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Quick & Easy Recipes with Help...From My Instant Pot, Air Fryer, Slow Cooker, Waffle Iron & More
Your family & friends will enjoy the easy and delicious dishes you make with a little help from your favourite kitchen appliances.
In this book of Gooseberry Patch tried & true recipes you’ll find yummy Instant Pot and Air Fryer recipes you can’t wait to try; comfort-food recipes to prepare in your Slow Cooker and Skillet, and fresh and fun recipes for your Blender, Muffin Tin, Sheet Pan and Waffle Iron. 244 Recipes.
Gooseberry Patch was founded nearly 40 years ago by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, two moms looking for a way to do what they loved and stay home with kids too. Gooseberry Patch is best known for their collection of family-friendly, community-style cookbooks.
Each book is created with today’s time-strapped, budget-conscious families in mind and filled with recipes shared by cooks all across the country… with some from friends in Canada and occasionally “across the pond.” Along with treasured family recipes, each book includes the stories that go along with these tried & true dishes.
In this book of Gooseberry Patch tried & true recipes you’ll find yummy Instant Pot and Air Fryer recipes you can’t wait to try; comfort-food recipes to prepare in your Slow Cooker and Skillet, and fresh and fun recipes for your Blender, Muffin Tin, Sheet Pan and Waffle Iron. 244 Recipes.
Gooseberry Patch was founded nearly 40 years ago by Vickie Hutchins and Jo Ann Martin, two moms looking for a way to do what they loved and stay home with kids too. Gooseberry Patch is best known for their collection of family-friendly, community-style cookbooks.
Each book is created with today’s time-strapped, budget-conscious families in mind and filled with recipes shared by cooks all across the country… with some from friends in Canada and occasionally “across the pond.” Along with treasured family recipes, each book includes the stories that go along with these tried & true dishes.
288 pages, Paperback
Published August 15, 2022
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August 14, 2022
Originally posted on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Quick & Easy Recipes with Help is a well curated collection of recipes utilizing small kitchen appliances. Due out 15th Aug 2022 from Gooseberry Patch, it's 288 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. Recipes are credited for each contributor with general location.
This is a solid, down to earth, well organized cookbook full of everyday recipes which each use "kitchen helper" small appliances such as the air fryer, sheet pan preparation, slow cookers, waffle irons, instant pot type pressure cookers, etc. The recipes are arranged in chapters by which helper appliance is utilized in the recipe: air fryer, instant pot, slow cooker, blender, waffle iron, sheet pan, skillet, and muffin tin.
Recipes include an introduction description, yields, and a bullet list of ingredients in a sidebar, followed by step by step preparation directions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) units. There is no included nutritional information. Each recipe includes a color picture. Serving suggestions are appetizing and appropriate. Graphically, it's a very appealing book with a very "Heartland Americana" vibe. The recipes include a lot of comfort foods and also food which would be good for potlucks and buffet dinners. The dishes pictured are professionally styled and attractive.
The book includes an index with recipes listed by category, so they're easy to find. The editors have also included a metric conversion chart in the back of the book.
Five stars. There are lots of family and crowd favorites included here. This would be a good choice for public library acquisition, for church kitchen libraries, and for folks involved with other "group gathering" activities. You could hit the family reunion for the next 20 years with the recipes in this book and never repeat a dish.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
Quick & Easy Recipes with Help is a well curated collection of recipes utilizing small kitchen appliances. Due out 15th Aug 2022 from Gooseberry Patch, it's 288 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats. Recipes are credited for each contributor with general location.
This is a solid, down to earth, well organized cookbook full of everyday recipes which each use "kitchen helper" small appliances such as the air fryer, sheet pan preparation, slow cookers, waffle irons, instant pot type pressure cookers, etc. The recipes are arranged in chapters by which helper appliance is utilized in the recipe: air fryer, instant pot, slow cooker, blender, waffle iron, sheet pan, skillet, and muffin tin.
Recipes include an introduction description, yields, and a bullet list of ingredients in a sidebar, followed by step by step preparation directions. Ingredient measures are given in imperial (American) units. There is no included nutritional information. Each recipe includes a color picture. Serving suggestions are appetizing and appropriate. Graphically, it's a very appealing book with a very "Heartland Americana" vibe. The recipes include a lot of comfort foods and also food which would be good for potlucks and buffet dinners. The dishes pictured are professionally styled and attractive.
The book includes an index with recipes listed by category, so they're easy to find. The editors have also included a metric conversion chart in the back of the book.
Five stars. There are lots of family and crowd favorites included here. This would be a good choice for public library acquisition, for church kitchen libraries, and for folks involved with other "group gathering" activities. You could hit the family reunion for the next 20 years with the recipes in this book and never repeat a dish.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.
August 10, 2022
Anyone familiar with Gooseberry Patch cookbooks knows that they are generally community-type books composed of recipes gathered from cooks all over the country. Quick & Easy Recipes with Help...: From My Instant Pot, Air Fryer, Slow Cooker, Waffle Iron & More is an excellent cookbook that not only includes recipes from cooks all over the country, but recipes using helpers such as appliances (slow cooker, Instant Pot, waffle iron, blender, and air fryer), as well as skillets and sheet pans. The recipes are mostly easy with minimal ingredients, so they can be successfully made by beginners as well as advanced cooks.
Although every dish isn’t pictured, many are, and the photographs are beautiful and mouthwatering. The recipes included in each chapter will appeal to almost everyone; there are vegetarian dishes, as well as snacks, appetizers, side dishes, salads, main dishes with beef, poultry, and pork, and plenty of great desserts. Almost every owns the appliances featured, and they definitely speed up the meal prep process. The only thing the book lacks is fish and seafood recipes, but there are enough other things, that this shouldn’t prevent anyone from loving this cookbook. The recipes have influences from all over the world from Asia to Europe and many of them are All-American. The recipes are written in traditional form, and are easy to follow. As is typical of Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, this one is colorful and fun to look at as well as cook from.
