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A review by chrissie_whitley
Joy the Baker Over Easy: Sweet and Savory Recipes for Leisurely Days: A Cookbook by Joy Wilson
5.0
My best friend loves to cook. She loves to experiment with recipes and dislikes baking because it seems to leave such little room for improvising. I’m the opposite; I love baking because it has such strict recipes and most of the time the oven and the chemistry of the recipe determines the outcome.
This book reads like you’re sitting down with a new neighbor. She is from another area and grew up with the same main ingredients but her heritage or just the region in which she lived has her family making these familiar items in different ways, and you’re like WHAT? (Or, possibly it's her incredible food genius, but this is maybe just specific to the actual author, and not this pretend new neighbor.) Something as simple as BROILED GRAPEFRUIT and I was so ready to try the entire cookbook.
The simplicity of the recipes and yet the flavorings that Wilson has paired makes me very excited to have a go at these pages—and that’s saying a lot. I, on the whole, am not a fan of cooking. I’d much rather be the 1950s husband and have dinner waiting for me when I get home; let the other person worry. Unfortunately, that isn’t my reality (nor, really, is it anyone else’s). I also hate the grocery shopping, but luckily my husband handles that task (that, or the online shopping tool at my store), but I digress. AND, I loathe the idea of gathering up an entire menu for the week…and going through the ingredients that I have on hand versus what I need to buy. Basically, I dislike the entire experience. So, the fact that these recipes and their lovely pictures makes me excited, is saying something.
Lemme say, as an odd side note: there’s a typo on page 156. Now, I knew this when I bought the book because the entire reason I bought this book was because of the recipe found on page 156 (pictured on the cover and on 157). The typo is simple, nothing goes in the oven here, and when it says “oven” it means “refrigerator”…. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes…Remove the burgers from the oven [refrigerator]…. See? I ran across this recipe on Delish.com and was so impressed with this idea and the simplicity of the recipe, but was confused momentarily by the typo that I jumped over to her site…then to her Instagram account, and then to Amazon to buy her book. Wham. I heart Joy the Baker.
This book reads like you’re sitting down with a new neighbor. She is from another area and grew up with the same main ingredients but her heritage or just the region in which she lived has her family making these familiar items in different ways, and you’re like WHAT? (Or, possibly it's her incredible food genius, but this is maybe just specific to the actual author, and not this pretend new neighbor.) Something as simple as BROILED GRAPEFRUIT and I was so ready to try the entire cookbook.
The simplicity of the recipes and yet the flavorings that Wilson has paired makes me very excited to have a go at these pages—and that’s saying a lot. I, on the whole, am not a fan of cooking. I’d much rather be the 1950s husband and have dinner waiting for me when I get home; let the other person worry. Unfortunately, that isn’t my reality (nor, really, is it anyone else’s). I also hate the grocery shopping, but luckily my husband handles that task (that, or the online shopping tool at my store), but I digress. AND, I loathe the idea of gathering up an entire menu for the week…and going through the ingredients that I have on hand versus what I need to buy. Basically, I dislike the entire experience. So, the fact that these recipes and their lovely pictures makes me excited, is saying something.
Lemme say, as an odd side note: there’s a typo on page 156. Now, I knew this when I bought the book because the entire reason I bought this book was because of the recipe found on page 156 (pictured on the cover and on 157). The typo is simple, nothing goes in the oven here, and when it says “oven” it means “refrigerator”…. Cover and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes…Remove the burgers from the oven [refrigerator]…. See? I ran across this recipe on Delish.com and was so impressed with this idea and the simplicity of the recipe, but was confused momentarily by the typo that I jumped over to her site…then to her Instagram account, and then to Amazon to buy her book. Wham. I heart Joy the Baker.