True confession: I want to crawl inside this book. I want to live in Maine, have chickens and fresh eggs daily, and enjoy cocktails and nibbles under a tree on my lawn. I can’t do most of those things, but I can learn more about eggs and peruse these delightful recipes.

This is a charming, delightful book, far more than a cookbook with its introductory chapters on chickens and eggs, and the appendices with lists of necessary kitchen gadgets and accoutrements. There is a recipe index with a separate index for number of eggs required for a recipe, which I love. I hadn’t heard of Lisa Steele, so didn’t know she already had such a huge social media following. I loved this book. #TheFreshEggsDailyCookbook #NetGalley

This is a great book with much more than a few recipes.
It starts with a bit of the author's history. She grew up around chickens, moved to the high pressure city and then came back to her own farm with chickens.
She gives a treasure of egg information from freshness, color, proper way to crack and more.
The recipes start with basics like fried, scrambled, poached, etc. Then continues with appetizers, meals, deserts and snack recipes.
The end focuses on other ingredients in her recipes and how to use & store them as well as utensils and appliances.

Eggs are just about the perfect food: nutritious, relatively inexpensive and tasty. This book taught me more than I ever thought there was to know about eggs, and then was filled with tons of recipes. It would make a great gift, especially for my friends who keep chickens in their backyards. Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for providing this ARC in exchange for an honest review.

3.5 stars

This is good back to add to your cookbook collection. I like how the author went into depth about chicken and eggs. She gives you some good recipes to try--which I'm looking forward to. I liked that she included photos in the book as well even though they didn't turn out the best due to formatting issues but overall a good book.

This book starts with an explanation of fresh eggs and how to obtain the freshest eggs possible, even if you don't raise chickens. It then gives you the basics of how to prepare eggs, but to be honest that's not what I was interested in. I wanted the unique recipes, ones I maybe hadn't thought of for eggs. Boy did this cookbook deliver! From Scrambled Egg Hand Pies, Cream-Fried Eggs, Cheesy Baked Cream Eggs, Maple Walnut Bourbon Sauce, Lemony Egg Salad Sandwich, Egg Flip, Maple Sour, and even Homemade Pasta (if I'm feeling ambitious one day!). There were a lot of classic recipes in the book (especially in the dessert and sauces sections) that I knew already, but was happy to see them collected in one place. All in all this was a good book, and I recommend it for people who want a good mix of unique and classic recipes.

This is an awesome cookbook. I own chickens and I still learned new information from this book. There is a plethora of knowledge here, from why you should use farm-fresh eggs to preserving eggs to how to care for cast-iron skillets. I am gluten intolerant and my husband is lactose intolerant, so I would have appreciated information on alternative ingredients for food intolerances. I have learned to be very cautious on baked-goods recipes. Sometimes I can substitute a gluten-free baking flour and it's great, sometimes it's horrible. Also missing is nutritional information. However, this book is exactly what I needed, especially growing up in the city, now living rural and raising chickens. In the summer we can have up to 18 eggs per day, but minimal eggs from October through February when daylight is limited. I would buy this book for myself or give it as a gift to friends and family.

This cookbook is a wonderful resource for eggs. There is so much I learned that I didn't know before, all about eggs and chickens and fresh food. The photos are gorgeous and the recipes leave my mouth watering. I don't know that I would personally need a cookbook with a whole intro all about eggs, but would be a helpful resource to pick up from the library. Can't wait to try come of the recipes!

Perfection! I am always looking for new ways to cook using ingredients I know that I enjoy. This is an excellent book! Thank you!

"...To use eggs in unexpected ways?" I thought that was the job of Thai "entertainers", but it's an option for us now as well, with a hundred ovo-positive recipes. But before we get to them, we have a lot of wading to do. Yes, beyond the discussions of this and that, the technique for a simple scrambled, the ideal time for a poached, or for pickling eggs, we get a heck of a lot of lifestyle porn and autobiography, as if this was the kind of recipe book with the curator's name waaaaay above the title, which it didn't seem to be. So in amongst food safety tips and preservation guides, there are reflections on keeping the chickens in the first place, and the first echt recipe beyond the Eggs 101 instruction comes a long way in.

Cue a whole two paragraphs telling us what breakfast means.

