Actual Bookstore Purchase! Cravings by Chrissy Teigen

Cravings - Recipes for the All the Food You Want to Eat, published in 2016.  For a supermodel Chrissy T. has an enormous love for food as noted by both a popular Instagram account and cooking blog (http://sodelushious.com/) Her first cookbook is filled with many of her favorites recipes shared among friends and family.

We begin with Breakfast All Day which features scrambled eggs with burst cherry tomatoes, garlic roasted bacon, a Dutch baby pancake ( large puffy pancake oven cooked in a skillet and sprinkled with powdered sugar as well as drizzled with syrup), crab cakes Benedict with avocado, spicy tomato skillet eggs with prosciutto, crispy bacon hash browns, pull apart buttermilk biscuits with sausage gravy, yellow cake baked oatmeal and a French toast casserole with salted frosted flakes. We then move onto Soupmaster which consists of roasted tomato, chunky creamy mushroom, pot pie or veggie tortilla soups.

There are a few Salads ~ caprese with crispy prosciutto, roasted cauliflower, feta & orzo, a Siracha Caesar, Chinese chicken with crispy won ton skins, Cobb with honey mustard ranch dressing and dump & done ramen (broccoli slaw, red onions, corn, peas and ramen noodles), followed by Noodles and Carbs which delivers lemony arugula spaghetti, sweet & salty coconut rice, spicy clams & pasta, sesame chicken noodles, mac & cheese with cheesy garlic bread crumbs, creamy potato salad with bacon & sour cream, Hasselback potatoes and broccoli baked potato cakes.

A sampling of the recipes in Thai Mom include a Thai beef salad, basil chicken, pork stuffed cucumber soup and a pounded Thai papaya salad, while Party Time offers chicken satay with peanut sauce, steak bites with melty blue cheese butter, shrimp summer rolls, chicken lettuce wraps, fried chicken wings with spicy honey butter, cheesy guacamole, roasted jalapeno & chorizo queso and and an artichoke, spinach & buffalo chicken dip.

Shit on Toast (actual name!) presents a few options ~ fig, ricotta & honey, salami with black pepper, crab, butter & jalapenos, cinnamon toast with dark chocolate or avocado, prosciutto, tomatoes & red onions, with Vegetable Things doling out cauliflower mash with roasted garlic & ricotta, Mexican street corn, zucchini fries or a ham & cheese green bean casserole.

Moving on we encounter Things That Intimidate People but Shouldn't, which includes sweet potato gnocchi, seared scallops with a warm corn salad, herby, creamy, spicy & garlicky roasted whole fish (sounds divine!) and sweet chili & mustard glazed salmon fillets.  The last chapter delves into Supper and dishes out zucchini lasagna, spicy Italian sausage meatloaf, skillet charred fish tacos, chipolte honey chicken with mango avocado salsa, Tuscan brick chicken with charred lemons (a foil covered brick holds down the chicken while cooking), cheesy jalapeno tuna casserole with a potato chip topping, stove top pork chops and prosciutto wrapped & stuffed chicken breasts.