Perfect for college students! This fantastic little cookbook has scrumptious recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, sides and desserts. All of the recipes are easy to follow with short ingredient lists.. Great for using in addition to your oven or in place of an oven.

Thank you to Tiller Press and NetGalley for allowing me to read a pre-release of this cookbook. My review is voluntary and all opinions are my own.

To be published on my blog at release: Nonstop Reader.

Toaster Oven Takeover is a beautifully presented niche cookbook with recipes developed by Roxanne Wyss & Kathy Moore. Due out 21st Jan 2021 from Simon & Schuster on their Tiller Press imprint, it's 192 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.

Toaster ovens (and most other appliances) have come a long long long way since I was a university student in the 80s. My dorm room toaster oven could just about be relied on to process a pre-made pot pie (remember those?) or toast a couple of slices of bread. I don't remember ever cooking anything in mine other than the aforementioned or possibly some frozen pizza rolls or a baguette. Today's versions come with multiple functions, convection cooking, adjustable trays, exact temperature controls and lots more bells and whistles.

This cookbook does a great job of providing recipes which exploit the benefits and minimize the drawbacks of the modern toaster oven. Toaster ovens heat up faster, are more energy efficient, are the perfect size for smaller quantities of food, and are more convenient. The introduction covers the different types of ovens, tips for using convection settings, tools and supplies, related safety (no parchment paper!), pantry ingredients, and some other general considerations.

The recipe chapters are arranged thematically: breakfast & brunch, pizza & flatbreads, toasts crostini & sandwiches, appetizers & snacks, side dishes, sheet pan dinners, casseroles & one pan dinners, meats & mains, desserts, and breads. It really is a surprisingly comprehensive and varied selection. Recipes are arranged with an introduction and yields in a header, ingredients in a sidebar bullet point list, with step-by-step directions. Ingredient measures are given in American standard measures, no metric conversions provided. Most of the ingredients are easily sourced at any moderately well stocked grocery store (some few items might need a co-op or world-food/specialist grocery). Nutritional information is not included. Cook's notes and variations for each recipe are also included in a footer at the end.The recipes all fit on a single page (which is super convenient for reading from a tablet when your hands are full).

The layout is clear and easy to read with a sort of retro vibe. The photography is clear and well done. It's not apparent from the publishing info, but the pre-publication ARC I received had greyscale black and white photography throughout (that could well change to color for the publication version). At any rate, the photography is top notch and serving suggestions are appetizing and appropriate.

This would make a superlative addition to a 'moving out' care package for newly independent youngsters/singles/newlyweds, etc. I was impressed enough with the book that I am planning on buying one for each of my kids who are moving (or have moved) out on their own.

Four and a half stars.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes

I snagged a copy to peek at since this is the most unused item...kitchen wise in my household. I have been enamored with the new Foodi that Ninja has come out with even watching the tutorials on YouTube to decide if I really could use this. The reviews are mixed but it seems relevant to buy one to help with holiday cooking since it is so versatile. I can dump my toaster, and air fryer separate appliance and just make room for a flipped up Foodi. This cookbook was fun to go through, and had some pretty great recipes.

What did I like? Multitude of family friendly recipes littered the pages in some relatively simplistic style. From all types of breads to pizza, and then meats and main dishes. Chicken wings to danishes and pull apart breads. I enjoyed what felt like an Italian assortment of dishes. The authors also give you some background on different styles of toaster ovens. They pretty much do everything now... even dehydrate.

Would I recommend or buy? The only downside that I could see was the black and white pictures. Grayscale pictures don’t attempt me to make food but the recipes clearly caught my eye regardless. I wish the authors would have used color. Other than that I was most pleased with the cookbook and bookmarked some fun recipes to try.

I received a copy to read and voluntarily left a review!

This cookbook is great. So far all the recipes have turned out really well, were easy to make and clean up after. The toaster oven experience is new to me, I just got one last January and have only used it for toast and heating items up, so I can use all the help I can get. I loved the little tips and suggestions in the book too and I even used some of those tips to prepare items that were not listed as recipes.

Freezer to Oven Chocolate Chip Cookies (I added walnuts)

Family Favorite Pizza

Roast Chicken

(Bacon Wrapped) Tuscan Pork Tenderloin


All in all, a handy little book, and a good resource. Now I need a cookbook for convection cooking since my toaster oven has a nice convection feature, and this book didn't go into that. My only other niggle is that there are no colour photographs and not every recipe has a photo. That would have helped tremendously.

Disclousure:
Thank you NetGalley, Roxanne Wyss, Kathy Moore and Tiller Press for the opportunity to read this book in exchange for an impartial review; all opinions are my own.

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