The Essential Mormon Cookbook: Traditional Recipes Including Green Jell-O, Funeral Potatoes & More – Perfect for Family Gatherings, Potlucks & Cultural Celebrations

A friend of mine made the most amazing layered salad for her son's birthday party, so I asked for the recipe. She pulled out the Essential Mormon Cookbook and I laughed because she is decidedly not Mormon. She told me a girl at work had recommended it so she bought it and it has become her secret to great food at potlucks and parties.Every single recipe I have made from this book has been amazing. I used to belong to MOPS at my Christian (not Mormon) church and the ladies would bring the most amazing dishes for our brunches. This is like a collection of all the great pot luck dishes you have ever tasted and wondered how they made it. So many things I had tried at MOPS were in this book.My family has loved every single thing I made from here. Somebody said it's full of fat and sugar, etc. That's true, but there are a lot of healthy options in there. You don't have to gorge yourself and you can subsitute things if you need to. We eat very healthy and mostly organic in our house. One recipe (apricot chicken) called for Russian Dressing. The dressing at the store was a chemical soup with a few actual recognizable foods in it. So I looked up Russian Dressing online, made it my blender in a few minutes and used that instead of store bought. My family couldn't get enough of that apricot chicken and they were fighting over the leftovers. My child and I have celiac and cannot eat gluten. So I adapt the recipes to gluten free. Many of them are naturally gluten free anyways, but if they aren't I just sub.I'm going to take this book to mom's group at church and recommend it to them. I think they will love it.