Great cookbook and contains main points from her Mastering Your ...
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Great cookbook and contains main points from her Mastering Your Metabolism book as well. I loved that book so I figured this cookbook would be a great choice as well.
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From My Kitchen To Yours (Slow Cooker Recipes From Dinner To Dessert) by Sara Winlet
Very colorful book showing the food made from the recipes. The great thing is the prep time is low and the fact that it cooks while you are away is even better.
When you get home it's ready. Love the listings and how you can substitute chicken broth with no sodium in some recipes to make it to meet our dietary needs.
Really fascinated with the dessert recipes especially my favorite: carrot cake.
Author is also on social media sites for more recipe updates.
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I gave this cookbook to my stepdaughter for Christmas.  She is 19 and in college, so she needs to learn to cook for herself.  She absolutely loved the book - not only because of the yummy recipes and great pictures, but also for the cooking tips and advice it included.  Very educational.  Her 22-year-old sister also loved it and wanted her own copy.  Great book!
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I really enjoyed reading Sarah's book. The explanations about why paleo works were understandable and motivating. I also enjoyed reading about her opinions on spending more time with family, etc. The only downside I found was that many of these recipes take a really long time. I'm a single parent and juggle work, kids, and sports. On most days, I do not have 1-2 hours to be in the kitchen for dinner. I will probably try and improvise on some of the recipes, try and make some things in advance, etc., to make it through the upcoming baseball season where we're at the fields 4-6 nights a week. The recipes are good and require basic ingredients, which I do enjoy. Also, really loved the pictures and helpful tips on each page!
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Love this cookbook! Love the recioes, the photos and the stories. Ree Drummond has a wonderful sense of humor. Really helpful are the step by step photos of the making of the dishes. I guess I need the rest of her books!
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I loved this book because it had step by step photos of the recipes, so I didn't feel overwhelmed by the long list of ingredients in some of the recipes.  It has quite a variety of recipes and I got rave reviews from my family on the recipes from the book I have tried so far!  Best of all, she also did a lot of the recipes on her TV show, and you can find them on Pinterest and add them to your board for quick reference or to share with friends!  A few of our favorites were the Chicken Parm Pasta Toss, Stuffed Shells (easy!) and the French Onion Pizza - great food for my son who was home from college for the summer!  I highly recommend this book for the experienced as well as the inexperienced cook!
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I love her book "The Modern Menu" because of its recipe organization and beautiful pictures. I cooked most of the recipes from her first book and all ended in delicious meals. However, "The New Kosher cookbook" was a little disappointing because of the organization of the recipes; I preferred how her other book was organized. Anyway, her recipes are yummy in this book as well. I am looking forward to another book like the first one the author published.
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there are so many cookbooks out there but this one has 2 important qualities. The content is easy and there are no long processes in my busy life to deal with. The recipes are very well tested and the book is lovely to look at too.

I have not tried her other books yet but intend to do so. BA. NYC NY
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Every recipe I've tried from this cookbook (and from her blog, which is also great) has been fantastic. The instructions are clear, she provides resources for ingredients including occasional substitutions and everything comes out DELICIOUS. Highly recommended.
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Kitchen Confidence: Essential Recipes & Tips That Will Help You Cook Anything is Kelsey Nixon's (host of Cooking Channel's Kelsey's Essentials) first offering. It's a beautiful cookbook with color photographs on nearly every page and is chock full of not just recipes, but kitchen, food, cooking, and gadget tips sprinkled throughout. The layout is clean and pleasing to the eye. The sections include Introduction, Essential Pantry, Essential Equipment, Essential Techniques, Breakfast & Morning Treats, Starters, Salads, Sandwiches & Soups, Main Courses, Sides, Desserts & Sweets, Thanks, and Index.

I am a cookbook aficionado - I absolutely love collecting cookbooks of various types. This cookbook managed to avoid all the complaints I have about many cookbooks published today. The recipes are all accessible - not full of weird ingredients you have to go to a special store to buy. Clear directions are given and many helpful hints are provided. I've been a homemaker, and therefore full time cook, for 12 years, but some certain things/techniques in the kitchen still can tend to intimidate or confuse me, and Kelsey does a great job explaining them in a hands on way. The recipes are classic and simple, yet updated for the modern kitchen. Many cooks tend to modernize recipes in a way to make them completely unrecognizable, but here there are easy updates that don't completely obliterate the original recipe. I have a feeling this will be a cookbook I reference for years to come and am looking forward to trying the many delicious recipes it contains.

I received a copy of this book from Blogging For Books in exchange for an honest review. All opinions are my own.
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Some cookbooks I get because I am looking for recipes in a particular category - slow cooker, meals for 1, low calorie. You get the idea.  Other cookbooks I get because they are a good read.  This cookbook is one of those.  With this type of cookbook, I look at any recipe I get out of it as a bonus.

I am very familiar with Alex Guarnaschelli since I watch The Food Network a lot, as well as subscribe to their magazine.  I have had many opportunities to see Alex at work.  I even saw her two efforts to become an Iron Chef, and was pleased when she won.  I knew she got her start helping her mother in the kitchen and that she has a daughter, but not a whole lot more about her background.  Having read Old School Comfort Food, I now know so much more.

