Not a fan, sorry.

I love the idea of this book and there were things I appreciated. For example, the way author Samantha Pillay takes a basic recipe and puts various spins on it for variety and accommodating different tastes. I also appreciated that she gave some guidance regarding the order of cooking during the week to suggest fresh ingredients be used first and longer lasting ones used later.

However, the book is heavy reading, which I find makes it hard to absorb. Recipes aren't broken up into simple steps, they're written into the narrative, which I admit I find tiresome. Call me basic, but a few pictures wouldn't go astray! 

I can't see that I'd pick this one up in a hurry to use for my cooking.

The recipes in this book are easy to follow and mostly feature common ingredients I will post more when I have tried more recipes.

This books gives some useful information on cooking and some helpful ideas for dishes without actually listing any recipes. Overall I found the book really well suited for a young person  that has no experience cooking and is looking to learn how to batch cook, reduce food waste and save money

#TheNoRecipeCookbook #NetGalley

Special thanks to NetGalley and BooksGoSocial for providing me with ARC.

This book is good and the idea is new specially that it's not contain recipes, the book learns who's new to the kitchen how to use knife and other tools , how to store things for a lot of time.
I loved this book.

I think generally, as cookbooks go, this was pretty great. 
I thought it was something similar to Carla Lalli Music's cookbook 'Where Cooking Begins' and it was kind of like that and i both like and dislike things about that. They both kind of do that thing where they give you more freedom in cooking than more traditional recipes that feel very daunting because they're so set in stone but with this book (and the other one) its more of a work with what you have kind of thing which makes cooking so much easier and it makes me so happy. But unlike where cooking begins, the no recipe cookbook literally has no recipe - where cooking begins has recipes written out in a traditional way but has options fo substitutions and making the recipe your own. there's pros and cons to that - cons: its not like a regular recipe book where i have the recipe saved for the rest of my life and i can kind of flip to it and follow and adjust as i choose to. instead its a lot more reading and i would have to take my own notes within the book or in a separate notebook in order to save the recipe in an accessible and quick way. but pros: its obviously a lot more customisable to your own tastes and whats available to you. 
Ok for the rest im just gonna do a positives and negatives of the books - 
What I liked:
- the variety of the recipes; im a really picky eater but there really is something for everyone 
- the level of detail in some of these recipes were great like the author REALLY thought of everything. at one point she listed in what order you should cook this in a stir fry and WOW i didn't realize i needed that 

what i didn't like: 
i feel like a lot of these critiques are just about personal preference and may contradict what the author intended for the book but im gonna mention them anyway. 
- the tips and tricks in the beginning were a little toooooo beginner for me. im no chef but im an avid baker. i picked this book up bcs im not so good at cooking/hate it and everytime i follow a recipe word for word it takes me forever and still tastes bad somehow.  so overall i fount the tips boring cause i knew a lot of them BUT regardless some were new to me and i was taking screenshots. the tips were good regardless so i would possibly get this book to someone whos an absolute beginner - which im pretty sure is the target audience so not really an issue of the book rlly.

While I love to bake, I am a very inexperienced cook! I loved the practical tips this book offered, and how the recipes shared were much more general, allowing for the reader to customized based on what foods they have available. The author also shared good background information on the process of the recipe. And of course I enjoyed the baking section! I'm really excited to try some of these out, especially pasta ragu!

I liked the beginning part of this book as far   the tips for how to shop and ideas for throwing meals together. The meals were all very animal based so I didn't care for that and wouldn't recommend this book for vegetarians or vegans. It is surprising to me that a Doctor would recommend so many meals that are so heavily meat centered.

Nice easy read, very practical guide if you're in need of some economical meal ideas. Listed in the format of a 2 week meal plan: the meals in this book are made from affordable everyday ingredients and show how you can stretch out the time between grocery shops with a little logic and planning.

I'm looking forward to trying the 'recipe' for the Chickpea Fritters, but would have really liked to have seen more vegetarian and vegan alternatives listed; it was a very meat heavy menu.

This is a good selection of cooking tips to add to my collection, and the author is certainly a busy person,.They say if you want something doing  ask a busy person, and there is some truth in that statement, though it is not so, in my opinion, in every case.

North American date reviewed/posted: January 29, 2021
U.K. date reviewed/posted: January 30, 2021
Publication date: out - December 18, 2020

When life for the entire galaxy and planet has turned on its end, you are continuing to #maskup and #lockdown to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #secondwave is upon us, AND the worst sciatica attack in your life means you MIGHT sleep 3 hours a night,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Change your cooking, change your life!

Learning to cook without a recipe can take the stress out of meal planning and cooking. 

If you’re someone who enjoys browsing the cooking section of your local bookshop, looking for new inspiration, glossy pictures and recipes… put this book down immediately! It’s not for you. 

