Dash Fan Book Reviews

The Official Peaky Blinders Cookbook 50 Recipes Selected by The Shelby Company Ltd by  Rob Morris Thank you to  Quarto Publishing & Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷 Book Information Have you ever wanted to eat like the Peaky Blinders? With this first official cookbook, you can now take a unique culinary journey into the world of the Shelby's. Filled with  50 delicious and evocative recipes,  the book takes inspiration from the iconic locations the infamous gang inhabits, from the bar at  The Garrison,  to the glamour of the  Eden Club  and the extravagance of  Arrow House. The recipes in this book transport you into the rich and murky world Tommy Shelby and his associates lived in, evoking the  warm and hearty meals  which would have kept the gang going day and night. From  filling family fare , to snacks, sandwiches and bar food, as ...

Country Kitchen Cookbook (A Collection of Traditional American  Home-Cooked Recipes) by Jennifer Boudinot Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and Netgalley for my copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃👻🧛‍♀️🎃 Book Information Celebrate country cooking with over 100 quintessentially American recipes. Apple pie, hamburgers, fried chicken. Some foods just take us back home. They evoke the feel of summer evenings on the lawn playing baseball, winter gatherings around a roaring fire, spring picnics, and fall football games on campus. For most of us,  good times and good food naturally go together , keeping families close and memories strong. The culinary melting pot that is American country cooking accommodates the great variety of tastes and cultures to be found here, creating a range of specialties that can be called favorites either regionally or across the country. This wonderful cookbook gathers together recipes that h...

The Secret Ingredient Cookbook by Kelly Senyei  Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt  and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information 125 family-friendly recipes based on the author's popular Just a Taste food site, with each recipe featuring a totally unexpected ingredient Kelly Senyei, founder of the food site Just a Taste, has garnered millions of fans with a delicious hook--every one of her recipes has a secret ingredient, something totally unexpected that takes a dish from common to extraordinary. Some of the 125 tried-and-tested recipes are surprisingly simple, like her Vanilla Bean Drop Doughnuts made with Greek yogurt, or the Sweet and Tangy Baked Chicken Wings made with blackberry jam. Other recipes are nothing short of genius, such as the Kale Panzanella made with croissants, the Healthy White Chicken Chili made with hummus, or the Crispy Slow Cooker Carnitas made with cocoa powder...

30 Day Kick Start Plan  by Joe Wicks Thank you to Pan Macmillan / Bluebird and Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information Bringing motivation to the nation! Want to cook better, healthier food? Know what you should do, but don't know where to start? This 30-day plan from the nation's favourite PE teacher will help you create new habits, keep on track and feel brilliant inside and out. Food and fitness sensation Joe Wicks, aka the Body Coach, has helped millions of people to keep fit and cook healthy, simple recipes. He's back with his  30 Day Kick Start Plan  to make it easier than ever before to make healthy food, lose weight and get more active. Inside are one hundred delicious, sustaining recipes and six brand-new HIIT workouts to help you get in shape. Combined with weekly plans that can help you prep like a boss, this approach is easy to personalize according to your own day-to-day h...

The Tipsy Grandma…  An Anthology of Thirty, Made-from-Scratch, “Boozy” Desserts!  by the Editors of CakeChatter Thank you to Cake Chatter and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly  and voluntarily . 🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻⚘🦋🌻  Book Information This is a fun anthology (collection) of "adult" desserts designed to achieve three goals: One: they had to be made from scratch. Two: they had to incorporate all-natural ingredients and three: they had to be made with alcohol, therefore making them “tipsy!”. As an added bonus, we have included the author’s notes about their recipe, when applicable, and comments from Dough-Punchers(tm), or folks who have made these recipes with success. Nutritional information is included when available. And, as with all our books, we have edited the recipes so that they’re easier to follow and we have developed a different format, which we think is more conducive to your baking success—with the probability of fewer e...

Great British Vegan  by Aimee Ryan Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – White Lion & Netgalley for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information ‘Aimee is an exceptional talent and her fab new book displays her unique gift for making vegan cooking both exciting and comforting. I have no doubt it will quickly become a firm plant-based classic.’ Áine Carlin, Bestselling author of  Keep It Vegan  and  The New Vegan If you’re craving your favourite British comfort foods, but also want to embrace a plant-based lifestyle, then  Great British Vegan  is the book is for you.  Whether you’re vegan, flexitarian or merely interested in cutting down on your meat consumption, there’s no reason you can’t still indulge in all your favourite British classics, using easy-to-find ingredients. With great-tasting, simple to make home-style recipes that will comfort as well as nourish, this book mak...

