Noon

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for a copy of the ARC in exchange for my honest review.

This is such a delightful cookbook! It is full of fresh, uncomplicated recipes and copious amounts of beautiful photos. I am never a fan of cookbooks without photos, and was quite pleased to see that there was one for almost every recipe!

The recipes are largely meatless, although there are some meat recipes and a section for meat and for seafood. I think there is something for everyone, and as someone who does not eat meat I appreciated the vast amount of recipes that I could make as is, or adjust easily for my needs.

I can see this being popular with my library patrons, as well as a lovely gift for someone.

The photos alone are marvelous, but the simple recipes perfect for a noonday meal push this cookbook to the top of my must-haves for my personal collection. What I particularly liked are the ingredients chosen - unique flavor combinations that don’t require a trip to a specialty food store. The salad recipes are my favorites thus far, but looking forward to making some of the sandwich and meat recipes in the fall. A definite must buy for libraries looking to expand their cookbook collection.

Noon features some seriously delectable and elevated lunch time recopies!

Conceptually I really love this cookbook. Lunch can often be an afterthought of a meal for many of us, These recopies offer some unique and thoughtful alternatives to your everyday midday meal. While I wouldn't call the featured meals complicated in anyway, I did find that several might feel finicky, featuring more ingredients and techniques than one might have time to contend with on a given workday. I wouldn't let this deter you if you like the idea of jazzing up your lunches but just know that this cookbook might of been more aptly named: Noon ( on weekends).

Very aesthetically pleasing photos and good formatting, the recipes in the book didn't necessarily appeal to me personally but they did seem well thought out and organized.

This was a really interesting book with a lot of unique recipes. There were definitely some recipes that I am not sure about, but certainly look tasty! I am especially excited about the soup recipes and I cannot wait until it gets colder to try them out for myself. 3.5 Stars.

"Noon" by Meike Peters offer a lot of variety for mid-day meals. The photography is nicely done and not too fussy. The instructions are clear and easy to follow. I do wish that there was a nutrition breakdown for those of us who track nutrition stats for health reasons; however, the portions per dish are manageable in figuring out. Some dishes may have sourcing challenges given where I live but there are enough dishes in the book that can be done on the regular. I do like the sandwiches because I like sandwiches. The salads are more picky for me but there's a few that I've tried and liked. Overall, I think it is worth a read if price is reasonable.

A completely stunning cookbook with lots of gorgeous photos with most of the recipes. I absolutely would put this on a coffee table as a center piece.

Not only are the recipes beautiful to look at, the recipes all look tasty and delightful!

Thank you #NetGalley for #Noon

I loved this lunch themed cookbook. I especially valued the part of each recipe where the author included how best to transport it to work in a lunchbox to preserve quality and taste. I do think most of the salads couldn't be my whole lunch but I did like the combinations I never thought of before. As an American, I had never heard of Rösti so I am excited to try it. Some of the soups like the cold beet one and kale and sweet potato with egg also seem fun and unique. A cute gift for someone starting a new job!

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This is a beautiful cook book!

There's lots of elevated meals including salads, soups, snacks, and more. I wouldn't consider a lot of these recipes to be practical - in terms of ingredients and effort these aren't typically the kinds of meals you can whip up from whatever you have on hand and will require some planning, but are also more fine-dining oriented than standard cooking. That being said these recipes are interesting! If you enjoy hosting or want to bring more unique flavors to your table this book has a nice variety of recipes to choose from.

The first thing I noticed as I skimmed through Meike Peters’ Noon, was the beautiful photography. The bright beet soup on the cover with the artful arrangement of cucumber and radish slices, jammy hard boiled egg and dill leaves is visually pleasing and intriguing. I don’t necessarily want to eat beet soup (I like beets, but not really soup), and that was a clue that the recipes inside were not so much for me.

I have at times cooked professionally, including a few years at two different gourmet shops where I made fancy sandwiches and salads to go. This informed my view of the salad and sandwich sections. The sandwiches bothered me the most. Peters is putting together some interesting flavors, but most of her sandwiches struck me as wet. Wet sandwiches are messy to eat. The first sandwich she introduced was a turmeric apricot and ricotta on ciabatta bread. Lightly searing apricots in turmeric flecked honey and serving over ricotta cheese sounds delicious. But as a sandwich filling all I can think about is how it will squish out the sides. A lot of her sandwiches would work better snack style with the components separate and put together bite by bite (for some reason I call this a monk’s lunch, but I don’t think that’s a common term). In the salads, I felt like she relied a lot on burrata.

I think her best sections were the vegetable and pasta chapters. The pan seared gnocchi with asparagus, ramps and mustard looked delicious. That’s the kind of recipe that would make me want to put more effort into lunch.

I received this as an advance reader copy from Chronicle Books and NetGalley. My opinions are my own, freely and honestly given.

An interesting array of dishes that support the Noom diet plan. Heavy on salads and fresh vegetable options with seemingly fewer recipes for meat and chicken. Worth a look especially for those who have a CSA

The introduction opens “Breakfast never really excites me, but at noon, I feast” — what. a. mood. As a notorious breakfast skipper and lunch lover, this cookbook is honestly made for me. I really appreciate how simple Meike Peters keeps the tools needed for the recipes and the mix of familiar and new-to-me ingredients used. I’m not the bravest in the kitchen, but the fairly simple recipes and drool-worthy photos had me editing my meal plan for the week.

