Well in this day and age of cost of living and to bne honest it is not world war 2 so readers it is time to sreamline your kitchen, but ensure you have good equipm,ent and a store cupboard so you have the basics and staples required to cook.
As this is essentially a cookbook it is divivided into sections which readers you will see as self explanitory

Loved cooking the maple soaked salmon few ingredients and super simple recipe to follow.

So use January to be super organised in your kitchen.

As someone who loves simplicity in her cooking, this title sounded very appealing, and it didn’t disappoint. The minimalist kitchen is just that, and this book has lots of delicious and easy to make recipes.

Title: The Minimalist Kitchen



Author: Melissa Coleman



Genre: Nonfiction, Cookbook, Organizing, Lifestyle,



Plot: Minimalism is all the rage right now but how do you minimize the kitchen and yet keep it functional in a way that suits your family's needs? A kitchen is arguably the most important part of the house and it is certainly the busiest part of many houses. Keeping it streamlined, efficient and functional is a daunting and challenging task. Throw in minimalism and the game is up. Or is it?



Author Melissa Coleman uses her own kitchen and experience with minimalism to show us how to have a functional and minimal kitchen arrangement. The best part is that this particular room's level of minimalism can be tailored to your own specific needs. If you have both a blender and a food processor but only use one, the obvious solution is to donate the unused item and make yourself a smoothie with the other one. But if you have twenty forks and use every single one of them, it might be more productive to sort the collection of spoons instead.



Likes/Dislikes: This is a surprisingly large book but in a nice size. Coleman gives simple tips and advice for streamlining the kitchen items and even provides sample grocery lists for an organized shopping, storage and cooking experience that will free up mental space, shelf space and cooking time. If you always know how much of something you have and need for every recipe, you won't buy multiples or store more than you will consume. The rest of the book is filled with delicious recipes that range from Overnight Oatmeal to Kitchen-Sink Lentil Bowls and Roasted Vegetable Sandwiches. The Immunity Smoothie recipe looks especially enticing. This is definitely the type of book I would want to buy and then study with a highlighter and sticky tabs to mark all the recipes I want to make.



Rating: G-all ages, geared toward adults (cause what kid wants to minimize the kitchen?)



Date Review Written: April 12th, 2019



I received a copy of this book courtesy of Netgalley, lost that digital copy and found it at my local library. I wasn't required to write a positive review and the opinions expressed in the above review are my own.

Although I'm not sure I'll pare down my kitchen just yet, these recipes are simple yet enjoyable. I think that I will continue to work through these recipes with gusto!

The format and pictures were beautiful and I enjoyed reading through the recipes. My husband is from Denmark and loves minimalism so he was also excited to look through this book and pick out things to try. We both also liked the introduction and it has started the gears in my mind to clean out some of the shelves in my kitchen.

It was such a great book. I honestly loved the simplicity of the photos. The recipes were easy to follow and had ingredients that were easily accessible. Definitely would recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing a copy of this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

I like the idea of simplifying cooking. Cooking can be overloaded with gadgets, gizmos, and 500 different sauces. It can be overwhelming for the home cook. So Melissa Coleman says, "slim it down!" It is a great idea and I think that the way she goes about it effective. It doesn't have to be austere to be minimal.

Excellent recipes. Easy to follow directions and lovely pictures. Definitely, recommend for the home cook. Plus check out her blog https://www.thefauxmartha.com/

Beautiful photographs, I thought this was going to be from the blog Minimalist Baker (which is a vegan food blog) but it wasn’t. If you eat animals, you may enjoy the recipes. The pantry suggestions are helpful too. Thank you NetGalley for the ARC.

I have a very small kitchen and a very busy life and a love of great food, so this was an awesome book for me.

I enjoyed the front section about paring down tools and how to stock, and I felt her ideas were great for timid, new, and experienced cooks.

There are several categories of recipes in the book, and all have clear, easy directions. The pictures also offer a great preview.

While I have not tried any of the recipes, I greatly enjoyed browsing through this book.

This is a well laid out and interesting take on minimalism in the kitchen. I appreciated the discussion of what tools and staples are truly necessary without over cluttering this most clutter-friendly area of the home, and the recipes were never too simple despite the simple ingredients. A nice addition to my cookbook collection.

I enjoyed having access to this book. I loved that it gave sound advice hardest area in the kitchen to control yet also maintained a well-run and orderly area. This is definitely a great book to continue to reference back to again and again!

