I really liked the glossary of clean ingredients and that there were lots of recipes for all different kinds of dishes. I can't wait to try several of them. I did think a full page recipe for hot water with lemon was a little bit of overkill.

I was excited when I saw Clean Enough because I fondly remembered Katzie Guy-Hamilton from Top Chef: Just Desserts. Plus, I’m always happy to find a way to enjoy the sweet and delicious side of life, but to try and take good care of my body too. The pictures were warm and inviting, her stories are interesting, but it’s not a book that I feel like I could cook from. Many of the recipes reference some of things that I’m allergic to (pumpkin, cashews, cranberries, shellfish, cilantro) and nothing that is a possible recipe for me feels very remarkable. I’m happy to have her recipe for the amazing carrot cake that she made in Willy Wonka episode of Top Chef, but this book is a pass for people with food allergies similar to mine.

I wasn't able to download this book. Unfortunately. I was hoping to read it but it wouldn't process past page 1 and I was disappointed by that. But I'll preorder the book. 4/5.

It's a bad sign for me when the first recipe in a book is for hot lemon water. This is not something that needs a full page recipe in a cookbook. I am not that poor of a cook that I need lemon water explained to me. The trend of really simple recipes continued for most of the book. I just wasn't impressed by anything in here. Everything felt like sides and nothing felt like an actual meal. There was nothing bad and what was included sounded generally good, it just felt like the section with substance fell out.

Clean Enough
By Katzie Guy-Hamilton
Wow starting off this book is unlike other cookbooks. It is a holistic guide to bettering yourself inside and out. I totally appreciate this as I struggle with anxiety/depression. I personally took more from the authors perspective on health, food, and living then I did from the recipes shared. I did not connect with many of the recipes even though I enjoy almost all the ingredients. I am a much simpler cook and baker when it comes to preparation and taste. These recipes are all full of new ideas for a more "made from scratch" cook or baker. I enjoyed reading the recipes and trying to take some ideas from them for my own recipe box but I did not like any of the recipes wholly to try alone. Here is the order of the book:
Section one: Clean:
Drinks, Harmony Bowls, Toast, Greens, Prepared Veggies, The Good Startch, Soups on, Clean Pantry;
Section two: Enough:
Cookies, Cake, Pie, Long Weekends, Ice Creams and Chilly Treats, Sweet Pantry
I received this book from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

The recipes and pictures in this book are gorgeous and evoke a lifestyle of peace and tranquility. However, I found it a little bit lofty in terms of a cookbook. I'm sure there is an audience out there for this book and I hope they find it, but overall I found it hard to connect with the recipes and find something I would actually be able to afford both the ingredients and time to make.

Some days good enough is good enough, and some days clean enough is clean enough. I like books like this that challenge you a touch but aren't too preachy. A good selection of recipes to choose from too.

Katzie Guy-Hamilton is both a pasty chef and a health coach and her approach to eating is to eat clean...most of the time.  And to recognize that there are times when you want a treat and that is ok.  She provides recipes for both clean, healthy, wholesome plant-based meals and tasty treats that still honor your body's need for nutrition.

I love Katzie Guy-Hamilton's approach because I think it's realistic.  I think eating whole food, plant based meals is important to get the vitamins, minerals and protein our bodies need.  But I think we all crave sweets once in a while and having some good recipes for fairly healthy sweets is imperative when those cravings hit.

My daughters and I tried the Cinnamon Carrot Lemonade and found it to be super delicious and refreshing!  I was also really excited to have an actual recipe for Gold Milk because I love ordering it in cafès but I had no idea how to make it.  Also, I am excited for a chai latte that uses rooibos instead of black tea since I don't do much caffeine!

The granola recipe looks amazing--the ingredients are on my grocery list!  And I am buying apple cider for the overnight oats!  I have made overnight oats many times with almond milk, but never thought to add apple cider and I can not wait to try it!!

There are recipes for things like sumac and gigante beans--which I have never heard of and don't know where to buy, which is kind of a turn off with cookbooks for me.  But I am excited to try both the Gentle Lentils and the Blistered Miso Sweet Potatoes.

