Deceptively Delicious - A Review

If you’re not familiar with Deceptively Delicious, by Jessica Seinfeld, it is a book full of yummy recipes with hidden veggies.  For example, pureed carrots are in many of the muffin recipes, and the meatloaf recipe.  Every recipe has hidden vegetables or fruit in it!  It’s great for picky eaters, or for just adding more vegetables to your diet.

Jessica even takes you through all of the steps to puree your fruits and veggies.  From what types of kitchen tools you’ll need, how to prepare the fruits and veggies for steaming or baking, and how to store them in your freezer.  Many helpful tips are found throughout the book.

Some of our favorites have been:

• Applesauce Muffins
• Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins
• Oatmeal (this is an awesome oatmeal recipe!)
• Italian Meatloaf
• Burgers (2 recipes to choose from)
• Tacos
• Sloppy Joes

We haven’t tried any of the dessert recipes, but there are some great ones to choose from. Even ideas for birthday cakes.  A good friend of mine makes the Chocolate Fondue, (with hidden carrot and avocado), for her kiddos to dip their fruit in and they love it!

There have only been a couple of recipes in here that we did not like.  The Quesadillas and the Tortilla Cigars.  They both have butternut squash hidden in them, and squash is sometime hard to disguise in my opinion.  Anyway, we couldn’t see what tasted weird,  but we did not like it.

If you have this cookbook, let me know what your family has raved about!  Or, if you’re in the market for an additional cookbook of this type, my good friend Becky and her girls love  The Sneaky Chef.

I’m thinking I need to go make a batch of Jessica’s Carrot Cake Muffins with Cream Cheese Frosting.  Now that sounds good!