Eat Better Forever  by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall Thank you to Bloomsbury Publishing and Netgalley  for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁☔⛅🍁  Book Information In  Eat Better Forever,  Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall gives you all the tools to improve your eating habits, and therefore your life - permanently. And to help it all happen, he's added his 100 healthiest recipes yet. In this ground-breaking book, instead of promising a gimmicky single-fix solution to the challenge of healthy eating, Hugh extracts the knowledge, advice and healthy habits, from cutting edge research into the obesity crisis, to produce 7 simple strategies that will transform your diet and your health. Starting with the blissfully simple message that we all need to  Go Whole , he leads us away from the industrial junk and processed foods that are doing so many of us so much harm and returns us to the real foods that nurture us and keep us wel...

1000 Mediterranean Meals Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group – Chartwell Books for this copy which I reviewed honestly and voluntarily. 🍳🥐🥣🥗🍳🥐🥣🥗 🍳🥐🥣🥗🍳🥐🥣🥗   Book Information   1000 Mediterranean Meals  brings recipes from Spain, Italy, Greece, Portugal, Egypt, Turkey, France, Morocco, Lebanon, and other Mediterranean nations straight to your dinner table! Unlike other diets with strict rules and hard laws, the Mediterranean diet encourages you to  eat more whole foods  from the entire food pyramid without sacrificing taste or your health. Incorporating all the traditional healthy living habits of people from countries bordering the Mediterranean Sea has never been easier. Mediterranean recipes include lots of  vegetables ,  legumes ,  whole grains ,  breads ,  fruits ,  nuts ,  seeds , and  olive oil , as well as plenty of  fish ,  poultry , and  small amounts of red meat . By fo...

The Book on Pie by Erin Jeanne McDowell 🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄☃️🤶🎄🎅🎄   Book Information Look no further than  The Book on Pie  for the only book on pie you'll ever want or need. Erin Jeanne McDowell,  New York Times  contributing baker extraordinaire and top food stylist, wrote  the  book on pie, a comprehensive handbook that distills all you'll ever need to know for making perfect pies.  The Book on Pie  starts with the basics, including ways to mix pie dough for extra flaky crusts, storage and freezing, recipe size conversions, and expert tips for decorating and styling, before diving into the recipes for all the different kinds of pies: fruit, custard, cream, chiffon, cold set, savory, and mini. Find everything from classics like Apple Pie and Pumpkin Pie, to more inspired recipes like Birthday-Cake Pie and Caramel Pork Pie with Chile and Scallions. Erin also suggests recommended pie doughs and toppings with each recipe for infin...

Cookfulness  by Ian Taverna I would like to thank Authoright and Clink Street Publishing for inviting me on this fabulous Blog Tour  🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁👻🎃🍁  Book Title: Cookfulness: A Therapeutic Approach to Cooking  Author: Ian Taverner  Genre: Non-Fiction  Publication Date: 29th October 2020  Page Count: 154  Publisher: Clink Street Publishing  Summary   Create Space For The Happy Stuff! This cookbook is crammed full of new and innovative ways, hints and tips, designed specifically for people with chronic pain and mental health conditions, by me, a fellow sufferer.  It is all to help you WANT to cook, not have to! Cooking really can be a therapy. Cooking really can ignite your passions. Cooking really is possible!  If you are having a bad day, I want to make it better. If you are having a better day, I want to make it good. If you are having a good day, I want to make it great. If you are having a great da...

The Mermaid handbook  by Taylor Widrig  I would like to thank Netgalley and Nimbus Publishers for giving me the opportunity to read this wonderful book. 🧜‍♀️🐚🧜🏼‍♀️🐚🧜🏿‍♀️🐚🧜‍♀️🐚🧜🏼‍♀️🐚🧜🏿‍♀️🐚🧜‍♀️🐚🧜🏼‍♀️🐚 Book Information The book mermaids-in-training have been waiting for. From history and folklore to recipes and tips for ocean preservation, as well as profiles and original illustrations of mer-maidens from around the world,  The Mermaids Handbook  features everything you need to know to follow the mermaid way of life. Over 40 healthy and accessible recipes, developed by author Taylor Widrig of Mermaid Fare, a Nova Scotia?based company specializing in wild and cultivated sea vegetables, include scrumptious starters like Mermaid Kaiso Seaweed Salad, new classics like Dulse, Lettuce, and Tomato Sandwich and Creamy Wakame Casserole, as well as healthy snacks like Smoothie Bowls and Energy Bites, and even homemade beauty products, such as the C...