This book was received as an ARC from Tiller Press in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

I could not get over the creativity of the recipe names and the fabulous pictures that came with the delicious detailed recipes. I can't wait to try the avocado toast and the sassy shish to peppers with spicy aioli along with the delicious drinks and smoothies. I know this will be a modern and fun cookbook will be a fun take for our cooking demo and hopefully it will attract more of a crowd.

We will consider adding this title to our TX collection at our library. This is why we give this book 5 stars.

Good cookbook! I loved some if the funny stories and descriptions of recipes and thought they were very entertaining. The pictures were beautiful as well. 4/5 stars

Great cookbook! I loved the funny stories and descriptions of recipes and thought they were very entertaining. The pictures were beautiful as well. I did try one recipe and it wasn't as good as I was expecting because they stuck really bad to the pan (apple cider donuts). However, they still tasted delicious and were definitely a treat meal (tons of sugar lol).

This is a great cookbook for the beginner or college students. It explains how to stock a pantry. It has chapters for drinks, appetizers, and desserts. I found a few recipes I might try such as pork dumplings. Each recipe calls for basic ingredients that you probably will already have on hand, and they have simple instructions. The author gives tips, and provides substitutions for ingredients as well as nutritional properties of the ingredients. This is not a cookbook for experienced cooks.

Lots of delicious-sounding recipes. Bitch. No, seriously, lots of bitch puns with fabulous recipes. That’s essentially it. The recipes themselves aren’t too out there, lots of traditional cocktails and comfort foods, each with the Joey Skladany’s own personal twist.

I absolutely loved everything about this book. The recipes, the pictures and well everything. I will be buying a few of them as gifts for some of my friends. Definitely highly recommend!

Attitude is everything and so you get everything in this book! What could be better?!
The book is super fun to read and has good recipes for the food you love to eat. Cocktails, appetizers, bowls, brunch, and dinners with a side order of sass! I laughed and even made my DH listen as I read parts out loud to him.

Basic Bitchen is a great guide on how to make your favorite drinks and foods and enjoy them without apology. Mixed drinks, soft pretzels, nachos, wings, dumplings, potato salad - your weekend feast is ready! On the serious side, the book has helpful information for someone just setting up their kitchen and figuring out the whole meal-planning thing. I loved the sheet pan dinner suggestions - although I can vouch that an extra pan of the potatoes recipe will find its way into the oven with this meal. They are that good.

Thank you, NetGalley for the opportunity to review this book.

"Replace Hermione's famous 'Leviosa' scene with 'mimosa' and you've got me on a Sunday, but with orange juice and champagne levitating toward my mouth and no magic wand in sight."

This book is my aesthetic and thats that. As soon as I read the title, I automatically needed to try this book and boy did it not disappoint!

This book is defiantly aimed for the younger crowd who are still learning how to do things. For example, the "I just got my first apartment and I do not know how to make anything" person.
I feel like anyone over that age would not appreciate the book in its entirety. I thoroughly enjoyed the "Basic Bevs" and "Brunch: The Most Important Meal of the Day." I mainly liked the brunch section because as a person who does not like eggs, the majority of the section was not eggs, and that is a rare find and I appreciate it.

I personally cannot wait to make "Highway to Hell Soft Pretzels" and "Grilled Cheese with Cheesy Fries, aka Rock Bottom" and will be preordering my copy ASAP

Thank you Netgalley for the advanced PDF of this cookbook. All opinions are my own.

Babe you deserve 5 stars! The coolest recipe book ever! This book is so fun and funny! I laughed at every single recipe name! I love it! The every-day recipes are here to help you, specially of you're in college or just don't have any idea of what to cook for lunch, dinner or dessert. I can definitely see myself making almost all the recipes in this book. There are lots of recipes that I already know how to make, but whatever this book is so fun that I want to have the printed copy! I want to try those cocktails recipes so bad (I don't even drink that much, but now I want it lol). Getting a copy of it for my sister-in-law as a graduation gift! Thanks Joey Skladany for the laughs and great recipes and thanks NetGalley for giving me a free copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Joey Skladany is hilarious, and his cookbook, Basic Bitchen: 100+ Everyday Recipes―from Nacho Average Nachos to Gossip-Worthy Sunday Pancakes―for the Basic Bitch in Your Life is also hilarious. That is not to say he doesn’t know how to cook; rather he obviously is a great cook, and the recipes in this fun cookbook are for dishes that most of us want to cook.

