What's Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy

 

 I received a copy of this release from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Title: What's Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy: Recipes for Zero Stress Deliciousness

Author: Gaby Dalkin

Publisher: 9.27.22

Release Date: ABRAMS

Publisher’s Summary 

Bestselling author Gaby Dalkin is back with What's Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy, sharing 100 recipes that put ease, flavor, and adaptability first In her new book, Gaby Dalkin returns with her signature approach: Enjoy your life by eating the food you love. But this time around, she also emphasizes a no-fuss attitude. What's Gaby Cooking: Take It Easy offers 100 new delicious and stress-free recipes, suited for any and all occasions.

Everything we cook right now—whether it’s for a potluck picnic with friends or a solo night in binge-watching reality TV—needs to be crazy simple, easily pulled together from those lasting pantry items, still shockingly delicious at room temperature, and not requiring that one random ingredient you drove 45 minutes to get and will never use again. We want food that tastes like it took hours to prepare but doesn’t actually require anything too exact. Give us the forgiving recipes: Out of shallots? Try an onion. The more fail-proof, the better. If this low-maintenance approach sounds like your kinda thing, Dalkin has got your back. With 100 easy ideas for dishes to serve wherever you go (or don't go!), make-ahead dressings and sauces for lazy last-minute dinners, and of course—give the people what they want!—big, crunchy, fresh salads and rich, chocolatey, you’re-in-sweatpants-anyway desserts, Take It Easyis Dalkin’s first book bringing her tasty, crowd-pleasing concepts to quicker, simpler meals.

My Review

"Take It Easy: Recipes for Zero Stress Deliciousness" is the third "What's Gaby Cooking" cookbook, but my personal introduction to all things Gaby Dalkin. A blogger since 2009, Dalkin has a large social media presence across multiple platforms, with a focus on what she calls the "California Girl Life." This lifestyle/vibe is evident in the super colorful photos filling "Take It Easy." Not only is there a photo to accompany almost every recipe (exception is sauces section) but there are multiple additional photos of the author entertaining. The overall layout of this cookbook is aesthetically pleasing and very approachable: ingredient lists offer both US imperial and metric measurements, instruction steps are sectioned with clean page breaks, and most recipes are fitted to a single page. I recommend this cookbook to cooks of all skill levels and highly recommend it to those who may be just starting to entertain guests. In addition to most recipes serving 4-6 people, there are also 4 sections specifically geared toward entertaining (Peak Summer Vibes Dinner Party, Italian Dinner Party, Al Pastor Dinner Party, and Spring Roll Party.) 

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Kick-Start the Day
• I Need Dinner + I Need It Now
• Salads + Other Things to Eat in Bowls
• Peak Summer Vibes Dinner Party
• The Ultimates
• Pizza, Pasta + a Few Other Carbs
• Italian Dinner Party
• Sides
• Al Pastor Dinner Party
• Decadent Things
• Spring Roll Party
• Sauces + Things
• Acknowledgements 
• Index