This would be a useful book for any cook pressed for time. Clear instructions make it suitable for a beginner cook.

The first chapter covers the method for filling and freezing bags of premade sauce, then goes onto simple instructions for cooking quick bases that you would serve the sauces with, including pasta, baked potatoes, tofu, chicken, fish etc.

The remaining chapters provide recipes for sauces from across the world, cheese and wine sauces, pestos and salsas. A final chapter touches on flavoured butters and salts.

The range of recipes ensures that most cooks would find something here to extend their repertoire of sauces. I made the Sausage Ragu and found it tasty and great served with pasta. Having never used beer in a cheese sauce, I gave I tried the Cheddar Ale sauce; it was well flavoured, but rather too thick. On that point, I noted that the Green Peppercorn sauce used 1 cup butter, 1 cup flour to 1 cup vodka which is again way too thick and creates a stodgy unappetising sauce. I thought the section on salsas and pestos provided an interesting and varied range of no-cook sauces and I will certainly be trying more of these in the summer.

I love to make homemade sauces; they make the dish every time taste so much better. So when I saw this book on sauces, I had to have it. I got so many ideas and delicious recipes from this book. If you like sauces like I do, this is a must have recipe book. Would make a good Bridal Shower/wedding gift.

An excellent creation for those of us who, at the end of a long day, wondering what will we make the family for dinner! Bailey provides instructions for 61 "sauces" that can me pre-made, frozen, and then combined with pasta, rice, potatoes, meats, seafood or tofu. Simply thaw the sauce, combine, and serve!
The author begins with instructions on how to prepare and freeze the sauces. She gives easily understood, yet thorough directions.
She then breaks the book down into different types of sauces. Asian, Mediterranean, Cheese & Wine, and Pestos and Salsas. All look delicious! She provides illustrated charts of the quantities of sauce and base to combine.
The book is also beautifully photographed. It will have your mouth watering!
I received this book from NetGalley, as a pre-release edition, in exchange for a fair review. In the case of this book, the review was easy, and to emphasize how much I enjoyed it, I will be pre-ordering several copies to give to family and friends as Christmas presents. It's that good!

This is exactly the type of book that I love to read, lovingly turning over the pages, drinking up the photos and being inspired by the recipes. I don't know why it took so long for this book to be written, but it is what I have been waiting for. No more boring steamed salmon and vegetables. There is now no excuse for boring mid-week meals.

Delicious and Time Saving.

I get home rather late and I don't have a lot of time to prepare and a time-consuming meal that I'll wolf down before taking a quick shower and going to sleep. these recipes are simple and easy to make, also has easy to find ingredients that I use often.

My favorite recipe is the chipotle sauce, the bacon gravy, and the BBQ sauce. I made these three the most with a variety of bases like chicken and shrimp, also added some extra things to it like some asparagus and mushrooms to the chipotle sauce and it was delicious.

My sister in law also has little time to cook so I shared a few tips with her.

I love the fact that I can freeze these! so I make some sauces over the weekend, freeze them in zip lock bags and use them during the week. So much better than stressing about cooking dinner or ordering takeout too many times during the week.

This is a gorgeous recipe book of a wonderful variety of sauces. It even advises how to successful freeze and unfreeze the sauces to help with meal prep. Good resource to help with looking spice up your meals and also plan your meals better.

Great book! This book gives you instruction on how to create a variety of sauces ahead of time, and freeze it until you are ready to use it. The recipes are great for busy families, working parents, and busy people. :) I can't wait to try these recipes, they look great! :)

This book is organized by country/style of cooking.
There are dozens of recipes in this book (as evidenced in the subtitle which escaped my consciousness prior to review), many of them interesting surprises. Most of the recipes didn't particularly grab me, but I saw no glaring flaw and imagine others may like them. I suppose my let down was that I was expecting more of a book on how to create your own sauces from the different bases whereas this was more of a recipe book. This is the most exhaustive sauce book I've seen so I imagine it will have some very happy customers.

