Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I liked the way the book is bound as it makes it very cook friendly and the descriptions of Amish and Mennonite life were very interesting. But the main reason I bought this book was for the photos of the foods. However, the photos are NOT of the dishes pictured but only similar dishes. I discovered this when the first recipe I reviewed and made, the speedy brownies looked NOTHING like the photo. So I reviewed more. There is a chicken casserole that clearly shows noodles when the recipe has none. There's a chicken and rice casserole that shows red peppers and other chunky ingredients and no sauce when the recipe has no veggies and a cream sauce. A hot potato salad which is made of a clear vinegar base has a picture of a mayo-laden salad. The chicken salad pictured contains no fruit like the recipe itself. There's a recipe for a candy mixture containing cereal and coconut that has a picture of simple spiced nuts. The “recipe” pictures are simply random photos from a blog and are NOT the actual final product. The seven layer casserole dinner doesn't even remotely look like the recipe described. There are also some errors in the recipes. The cinnamon bread, for example, calls for using 3/4 of the cinnamon mixture on each of the two loaves. Do the math. The corn casserole has you putting the corn kernels through a blender with a liquid. Amish corn casserole only beats the eggs into the liquid not the corn itself. There's a recipe that calls for a box of corn muffin mix but does not state what size box (they can vary from Jiffy size to full size). The whole wheat pancakes use a full cup of brown sugar to just two cups of flour (typical w.w. pancakes use 2-3 Tablepoons of sugar for that amount of flour). Honestly I'm hesitant to actually make any of these recipes as they do not appear to be kitchen-tested by the author.