Notes about Recipes in this book

• Ricotta & tomato crostini

  • KCKB on October 21, 2024

    So simple, and so, so good. A quick, easy meal that’s more than the sum of its parts! A good option for kids - they enjoy assembling their own crostini and deciding how much of each topping they want, etc.

• Mozzarella sticks with tomato dipping sauce

  • KCKB on June 27, 2025

    Attempted these for the first time - made them with my daughter. The timing of the frying was a little bit tricky, and we just used jarred sauce this first time, but they were good and I’m looking forward to trying them again with the sauce recipe from the book. ETA: A few days later, we finished frying off the rest of the batch after making the dipping sauce. It was good, they were a tasty combo, will make again.

• Lemon & pecan-crusted salmon with roasted leeks

  • eroachTN on March 14, 2026

    Absolutely delicious! My leeks were small so I added a Vidalia onion and treated it the same as the leeks. I let the leeks/onions cook longer in the oven than the recipe calls for by about 5 minutes. I also squeezed lemon juice over the salmon before topping with the pecan panko. I'll definitely be making again.

• Ava's cowboy rib eye & baked fingerling potatoes

  • julesamomof2 on April 27, 2026

    In an effort to cook from my lesser used books, I picked this recipe as a first try. Easy steak and potato recipe, more about the method then anything particularly ground breaking. I've had issues with Alex's books not being tested, but the timing and instructions were spot on. Would be a nice one to try with kids, which I suppose is the point of the book.