Copy given by NetGalley for an honest review.

Reading this book make me want to make the recipes. The information is beautifully presented. I love the clean style and design and the type of real food recipes included.

This cookbook made me think about my kitchen and what I actually need in it. There were many recipes I can see myself making! Bonus: the author lives in Minneapolis, which I didn't know till I started the book. Fun to read a MN author!

I feel like this book was cashing in on the minimalist craze while not really adding to it. I enjoyed the beginning but I don't see how the recipes were minimalist. Plus I'm not sure why recipes need to be minimalist.

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The Minimalist is a good life style that can be applied to any level. Melissa makes us discover how convert the kitchen into a minimalist kitchen with simple and none expensive ideas. Also, the book contains an awesome cookbook inspired with this wonderful life style.

I saw this book being advertised by the author through a segment of a local morning tv show. It was marketed to me as a book to help create a streamlined kitchen and provide hints and tips to make the kitchen a less cluttered space.

I did not realize it was mostly a cook book till after getting it for review from NetGalley.

The part I was interested in was about 40 pages and not very helpful. I'm not sure what size of a kitchen the author thinks everyone has but if I were to follow her advice I'd have to go buy MORE kitchen supplies!!! My kitchen skews on the small side with no pantry so I was looking for a great resource to help manage it; this was not that resource. I was disappointed in the way the book was advertised as I would have never picked it up if I knew it was a cookbook.

The recipes I just got a chance to flip through and they seemed well organized and had handy symbols to tell you how long it takes to make, what meal it works best for, and what utensils are needed. I honestly don't use cook books and tend to use Pinterest to get my recipes or throw things together on my own.

The author of the book is also a blogger, and while I don't follow her I'm assuming that some of the content in the book can be found on her blog. She's known as the Faux Martha Stewart.

The Minimalist Kitchen by Melissa Coleman

This book has recipes that are 2 of my favorite things: Gorgeous and doable. Not to mention filling and with ingredients that are good and life enriching!

I received a free digital review copy of the book from the publisher through NetGalley. I kept a notepad close by and scribbled notes the whole way through! Can’t wait to get a physical copy for my own shelf!

The photography inside the book is beautiful. From the plain cover, I didn’t expect to see so many photographs inside, so that was a pleasant surprise. Coleman’s background as a graphic designer no doubt contributed to the overall clean, bright look of this book.

Coleman describes minimalism as paring down to just the essentials. She found herself often reaching for the same few tools and the same “trusty” recipes, so why not get rid of the rest.

The book begins with discussions about how to choose which tools and gadgets to get rid of and which items Coleman used most. When suggesting the pots and pans she finds most useful, she helpfully includes tips on how to care for them. I appreciated this information.

I tend to keep my kitchenware pared down. Part of this is necessity – my kitchen only has two drawers, so there isn’t much storage space for utensils. But even with my trimmed down selection, The Minimalist Kitchen gave me ideas of where I can purge even more. Although, Coleman may have talked me into adding a salad spinner to my collection.

There are certainly more baking recipes than I would use, especially in the breakfast section. They look delicious, so if baking is your thing, definitely check it out.

The recipes are written clearly and easy to follow. Each recipe is contained to a single page, which means you don’t have to keep flipping back and forth with dirty hands. Most of the recipes have photographs. I always prefer photos because some of us don’t know what a particular recipe looks like, so how do you know if you want it, or how do you know it came out right if there is no photo?

The recipes cover all the bases: breakfast, main courses, sandwiches, soups, salads, sides, drinks, and desserts. The selections offer quite a variety of foods and flavors from “humble pot roast” to “ancho-ladas.”

Coleman cleverly tags recipes as “make ahead,” “weekday,” or “weekend” where appropriate to provide an at-a-glance assessment of the time involved.

I definitely recommend this cookbook for families that don’t have particular dietary needs (like gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.). There are quite a lot of fan favorites like hamburgers or mac-and-cheese, plus plenty of vegetable heavy options.

Although I did receive a free galley copy of this book in digital version, I think I’ll be buying a hard copy to add to my own kitchen.

Disclaimer: I received an advance-read copy of this book via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great resource full of delicious recipes that don't require a chef's kitchen or lots of special tools. They are easy to make and full of flavor!

So many good recipes in here, from breakfast foods to desserts! Simple clean cooking, with delicious results. Minimal use of materials with big outcomes. The pictures were great and got me excited to see results.