Now, some people will immediately take a dislike to these recipes for 'health' reasons. Eggs fried in heavy cream? Eggs baked in heavy cream? Eggs on toast with about a thousand calories of avocado in between? I mean, we've already given vegans conniptions just from the title, is nobody due a break? Sadly, these people will have to learn to let us live and enjoy life, which this book seems to do. Only after breakfast is over do we really to do things with eggs, like turn them into pancakes, "popovers" (miniature Yorkies to have with a sweet topping) or bread pudding. It seems you're not only taken through the day here but carried along on a wave from simplicity to complexity, with things like 'making your own Scotch eggs' and, er, smothering bacon with a gallon of sugar and maple syrup mix to bake, which involves no eggs whatsoever and seems here for the sheer trigger warning hell of it. The final chunk involves mucho baking, and things I can't be bothered to do – however much I love tiramisu I can't see me making my own.

Visually, we don't get a full photo for every recipe, which is probably a good thing, but when they're full-page they can still seem a waste of space (and the last omelette here seems half-cooked, what's more). The chief way of rating these books for me is (a) how much of the page is dross, and there's not too much in the introductory sentences for every recipe that is superfluous, and (b) how much I take screen grabs of for future reference. Here I did pull more recipes than the norm, even if the chance of me worrying about doing egg drop soup any time soon is very slight. Perhaps the biggest thing I took from this is how close the salad nicoise looked to a ramen in the mise-en-place mode. Now there's an experiment.

All told, this is a success – a friendly, welcoming cook book that doesn't demand ridiculous ingredients or skill, and doesn't pretend to the most pretentious of dishes imported from southern Antiquistan and inherited from troglodytic yak herders. It's homely, it's easy to read – meaning it makes sense, and it makes sense to try these dishes, and it makes sense to buy the book. With its unexpected variety, it's a strong four stars.

This book does a surprisingly phenomenal job given that it’s limited itself to recipes that include eggs!

Not only does the book contain special details about working with eggs that I never even considered before, but each of the recipes sound truly delicious. I can’t personally say I love eggs enough to make something from this book everyday, but I would certainly not complain about eating every recipe in this book over the course of many days.

The book itself is gorgeous, each of the pictures are well curated, and the way the recipes are laid out makes them really easy to follow. On top of that, simply perusing the ingredients for each recipe makes it clear that Lisa Steele has a good sense of flavour. Another wonderful part of the book is that there are a decent amount of recipes in here that I’ve never even heard of before like Pannukakku, rum plum Breton, lemon blueberry whoopie pies and much more.

This book really will teach you to cook eggs in ways you have never expected before, but believe me when I say this book has so much more to offer than merely scrambled eggs (which she also included and which sound phenomenal and unique). It’s a beautiful cookbook filled with a lot of delightful recipes I’m really looking forward to making.

I would really say that even if you don’t imagine yourself loving eggs enough to need this book, flip through it first because it’s contents might really surprise you. When I say this book will make you want fresh eggs daily, I really mean it.

Special thanks to the publishers and netgalley for a virtual arc of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Lisa Steele knows her eggs - enough to confidently run the extremely useful "Fresh Eggs Daily" website and blog [ https://fresheggsdaily.com ] No matter what you need to know about eggs or the factories that make them (also known as 'chickens', 'ducks', and 'geese'), I'm confident Lisa will have the answer. Browse her website and you'll see what I mean.

And now she's written "The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook". I'd intended to give it a preliminary flip-through to get a feel for her recipes before giving it a more comprehensive look, but the introduction captured me right away. It's like a little novel, filled with gorgeous wordsmithery and country inspiration. Charming. So, of course I had to slow down and savor that.

Then came a mini-biography about Lisa's life, her husband, her lifestyle, her website, and of course, her chickens. Nope, I couldn't hurry through that, either. Each beautiful picture needed a few moments of my attention, too.

Surely the recipes would start soon. Oh, wait. 'Know Your Eggs' is next. I chuckled, since I've been a from-scratch cook for decades now. It didn't take long to wipe the smug smile off my face as I learned new tricks and debunked a few old wives' tales.

Ah, here we go! 'Cooking With Eggs' is next! And... no, we aren't being handed recipes just yet, we're learning how to handle and work with eggs, and as a bonus, the 'General Cooking Tips' is jam-packed with advice I wish I'd been told about when I first moved out on my own.

Recipes now? Well, sort of. We've arrived at 'Basic Cooking Techniques', where every style of cooking an egg is described; fried, coddled, poached, baked and more. That's followed by a section on preserving eggs, from freezing to pickling and a few more twists in between.

'A Few Final Thoughts' wraps it all up. By now, my *quick skim* of the cookbook has taken all afternoon, and I am starting to feel like a graduate of Egg University.

"Bring on the recipes!" I say. And she does! I'm so egg-cited. They're broken (not literally) into sections - breakfast, lunch and dinner, and a few miscellaneous catch-alls, which include foamy-fun cocktails and what I personally consider to be the pinnacle of egg achievement, mayonnaise. The recipes range from healthy to decadent, and there are many, many of them.

