I love cookbooks. I love flipping through them, dog-earing the pages, making ambitious grocery lists—and then figuring out whether the recipes actually work in a real kitchen on a random Tuesday night. Here at YFIF, I cook my way through cookbooks and give you the honest scoop: what’s worth making, what’s worth skipping, and which recipes might just earn a permanent spot in your rotation. No professional chef credentials, no fancy test kitchen—just a regular home cook, a hungry family, and a whole lot of recipes to try.
Check out the cookbooks I’ve reviewed so far below, and be sure to check back—there are always more recipes to cook and more cookbooks to put to the test!
If you are only going to add one Half Baked Harvest cookbook to your collection, Super Simple is the one you want.
With easy, quick recipes and basic instructions, this book is basically Cooking 101 for Gen Z.
Every kitchen needs one reliable cookbook they turn to time and time again. This is that book.