The goal for most home cooks is to make dinners that their families will eat without complaint. A few, WOW, this is good comments would be amazing. Well, this book will help you make amazing meals with very little effort. The entire cookbook is dedicated to making sauces that you can freeze ahead, allowing you to easily step up your game. Everyone has stood looking into the refrigerator at leftover chicken and mashed potatoes and thought, what can I do with this? This book gives you many choices, all easy to prepare ahead so your family is not circling the kitchen like starving vultures on a Monday night. Buy this book and make your life easier while easily impressing your family.

This book is pretty great. Simple instructions for great sauces that you can freeze! No more waste! I love that you can make many of them ahead of time to use later, making dinner a snap. Buy this book!

I have a four-hour commute to work every day and attempt to cook a healthy meal every weeknight even if I have very little time to do it. This is not an easy task and often I fail because most delicious healthy meals take time to prepare. The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution book is a life-saver and offers so many delicious sauces which can be prepared in advance (like on the weekend) and freeze until usage. It also offers great advice on cooking different bases such as chicken, pasta, tofu, etc. The Sausage Ragu sauce was easy to prepare and tasted so good. I am looking forward to trying more and be on the road to conquer fast and healthy meal preparation.

A big thank you to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the fantastic ARC of The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution by Elisabeth Bailey. This book will be available at your favourite bookstore on October 14, 2018.

Love, love, love this book. I cannot just read it, alas. It must be used! I not only feel strongly enough to add to my bookcase but also add things in it to my freezer and pantry, use them and recommend it to customers at my farmer's market booth. I've greatly cut back on buying cookbooks... but this is one that needs to be here and used. Happy to review on Amazon and beyond after release

This is a make ahead and freeze sauce cookbook. In my opinion on busy days there is nothing like throwing veggies, meat or poultry, cheese and sauce in a crockpot and your dinner is done by dinnertime. I love the freeze ahead idea and putting into baggies. It is like a dump dinner just throw it in and your all set. Add a nice salad and some homemade bread and your ready for a good dinner. The book gives suggestions on what to add to the sauce. Also has very vivid photos of what the sauce looks like. It has everything from Across America, Asian Inspired, Mostly Mediterranean, Cheese and Wine Sauces and Pesto and Salsas. There is something in here for everyones taste.
I received this book in exchange for my honest opinion.

My mouth is watering! This clear cookbook takes you through the steps from making the sauce, freezing it, to preparing it for dinner. The wide variety of flavors ensures there is something for everyone you cook for.. I can't wait to get my own copy!

Honestly and truly, I am in love with this book. I work full time and come home absolutely exhausted. I never have energy to cook anything much less whip up a five star meal.

The author reassures me life will never be like that again if I listen and I agree with her.

She showed me through the book how to make a basic sauce, basic staple and properly funnel, freeze, store sauces and pull them out easily for a fabulous sauce that can be added to anything instantly.

She has saved me hours of meal prep time and she will do that for you, too! Please buy this wonderful book. I was lucky enough to and it was life altering!

These are easy recipes with regular ingredients that you can prep in advance and freeze with an only minimal effort. Great book.

I loved this book. The sauces look delicious,vvery easy to prepare and they don't require many ingredients. I can't wait to try these recipes out on my family.

I keep hearing how a sauce can transform and hold a dish together and yet sauces are one area that I’m a complete novice with, and so it was for this reason that I was extremely keen to get stuck into this book.

The book has an extremely simple layout, ensuring that you really can’t go wrong. However, there is room for experimenting with the recipes too. It is explained that the recipes are a starting point. They don’t have to be followed exactly to the letter but they can be if you want to.

There is a two-part method, firstly consider your base, i.e. beef, pasta, white fish, tofu, rice, pork etc. In simple, easy to follow, step-by-step instructions, it explains how to prepare each of those bases. Then instructions for preparing the sauce are given, again using simple step-by-step instructions and easy to find ingredients. Finally, suggestions of how to use the sauce for each of the suitable bases.

The sauces can be made in advance and frozen in bags for convenience. Stunning, full colour photos complete the book.

I loved this book. It just feels complete and no doubt will become my definitive sauce bible.

Many thanks to Netgalley for a copy of this ARC for which I have given my voluntary and unbiased review.

The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution by Elisabeth Bailey is a cookbook resource that will make meal planning easy. I was excited to look at this cookbook because it contains 61 recipes for sauces that can be frozen and made into meals when you need them. It also said that every recipe was accompanied by a quick-reference chart showing a range of meal possibilities. I would rather make a bunch of dinners on a day-off than try to cook every night so I though that this might be a good cookbook for me.

There are wonderfully detailed (and pictured) instructions on how to make sauces and freeze them in the right method and then thaw them and reheating. They even have "What if" scenario questions that are good to know. However, the pages that follow were the interesting part to me. It is a section called "Preparing a Base for Your Sauce" and it contains easy instructions on everything from pasta, baked potatoes, Tofu, all the meat options, etc. and it even included sandwiches, side veggies and soups. The reason I thought this was so incredible was that the reference chart for meal possibilities was set up based on the preparing a base section.

Sauce Solution Using a Base Example
Say for example you want to try the sauce solution of Roasted Red Pepper and you take a bag of it out of your freezer. The chart shows you 8 different meals that you can make using the base options of; pasta, potato, chicken, shrimp and scallops, white fish, pork, beef and veggies. The author even calls out "My Family's Favorite" options in the chart, and she gives suggestions on sides that give you a complete meal.

