[.ca] The Marijuana Chef Cookbook (ISBN 1931160058)

Scintilating Intoxication:
Though the doses were a little light (probably for safety sake) the recipes were very, very good, much better than the average.There are even recipes for drinks. Also, the information was well written, and nicely laid out. if you have any interest in making special treats for friends or for yourself this is the perfect book to get.

I'm going to save you the trouble:
The author writes an entire book about recipes which anybody could find in any cook book or online. The ONE and ONLY thing you want is on page 50. It's the reason why just popping a bud in your mouth will not get you high. It has to be cooked for the THC to be extracted and since THC is basically an oil, butter works best. I wasn't going to do this, but the author didn't even get that right. He tells us to combine the butter, "leaf" AND WATER in a "stockpot". Not true, what you want is a double-boiler to simmer the LEAF WITH BUTTER for 3 hours OVER THE WATER THAT SIMMERS UNDERNEATH AND NOT COMBINING THE THREE MATERIALS. When it's over, strain and press the buds to get all the juice. Refridgerate overnight and use the butter to make cookies or whatever (which fills in the rest of the book with standard recipes). The other snippet of info your probably looking for is whether Police dogs will know that they are pot-brownies, the answer is YES they will.

Great Cook Book:
The Marijuana Chef Cookbook is probably the best marijuana cookbook of the lot because it has so many different recipes for various food and drink formats. The start of the book deals with marijuana and its history and how it used before talking a bit about the Marijuana and the Law. The beginning of the recipe book has guides on how to produce the basic ingredients of marijuana foods such as Marijuana Alcohol, Marijuana Butter and Marijuana Flour. The extraction methods are sound and since marijuana is not water soluble you mix it with water as much as you like. In fact, water extraction is probably one of the recently valid additions to cannabinoid extraction techniques. You can basically go off and use any of these Marijuana bases to cook up your own marijuana meal. As you probably know from experience eating bud will get you high but takes awhile to digest and has much different effects than smoking it. The author has a good section on preparing food dosages and this should help novice cookers gauge how much they should use. Once you get over the cooking basics you have recipes for Deserts, Soups and Starters, Main Courses, Vegetarian Meals and Marijuana Drinks which should come as a refreshment to most. There are enough recipes here to keep you churning out new pot dishes for the next few years. Yum Yum.

Good information and very comprehensive.:
I just got this book and thought it was a great buy, as well as some amazing recipes there was very thorough information on the basics of cooking with pot and some good legal tips. So far we tried 2 of the cookie recipes and they tasted better than any other recipe I'd made. The only flaw that while there are over 40 recipes a few of them are pretty complicated and I think the author needs less than me or erred on the side of caution re the dosage, it was fine for my girlfriend but I was happier increaing my doseage by about a third. Still apart from that this is one of only 2 cookbooks I'd recommend, the other being an excellent book by Tom Flowers called The Marijuana Hebal Cookbook, either of these would be an excellent addition to any kitchen.