The Home Cook: Learn Essential Recipes to Make By Heart - A Cookbook

Betsey Charles: Many wonderful recipes and some will become "every day" recipes!

United States on Aug 23, 2023

Sawsan Al Saken: She is one of my favorite chefs on food network and that why I bought this book! I am so happy I did! I made 2 dishes so far and I can honestly say, they are delicious! Can’t wait to try more recipes!Thank you Alex for sharing your recipes ! 💜

United States on Aug 17, 2023

Amazon Customer: This cookbook should be talked about more. This is the perfect cookbook for the home cook. There is a huge variety of recipes, many of them for different scenarios, from soups to pastas to quick entrees, salads and desserts. On top of the variety, most of the recipes are appealing

United States on Aug 01, 2023

D. Belec: Within minutes of receiving this book and randomly flipping through it, I'd found a ton of recipes I was eager to try. Three weeks later, it's already one of my three go-to recipe books for every meal plan.

You've got to try the beef chili (p. 67). After decades of searching for that perfect chili recipe, I have finally found it! And Alex's dad' lemon chicken (p. 110) is also terrific. I grew up eating so many of these dishes (e.g., Chicken Caccitore, Pasta Bolognese and Putanesca, Pepper Steak and Caesar salad), trying the Iron Chef version is a real treat and I'm learning some tricks of the trade as well, such as letting the chili rest for 10 minutes before serving for melt-in-your-mouth beef.

This recipe book is money well-spent.

Canada on Feb 06, 2023

Diane Makos: All of the recipes that I've tried turned out delicious. Love love love. Don't hesitate to buy it.

Canada on Jan 22, 2022

jamie adams: One of my favourite cookbooks ever. Has everything-always easy and delicious

Canada on Jun 24, 2020

Christie Blotnicky: Alex Guarnaschelli is a truly talented chef and author. I bought this book as a gift for my homecook husband, and I know he will love it. I love Alex's way of taking simple ingredients and techniques and creating a beautiful meal. Looking forward to digging in to some of her recipes!

Canada on Dec 20, 2019

Hans: Love this cookbook, I’ve tried several recipes and they have all turned out really well. Great for someone not super experienced as the instructions are step by step and well explained. More pictures of the food would be nice.

Canada on Dec 18, 2018

Jennifer GuerreroJennifer Guerrero: This is a wonderful cookbook. The Home Cook, Recipes to Know by Heart is a very befitting title. They are the classics that we all know and love, with a slight skew to the Italian American end of the spectrum. There are both humble and special dishes throughout the book, but nothing overly difficult. I just bought groceries for four main dishes, two sides, and two breakfasts, and found all of the ingredients at the very average supermarket down the street. The tone of the book is charming, filled with nostalgia for Alex’s childhood food memories. There aren’t a lot of photos in the book, but that fits with the casual platings and the focus on flavor and technique. Strongly recommend.

Below are my pics and thoughts on the dishes I tried:
1) Roasted Shrimp with Chile and Almonds – p 124. The dried chiles add so much flavor to this very easy, quick dish. I doubled it for four of us, and I’m so glad I did. My teenagers loved it.
2) Avocado and Orange Salad – p 204. Delicious and minutes to pull together. This made so much more dressing than needed, so I’ll probably make ½ or 1/3 next time.
3) Mini Goat Cheese Quiches – p 16. These are just delightful....

United States on Dec 01, 2017

iiiireaderiiiireader: I have been a fan of Alex Guarnaschelli from watching her as a judge on the “Chopped” television show. I lost track of her once she became an Iron Chef and never really got to see her style of cook except for the special “judge cooks” show on “Chopped”. What little I saw of her style of cooking, I thought highly of. Enough so that I bought “The Home Cook” sight unseen.

I have a decent collection of cookbooks, most of which sit on a bookshelf in my game room and get pulled out for specialty recipes. I have a few tried and trusted cookbooks which get shelf space in my kitchen. After both looking through this cookbook and trying several recipes, “The Home Cook” has its place in my kitchen and will be a cookbook that I use frequently. Along with the wonderful recipes, the cookbook has many beautiful photographs of the finished dishes (some of which I will include below.)

I love the subtitle of this book “recipes to know by heart”. I agree one hundred percent. The bulk of the recipes are those which Ms. Guarnaschelli has developed herself. In addition to those, she has gifted us with tried and true recipes from her family, including those from both...

United States on Sep 29, 2017