This is a great addition to any cookbook shelf and will make a great gift for your favorite chef of just about any skill level.

I received this advanced reader copy from NetGalley and I am leaving this honest review voluntarily.

Really beautiful cookbook with some truly eye-catching food photography! Lots of fresh and interesting recipes across a wide variety of flavors. Most are meatless, though there was a seafood and meat section. The sandwich section was my favorite, but I bookmarked a ton of recipes throughout, and I really appreciated the fresh take on classic flavors, such as the <i>Bacon and Egg with Seared Belgian Endive</i>. Can't wait to dive in and make some of these beauties!

The photos are just beautiful! And the recipes are classic but with new additions and changes that will make your lunchtime much more fun and savoury.

Cookbook: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ (5/5)

Wow, can we first talk about the photos, they are jaw-droppingly stunning! The Noon cookbook is a 5-star dining made easy so you can repeat it in your home. I was a little worried that most ingredients would be difficult to get, but 90% of you can find them easily. For example, the Autumn Panzanella with Roasted Squash, Shallots, and Plums (ugh, so beautiful and looks sooo tasty, but I had zero clue what a Stilton or Roquefort crumble is and I did a quick food search at some of my local grocery deliveries didn't have it either. But thanks to Google, I found out it was blue cheese! So it was then made easy. lol

The top five unique recipes that I found were:
Autumn Panzanella with Roasted Squash, Shallots, and Plums
Raw Cauliflower Carpaccio with Tangerines. (Major Cauliflower fan here!)
Ada's Cold Beet Soup with Cucumber, Radishes, and Egg. (Cover photo, ❤️❤️❤️)
Ciabatta with Balsamic Blackberries, Coppa di Parma, and Mustard. (Never would have thought about putting blackberries in a "sandwich")
Gnocchetti Sardi with Butter Bean-Basil Pesto and Tomatoes (I love anything in Pesto!)



NetGalley provided Noon eBook; thank you, NetGalley and Chronicle Books, for the copy in return for an honest review.

This cookbook has really lovely photos (including the bright cover photo) that highlight the food. The author uses some interesting combinations of ingredients - a salad with red cabbage, beets, and persimmons jumped out at me, as well as a white bean pesto used in a few recipes. The cookbook is a good sources of recipes to vary your lunches and dinners with nothing too complex to make. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the ARC.

Very beautiful pictures and bougie food options. Sadly I have super taste so am super picky eater so not a lot of these recipes will work for me but I did save some and I especially loved the family recipes and influence from Italy Germany and Switzerland which no surprise at the recipes I saved to try later!

Here are recipes for every lunchtime palate. Included are chapters on salads, vegetables, soups, sandwiches, pasta, seafood, meat and, grains +bakes.

This title’s author/cook observes that she has learned how to make satisfying meals that don’t take hours. She does this (as noted in the introduction) by reducing the numboer of ingredients and focusing on bold, fresh flavors. She also has pantry staples available such as lentils. With these (and more) she makes meals that she describes as nourishing, comforting and healthy. Sounds great to me.

Enjoy the photos (they make my mouth water) and the recipes. Readers will definitely want to eat these.

I really like this book. It would make a great gift to give yourself. Lunch will be so much nicer.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for this title. All opinions are my own.

Tired of boring tuna or grilled cheese sandwiches and plain boring salads for lunch? With the economy as it is, most of us can’t afford to eat out at lunchtime, and need to bring our own to work. Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and More, by Meike Peters will definitely solve the problem It is a beautiful cookbook with dozens of innovative and scrumptious ideas for lunches that aren’t boring or tasteless. Actually Peters has taken many of the modern trendy ingredients that are popular nowadays and incorporated them into fabulous salads, tarts, sandwiches, soups and more.

The recipes are written in the traditional manner with the ingredients listed first followed by step-by-step instructions that are easily followed by both beginning and advanced cooks. There are also comments at the beginning of each recipe, which are very helpful. One of the best parts of this excellent cookbook is that there are beautiful, professional photographs of almost every dish, which make the recipes even more tempting. The book is heavy on salads and vegetables, so vegetarians will also like this cookbook.

With this cookbook on the shelf, lunch will be the most anticipated meal of the day and boring will be a thing of the past.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

WOW! I was expecting a rather ordinary cookbook with lots of salads and sandwiches. But this cookbook has so many unique and truly appetizing combinations of ingredients! Every recipe is accompanied by a full page photo of the dish. Recipes appear easy enough to make, in most cases. But the stand-out feature of this cookbook is that you likely won't find most of these recipes in other cookbooks. Here are just a few examples: Cucumber and Fennel Salad with Melon, Carrot and Pear Salad with Tahini and Sesame Seeds, Roasted Broccoli and Apples with Mustard-Lemon Dressing, Turmeric Apricot and Ricotta Sandwich, and Apricot Pancakes with Basil Sugar. I already have too many unused cookbooks, but I think I may just have to purchase a copy of this one. I want to try so many of these recipes!

Thank you to NetGalley and Chronicle Books for access to the eARC of Noon: Simple Recipes for Scrumptious Midday Meals and More by Meike Peters in exchange for an honest review.

This was an absolutely gorgeous book! The food photography was outstanding and served as inspiration for meals any time of day. I highly recommend. This would be a beautiful addition to any cookbook collection.