This cookbook has beautiful mouth-watering photos of the recipes. The ingredients in her recipes, for the most part, are easily found at your local grocery store or in your pantry. I was a bit put off by those recipes using condensed soup. The recipes seem easy to follow without a ton of steps to follow. The recipes in the Party Foods section seemed elevated yet easy to make. Since I do not have kids, the School Days section was not relevant. She includes chef tips and mom tips although they all could have just been labeled as tips. In the Pots de Creme recipe, I wish she had indicated if the heated cream is hot enough to cook the eggs.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

I really loved the recipes in this book, my favorite chapter hands down was for cheat days. If you love southern food, this cookbook is a must have with easy, doable recipes. I thank Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book.

This was a great cookbook. I think it is definitely full of great offerings to make for company in various situations or for nights you are feeling indulgent. Come on Over! is comfort food at it's best. I bookmarked so many recipes to try. I also liked that there was a section for healthier dishes for when you need something non-indulgent for dinner. Most of those recipes also sounded delicious so you don't have to feel like you are missing out on anything.

A lovely, well put together book of delicious sounding recipes. All the photographs are enticing and I can wait to try out some more of the recipes. Easy to follow and great for novice cooks through to experts

I always love me some Southern-style cooking! It feels like a bit of an indulgence and always a treat.

I enjoyed flipping through this cookbook. It's a charming cover that easily makes my mouth water! The pictures are nice throughout the book. The commentary is good and Elizabeth Heiskell tells some funny stories but sometimes her tone about her upbringing grated on my nerves.

That said the recipes look fantastic. Nice and easy home-style dishes with ingredients that are easy to find or are already in your pantry. I like how the recipes are divided into many sections. There are: Week days, Party days, Delta days, Summer days, Beach days, Game days, School days, Diet days, and Cheat days. Endless recipes for any time or occasion. I especially will try Elizabeth's mom's recipe for, "Chicken Tetrazzini." It sounds so easy and yet delicious.

I also know I have got to try the, "Lemon Sparklers" at my next gathering. I think these will be an absolute hit! Another must try is the, "Tacky Tacky Meatballs." After all what spells PARTY food more than meatballs?

I'd like to kindly thank Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing and NetGalley for granting me access to this Advance Reader's Copy.

A beautifully put together book full of delicious recipes to try, stunning photography and gorgeous anecdotes about family and friends. Easy to navigate chapters for the different days in your life.

So many tasty recipes to make! Love all of the beautiful colorful photos as well! Definitely good for those who love to cook!

I received an arc of this title from NetGalley for an honest review. Some good recipes for the upcoming fall for me.

Southern cooking is a fun and delicious indulgence and this book delivers several approachable meals for Sunday dinners, daily life, days you're eating thoughtfully and even cheat days. The recipes are a mix of scratch meals made with whole ingredients and some are made with pantry staples like ranch dressing for those hectic days.

This cookbook would easily be five stars were it not for the author's endless anecdotes about her wealth and popularity. That quickly grew tiresome, so four stars.

Thank you to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and NetGalley for giving me this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a nice mixture of homemade and easy to make quick recipes using packaged goods. Beautifully photographed, well-written, and a nice assortment of recipes for every occasion.

I really loved this cookbook with all sorts of cool recipes. The pictures were great and really highlighted what you could make. The directions were simple so it's something I could make at home.

I received this as an ARC from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in exchange for an honest review. I really loved this cookbook. The photographs were excellent and highlighted the food and the author. I especially enjoyed the introduction to each recipe and the little notes in the ingredients list and directions. I am not a fan of processed foods, like cream of mushroom soup or ranch dressing mix, but you could either skip those recipes or find a replacement for those items. The book has recipes to suit so many occasions and tastes and most were simple to make and contained a reasonable number of ingredients, most of which I typically have in my kitchen.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the chance to read this advance copy.

This cookbook is great! I love the variety of recipes and the pictures are amazing. I'm really looking forward to trying some of them. I might have to add a physical copy of this cookbook to my collection.

Come On Over! by Elizabeth Heiskell definitely lives up to the title phrase “Southern Delicious for Every Day and Every Occasion”. This book reminds me of the church cookbooks of my youth filled with recipes requested time and again. Each recipe in this book feels like “home”. As I’ve worked my way through the recipes none have been fussy or complicated, and each turned out delicious. The vignettes that precede each of the recipes personalize the book in a way that resonated with me. This book has earned a place on my cookbook shelf and will soon become smudged and dog-eared with use.

I've tried every device that I have and every computer and I cannot open this file. So I can't rate this book

While two stars sounds like I'm trashing this book, Goodreads says two stars is "it was okay" and that's about as much as I can do for this one. On the plus side, it's filled with great color photos and most of the recipes will probably taste pretty good. On the other hand, this woman just repeatedly rubbed me all kinds of the wrong ways.

Examples--

The "Fat Lady Soup" that she and her girlfriends eat for a week after they go some posh and have too much fancy food.

The hilarious (actually not) story of her two year old letting out a blood-curdling scream at a nice restaurant because her buttered pasta had "green stuff" (parsley) on it. This story prefaced the "No beans or green stuff chili" that is the very first recipe in the "school days" section for kids (did I mention it also has a can of either beer or coke in it, too?). I do not have the time or space to write all the things that riled me up about all of that.

