(Cook)Book Review: Antoni: Let's Do Dinner by Antoni Porowski

What a fun cookbook!! This is the second cookbook from Antoni Porowski, and it does not disappoint.

I'm not a cook. I fumble my way through the kitchen enough to feed myself and can sometimes rise to the occasion to scrap together a good old-fashioned midwest casserole, but that's about it. Cookbooks often frustrate me, because they contain ingredients that I have either never heard of or never have in my pantry- honestly is there anything worse than going out and spending money on something you're going to use once? That's why this cookbook was such a godsend. Antoni includes a list of pantry staples in the beginning pages, and you bet your ass I hit that screenshot button so fast my head spun. This cookbook not only makes consistent use of the pantry list but also contains items that you can reuse for other things you cook, time and time again.

My absolute favourite thing about this book, though, is how no-nonsense the recipes are. While reading this book for inspiration before a grocery trip, I thought to myself 'yeah, I can totally do this' on practically every recipe. It's not complicated, but also fancy enough to impress dinner guests (and I can finally retire that old casserole recipe!).