A good cookbook for the inexperienced home cook. Recipes include Basic Bone-in Pork Roast, Tuna Macaroni Salad, Help With Hamburger Helper, Best of Beef Stew, Sausage Pasta Casserole, Stuffed Cabbage Without the Roll. There are a few, more challenging recipes, such as Beef Wellington, Braised Short-Ribs, Venison Chili, and Summer Sunday Crab Cakes.

I have seen her tv show, and I found her down-home charm to be a little too much (my husband can't stand her), but what I did enjoy about the tv show is that she gives helpful cooking tips. In this book there are no helpful tips, other than a list of the basic tools you need to cook with. What I'd like to see are tips & a photo for every recipe. There are pictures but not for every recipe.

What I really disliked about the book are the photos of super cute lambs, pigs, chickens, Nancy hugging a calf, right beside recipes that feature the animals. My husband said it's almost enough to make him want to become a vegetarian.

A few good recipes, but overall not worth purchasing. Borrow it from the library instead. ( )