The recipes for treats all look amazing!  I have been trying to eat vegan desserts lately and all of the recipes contain eggs and dairy, but I did earmark a couple for my daughters to try and they look delicious!

Thank you to the author, publisher, and Netgalley for allowing me to preview this book. This is a great cookbook and reference for those who are doing clean eating or paleo. I cannot wait to use these recipes myself. Sounds delicious!

Thank you for the free review copy, Experiment and Net Galley. Though the the recipes in this book are "clean," they're recipes anyone would enjoy. The message in the introduction encourages those following a clean eating diet to do their best and not take a perfectionist approach to their diets. I appreciate the wide variety of recipes and the recipes with options to customize the meals to one's own preferences.

There are some really great recipes in this book! I have been trying to make eating healthier less painful and I now have a lot of new recipes to try. The breakfast items really stood out for me, since I could eat breakfast foods all day long if I let myself. The Harmony Bowl and Smoothie Bowl are top on my list, along with the Tahini Banana Bee Toast. Veering away from breakfast, I also want to try the Zuchinni and Spring Pea Machine, Sweet and Sour Green Beans, Midnight Carrots and many more. I love that this book takes fresh ingredients and loads them up with lots of flavor. Eating healthy doesn’t mean you need to sacrifice flavor. Highly recommended.
I received an ARC copy of this book via netgalley in exchange for my honest review.

CLEAN ENOUGH is a beautiful book with gorgeous photos that redefines clean eating, with 100 recipes for vegetarian whole foods that nourish body and mind. Encourages readers to relinquish hard-to-follow trends and return to the basics with simple whole flavorful ingredients — and even dessert! Right now I’m heading to the kitchen to try the Green Pow Wow Smoothie, then I’m fixing Luxury Granola to snack on later, plus Charred Broccoli with Poached and Crispy Miso Sweet Potatoes for lunch. Delish! 5/5

Thanks to the The Experiment and NetGalley for the review copy. Opinions are fully mine.

Pub Date 02 Jan 2019

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Let me just preface this by saying I do not eat clean. I eat whole and green as often as I can but I would not call it clean. The recipes in this book sound both alluring and delicious but for me, they seem a little too in depth. Much of the ingredients are not things I would have on hand and therefore would need to make special trips in order to stock up.

This is by all means a book I would gift to a vegetarian or vegan friend but it misses the overall mark for my lifestyle.

This is more of a note to the editor/author: Gabby Bernstein did not write A Course in Miracles. She relies heavily on it in her teachings but it was put together by the Foundation for Inner Peace

Now, to be frank, I want to try all of the "Enough" recipes. Though I know that in the "Clean" portion there are probably plenty of tasty meal options. My sweet tooth, and the beauty of baking and desserts, is stronger and then has a much stronger pull in my brain space for the recipes that captured my attention in that category.

I appreciate the background and knowledge that Guy-Hamilton brings to each recipe. For many of the recipes she offers a brief story or experience attached--how she learned to love the item or the situation out of which it was birthed. Couple those things with the delicious looking photos-- I can think of a few people that I know that would enjoy this book.

This is a reminder for myself (I'm reviewing this on 08/02/2018 and want to remember in January 2019) you want to purchase this book for yourself. Don't question the review!

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Let’s go back to what I love doing best: dissecting cookbooks. I chose this particular one because I found both the title and the cover photo appealing, and because ‘katzie’ in German is a pet name for a cat (sympathy points!). The beautiful photography continues inside the book and really gets you revved up for cooking… unless you’re a beginner. One recurring problem with cookbooks authored by professional chefs is that they love to be very specific with ingredients and, unlike most normal people, think nothing of a twenty-five-ingredient spice list. Ok, I slightly exaggerated that number, but you get my drift.

But let us start at the beginning: Ms. Guy-Hamilton’s introduction to “Clean Enough”, alongside her story, pretty much makes it clear that this book is yours to customize, which is a very important point to bear in mind later. I like her holistic approach to food and life, and her relaxed attitude about occasional indulgences. After all, eating clean enough should be good enough, and sweets can play a stress-free part in one’s diet, as well. Please note that when I say ‘diet,’ I use the word in its original meaning of ‘way of eating,’ not in the sense of ‘trying your darndest to make your body comply to shed those x number of pounds you keep trying to lose whenever you come back from vacation.’

