One-Bowl Meals was both exactly what it promised and a cook book that under-delivered. I can appreciate that all the meals provided in the book will be, as the title suggested, one bowl meals. I liked the idea of providing people with a combination for making their own bowl arrangements, a base plus a protein plus a topping. The recipes seemed delicious and were very diverse, with lovely food photography, but I ended this book without the feeling of wanting to go out and make one of my own.

Inventive recipes built from quality ingredients paired with beautiful illustrations make for a fantastic cookbook.

Eat with your eyes photography and the promise of one-bowl is really a misleading precursor to multi-step recipes that are not 'merely some assembly required' dishes perfect for a Tuesday night, but instead requires meal prep that uses an overflowing sinkful of kitchen equipment to create a composed dinner for two. One-Bowl Meals is a beautiful book with lovely recipes, but it you are looking for simple cooking and preparation, this is not the weeknight guide you grab after a long day. This is a cookbook that requires grocery lists and specialty ingredients that might not be easy to find at the typical food store. These recipes will use multiple pots and pans to get that one full meal in a bowl. You'll be prepping sauces while putting sheet pans in the oven and boiling a pot of water. There's a lot going on to get you to that one bowl dish. While I could get on board with the cooking, you know there will be cleaning in your future. What Zizka gets right are the plans and the components - if you can plan ahead and have components prepared, this book can up your eating game. And the formula of base, topping, sauce, and a crunchy element is the base for texture and flavor that conjures Top Chef Judges' Table conversations. So, if you put in the work, this cookbook is a reward.

One-Bowl Meals is a stunningly beautiful recipe book, that unfortunately fell flat for me. One thing I love about one-bowl type of food is how easy it all is, and this book was a lot of long-process and many pan meals. I did love how the author really broke down the basics to one bowl building in the start of the book and gave me alternative/substitute options. I wish there was more sauce recipes, since many of the grain/proteins are all easy to build on your own. Overall a solid starting place for people looking into one-bowl meals.

The photos are probably the stars of this cookbook, which features an assortment of bowl ideas for breakfasts, salads, grains and more. Each recipe has a photo to accompany it and they're definitely the Instagram sort with great food styling. The recipes themselves are pretty standard but there's a nice assortment of things that may be new to some like chia pudding as a base, and she uses a variety of grains with substitutions given for those who are gluten free. It's pretty carb-heavy so it won't be a great fit for keto or low-carb folks (other than the salads). Vegetarians and vegans will find the recipes pretty easy to adapt, as will dairy-free folks and others with special dietary needs. No nutritional information is given. I would have preferred lots more sauce recipes since sauces often make the bowl, and perhaps more of a mix and match feel. I'd probably use this cookbook more to flip through for inspiration than to follow the actual recipes, but it does offer some good inspiration.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I liked this book because it has easy, step by step guide to creating meals that are creative and fairly easy to prepare. I also liked that there are substitution options given. This is a great book for a beginner looking to go vegan, gluten free, or just wanting to be more healthy.

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

All of the recipes featured in this cookbook look so delicious and easy that it is for sure a candidate for a future cooking demo. Bowls are becoming the new trend and it is great to see how many variations of them exist. While looking through this cookbook I was so fascinated on the combination of toppings to choose from while still being very healthy and incorporating food diets such as vegan, vegetarian, and gluten free. All of the recipes I can't wait to try and share them with our community at a future cooking demo.

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

This cookbook is wonderful!

I loved how easy the directions are to follow, the mouth watering photos (and there’s tons of photos!) and layout/organization. For anyone who loves cooking or is looking for a cookbook, definitely check this out. Less dishes to clean up at the end of a meal is always a plus!

I used to think I wasn't a one-bowl meal kind of person but after flipping through this I might become one. I'm a big fan of the breakfast bowls and I am looking forward to trying some of them out. I'm a harder sell for dinner bowls but maybe one day. This was a well done cookbook with easy to follow recipes and good pictures!

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review!

I love the idea of One-Bowl meals. There's something satisfying about cupping a bowl and sitting down for a full meal contained all together, in which each part complements another. While there were some good ideas in this book that fit what I had hoped to find, overall there are some recipes that won't make their way into my meal rotations because the ingredients are more obscure, or there's so many steps required. I realize this is not a One-Pot, or One-Pan meal, but I wanted some easier recipes in the mix! The photos in this book were beautiful, I liked the instructions and tips for bowl building, but in the end, didn't find a ton of inspiration or practical new ideas for my family.