But if you 
•can’t cook
•don’t enjoy cooking
•are too busy to cook
•have never prepared a meal
•would like to save money
•would like to lose weight by eating out less often, or
•just want to be more efficient in the kitchen

Then this book is the answer to all your mealtime prayers.

I adore cooking but tend to use recipes as ideas, unless it comes to baking wherein one MUST pay attention as baking is a science, cooking is an art. I know a lot of people who fall into the category of needing to read this book and it will work for them - great ideas, instructions, etc that will get one to be a kitchen whiz in no time, "recipe" or not. For people used to cooking, it is only fair to middling as it is really, really simple.

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I simply adore emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/snowflakes / literally-like-overusers etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🥧🥧🥧

Date reviewed/posted: January 29, 2021
Publication date: out - December 18, 2020

When life for the entire galaxy and planet has turned on its end, you are continuing to #maskup and #lockdown to be in #COVID19 #socialisolation as the #secondwave is upon us, AND the worst sciatica attack in your life means you MIGHT sleep 3 hours a night,  superspeed readers like me can read 250+ pages/hour, so yes, I have read the book … and many more today.

I requested and received a temporary digital Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley, the publisher and the author in exchange for an honest review.  

From the publisher, as I do not repeat the contents or story of books in reviews, I let them do it as they do it better than I do 😸.

Change your cooking, change your life!

Learning to cook without a recipe can take the stress out of meal planning and cooking. 

If you’re someone who enjoys browsing the cooking section of your local bookshop, looking for new inspiration, glossy pictures and recipes… put this book down immediately! It’s not for you. 

But if you 
•can’t cook
•don’t enjoy cooking
•are too busy to cook
•have never prepared a meal
•would like to save money
•would like to lose weight by eating out less often, or
•just want to be more efficient in the kitchen

Then this book is the answer to all your mealtime prayers.

I adore cooking but tend to use recipes as ideas, unless it comes to baking wherein one MUST pay attention as baking is a science, cooking is an art. I know a lot of people who fall into the category of needing to read this book and it will work for them - great ideas, instructions, etc that will get one to be a kitchen whiz in no time, "recipe" or not. For people used to cooking, it is only fair to middling as it is really, really simple.

As always, I try to find a reason to not rate with stars as I simply adore emojis (outside of their incessant use by "🙏-ed Social Influencer Millennials/#BachelorNation survivors/Tik-Tok and YouTube  Millionaires/snowflakes / literally-like-overusers etc. " on Instagram and Twitter... Get a real job, people!) so let's give it 🥧🥧🥧

I really enjoyed this guidebook cookbook. I enjoyed the simplicity and the ideas this contains, very fuss free and likely great for students!! 

Don't expect: photos or measurements - this really isn't a cookbook cookbook.

I'm a keen home cook with a huge collection of cook books, so not really part of the target audience for this book. I was intrigued by the premise though and opened it up on my Kindle.  I have picked up hints and tips for meal ideas and on food buying and storage. 

It's not strictly a no recipe cook book. Rather it does not contain conventional recipes starting with a list of ingredients. Instead, guidance on ingredients is free form and there are quite lengthy method descriptions. 

It's also a lifestyle book geared to promote a healthy and economical diet for a busy family/single parent. There is a lengthy preamble setting out the rationale for the book and the overall approach. This includes buying ahead for 2-3 weeks, Sunday cooking for the week and so on.

The author writes in the first person, essentially setting out what she does and importantly why.

As an ebook it's fair. In particular I would have liked to have linked lists of meal options at the start of each chapter.  There are no photos, which some won't like.

I wouldn't recommend this book to an experienced cook. I would point an absolute beginner to books geared to them e.g. by Delia Smith or Sophie Grigson's The First Time Cook. I suggest that this book is worth a look however for someone struggling to put good nutritious meals on the table every day for a reasonable outlay - essentially a "How to Live Well for Less" audience. For them, Samantha Pillay shares her approach and cooking methods.

I rate it 3 1/2 stars rounded up.

This is literally a no recipe cookbook! It teaches you how to cook and what ingredients you could use to make food like, for exemplo, stir fry. It will tell you what you can use to make stir fry, suggested ingredients, order of cooking and what to do with the leftovers. It's like when your mom tells you how to cook something but doesn't give you a list of how much of each ingredient you would need. It's a different and unique cookbook. I received a free digital copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for my honest review

So this was an odd cookbook that I can imagine has polarising reviews. The premise of "no recipes" seemed to equate to very lengthy explanations and not much organisation.

The preamble is quite long and a lot to read if you are just expecting a cookbook although possibly I have missed the intention here

Saying this, I did find the information helpful especially with how to store ingredients and reduce wastage

I believe that with the correct pictures etc, this book could be an interesting read but not so much a user friendly cookbook to just pick up and make

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for the ARC in return for an honest and unbiased opinion.