This book is filled with Alex's memories of food, from early childhood to during her training.  She shares her favorite kitchen tools as well as foods she uses frequently, even naming brands.  It was nice reading about the importance certain foods and recipes have in her life.  When you get to the recipes, each has a paragraph or two telling you how to pick the ingredients or special tips you need before you start to prep.  Here you will also learn the origin of the recipe for her.  The recipe follows in a step-by-step format making following it easy.  The end of the recipe you will often find additional tips or even handwritten notes.  Many of these tips and notes apply to cooking in general, not to just this particular recipe.

I like pictures in cookbooks.  This one has many.  Not all recipes have a picture, but the ones that do are beautiful.  They really make you want to make it.  The one thing missing from this book, that I would have liked, is the nutritional values.  With the number of sites where you can enter a recipe and it will produce this information for you means this is a minor inconvenience.  This cookbook was a very enjoyable read.
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Overall, fantastic cookbook. My own grandmother called me the day after Thanksgiving to ask for the squash with cardamom and nigella seeds recipe. I will definitely not run out of great veggie main/side recipes anytime soon. As mentioned by other reviewers, the ingredients lists are long and you may have to venture out and visit ethnic grocery stores to find what you need, but in the end it's worth it. I wouldn't recommend skipping an ingredient either because each spice/fruit/veggie adds an element to the dish that is purposeful and intentional. Great cookbook author, and I am tempted to try out his other books.
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Love how she refers to local establishments that I have been to!  So far, I have made 5 recipes and each one was superb!  I recommend the show she has on Food Network as well.  This is a book full of midwest dishes that go way back to our Grandma's Grandma.
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You know a cookbook is going to be a keeper when you crack it open for the third time in one week, and some of the pages are already stuck together with cookie dough. The recipes I trialed first included the Balsamic Roasted Beets (naturally sweet), Coconut Cashew Cookies (I altered them to create Maple Chocolate Chip Cashew Cookies), and Collard Green and Hummus Roll-ups (this cookbook is great for finding recipes to use with unexpected vegetables from CSA's!). Everything was delicious!

The book begins with 90 pages of "primer" information, including a Discussion on Gluten, Eggs, and Dairy; The Basics of a Whole Foods Diet; Organics, Your Health, and the Planet; Diet and Global Warming; Making the Change; Sample 7 Days Menu, Stocking your Pantry, Essential Cooking Equipment; and Definition of Cooking Techniques. It then continues on to everyone's favorite part - the Recipes!

To note, this cookbook is 100% gluten-free. Even though I am not strictly gluten-free, I like this feature. There are a few recipes here and there that call for eggs or dairy (milk products), but overall I would recommend the book to anyone seeking to avoid eggs, dairy, and / or gluten. I didn't have any problems finding tons of great recipes, and the ones with dairy look pretty easy to modify. This cookbook is not 100% vegetarian either, but because it is plant-heavy, vegans and vegetarians looking toward a whole foods lifestyle will likely enjoy it immensely.

Right from the start I was impressed with the whole food ingredients used, yet I wasn't the least bit intimidated. The recipes looked very approachable, with most using everyday ingredients. But, once you are ready to get a bit more adventurous, there are some new-to-many recipes within. For example, simple favorites like Warming Miso Soup, Pumpkin Pudding, Cinnamon Spiced Granola, and Oven Fries are mixed in among equally simple, but less common recipes like Hijiki Carrot Salad, Raw Chocolate Hazelnut Brownies, and Kombucha.

The following recipes are on deck for my kitchen adventures: Easy Gluten-Free Biscuits, Gingered Carrot Soup, Coconut Lime Chicken w/ Almond Dipping Sauce, and Raw Energy Balls ... but there are many, many more to choose from (over 200 recipes in total).
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Throughout the book the author has excellent photos, graphs for timelines, lists of ingredients.  She is aiming at helping you be successful, as well as offering a variety of alternate recipes.  It's first a great COOKBOOK, but also great to learn bento.
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I really loved this book. This is my kind of cooking. Easy to make, healthy and delicious. Since I liked her other books (especially Healthy Helpings) I pre ordered this book. I have already made some of the recipes and plan to use more soon.  Each receipe has a cute short blurp about the recipe which is entertaining, and most have useful cooking tips.
The ingredients are common stuff that I usually have on hand and makes good use of the food processor and microwave, but their use is not essential.  This book also has great info on the glycemic index, glycemic load, heart healthy cooking and lots of useful kitchen infomation. Which makes it a great gift for a beginner or more experienced cook.  You will use it for everyday and entertaining and no one will think of it as low fat and healthy.
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This is my 4th Hungry-Girl book.  i love her show, her books, and her everyday cooking approach.  I pre-ordered my 300 Under 300 that's how excited i was for another one of her cookbooks.  i have lost about 40 pounds eating Hungry-Girl style.  i have made 4 recipes from this book already.  all of them were wonderful!  her egg foo young tastes like the real thing without all the grease!  You should definitly  buy this book if you are thinking about it!