The frequent use of ingredients like packaged gravy mix, cake mix, cream of blank soup, ranch dressing mix and other processed junk ingredients (though many recipes are also from scratch).

The endless "I grew up rich" stories before every recipe, like the one where she mentions she and her siblings spent their summers at the country club with a charge account so they could eat anything they wanted all day.

How often she mentions her "best-selling cookbooks," her "countless" book signings, tv appearances, radio interviews, this or that elite event or restaurant she was at, etc.

The overly affected Southern schtick. I've lived in the south (I've lived just about everywhere in the US) and this type of overdone Southern stuff just comes across as so pretentious to me. When I lived down south, I had far too many encounters with entitled, rich white women who were overly obsessed with designer clothes, perfect houses and throwing the best parties. They are just not my people.

So yeah. I don't know if I'll try any of the recipes, but for me the whole book was like going to a family get-together where that annoying show-off relative shows up and you spend the whole time in the back yard with the dog instead.

Apologies for the snark. I love southern food (as a treat) but this book obviously wasn't a great fit for me.

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for review.

Come On Over by Elizabeth Heiskell is a wonderful collection of Southern recipes with gorgeous pictures and lots of personal stories by the author. Heiskell grew up in the Mississippi Delta, and shares recipes from that area and from the South in general.

What I love about it most is it is organized for you to use in your everyday life, no matter what is going on. The chapters are entitled Weekdays, Party Days, Delta Days, Summer Days, Beach Days, Game Days, School Days, Diet Days, and Cheat Days.

WEEKDAYS gives you everyday dinner and dessert recipes. I am planning to try the spaghetti pie immediately.

PARTY DAYS are just that--recipes for gatherings, from drinks to a dessert.

DELTA DAYS speak straight from the author's heart, as she is a child of the Mississippi Delta. She provides classic recipes from that area such as Mississippi caviar (It's not what you think) and pocket knife slaw. The mason jar cocktails are wonderful for summer or fall barbecues. The Blues Boy cocktail includes blackberries and mint, and is a great way to use up mint from your garden. If you're like me, your mint is growing faster than you can use it.

SUMMER DAYS starts with watermelon and tomato gazpacho and white wine peach sangria. Tomato pie and squash casserole follow. All these recipes look delicious and will help you use up your summer garden bounty. Summer Days ends with a recipe for chocolate cobbler er, which I have tried. It is insanely good and so easy to make. The hot water poured on top turns into a delicious fudge sauce on the bottom. It is great paired with ice cream.

BEACH DAYS provides lots of seafood recipes plus wonderful desserts. I have my eye on dessert #4, which is easy to make and includes both amaretto and ice cream sandwiches! Booze and ice cream? I'm in.

GAME DAYS starts with a biscuit bar and provides recipes for all kinds of snacks from PB 'n J wings to caramel brownies.

SCHOOL DAYS is all about lunches and includes recipes that kids will love.

DIET DAYS includes soups, salad, and even a juice recipe for healthy eating. The disappearing vinaigrette is a must, and the story about fat lady soup will make you smile. This fat lady is making that soup.

Finally, CHEAT DAYS provides decadence, such as pimento cheese stuffed burgers and boozy milkshakes, for those days when you just want comfort food.

I can't say enough positive things about this cookbook. It has great recipes, fabulous photos, and wonderful heartfelt stories from the author. I received a free digital copy of this book from the publishers via Netgalley. However, I will purchase a hard copy as soon as it comes out because this one is a keeper that I want in my Southern kitchen. My review is voluntary.

This cookbook has a little bit of everything! 'Come On Over' is a largely unfussy cookbook with vibrant pictures accompanying a variety of recipes. They vary from heavy to healthy, leaning towards southern style cooking. I really liked this cookbook and found some of the recipes surprising. Overall, a fun and beautiful cookbook!

Thank you NetGalley and the publisher for providing this ARC.

This book was received as an ARC from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in exchange for an honest review. Opinions and thoughts expressed in this review are completely my own.

This whole book was filled with delicious recipes that are perfect for any occasion. The photos featured in the cookbook were so detailed it was as if we could grab them right out of the book and taste them. I am so excited to make a lot of these recipes especially some of the mason jar drinks and definitely the jalapeno pimento cheese stuffed cornbread.. I know a lot of our patrons will enjoy this book and it is definitely a candidate for a future cooking demo cookbook.

We will consider adding this title to our TX Collection at our library. That is why we give this book 5 stars.

Come On Over is my kind of cookbook. The food featured is real, down home southern food the way that real, down home southern people eat it. The author says it best when she writes "These recipes are simple yet satisfying." I collect cookbooks and too often these days I crack open a new one to find a Chef/Writer/Eater who is simply trying too hard. This book is all about comfort food without being complicated. I think it would make a wonderful gift to new homeowners, newlyweds or someone striking out on their own for the first time. I absolutely cannot wait to try the Good Chicken, its on the menu this week. And there are some really brilliant ideas in these pages that made me say 'duh, why didn't I think of that?' like the Moon Pie Ice Cream Sandwiches (definitely making these ASAP) and the Jalapeno Pimento Cheese Cornbread Muffins. Read that again and tell me your mouth isn't watering. How delicious and simple does that sound? Beyond the food the writing is relatable and without pretention, the pictures are beautiful and I loved the scrapbook style layouts that some of the pages featured, which makes it feel like your thumbing through a family recipe book vs. a commercial one. This will make a great addition to your kitchen collection!