Smitten Kitchen Every Day Cookbook: Triumphant Recipes for Everyday Eating

maryb: Recipes are well-written and easy to follow. Have only tried the blueberry muffins, but looking forward to trying more.

United States on Aug 26, 2023

DS: Some great recipes and commentary. Not a single one gives you any idea how long it will take to make, not that cookbooks are ever accurate in that regard. But, some indication would be nice. A big oversight, imo.

Canada on May 28, 2020

Barb H: I loved the first cookbook in this series and hope I will love this one. I made a chocolate cake. Not so good. ( the one on the Swans cake flour website is amazing). I am hoping I will love other recipes in the book. Deb has a great writing style. It is interesting to read her comments.

Canada on Aug 01, 2018

Rincewind: Bought it for my girlfriend which is a Smitten Kitchen fan and loves cooking. She loved it and enjoyed this book more than the previous one as it has recipes she can use more often. The pictures are amazing and the book edition is of great quality. I have only read a few pages here and there but I like Deb style of writing with a short introduction before the recipe and sharing some of her life experiences which makes you somehow feel close to the author. I like the style of food and I will definitely borrow it sometime and try it.

United Kingdom on Jan 18, 2018

Amazon Customer: Here’s a review from someone who actually tried multiple recipes from the book.

I’ve been a reader of Smitten Kitchen for many years, although I can’t remember making a recipe from her blog. I think I wasn’t a very confident cook at the time and the kitchen I was stuck with wasn’t easy to work around. Plus I was in grad school and didn’t have the motivation to cook often so I would only admire the photos from her blog. Then one day I moved to a different city to start a new job and stocked up a nice little kitchen for myself. I started planning meals I could bring to work everyday and looked to my small collection of cookbooks for recipes. It felt like I would try a handful of recipes from a book, and maybe 1-2 recipes would be good, but then sometimes they weren’t, and then I became disinterested in the rest of the book very quickly.

So far I’ve had the complete opposite experience with Smitten Kitchen Everyday. I hadn’t visited her blog in a while and was excited to see a new release from Smitten Kitchen on Amazon. Since I passed her first book (I was under the impression there would be too many recipes using sour cream and goat cheese?), I was...

United States on Nov 14, 2017

NadiaNadia: Deb is always a good bet for delicious, unfussy, but exactly what I’m craving but can also feed my family with and not feel any sacrifice! On top of the book being beautifully photographed, it’s the stories along with the recipes in her signature voice that draw you in and assuage any hesitation - maybe pizza beans weren’t exactly what I expected to find, but soon enough they were on the table and I can now feed beans to my daughter with no guff! Thank you Deb for another reliable book, full of your Deb-ness :-)

Canada on Nov 09, 2017

Louis-Christian Rousseau: Gift from my husband. I’ve had this for one week, and I’ve already made 4 of the recipes. It is full of approachable recipes and ingridents that I am already comfortable with. As always with smitten kitchen recipes, the results are reliable fantastic. I feel like this book has more recipes than her first, and the layout on the pages is better, with the whole recipe usually on one page. Couldn’t be happier!
So far I’ve tried: jam filled bran scones, roasted cauliflower wedges, grilled flatbread, and mango ceviche with apples. All 5 star recipes.

Canada on Nov 07, 2017

Tyler Ryan: I found Deb's blog in college when, three years in, I finally grew sick of Nutri-Grain bars and Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds (wonderful food options but perhaps enjoyed best, like all else, in moderation). Since discovering her, I have fallen hard for her witty banter, conversational recipe dialogue, and (of course) her recipes. She has an excellent eye for finding a way to update a normal recipe, adding some sort of embellishment or modifying an integral ingredient to make it feel brand new. That's what I love best about Deb, because who wants to make garlic soup with only 40 cloves of garlic?

The cookbook: I accidentally pre-ordered two copies rather than one and am looking forward to sending the extra off to a friend or family member (or any takers here! hah). I read through the entire book almost immediately after retrieving it from my mailbox and got myself all excited to cook everything in it (even the meat options despite being a *vegetarian*). Overall, the recipes appear to be quite approachable and surprisingly enticing (looking at you, Potatoes Anna).

Likes: I love that many of the recipes are portioned appropriately. For example, there is a cookie...

United States on Nov 01, 2017