Of course, Lisa isn't quite done, so you'll find 'Additional Resources' and TWO recipe indexes. One is simply a traditional recipe look-up listing, but the other is indexed by the number of eggs needed for each recipe. Brilliant, especially when you have three eggs on hand and company coming for dinner.

Buy this cookbook for every young person you know as they move into their first home on their own. Buy it for long-time cooks like me who could stand to learn a new trick or ten. Buy it for yourself because you deserve it.

My thanks to author Lisa Steele, Harper Horizon, and NetGalley for allowing me to read a digital advance review copy of this book. This review is my honest and unbiased opinion.

What a great cookbook for your egg enthusiast! I am a lover of quiche, and This cookbook had awesome ideas for everything you can imagine from French toast to alcoholic drinks! Who knew that some classic cocktails contain eggs? There were beautiful pictures of a majority of the recipes in the book. A very good for basics when it comes to preparing eggs in anyway. I am a big baker and there were recipes for pastry cream and meringues that I will for sure try!

Wow this cookbook is educational and fun. I learned so much about eggs that I did not know as well as it really supports my eat local ideal. Lisa provides a bit about herself as well as how she managed to get involved in raising chickens and thus gathering eggs, the idea of how much better they are for you as well as being able to really enjoy the flavor of the eggs. This cookbook is so much more beyond the recipes which are easy to follow and delicious. There are great photos and explanations. . I appreciated that she addressed cooking with all different styles, all kinds of ingredients and sweet as well as savory were covered. If you love eggs or know of an egg lover, give this book a try. You will not be disappointed.

Thank you to NetGalley, Harper Hirizon, and the author for a gifted copy. Publication date: February 15, 2022

I eat eggs 3-4 days a week and am always looking for and open to new ideas and suggestions. This is the book I have been looking for. I love that there are so many recipes specifically dedicated to eggs! One of my favorite sections was the explanation and teaching of all things eggs. I learned a lot, particularly from the common egg myths that I have been guilty of believing. I appreciated that she addressed cooking in all different styles, with all kinds of ingredients and sweet and savory were covered. If you love eggs or know of an egg lover, give this book a try. You will not be disappointed.
I received a complimentary copy from the publisher via NetGalley and all opinions expressed are solely my own, freely given.

A delightful and easy to follow cookbook that shows you different ways to cook with eggs.

I have already tried several recipes and loved them. Great job!

An adorable book for every recipe with eggs under the sun. This is especially perfect for people who have chicken and therefor always have a big supply. It’s also pretty good if you have a vegetarian friend and don’t know how to make a nice main dish without meat. The recipes all look tasty, satisfying and appetising.

If you love eggs and/or try to have at least one every day, this cookbook would be a great one to have! There are so many yummy-looking and wholesome recipes and I spotted many that I definitely want to try (for example, the cream fried eggs - never knew there was such a thing!) There are also recipes for sauces and other things that would go nicely with eggs.

You will find all the info you need on cooking eggs. I have to confess that I did not know that you can actually steam eggs to get them hardboiled too.

Then I was delighted to see that there is actually an index to recipes that shows what you can cook if you have a certain number of egg white or yolk to use up. Now that would be so useful!

Almost all the recipes have an accompanying photo and the photos are beautiful. Certainly a worthwhile book to have for the egg lover. Because I am on a therapeutic low carb diet, I will not be able to eat some of the food in here but I can see how it would appeal to someone not on any diet.

A great cookbook highlighting tips and tricks to use all of your eggs. I know that I often have issues finishing an egg carton before they go bad and this book had lots of recipes to help with that.

Thank you to netgalley and the publishers for providing me with an arc for an honest review.

The Fresh Eggs Daily Cookbook is more than just a recipe book it is an egg bible from a real 'eggspert'. There are some new and surprising recipes and ideas for using eggs, in addition to lots of information about them and how to store them. I liked the way there are also recipes for egg yolks and egg whites so at the times when you have used one or the other you have somewhere to go for some great ideas so you don't end us wasting any part. The authors' passion oozes out from the pages and it all feels very healthy and holistic. Overall a really good book.

This is as clearly comprehensive and sweetly enthusiastic a book on all the ins and out of cooking with eggs that one could possibly ask for.. And of course, the sweeping variety of easy-to-follow recipes provide plenty of delicious opportunity to either try different spins on old favorite egg recipes, or to venture out of one's cooking comfort zone of scrambles and fried eggs into brand new territory.

This is an absolute winner of a cookbook, and would make an excellent edition to any amateur chef's home library.