The reader receives an invitation to examine his or her own lifestyle to maximize wellness with some helpful pointers, then it’s on to the recipe section…

…and we’ve circled back to the beginning where now some people will start crying at terms like “oat flaker,” “Sicilian pistachios,” “pine pollen,” and “raw licorice powder” (I did at that last one, primarily because I find licorice disgusting and would never want to ruin a perfectly good breakfast with it). Ignore all those terms and skip straight to the various recipe notes that tell you that you can SUBSTITUTE whatever you have on hand or simply leave things out that you don’t have/don’t want to use. Phew. Ok, deep breath and on with it…

I’m not sure if anyone really needs a recipe for hot lemon water, which contains, gasp!, hot water and lemon. Or instructions to cook a runny, five-minute egg (cook egg for five minutes, plus some extraneous stuff that’s not really necessary). But if you’ve never made eggs before and feel a bit lost, there is a section on preparing eggs in a variety of ways that will assist you in becoming more kitchen confident. You may have guessed from my lingering on this particular part of the book that this is a vegetarian cookbook. Ms. Guy-Hamilton enjoys eggs and cheeses, and that is one reason why I personally would not get a copy but still recommend it to anyone wishing to go meat-free more often or looking for new spins on cooking for their veggie lifestyle.

I notice that, as most other hip chefs these days, Ms. Guy-Hamilton is a huge proponent of Himalayan Pink salt, to which I will repeat my remark from an earlier review: salt mining is not environmentally friendly, nor is salt a sustainable resource, and nobody should go digging around in a sensitive areas like the Himalayas just so people can use pink salt that nobody will be able to see in the finished dish later, anyway. As a second concern, unless you eat a lot of seafood or sea vegetables, reliance on “raw” salts will leave you with low levels of iodine. This is why regular table salt has iodine added to it, and as much as it is en vogue to poo-poo anything labeled ‘processed’, you need iodine in your diet. Eat it, hipster!

In the second recipe section, Enough, you are immediately reminded that the author is a trained pastry chef. If your mind wasn't boggled before, it will be now as you peruse the rather extensive list of recommended equipment. A bit less scary and possibly more useful are the explanations of various preparation techniques. The treats themselves are as simple or extravagant as you choose, from cookie varieties to tortes, tarts, cakes, pies, and an assortment of small baked goods like muffins, scones, brioche, and even hot cross buns. Merengue lovers will find a fine selection here, but the good old chocolate pudding makes an appearance, as well, as do custards, sorbets, and ice creams. A selection of sweet pantry staples rounds out the book.

Please note that it is absolutely essential to read every recipe through before you spontaneously discover that it will take fourteen days to prepare certain parts in advance and that your pantry is lacking a key ingredient, because I make fun of people like you who leave angry ranting reviews like that. I repeat, some recipes do require you to make parts of it in advance, then assemble the whole later, like the Israeli breakfast.

In short, if you can get over your fear of long lists and feel comfortable enough to make substitutions to accommodate your cooking style, this is a lovely book to add to your shelf.

“Clean Enough” is published by The Experiment, whom I love for their variety of titles. I received a free copy from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for a review. All opinions are my own.

If you're looking for a cookbook to change your approach to food, this could be a good one. However, I've seen a bunch of these, and they're all basically the same. This one does go the extra step in explaining _why_ some of the various ingredients are offered up, and talking about the 'dirty dozen' and 'clean fifteen,' and generally giving you the knowledge of why you're making these changes. Also, the pictures are yummy-looking!

Get back to basics, and save room for dessert! Fun, luscious book of recipes with clear directions and nice photographs.

Delicious sounding and looking recipes that are, apparently, ‘clean enough’. Hey, who am I to argue, Works for me.

This is my first time getting a non fiction book! I loved the way Katie writes and explains everything! I will definitely be trying most of these!