Recipes and pictures are great, easy to follow
931433
Bought this for my baker Daughter for Christmas, she loves it!  Recipes and pictures are great, easy to follow!
4806050
This book has a lot of great, easy to make recipes with "normal" ingredients.  Since my husband arrives home anywhere from 6:00 to 8:00 at night, the slow cooker gives me the flexibility of having dinner ready anytime during that time span.  My only complaint is that the binder comes undone on a regular basis which causes the pages to come out.  I can put them back in, but it's still an inconvenience.  Another book by Gooseberry Patch, Slow-Cooker Recipes Cookbook: Easy to Make Homestyle Meals with Slow Simmered Flavor, is even better than this one.  They're both wonderful to have in your collection and make great gifts.
1975089
I love this book. Author added her own experience which makes this book fun to read. Beautiful photos, easy-to-follow instructions, great recipes, and delicious food! Can not ask more. Very happy to have it!
559232
I really like this book. It has lots of good, simple and easy recipes you can make in minutes. Some reviewers have said this book is too basic, but I think less is more. I try to eat Paleo on a daily basis, but I'm not much of a cook, and I don't have much time to prepare meals. This book has given me some great go-to recipes. Thanks to the author!
1629983
This is the cookbook I chose to give to a newly diagnosed friend - great recipes, healthy and easy to find ingredients - and I like it so well I've pre-ordered her new book even though I don't bother to consult GF cookbooks that much any more.  Fenster's oven-fried chicken is the best I've ever tasted, her lasagna doesn't require you to cook the noodles first, etc., and there are some imaginative dishes you don't normally see (even schnitzel!).  Everything I've tried has been great.  The only complaint I have about Fenster's book is that it would be helpful to have a chart giving ingredients for making 2, 4, etc. cups of her flour mixes.  Her bread mix recipe makes 12 3/4 cups and includes 4 cups of another of her mixes as an ingredient - really a pain to calculate ingredients for the 3 cups needed to make her French bread.  But I must admit the results are worth it.  Her bread's very easy (especially if you have an electric oven - it rises while the oven heats) and has a great texture.
1698040
I received this cookbook as a Christmas gift from my family - they know me so well! I love this book! The photographs are beautiful and make you want to cook. The recipes are set up cleanly and are very easy to read and follow. I really like to "read" cookbooks just like I would a finctional novel, so the little personal introductions for each recipe (tips and tricks, family preferences, origins of the recipe...) make this especially enjoyable for me. I hae already made a couple recipes and everything has turned out wonderfully and delicious!

The only reason I give it 4 out of 5 stars is the lack of pictures. I'm a very visual person and seeing how the recipe is supposed to look in the end really helps me through the cooking process.

Nevertheless, this is a cookbook that will be used over and over again - I highly reccomend it to anyone curious about the Paleo diet as everything you need to know about the diet is explained at the begining and the recipes are so simple to follow.

See my blog post for more details: http://bepaleoandthrive.blogspot.be/2014/01/an-ode-to-bister-elana-amsterdam-recipe.html
1847078
I have made just a few recipes, but most of them are good, simple and easy (the ones I've tried). I really like the book and to have every day healthy cooking options.
It have just a few pictures but I knew that already, even thought I love my cooking books full of pictures this one make me want to try the recipes just by reading them.
1130655
Great shortcuts and simple, short recipes in this book.  Great hors d'oeuvres and entree ideas, not run-of-the-mill.  Another great thing is the author will not make you use oodles of pots/pans if just one will do.  I've had this paperback for almost 10 years, and all of the recipes I've tried so far have been spot-on.
4889525
I recently got an instapot and this cookbook is great. It helps explains the buttons and the recipes are easy to follow. I like that it offers breakfast, appetizers, dinners and dessert!
2732143
HUGE book. I perused this at a friend's house and made the millionaire's shortbread recipe, which was easy and came out perfectly, and decided I wanted a copy for my cookbook library. The recipes are simple, and each has color photos, including step by step. Great selection of desserts - not all are chocolate. Plenty of fruit based recipes and non-chocolate classics. For example, there are 6 different recipes for Clafoutis using different fruits and some include chocolate, and at least 8 different shortbread recipes. Each recipe, with photos, is on a single page. It even includes drink recipes. Many of the recipes are kid-friendly, so if you have a budding baker, they can help out in the kitchen.  Easily my new favorite dessert cookbook.
2040742
This is the first book I bought for my new Kindle and on Christmas Day I made two of the recipes from the book (Savory Dutch Baby and Rosti) ...both turned out beautifully, were a huge hit with the husband and were so simple that I had everything I needed on hand.  There isn't a recipe in the book I don't want to make and I love that all of the items are relatively easy to acquire (I don't live in or near a big city either!).  The one instance where a recipe called for preserved lemons, the authors gave you a very simple recipe for making your own if you couldn't find them.

I love the serving suggestions and the little "extra" recipes that go along with some of the main recipes.  Easy to read, basic recipes that are delicious and most of them seem very easy and quick to put together.  I have a small collection of cast iron cookware but this book made me want to go out and buy more!

The info on how to care for cast iron cookware is wonderful to have at your fingertips as well. I like this so much I will probably add the hardcover version to my cookbook collection.
6047
First of all, every single recipe has a picture to illustrate it. I think this is absolutely necessary in every cookbook, but it's difficult to find one with pictures for all the recipes. The pictures are big - lots of them use whole pages - and are very helpful for you to know how you should serve and present the dish. Besides that, the recipes are simple, fast and tasty. She goes straight to the point as well, doesn't ramble too much (which is something I love). I just started to learn how to cook and this is a big help. I definitely recommend it if you're just starting out like me.
2891985
This book has easy to follow instructions, and lots of helpful hints for the preparation of the dishes.  It was also easy to figure out the "points" of each dish, since the nutrition facts were printed out.  This recipe book has a great variety of catagories and I recommend it to all, even those of you who don't really like to cook, like me!
912678
I've just finished reading this book and haven't tried any of the recipes, but I've found several that I want to try right away.  There are lots of very colorful pictures and the recipes look easy to follow.  Most recipes use items that you would have in your kitchen all the time. So the up shot is, it's colorful, has easy to follow recipes and the food looks and sounds great.
590997
I have been pleasantly surprised with the quality of recipes in Gluten-Free Recipes in 30 Minutes. While I have not changed my diet to gluten-free yet, I have been interested in making the change, and this recipe book has been a great way to try out new meals and snacks that fit the trend. I have especially enjoyed the Smokey Prosciutto-Wrapped Squash. This recipe is wonderful, and extremely easy to make. One thing I am not pleased with is the lack of photos of the recipes; I like to see what I am about to make. The book was purchased for me, and I would recommend this book to anyone wanting to switch to gluten-free.
1283775
I own tons of cookbooks and love to cook.  I originally purchased this book for my husband so that he could learn to cook something other than prepared foods.  The recipes are fast, easy, and very tasty.  He likes it because it has pictures of the meal - this helps him understand how things are supposed to be once the meal is ready to be served.  He struggles a little with even these recipes because he knows so little about cooking and the names of the more gourmet ingredients.  Despite this, he has made some really fabulous meals out of this book.  Now even I reach for this cookbook first.  My once favored Patricia Wells and Julia Childs cookbooks are languishing on the shelf.  My only warning is that the gourmet ingredients are not always readily available at every grocery store.  I live in a big city so it is easy for me to obtain pancetta, various specialty pastas, and fresh herbs.  It might not be as easy for someone in a more suburban or rural environment.
1232615
Recipes are easy to follow, not complicated, there are pictures with almost every recipe and the end result actually looks like the picture! They taste really good, too.