The Yankee Chef: Feel Good Food for Every Kitchen - Jim Bailey

5 Stars!!!!!

ABOUT THE BOOK -

The heritage of New England cookery unfolds in this charming collection of more than 550 traditional recipes tweaked for today's palate. Compiled with insight and flavors from three generations of Yankee chefs, this cookbook for home cooks and professional chefs alike covers baked goods, beverages, seafood, desserts, and more. Create a range of comfort foods in typical New England style, including easy-to-follow recipes for classics like chowders, steamers, cornbread, and mincemeat pie. This informative, engaging, and definitive guide to the feel-good food of the Northeast will offer a lifetime of classic meals for the family and is a great addition to any kitchen library.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR -

A Yankee chef for over 25 years, Jim Bailey is also the foremost authority on New England cuisine and history, a respected food columnist, and a third-generation chef. He lives in Maine with his wife and four children.

Check out his website - HERE 

There are recipes on his website!!!
**Please visit his blog - HERE** 

MY REVIEW -

This is an awesome cookbook! I was drooling just reading the recipes. 

Lets start with the gorgeous pictures since they are so eye catching. There are pictures of the food, pictures of the step-by-step instructions, and many "local" pictures of New England. I think there are pictures on almost every page. And you all know how I am about having pictures in my cookbooks - its a MUST!

Here is just a sample of the chapters and a list of a few of the recipes -

Chapter 1 - Breakfast treats

Chapter 4 - Soups, Stews, and Chowders (one of my faves)

Chapter 9 - Fish and Seafood (another of my faves)

Chapter 11 - Pasta Rice  Grans and Legumes

Even desserts! This cookbook has it all! There are over 300 pages. I can't even tell you haw many recipes there are.

So for a list of a few recipes -

~ Old Maine Black Bread, New England Popovers, Peppermint Mocha Coffee, Yankee Seafood Bisque, Lobster Stew (Oh my gosh! are you kidding me?), Oven Roasted Rosemary Potatoes, Crab Stuffed Flounder, Pan Seared Maple Scallops, Grilled Shrimp with Tropical Rice, Down Home Macaroni and Cheese.

Oh my gosh, the list goes on and on!

And don't worry - if its not the seafood you are feelin' there are lots of chicken and beef and pork recipes too, as well as lots of Veggie ones. 

I would say this is probably one of the most perfect and versatile cookbooks there is! There are recipes for every family here. But I am a seafood lover. So I was in Heaven looking st this book. And all the recipes look pretty simple and basic.

Are you hungry yet?

Even though I have this on my nook I think I am going to ask for the hard copy for my birthday!

Thank you NetGalley for this e-book to read and review!

All pictures in this post were taken from the Yankee Chef webiste.

Pre-order it from B&N - HERE

or from Amazon - HERE