Some cookbooks of one-bowl meals contain overwrought bowls with so many components each of which need cooking individually. This one is not one of those. The bowls have simple flavor profiles accomplished with classic methods which should be familiar and quick.

This book had a lot of really simple recipes that just about anyone could make. What's even better is that each recipe could easily be adapted to individual taste or by what the cook has in the pantry/fridge at the time. I was especially glad to see a simple chilaquiles recipe included as it is one of my very favorite breakfast meals. Everyone should try it at least once and this was a really accessible recipe.

I like the clean format of the book with the bright white photo backgrounds, white servings vessels, and plain black text. It was very modern and would appeal to many people.

This would be a great cookbook for anyone wanting to simplify dinner time, but not taste.

I was really looking forward to reading this book and it disappointed me quite a lot. A lot of these recipes have a ton of steps to them, and they may be SERVED in just one bowl, but I have a feeling that once I'm done cooking, broiling, boiling, and toasting everything needed for these ONE BOWL meals, I'll have 2 loads for my dishwasher....

I DID enjoy the fact that in the beginning there's five tips to creating a bowl meal: base, protein, sauce, toppings, & garnish.

Lots of colorful pictures with great descriptions of food. The recipe ingredients seem to be available in my grocery or specialty store. While some are vegan most look as though even carnivores would be happy. Most bowls have some sort of carb base so those who are following a keto or low carb diet would be challenged the meals seemed to be well balanced overall.

One-Bowl Meals is a small cookbook that offers inspiration, framework, and the foundation for building a delicious bowl. I like the simplicity of a one-bowl meal, but I'm always looking for new ideas to add complexity of flavor and this book offers some good tips. Beautiful photos!

Thank you to Artisan Books and NetGalley for this ARC in exchange for my opinion.

Maria Zizka provides exactly as is advertised - a delightful assortment of bowl recipes that span from breakfast through dinner, from bases ranging from steel-cut oats to pasta, to leafy greens. It's a pleasant variety presented here to cover all kinds of taste preferences, and all recipes are accompanied by bright photos that could easily get one's appetite running if looked at for too long. And although a few of the recipes may seem a bit too much, they should definitely at least provide some inspiration for some smaller-scale meals more to one's cooking style.

My slight nitpick is the may that Zizka has the recipes presented in small paragraph chunks. I personally find it easier to follow any recipe that is numbered and broken up into smaller steps. Otherwise, though it's a fine cookbook for those who prefer their meals knitted altogether single bowl-style.

Been on the lookout for a cookbook like this! Some of my favorite meals come in a bowl, allowing all of the flavors and textures to collide. The recipes in this book look delicious and the format is straight forward and easy to follow. Lots of pictures, always a plus for me, and easy to read text. Look forward to sharing this cookbook with friends and family who are also fans of healthy, delicious, classic, and simple recipes. Thanks to NetGalley and Artisan Books for a chance to review this lovely cookbook.

This was an attractive recipe book, however one that seemed a little on the slight side. The dishes are all supposed to be one-bowl wonders, so porridge plus this and this with that is a breakfast, rice with this once you've done that to it and found a dash of that is lunch, and so on. The introduction kind of sounded a little on the defensive side when it said how the art of putting these bowl meals together is not some random selection of combinations, and indeed we are shown different ethnicities, different styles and different approaches throughout to show these are echt recipes from well-known cuisines. But still it felt a little slim. Full-spread photos where half a page would have done were not the only things that seemed a little on the unnecessary side – is anyone really up for this and yet ignorant of how fried salmon across two whole pages might look?

Also the text left me feeling a little short-handed at times. There were ingredients here I've never heard of (a lot of this is tending towards the high-brow, and the humble British supermarket might struggle with some things), yet there was not a note of introduction. Something as blatantly Russian/Scandinavian/Baltic/whatever you want to call it as salmon on rye berries with lashings of dill and juniper should have been announced as such – if you can't equate the dish with that region of the world a table talking point is lost for the sake of a sentence from our author. Still, the large print and well-crafted instructions are probably more to the point, and both make this book one that is definitely easy to follow. I just didn't get the feel this was at all essential, and even four stars seems a little too generous on this occasion.