This is a fun "recipe book". It is non traditional and offering a new way of looking at dinner. This book is the quintessential wing it Meal book. No recipe? No problem. Let the ingredients in your pantry and fridge guide you to a fulfilling and tasty meal.

One of my absolute favorite things about this book is its kitchen cheat sheets. I also enjoyed how it highlights items to always keep in stock in your pantry so you are ready to throw together a delicious meal.

As always, thank you to the publisher and netgalley for providing me a copy in exchange for an honest review

I enjoyed reading this cookbook and there was some good information that I will adapt in my own cooking, but I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who is a serious cook. I would only recommend it to those who enjoy reading cookbooks.

As I cook very much in a free-style, I enjoyed flicking through this informative,
yet unconventional cookbook.
Great ideas and photos to inspire confidence in everyone.

Phyllis Good got you covered!! She tells you how to let the ingredients lead the way. My favorite way to cook. I have always thought receipe are just guidelines and once you have the basics the ingredients with guide you. Great tips here if you want too!!

I love the idea of freestyle cooking. Plenty of recipes and tips. I enjoyed this book so much that I ended up buying a physical copy of it.

Thank you so much Netgalley for the advance reader's copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
This book will show you how to create delicious foods without a recipe. 3 stars for No Recipe? No Problem!

This book circulates well in our library. I personally prefer recipes with ingredients lists and am able to wing it if I don't have everything. But very creative and attractive book.

Thank you to NetGalley, Storey Publishing, & Workman for the opportunity to read and review this book before it's publication date! This in no way affected my review, opinions are my own.

While the NetGalley version of this cookbook did leave something to desire, just skimming through was enough reason for me to go out and get this book for myself! I love the idea of freestyle cooking (something that my husband is very good at, and I am very bad at). Hoping that by using this more I'll start to get more comfortable in the kitchen & less attached to recipes!

I have reviewed a number of books, courtesy of NetGalley, and this is the first one that I made the the decision to purchase a personal copy of the published print copy before I finished reading the galley. No Recipe, No Problem by Phyllis Good does an excellent job of capturing the methods of improvisational cooks like me. The joke in my house was always, "Any resemblance to the original recipe is purely coincidental." The author draws on her own significant background as creator of the "Fix-It and Forget-It" cookbook series. I hardly need to say that that is an approach to cooking that also resonates with me.

The book does contain a handful of recipes as jumping off points, with plenty of tips on how to use the dressing or sauce in a variety of combinations or how to take it off in a completely different direction by substituting different ingredients. For the most part, however, Good explains how to make soups, salads, egg dishes, sheet pan dinners, roasts, and other main dishes, using what is on hand. There are enough pro tips thrown in that even an experienced cook will find gems about how to give soups and sauces a bright finish or how to use unexpected flavor combinations.

My choice to buy the book was based on a real need to see the photos in color! The Kindle version just wasn't doing it. But the real audience for this creative cookbook would likely be those who are just starting out cooking and who have followed recipes slavishly with good results but who want or need to take a more improvisational approach to their cooking. It would be a good fit too for people focusing on local foods or who have their own garden. Good doesn't focus on a seasonal approach. In fact, she expects cooks to have a decently stocked pantry. She does, however, discuss how to use an abundance of specific veggies and how vegetables harvested at the same time of year tend to make for solid flavor combinations. This practicality is a hallmark of "No Recipe, No Problem."

Highly recommended. I hope to purchase a copy for my library.

Really useful book for gaining confidence at improvising in the kitchen.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for letting me access an advance copy of this book in exchange for my feedback.

I want to thank Netgalley and the author for gifting me the ebook. I loved this book! Very informative!

I found this to be an interesting collection of base recipes that can be merged or modified so there's always something to cook!

This is a wonderful cookbook. I am most definitely not a freestyle cooker and this book helps break thru that and feel empowered enough to create your own recipes. This book is full of great ideas gorgeous photos, hints, tips and everything you need to conquer "freestyle cooking" and make it.an adventure nit a stressful endeavor. I have never felt like a cooking creative and I marvel at chefs who can just envision the perfect dish and make it happen. This is definitely a book I will be using often. I highly recommend it.

One of the hardest things in learning to cook is figuring out how to go off-book and improvise your own meals. Anyone can follow a recipe, but cooking without one can be intimidating. No Recipe? No Problem! seeks to solve that problem. Phyllis Good includes basic cooking techniques for different types of protein, what to do with leftover vegetables, and how to create your own meal bowls. Lots of color photos, charts, and infographics for visual learners. This would be a good reference book for any kitchen, and an excellent guide for anyone wanting to learn to cook without a recipe.

The nifty little cookbook you didn't know you needed. I have often been amazed at how my mother-in-law can successfully duplicate the same meal over and over again with the same fantastic results. This book gives a little insight into how a cook can intuitively craft a meal using the ingredients available on hand. It provides a number of tips and tricks to simplify cooking on the fly, and to eliminate unnecessary kitchen waste by utilizing what you already have in you pantry/fridge. A great resource for any home cook!

This isn't the usual cookbook with a collection of recipes with lists of ingredients and a lot of measurements, but it's just as useful as one of those. This is more a book of inspiration, to help you get comfortable with cooking intuitively, letting what ingredients you have on hand guide you. Phyllis Good, along with about a dozen of her Cooking Circle friends, give you tons of tips on "freestyle cooking," including (but not limited to) good ingredients to have on hand, overall views of different cooking techniques, charts to help you with cooking times and cooking methods, and much more. Each section has inspiration and encouragement from the different cooks, and will help the reader feel more confident in trying out this style of cooking. I freestyle cook myself, working with what I have on hand, what I need to use up, and it is a lot of fun! I definitely learned some new tricks to expand my cooking, and this would make a great reference to have on hand for any home chef, no matter your skill level. While there aren't traditional recipes in the book, there are lots of suggested combos to play with and make your own. Very inspirational!

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⭐⭐⭐⭐ -- Perfect book for me!

I loved this book! I have been in a recipe rut for ages now. Especially with two teenagers that love/hate different things. This book is full of good information, gorgeous photos, hints, tips and everything you need to get started on your "freestyle cooking" adventure. Definitely a book I can see myself using often!

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This cookbook is a godsend for people like myself who enjoy following recipes but spend the majority of their time in the kitchen freestyling! Whether it was useful tips on how to create basic sauces or spreadsheets on the best ways to cook vegetables, there are lifesaving tips and tricks in this book!

If you are a beginner cook and you get stuck with missing ingredients, no worries. This book has you covered. It offers tips for substitution and even has recipes for your vegetables, meats, poultry, etc. It shows you what your staples could include and how to set things up.

It’s a good feel good beginner’s cooking advice book with recipes. The most important thing they try to teach you throughout the book is, no worries. Substitute and have fun with cooking.

I want to thank NetGallery for an advanced copy.

No Recipe? No Problem! is an interesting book... If you are looking for detailed step by step and ingredient by ingredient recipes, this is not the book for you. But if you are the kind of chef who is more fly by the seat of your pants and cook with what you have, then this book is a must. This is not a book of recipes. It is a book of techniques and suggestions and I personally think everyone should give this book a try. While it does not give specific recipes and cooking times and the like, it does give you suggested items that would work with the technique and also tips on how to cook them and how to know you are doing it correctly. In many ways I find this more useful than a traditional cookbook.