The whole purpose behind a good cookbook is to have something to cook, so what’s important is that recipes are easy-to-follow, that recipes are appealing to most cooks, and that recipes have enough photographs to entice cooks to prepare the recipes. This fun book includes all three aspects. Skladany has used his humorous imagination to name his recipes, which also adds to the fun.

Of course preparing some of the recipes is a “must do” for a reviewer, and so I tried some of the recipes to make sure they turn out well. I must admit it was difficult to decide which recipes to prepare from this cookbook, but the Nacho your Average Nachos caught my eye; they were fabulous. There are also several sheet pan dinners that are very easy and very good; Sheet Pan Pork Tenderloin with its yummy glaze has become a favorite, and we all loved the sauce for the Salmon Sheet Pan Dinner. A Not Disappointing Quiche is also delicious.

If you want to cook great dishes and also be entertained, this is a cookbook to pick up. The dishes are mouthwatering (and mostly easy), and the vignettes and notes are fun to read.
Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

Joey Skladany's writing style is humorous, irreverent, and down to earth. As a friend to a self-proclaimed Basic Bitch this cookbook had be laughing throughout and drooling over the simple yet delicious looking recipes! Joey has recipes in here to satisfy every palate under the sun with ample substitutions and suggestions to make each recipe unique. This is a must try cookbook for anyone looking to laugh as they find their next tried and true kitchen staple!

Oh my goodness. I am absolutely in love with this book. You don't have to be a Basic B to enjoy it! It was hilarious and had such helpful advice. Where was this book when I needed it when I first started out on my own. There is such a wide range of recipes that are easy to follow.

This is a fun cook book!

With sass and good recipes there's a nice variety in this book. There's alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, appetizers, desserts, and meals! Much more thorough than I expected!

While some recipes are a bit time intensive, there are also simple things you can whip up from this book. There are also helpful tips and pictures to show you what things should look like! It's a fun read full of good recipes!

This millennial cook was all set for basic bitchen with the recipes provided in this snack of a book. See what I did there? A similar narrative can be found throughout this cookbook, complete with pop culture quips and sassy suggestion sections. Immediate recipe attempts were made for quarantine frosés, avocado toast, and the holy crêpes. Recipes are easy to follow and presented with helpful guides. This is a perfect addition to anyone’s kitchen who admires a bit of humor and taking dishes to the next level (in simple ways).

This cookbook seems written for a younger, hipper crowd. I didn't dislike it. Some of the recipies look really yummy and some I am going to try but it covered a lot of things I just was not interested in. I might buy this for my daughter or her friends as a gift but not for myself. I am a collector of cookbooks. I would add it to my collection if it was a gift, cherish it and read it cover to cover...again. Cookbooks are such personal choices. We each, us cooking folks, know what type of book or recipe we are looking for or what sort of food, be it comfort food, southern, Italian etc that we love to cook or plan for a special occasion. You, yourself, may love this book! You should try it, just check out the recipies! It could be exactly what you are looking for!

I love cookbooks, but this totally wasn’t for me. It looked nice and attractive, but the writing makes me groan and I just couldn’t with the rest of the cookbook. A solid pass for me.

This is the cutest cookbook. I love the aesthetic and the theme. The recipes have cute commentary and they look very easy to follow. I love how extra the recipes are, l definitely want to try all these recipes. They definitely cater to Millenials.

I am not the biggest fan of cookbooks, because of the internet. I find majority if my cooking from Pinterest, but forget Pinterest when it comes to Basic Bitchen. I loved all the cocktails, but I am not picky when it comes to a mixed drink! I tried the "Simply Glorious Avocado Toast" and it was great! I felt like a cool brunch influencer before I ate it all. There is also "Millennial Pink Hummus". It was delicious! This cook book is filled with very unique recipes. The instructions where not hard to follow and everything was explained pretty well. I wish there was more pictures of what I was cooking in the book. I am a very visual person and love to see the pictures of what I was cooking is suppose to look like..

Basic Bitchen was such an fun cookbook to read. I think Joey is such an amazing personality and you really get that vibe in his writing. His pictures are fabulous and there are so many recipes I'd love to try from this cookbook. This cookbook is all about living your basic life and also cooking those basic recipes with a twist. Be the basic person you want to be and wear it confidently in life and your meals! 5 stars!

What a cool and funny cookbook! The terminology was borderline distracting (does anyone use the term 'basic' anymore?) but I looked beyond that.