California Pizza Kitchen Pasta, Salads, Soups, And Sides 
asked by redsink on November 22, 2006 3:02 PM
At California Pizza Kitchen restaurants across the country, many of the favorite dishes (and most-requested recipes) are not the pizzas! Customers keep coming back for the boldly flavored pastas, soups, salads, and side dishes. The follow-up to the bestselling California Pizza Kitchen Cookbook, this new cookbook serves CPK customers just what they ordered -- secret restaurant recipes, never available before. With gorgeous color photographs of the finished dishes throughout the book, CPK fans will be tempted by recipes for Oriental Chicken Salad, Spinach Artichoke Dip, and Kung Pao Spaghetti, to name just a few.
The new cookbook will include stories and anecdotes from CPK employees from around the country about favorite recipes, customers, and more. In the generous spirit they're best known for, CPK owners Larry Flax and Rick Rosenfield will donate all royalties and proceeds from sales of the book in the restaurants to children's charities.
Just like the first CPK cookbook, expect Pasta, Salads, Soups, and Sides to be one of the hottest cookbooks of the year. The CPK chain of restaurants is bigger than ever, and thi5 new hook will be published in the cool California style that has made the first book and the restaurants themselves so popular.
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I like this one much better than the original California Pizza Kitchen Pizza recipe book. The pizzas really are too complicated for me to want to make at home. But the recipes in this book for soups, salads, sides & desserts are wonderful and easy to replicate at home.
We love the Spaghetti Carbonara and the Apple Crisp is the best I have ever had!
We love the Spaghetti Carbonara and the Apple Crisp is the best I have ever had!
reviewed by motivations on November 26, 2006 8:53 PM
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The reason why I bought this book was because of the Thai Chicken Springrolls. I always like buying them at CPK. Although they don't have the "Mediteranean" version in this cookbook I do enjoy the Thai ones very much due to their spicy sauce and fresh ingredients. One thing to know about the CPK cookbooks is that many of their recipes take a long time to prepare and several of them probably have ingredients that you won't normally have in your kitchen. The Thai rolls typically take me about three hours in total to make but like many of the dishes in this book, can be not fully assembled and stored in the refrigerator until it is time to do a final heating and serve. Once you serve them any problems that you had will be over though and you'll receive tons of compliments on your food.
The reason for a non-perfect score: I had difficulty finding portion sizes, nutritional information, and estimated number of servings per recipe. Additionally, the way that the text wraps around the pages can make it difficult to not skip steps by accident. My best recommendation for you if you buy this book is to read all recipes at least two times before you start to make sure that you understand the time required, steps, and have all of the ingredients.
The reason for a non-perfect score: I had difficulty finding portion sizes, nutritional information, and estimated number of servings per recipe. Additionally, the way that the text wraps around the pages can make it difficult to not skip steps by accident. My best recommendation for you if you buy this book is to read all recipes at least two times before you start to make sure that you understand the time required, steps, and have all of the ingredients.
reviewed by artdealer on November 27, 2006 10:55 PM