However, most ingredients were commonplace and easy to come by. There were so many dishes I couldn't wait to make! Obviously her sweets were on my list: Cardamom and Carrot Cakes with Maple Icing and Coconut Oatmeal Cookies! Strangely, this book's breakfast chapter was filled with meals I would definitely get up early for: Banana, Blueberry, and Pecan Pancakes and Overnight Peach Oats. I'm not a morning person, something Anna also confesses to so perhaps that is why we see eye to eye on breakfast. I have a sneaking suspicion breakfast isn't her jam either, "...breakfast wasn't part of my routine..." I can relate.



One of my favorite things about Anna's book are her green-paged information charts. She has one on how to make a soup with lists of various options for herbs, main body, and back-up flavors. It's kind of like a choose your own adventure and would be especially helpful if you're new to cooking sans recipe.

She also has ones for what fruits, vegetables, and herbs are in season. There's a chart on how to make a great salad (similar to the style of the soup map) as well as an outline on her process on recipe creating. I really enjoyed her informational pages on grains, quick sandwich ideas, her go-to pasta recipes, and morning smoothies, as well as many others. It was neat that they were dispersed throughout the book as opposed to collected together in one chapter. The index is categorized by food items, which is always appreciated.