Customer Reviews

Home Made

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This beautifully produced book is filled with great full-page and some two-page food photos and many smaller snapshots. It claims to be cookbook for DIY cooks who like scratch cooking but basically it is an ordinary good cookbook with a huge variety of recipes having upscale, trendy, sometimes unheard-of ingredients. Some ordinary recipes combine unusual ingredient to create new flavors (tabouleh with fava beans and pomegranate). It is disappointing that many baking recipes use self-rising flour that true DIY would never touch. Most recipe ingredients are readily available but you likely to search a while before finding many (double-smoked chicken breasts, ash-covered goat cheese, taleggio). Recipes range from simple (almond-apple muffins,) to quite complex (Irish oyster soup with mussels and samphire).||The layout is well designed with recipes placed on single pages, many illustrated. They include preserving fruits, vegetables, making pickles and jams, smoking fish and meat, making cheeses and even three dog food recipes. Extensive menu suggestions for every occasion end the book. This cookbook is mostly for more adventurous cooks. A good subject index is missing; it has an index of dishes and an index of ingredients. If you want to find Muffins, e.g., it will take some looking.

This cookbook just got translated from the Dutch version which I coveted. I am thrilled that it's now available in the US. I LOVE this cookbook! Beautifully laid out, amazing recipes, gorgeous photos - just looking at it will make you drool. This is an AAA+!

I just love the various recipes and the simplicity that it is formatted in.
Easy to use, love the page marker. I will be making many more things from this book.

I cannot rate this recipe book highly enough, I think it's just wonderful. The content ranges from dips and snacks to amazing looking desserts and even instructions on how to make jams, preserves and hand-made gnocci. The instructions are written in a way that variation on the recipes is encouraged, and some suggestions for these variations are presented. There is lovely commentary throughout the book, and the photographs and page layout are most aesthetically pleasing. I love looking through this book and picking out dishes to make, however often the recipes will require a specific shop as the ingredients may not be something you have in your cupboard on any given day. But regardless, there is nothing outrageous or overly expensive. This is a beautiful book and is a wealth of information on how to prepare things you would never think were able to do at home.

This has to be the most original cookbook i own. The recipes are tremendous fun. Your guests will love these unique dishes.

I can not wait to make some of the jams and bread recipes in the book! The recipes are very detailed.

I read about this book in a magazine column that contained a glowing report. I, however, found the book to be cumbersome and boring. There are too many foreign recipes and techniques to be appealing to a basic or novice cook, which the title implies. The photos are rustic in nature, unappealing to regular folks. I was greatly disappointed to spend the money for this book. It will go into the Goodwill box.