Incredible filet recipe - easy and very elegant. In my opinion, THE best steak recipe ever, but my "grilled-steak without sauce" purist husband was not quite as enthuastic. I'm a pretty experienced cook but this was my first exposure to pankow bread crumbs (which, it turns out, are Japanese) and I had to find a specialty deli shop that carried them. FYI,they are quite different from regular bread crumbs - more like flakes. I did not like the port wine sauce as written, and there wasn't much of it. I played with doubling the beef broth and port wine which worked well, but I'm not sure that the sauce actually improves the fabulous steak anyway.

Reviewed On: Dec. 4, 2005

This was a great soup - up to the point that I added the last two ingredients at which point it stopped being ginger carrot soup and became cream of orange juice soup. Not that I have a problem with oj - except maybe as a soup. It's still a good recipe as written but I really couldn't taste the carrot. Next time I'll skip the juice -maybe play with doubling the chicken broth and then decide if I want to add the fat-free half&half after pureeing.

Reviewed On: Dec. 2, 2005

Difficult to rate this because I thought it was just average and not a particularly impressive presentation - in my opinion you might as well just soften a few Snickers bars in the micowave. However, my husband thought it was DIVINE and most other guests seemed to enjoy it. I followed the advice of others to reduce the sweet ingredients by 1/4th, used an oreo cookie pie shell and garnished it with whipped cream. It is very easy to prepare and a good desert for a casual dinner or party.

Reviewed On: Oct. 9, 2005