Maria Emmerich

For the most part the recipes seem clearly written and are fairly simple. Not too many exotic ingredients or too many steps.

This cookbook has a section on "choosing an Instant Pot", "Instant Pot tips", and "my to Instant Pot accessories", all of which have good information.

I got this book mainly for the slow cooker. Most of the recipes include a small section devoted to cooking the Instant Pot recipe in a slow cooker, a very nice addition.

All the recipes are printed on the left page- the facing right page has a full-spread photo- this is convenient because all the recipe fits on a single page and you always know where it is. Even nicer would be a spiral bound edition.

The book has an adequate index, plus several pages devoted to grouping the recipes into useful categories.

All the ice cream recipes require an ice cream maker (not detailed), which seems a bit of an assumption.

Most of the recipes contain 9 or 10 carbs per serving and the serving sizes are a bit small for a grown man but will probably be OK for smaller women and children.

As an aside- I visited the author's website and found it mostly promotional- what one might expect from a young affluent hipster entrepreneur from California.… (mehr)