A fun and handy cookbook using items most of us have in our pantries.

Practical advise, with practical ingredients combined with fantastic recipies and great color photos. Important features in any cookbook.

Some standard recipies and some with a new slant. Always good when you don't know what to cook.

Thank you Netgalley and publisher.

3.5 Stars

The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook by Noah Galuten is a cookbook that attempts to help you take the stress out of cooking. Many of the recipes in the book are vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free, and will fit with the needs of many trying to eat healthier. While this book may not solve the dilemmas that inexperienced home cooks face, it does provide a lot of insight into what items every pantry needs.

Quite often when deciding what to make for dinner, I open the pantry and hope that inspiration will leap out at me from the shelves. Sometimes this works, but I usually just gravitate to the same old recipes. This cookbook has given me a few new options and I have also added a couple of new staples to my pantry shelves.

❀ CONTENTS: THE DON’T PANIC PANTRY COOKBOOK BY NOAH GALUTEN

Foreword by Iliza Shlesinger
Introduction
Marcella and Camus
More About Thos Guidelines
My Pantry
Actual Pantry
Within Arm’s Reach
Fridge and Freezer
Helpful Kitchen Tools
Pantry Prep
Breakfast
Healthful Snacks
Vegetables
Salads and Dressings
Pasta and Noodles
Soups and Stews
More Things in Bowls
Almost Entirely Proteins

❀ DOES NOT SET OUT TO SOLVE HOW NOT TO PANIC IN THE KITCHEN

The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook by Noah Galuten has some great ideas for what to include in your pantry and a wealth of interesting recipes. While the images are stunning and the book has an easy to follow format, it doesn’t set out to solve how not to “panic” when it comes to cooking. However, it will be useful to anyone looking for pantry ideas and vegetarian recipes.

Love the concept, who doesn't want to get better at throwing meals together with simple pantry ingredients. Ultimately though, nothing stuck out to me as a must try recipe. I would recommend this for someone who doesn't typically cook at home much, or doesn't already have a few cookbooks to choose from.

Thank you to Net Galley for the advance ecopy of this book. This is a very easy to follow cookbook, sprinkled with enjoyable prose. The recipes are all doable by even the most apprehensive cooks.. This should be a staple cookbook for all. apprehensive cooks, and the majority of items can be found in most kitchens. For the utter newbie, a list of pantry basics is provided.

At the outset of the Covid-19 pandemic, husband and wife team Iliza Shlesinger (a comedian) and Noah Galuten (a chef) started an Internet cooking series, "Don't Panic Pantry," to entertain and educate people stuck at home with pantries full of food they didn't know how to cook. Hundreds of episodes later, Galuten brings these lessons to the page in The Don't Panic Pantry Cookbook. Galuten calls it the cookbook he's "always wanted to write (deeply personal, filled with pasta and lentils and beans)," informed by his experience making videos for home cooks of every background and comfort level in the kitchen. He encourages home cooks to start with what they can, promising a set of skills and dishes that will ultimately rival any "mediocre take-out place" that tempts with convenience and ease. This mindset is then combined with seven instructions for eating well. Easy-to-follow guidelines like "balance is good" keep these from veering into toxic diet culture.

This seemingly simple approach to home cooking is not to say that the recipes in The Don't Panic Pantry are basic, boring or bland--anything but. Flavors abound in the breakfasts, snacks, sides and mains offered up here (many of which are vegetarian by default, though there are a few meat-forward dishes): Jalapeño-Pesto Hummus for a hearty snack, Ginger-Cilantro Chicken Noodle Soup for a warming meal, Krauty Beans for a fast dash of something savory. "You can cook," Galuten insists in the introduction, and with easy-to-stock ingredients and simple-to-follow instructions, The Don't Panic Pantry is an excellent tool for any home cook to find out just how true that statement is. --Kerry McHugh, freelance reviewer

This book is worth the price of entry for the shoyu butter mushroom tip alone. That said, it's already so similar to the way I cook - on the fly, mostly vegetarian, with a lot of dishes from Italian-American culture with some influence from Japanese cooking - that I paradoxically wasn't able to get much from it. It's a shame that I wasn't able to learn much more from it, because I love a cookbook that seeks to lower the intimidation factor when it comes to approaching cooking and meals. Despite this, I would absolutely recommend this to anyone who wanted to learn or relearn how to cook with a sense of playfulness and practicality.

The Don’t Panic Pantry Cookbook is an upbeat versatile recipe book, full of accessable and achievable recipes, definitely something for everyone.
I enjoyed the tips and advice dotted through the book, for example which is the best seafood to look for to consider sustainability and the best way to wash rice before cooking.
Some recipes I liked the look of are Krauty omelette (there is a lot of sauerkraut in this book which I approve of!), Shantam’s Kitchari and Broccoli Sausage bread (broccoli and sausage feature heavily too which I also approve of).
Another thing I enjoyed about the book and in my opinion is very important in a cookbook, the photographs are very well styled and presented.

THE DON'T PANIC PANTRY COOKBOOK by Noah Galuten, "Mostly Vegetarian Comfort Food That Happens to Be Pretty Good for You." Galuten and his wife are developing an interesting brand based on their pandemic experience; he is a chef, James Beard Award-nominated cookbook author, and host of the YouTube cooking show Don't Panic Pantry. Their attitude towards cooking is refreshing, saying that all of us "are negotiating constantly with two different versions of ourselves: the one who wants to be healthier and the one who wants to be excited, or comforted, by the food we eat." As a result, Galuten's recipes involve quote a bit of noodles, pasta and beans, but they are easy to make and generally good for you. He provides plenty of "basics" like soup stocks, smoothies, and salad dressings from which to choose. I might try suggestions like Turkey Meatballs or Turmeric Tomato Salad with Fried Herbs. More pictures and adding nutrition information would be helpful.