I felt that this book will be very helpful for new or seasoned cooks. The author has created a quick reference guide for quick sauces to make ahead of time. After each sauce, the author gives a chart that gives serving suggestions for various meats and pasta. Some of the sauces are familiar favorites, like Buffalo, Barbecue, and Pesto. There are also new creations like Meyer Lemon Spinach, Hot Orange, Rosemary Port or Pineapple Ginger.

I haven't cooked any of these sauces yet, but I can't wait to try them. The directions are simple to follow and the pictures are gorgeous.

Get ready: Sauce cooking is going to be the new Bacon cooking (but healthier).
The Whole30 diet and others like it are becoming very popular. I’ve just completed my second successful Whole30 in six months, and I know that the first key is to pre-make several recipes over the weekend. The second key that I discovered on my own is to have several different homemade sauces available. I mostly worked with three: chimichurri, pesto and roasted red pepper (all from Whole30 recipes), but I was constantly searching for new flavors that I could make at home. With flavorful sauces available you can easily cook up a potato or steam some veggies or cook up some chicken really quick, and instead of making things complicated, just slather it in a sauce. Flavorful sauces are a godsend with diets such as Whole30, and they are a way to continue eating healthy when the diet is done.

This book is exactly what I was looking for before. Even though many of the recipes are not exactly Whole30 approved, they can be tweaked. But for those without strict guidelines, the cookbook can help any overworked busy family cook to lose the processed foods and easily serve healthy DELICIOUS meals.
This cookbook has flavorful sauces such as chimichurri and pestos, and it has SAUCE-sauces that you would pour over pasta. They all use plenty of fresh ingredients, and at least one of them (Green Peppercorn) contains one whole cup of vodka so you know I’ll be trying that one first (my Whole30 is over!). I wish I had known about the Coconut Lemon sauce during my diet, but I have it now! There is an entire chapter of “Cheese and Wine” sauces which sound delicious and would be great for that final night before your Whole30 starts (and your first meal after you’re finished!).

Every recipe has a photograph, and a list of ways to use that particular sauce. I find this very helpful as I’m never really sure what to DO with all those chutneys and sauces I see in the stores. But I can easily see how to use any of these recipes. There are also a lot of helpful tips and tricks on freezing and storing your sauces if you prep a lot of them. I tend to get overly excited with new cookbooks and can easily see myself making 15-20 of these sauces over the weekend, so the tips are helpful to avoid waste.

Flavorful, healthy, homemade sauces are the key to eating fresh and healthy, and prepping ahead of time is the key to a busy kitchen. This beautiful book gives you more flavors than you would ever need, and I highly recommend it.

Wow! So many sauces. This is a great little book if you are new to batch cooking sauces. It starts with a section on all you need to know about make ahead sauces, then teaches you how to make your base ingredients and then you get your recipes. The recipes are split into sections and look amazing. The layout of the book is simply but elegant and the photos make the sauces and food look delicious.
The book even has some added extras of flavoured butter and salt recipes, a dinner menu and conversion table!

I was lucky enough to get an advanced copy of this book to read. I really enjoyed this book. The instructions are straight forward and easy to follow and I love the serving suggestions for what to use each sauce for. I also learnt some useful tips about freezing sauces which will be invaluable. I am looking forward to trying out the pumpkin coconut cream recipe as that looks amazing. It’s a US book but there is an easy conversion chart in the back. This is a great book to keep in the kitchen and come back to time and again and I am going to get my veg box ordered so I can start experimenting.

This is going to be a new go-to book for busy cooks. The recipes are easy and the suggestion chart is very helpful. This will be added to our library collection.

This is a great resource to have on hand, especially for those who like to plan ahead meals, have food prepped in advance, etc. It's also got great simple recipes for the home cook. The "Weekend Me" can do so much in little time during the week with this book. Not just freeze-ahead sauces, there are great pairing suggestions and I'm pretty excited to start my week off with a great and easy meal. I was super excited to see Mole included in one of the sauces, and how the book has a diverse selection of recipes.