All told, this fun cookbook has something that will appeal to the entire family, even picky children (and husbands). It will make a nice addition to anyone’s cookbook library.
Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.
Although every dish isn’t pictured, many are, and the photographs are beautiful and mouthwatering. The recipes included in each chapter will appeal to almost everyone; there are vegetarian dishes, as well as snacks, appetizers, side dishes, salads, main dishes with beef, poultry, and pork, and plenty of great desserts. Almost every owns the appliances featured, and they definitely speed up the meal prep process. The only thing the book lacks is fish and seafood recipes, but there are enough other things, that this shouldn’t prevent anyone from loving this cookbook. The recipes have influences from all over the world from Asia to Europe and many of them are All-American. The recipes are written in traditional form, and are easy to follow. As is typical of Gooseberry Patch cookbooks, this one is colorful and fun to look at as well as cook from.
All told, this fun cookbook has something that will appeal to the entire family, even picky children (and husbands). It will make a nice addition to anyone’s cookbook library.
Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.
November 13, 2022
This book is filled with easy to follow recipes and the photos of the completed recipes are great. Quick and Easy Recipes is an informative cookbook organized by the appliance you will use to cook the recipe - air fryer, crockpot, etc.
I just got a new air fryer so I spent extra time on that chapter and found many recipes I would like to try. I had no idea that you could cook so many different types of food in an air fryer.
I really would like to try the tuna melt for an easy Sunday night dinner. Olive and sausage meatballs are something my husband would love - he loves anything with olives. There were recipes for potatoes, chicken fingers, chips and many others that you would expect to cook in your air fryer. The mint carrots will be something we will try - we always need recipes for healthy vegetables. The recipe for salmon patties with cucumber sauce looks interesting. We will also be trying the roasted butternut squash recipe. There were dessert recipes that also sounded really good.
I just got a new air fryer so I spent extra time on that chapter and found many recipes I would like to try. I had no idea that you could cook so many different types of food in an air fryer.
I really would like to try the tuna melt for an easy Sunday night dinner. Olive and sausage meatballs are something my husband would love - he loves anything with olives. There were recipes for potatoes, chicken fingers, chips and many others that you would expect to cook in your air fryer. The mint carrots will be something we will try - we always need recipes for healthy vegetables. The recipe for salmon patties with cucumber sauce looks interesting. We will also be trying the roasted butternut squash recipe. There were dessert recipes that also sounded really good.
August 16, 2022
I love these Gooseberry Patch cookbooks! I have a couple previous ones that are used often!
I liked that this book had separate chapters for air fryers, Instant Pot, crock pot and waffle recipes. Everything is organized and so easy to follow along. There are helpful tips in the beginning to organize your supplies. The recipes are easy to follow, don't have weird ingredients and the photos are awesome! Check out the helpful tips and savvy shortcuts in the recipes, too - lots of great help! The Crispy Chicken Fingers recipe in the air fryer section is amazingly good! And the waffle sandwiches are fun recipes!
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for a digital, temporary ARC in return for my review.
I liked that this book had separate chapters for air fryers, Instant Pot, crock pot and waffle recipes. Everything is organized and so easy to follow along. There are helpful tips in the beginning to organize your supplies. The recipes are easy to follow, don't have weird ingredients and the photos are awesome! Check out the helpful tips and savvy shortcuts in the recipes, too - lots of great help! The Crispy Chicken Fingers recipe in the air fryer section is amazingly good! And the waffle sandwiches are fun recipes!
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for a digital, temporary ARC in return for my review.
September 5, 2023
This became one of my favorite recipe books and one I recommend all the time! When I'm in the kitchen, I always have my "kitchen helpers", I seriously can't do much of anything without my crock-pot! I loved the variety of recipes included for all the different little helpers. From crock-pot to air fryers, this book covered a little bit of everything with delicious recipes!
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and Rowman & Littlefield, Gooseberry Patch for providing me with an ARC copy.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Thank you to NetGalley, the author and Rowman & Littlefield, Gooseberry Patch for providing me with an ARC copy.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
September 14, 2022
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of "Quick & Easy Recipes with Help....From My Instant Pot, Air Fryer, Slow Cooker, Waffle Iron & More by Gooseberry Patch. As a full-time professional and a mother of 4, I am constantly searching for easy weeknight recipes that are quick to throw together and nutritious. This was a good reference book for how to use the different kitchen gadgets to throw together easy meals.
August 10, 2022
This is the latest book in the Gooseberry collection. This is the working woman's cookbook. This book includes a section of recipes for instapots, There is another section for crock pots and for air fryer. There are recipes for all kinds of food that can be made in these items. They also explore other appliances in your kitchen that you may not use as much such as waffle iron and blender.
August 21, 2022
Thank you NetGalley and Gooseberry Patch for the ARC of Quick & Easy Recipes with Help. The cookbook lives up to it’s title with lots of easy to follow recipes. It is divided into chapters on each small appliance, air fryer, slow cookers, blenders, etc. it is a good cookbook for figuring out what to do with all our gadgets.
October 1, 2022
I love a cookbook but this one just wasn’t for me. I don’t know it was interesting it just didn’t visually grab me.
I did appreciate that it was broken down into helpful appliance sections (I.e. instant pot, waffle maker, etc.).
I did appreciate that it was broken down into helpful appliance sections (I.e. instant pot, waffle maker, etc.).
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