Very, very practical! Takes all the guess work out of healthy eating. Appealing everyday recipes that do not intimidate newer cooks. Noah Galuten writes with an easy voice and is inspiring.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for the review copy of this book.
This one was not as useful as I had hoped, unfortunately. My guess is if you live in an urban coastal area this would be a much better cookbook choice; I kept running down the lists of ingredients and thinking about my small town Iowa grocery stores and sighing. One breakfast suggestion here needed 45 minutes to cook. How am I ever supposed to make it to work? Another one was called "health sludge" which is just kind of hard to get behind. Tbh, I am not going to be making all my own stock anytime soon. I'm sure that this will fit many readers much better than it did me.

I like the idea of this cookbook which was born out of pandemic cooking - don’t panic, use what you have, substitute ingredients to make things work. The recipes are healthy and seem solid. It’s a good cookbook, not something I would reach for often, though.

Though the recipes were interesting and fairly straightforward for someone who keeps a stocked kitchen, this book wasn't the answer I thought it was going to be for people who don't cook. Upon seeing the title and cover I immediately thought of friends who are easily overwhelmed by cooking and looking for a "don't panic" approach to it. While I, as someone who enjoys cooking and building dishes from items I keep handy, really enjoyed the approach to this book, I wonder if it unintentionally promises something it doesn't deliver.

I'm a big fan of cookbooks, even if I rarely get around to using them when it comes time to cook.
Too often I freeze up at too many options and absolutely panic only to fall back on reliable recipes I've used for years, and then lament the fact that I never try anything new.

"Don't Panic" and "Pantry" are both big draws for me in a cookbook title, it turns out. "Mostly Vegetarian" is a perk, given that my spouse has recently started trying to steer themselves toward a more veggie and less meaty diet.
I absolutely loved the introduction's emphasis on 'don't panic' and 'trying matters'. I've recently found that reminding myself that 'better is enough' and 'perfection does not exist', so seeing those phrases right there, staring me in the face from the introduction, was delightful. "Learn how to make food you are willing to eat" is a phrase everyone needs to hear and sit with.

I was also pleased to realize that Noah Galuten's wife is the comedian my mom recently told me about, emphasizing how much I would adore her and needed to go watch some stuff immediately. It looks like I'll be looking into their pandemic cooking videos first!

I was quite pleased to see that most of the pantry staple recommendations are things I already have stashed around our kitchen and pantry, although I did jot down a couple of things that made sense to me that we don't keep on hand. I was also pleasantly surprised at how much of the book seemed to be variations on things I already do- I made so many notes of things to try out next time I panic and go to my tried-and-true recipes, so that I'll at least feel like I'm mixing it up when I'm not stepping entirely out of my comfort zone.

I did copy down a few recipes in their entirety and am eager to get a chance to try those. I've been wanting to try my hand at pickling for a while and the "Ginger-Habanero Carrot Pickles" looked and sounded amazing! They'll likely be my first stop with this book, but I'm also eager to tackle some of those soups and salad dressings as well!

Overall, I'll definitely be recommending this book to those who seem overwhelmed by our cookbook selection and to friends who express frustration at not knowing where to start.

How did I miss The Don’t Panic Pantry during the CoVid quarantine! I really missed out on something amazing. A chef and his comedienne wife cook live on the internet using the staples we all stocked up on at the grocery store. Full of mostly vegan recipes there are some very delicious comfort food recipes that are also no sugar. The exceptions use chicken stock, chicken or fish. I plan on making the clam pasta recipe this week! The Sausage and Broccoli Stromboli is delicious and so are the soups and grain bowls. If you are looking for healthy and delicious recipes for your family this is the book you need.

I felt a bit ambivalent about this one. Yes, it's geared towards pantry ingredients - but frequently the pantries of rather fancy people. Additionally, I was not familiar with this chef and it is not obvious looking at the book that it's very anti-sugar (which is fine, but still not expected). I think it's a bit of a marketing error.

Is it 6 pm? Is your stomach rumbling, and you need dinner NOW?

This is the book that will help you go from staring wide-eyed at your fridge to having a delicious, nutritious meal on your plate. Packed full of flavorful recipes using ingredients you already have on hand, like canned tomatoes for a perfect tomato sauce, or odds and ends for a “forest floor” granola, this book would be great for any not-so-sure home cook.

I first found out about Noah Galuten because I'm a big from of his wife, Iliza. I was very excited to try recipes from his new cookbook and they definitely did not disappoint. I love that it's mainly all vegetarian recipes, especially since I don't feel too comfortable cooking meats. I will definitely be picking up copies and giving these out to friends and family who love to cook.

The Don't Panic Pantry Cookbook is a collection of excellent mostly vegetarian recipes using an array of pantry staples. The recipes are all well-written with clear instructions and photos provided so you know what you're aiming to make. The photos all look delicious making me exciting to cook many things in this book. The recipes are unique and creative. Highly recommended to anyone looking for a solid vegetarian cookbook. Be sure to check out The Don't Panic Pantry Cookbook today.

This is most definitely a title I think I’d like to add to my own kitchen cookbook library. These fun and inventive recipes are geared towards (mostly) meatless diets, based upon pantry staples, and in particular there’s a lot of great legume and vegetable-focused dishes. It almost feels like someone asked me a few questions about my own cooking preferences and then proceeded to make a book out of it.