I wanted. I may still buy the other one as it sounded good, as well.

Slate has done a review and covered the plagiarism issue.

I just looked that up; if anyone else is interested, it's at http://www.slate.com/id/2176563/pagenum/2/.

I've tried two of the recipes so far. The spaghetti pie was pretty good, but *way* more work that I normally put into a meal. I usually just make some chicken breasts and pasta or rice. So it's not on my repeat list. However, I couldn't taste the broccoli in the meatballs or the carrots in the sauce, so it was successful -- just too much work for someone who doesn't like to cook.

Next I made mac and cheese, which I had never made from scratch before. This was *very* good and not too much work, and you couldn't taste the cauliflower in it. This would also be very easy to just make from a mix and add the cauliflower.

I think I'll find that most of the recipes taste good and successfully hide the flavor of the veggies you blend in, but the recipes have a lot of steps and come to much more time than I normally put into a meal. If you're someone who normally makes meals with a lot of steps anyway, these recipes would be a good way for you to add veggies to meals if they were for people who don't like vegetables. You really don't notice them.

If you're like me and don't like all the steps, maybe you'll try a few (like I will) and pick the easiest ones to add to your menu rotation!

You bring up an interesting point... Now this is definitely generalizing by all means, but I have noticed that people who like to cook are interested in vegetables, different tastes, etc, so wouldn't have to hide their veggies- but people who don't like to really cook don't like to eat a wide variety of food etc and since they don't like to cook probably wouldn't want a bunch of extra steps to hide the veggies.  Of course, that doesn't count people who hate to cook but don't mind going to a restaurant for tasty bits!
Again, I'm just being stereotypical, so I don't mean to offend anyone, just making an observation on those people I know in my own life.     

Oh, but I'm happy that you were able to actually eat some veggies without tasting them. Yeah