This was a rather magical find for me, because I'm not a great meal planner, and usually I need to use up what was on sale and in my freezer. Having lots of options for each sauce possibility just made a mix-and-match meals so much easier and more appetizing.  Eating chicken 3 nights in a row becomes a lot more exciting when you can make a Mediterranean meal on night 1, an Asian inspired meal night 2 and an American classic on night 3.

Now on to some of the recipes to get you excited about adding this book to your cookbook library. How do these sound; Creamy Chipotle, Pumpkin Coconut Cream, Teriyaki Spinach, Sausage Ragu, Sage Pancetta Mushroom, Cheddar Ale (yes, it's listed as a family favorite and now mine is used over pasta to make an amazing mac and cheese!) and the list gets better and better! Now, I bet you are wondering where the sandwich and soup options come in, so let me give you a savory example. The sauce is Blue Cheese, Pear, and Hazelnut the sandwich idea is spreading the sauce over a sliced sandwich bun and topping it with sliced cold pork and crisp lettuce. Next, spice up your soup with Pepper Havarti by garnishing with a spoonful or an amount to your taste.

There is so much variety of ingredients in these sauces that you'll be able to find lots of options to try. This cookbook will be great for your library and if you have a friend or family member who likes to cook (or perhaps that needs help on planning and meal variety) it would make a great gift idea.

What a great idea not only does it produce a better meal on a day when one is too tired to make a big effort, but it saves money. How many of use have been guilty of purchasing those ready made sauces or mixes at the supermarket. They are expensive at about $3.00 or more a pop, with lots of preservatives and flavourings, and then you have to go out and buy them.
This book gives you an easy alternative, sure it will take some effort - a weekend or so - but frozen packs of wonderful meal magic, made by you, to enhance whatever you like. There are sauces to go with chicken, meat, fish, tofu, pasta and whatever you like - convert into soup, sandwich fillings and more.
The book is well layout with clear instruction - there are no glamour shot, just a down to earth and practical book with lots of good information and tips.

With so many of us being too busy to prepare nutritious and tasty meals, this book has been a real inspiration. Having the ability to store sauces in the freezer that can be quickly added to a variety of bases to make an evening meal after being out to work all day is brilliant. Laid out clearly with suggestions as to what each sauce can be paired with and how much would be required per portion, it therefore takes out much of the guesswork.
The hardest aspect was googling the american terms so I knew what to buy in the UK.

This book would make a useful resource for university students where they have to cater for themselves.

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Netgalley for allowing me to preview this book. This is a awesome cookbook for those who need those wonderful sauces for foods or parties, but could be in a rush, these are perfect since you can make them ahead of time. Sounds delicious!

I thought this book contained some really nice sauce receipes, and as a new mum I think they'll come in handy!
That being said, I don't think there was anything new here and not sure the fact that some were a pasta sauce, or to be served on rice, needed explaining

Sauces are the crown jewels of meals, and “The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution” by Elisabeth Bailey helps you royally elevate your entrees through 61 super delicious recipes for sauces you can freeze now for easy home cooking later. Includes an array of choices, from traditional sausage ragu to Thai peanut, gorgonzola chive butter, all-American barbecue, coconut lemon, parmesan leek, cheesy cashew garlic, and Meyer lemon spinach. Each recipe has a quick-reference chart showing an assortment of creative meal possibilities. So stop struggling over what to make tonight ... or tomorrow. Stash a few of these yummy sauces away in your freezer, and voila! You’ll have a Queen of a Meal topper in minutes! 5/5

Pub Date 14 Oct 2018   

Thanks to Storey Publishing and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

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I love, Love, LOVE this cookbook. It's really well-formated so that any cook or eater can find recipes that are easy to make & suit everyone's abilities and tastes. Even better the recipes are creative and sound delicious.

The idea is this, make sauces on the weekend and freeze them in portions appropriate for you. Get out a sauce to defrost in the morning and combine it with one of her simple bases. Add other simple sides and you have a quick and easy meal.

The first part of the book covers the bases; these include vegetarian, seafood, and meat options. These recipes are very basic but they are the start of your actual meal. The remainder of the book covers the sauces, grouped by geographic area. None of these are the kind of complex sauces that frighten many cooks. Instead they are easy enough to make that a beginner could tackle them easily.

The best part of the book comes immediately following each recipe. It's a table that tells you the best bases to pair with each sauce, how much to use per serving and what to pair it with for a complete meal.

I love that this will elevate our dinners to something special without sacrificing easy meals.

I loved this easy to follow and yummy cookbook! I myself quite often run into the trap of coming home after a long day at work and realizing that if I want a nice meal I'll need to spend at least an hour in the kitchen. And who has the energy for that? That is the premise Bailey starts her cookbook with. By prepping some sauces during the weekend, everything can be made scrumptious within minutes!

The first chapter is dedicated to different ways to store and reheat the sauces. The next section focuses on the "bases", easy to prepare food you can then pour your sauces over, whether it's beef, chicken, pasta or bread. I actually loved this section for the simple suggestions Bailey gave to prepare these quickly but deliciously.

The sauces are split into different chapters, focusing first on sauces from the Americas, then Asia and then wine & cheese sauces. There were a lot of great ones included here that sounded perfect for me, so I dutifully took notes. I'll definitely be trying them out in the future!

This cookbook has good tips on freezing sauces. It has a wide range of recipes and provides suggestions for using the sauces.

Make- Ahead Sauce is a great recipe book. It features a lot of different sauces, and how to use them with cooking. I like the variety and the freezing part of the book. This is definitely a book for busy people who likes to have healthy food but hates it bland.