Cooking with Coconut Flour: A Delicious Low-Carb, Gluten-Free Alternative to Wheat Paperback – Illustrated, July 1, 2005

I really liked the fact that the recipes used coconut flour. However, since they were using 100% coconut flour some of the recipes had way too many eggs. There aren’t that many recipes which are heart healthy because of all the eggs & the saturated fat in coconut oil. The book should have been a combination of some recipes 100% coconut flour & some having coconut flour blended with another flour. There should have at least been substitutions for part of the flour to allow for more heart healthy recipes with less cholesterol & saturated fat. I was disappointed that none of the recipes used or allowed substitutions for coconut sugar which keeps the blood sugar more steady. Lots of good recipes otherwise. I am looking forward to checking into his other books. I hope any future books are more heart healthy for those of us not into gluten free; just trying to watch carbs & saturated fats.

I got this to experiment with coconut flour cooking to cut as many carbs out of my diet as possible. So far I have tried 4 of the recipes, and have been reasonably happy, with them, with a few caveats.I tried the bread, brownies, upside down cake, muffins, and am going to work on the crepes and similar ones. The one recipe which was not present that I really missed was pizza crust. If that had been included, I would have given the book one more star. I think that one recipe would help out more than almost any other for Americans wanting to dump carbs.The bread was not too great, as expected, since coconut flour lacks gluten. It tasted okay, but was very dry and crumbly, which would probably would work for stuffing. The brownies and upside down cake were pretty darned good after I tweaked the recipes a little for my own tastes (more oil, more moisture, more butter, adjust the sugar content, etc.). In fact, they were so good, I had to stop baking, as I was eating way too much of those things. I need to spend more time working on non-desert recipes.......Since I recently found another coconut flour book (an ebook here on Amazon) with a pizza dough recipe, I am also moving forward on that front. I will report back here and in a review of that ebook when I have tired it.I tried another cookbook on coconut, but it was entirely regular, high carb recipes with sweetened coconut and tons of carbs, yuck! This cookbook is not like that. While there are many recipes with sugar and some other carbs, most also have low-sugar variations. You can use this cookbook to get very close to gluten and carb free in your diet.Like all of Bruce Fife's book, this is very good and recommended.

This is still, after all this time and all of the Coconut Flour cookbook options that have hit the market since, the best option for a Coconut Flour cookbook. Fife really took his time to get the measurements right and to be clear on exactly how to get the recipes to turn out correctly. I'm not saying none of the others are worth trying, as I have and use several. I am saying that this is the go to, the most accurate, the most usable and user friendly, not to mention actually useful in what it can help you cook, out of all of the books I've tried for cooking exclusively with Coconut Flour. The recipes are varied and there are about three times as many of them, as compared to the average. He gives low carb variations, so that you don't have to use sugar in everything, and there are some variations which allow for using other flour combinations if you want. His was the first I ever found, the first I ever tried, and is the Coconut Flour equivalent to The Joy Of Cooking corrected 1967 edition or the following 1975 edition, basically, the gold standard. Good luck in your efforts to eat healthier.

From the subtitle, which includes the words 'low carb', I assumed that there would be low-carb recipes that a person on a serious low-carb diet (Atkins, Bernstein's Diabetes Diet) could consume without going over their carb count for the meal.I was dismayed to find that not only was that not the case, nutrition information on the recipes was not included--- not even a 'net carb' count.In addition, many recipes included sugar. Some had 'reduced sugar', but sugar is still sugar. It's not a health food. There were no tested sugar-free versions of any of the recipes. A couple recipes also included bananas, which are a source of natural sugars that most low-carb dieters cannot eat.I feel the book could be improved greatly by the simple act of providing the nutritional information--- carbs, fat, protein and calories--- for each recipe. Removing the 'low-carb' from the subtitle would help keep people from mistakenly believing this was a book of low-carb recipes suitable for a low-carb or ketogenic diet.If your health does not require you to be on an actual low-carb diet and you are only concerned with gluten-free issues, or reducing your daily carb intake a little, there may be a lot of recipes in this book that you can use. The general information on using coconut flour may come in handy even for low-carbers (though I'm not sure I'd advise buying the book just for that.)It's also possible that if you are willing to look up the nutritional information on the ingredients and make adaptations, you could turn some of these recipes into low-carb and sugar-free versions. If you have that ability, this book may be a great addition to your recipe book collection.

Interested in this book as I am diabetic and trying to find low carb recipes. Useful to get the amounts of different ingredients, as coconut flour reacts differently to wheat flour. ALTHOUGH, AS ITS AMERICAN, NEED TO CONVERT "CUPFULLS" TO GRAMS/OUNZES! Have only tried cheese muffins ( nice eaten fresh from oven, spread with butter) and chocolate cupcakes ( ok if you like flavour of very dark chocolate; nice with fresh strawberries/raspberries and cream).

The trouble with coconut flour is that it sucks up moisture. Therefore the recipes use lots of eggs. I tried the bread recipe and got a "bread" with a layer of baked egg at the bottom of the pan where it hadn't used all the egg. Not impressed with coconut flour although this book does explain the difficulties in using it.

Got this for my son for christmas, he mentioned that he was looking at this as part of his training regime for a triathalon. He is impressed with some of the receipts, he has since tried some of them and found them to be excellent.

this is very useful and the 1st receipe i tried was the coconut scones absolutely delicious,the reason i use and value this book is that i`m diabetic and the receipes are great for me, well done ,more please

What a relief to find a great combination of very practical recipes backed by very sound nutritional principles. Even I can get the recipes to work! Very well done BOTH contributors to the book!