Taste of Home the New Potluck Cookbook

I fell in love with this book after checking it out from our local library. It was great to find it on-line and at such a reasonable price. I couldn't be more pleased.

Handy to have around for those special occasions when you want to bring something special

I originally bought this book as a gift for my aunt. Her recipe is the tomato casserole in it. After looking through it, I had to have one for myself. Not only are there absolutely delicious recipes in here, but the pictures are stunning as well. It's not just a cookbook, this qualifies and an excellent "coffee table" book as well.

Any time I am required to take a dish for a potluck gathering, I call my mother for ideas. Now Taste of Home has given me a book full of eye-catching choices with their "The New Potluck." (I still have to call my mother.) This glossy-coated, sturdy book repeats the picture on the cover with its dust jacket. As is my preference, there is a picture with every recipe. The layout on each page is simple and easy on the eye with lots of white space for writing notes (if you like to mark in your books). Did this recipe work for me? Was it fabulous or so-so? Did I double it? And so on. Cookbook editors organize their books in various ways: by types of dishes, by types of meals, by gatherings. "A New Potluck" is arranged by topics, including Crowd-pleasing specialties, Slow cooker sensations, Fun finger foods, Dishes in a hurry, Breakfast buffets, One-dish wonders, and Festive Favorites. Festive Favorites offers such fare as Easter Egg Bread, cooked with dyed eggs. Very fanciful! Or gorgeous Poinsettia Cookies or Daffodillies, refrigerated biscuit dough prepared to look like flowers with dilled cream cheese centers. Dishes in a hurry contains Layered ham and spinach salad (I have always wanted this recipe), Italian meatball hoagies (yum), Shrimp appetizer spread (a full-page beauty), and a tomato-ey Southwestern Bean Soup. In Crowd pleasing specialties, the recipe I most want to try is Ginger Iced Tea made with Ginger Ale. Others include Mango Nut Bread, Four Cheese Bow Ties (I am making this soon as it is my number one favorite choice in this book according to picture and ingredients), and Sunshine Chicken Wings (one of the best-looking wings recipes ever). For the Breakfast Buffet there are all kinds of muffins and coffee cakes. What I look for is the real food: Sausage Hash Brown Bake, Cheesy Egg Puffs, Southwest Sausage Bake topped with sliced tomatoes, Ham and Cheese Strata, and French Toast Casserole. The desserts are spread throughout the book. Here are a few for sweets lovers: Apple Cinnamon Turnovers, Blueberry Lattice Bars, Apple-Cherry Cobbler, Black Forest Crepes (yum), and Seven Fruit Salad. The Oven Cheese Chowder looks wonderful. A quick and easy dish to prepare on a Friday night is the Taco Stovetop Supper. Or the Tomato Crouton Casserole. Or Nutty Broccoli Slaw, another fabulous salad one sees at Potlucks and doesn't know the recipe. Well, ha, now I do! How about Chive-Cheese Cornbread? And Spinach Phyllo Bundles? When I first acquire a new cookbook, I sit down, look through every page and every recipe and mentally note what I want to try first. Then I go through again and carefully read the recipes, select a couple, and begin the process of preparing a new dish. It's all potluck!

Potluck has wonderful receipes for home or bringing to a party. I love cookbooks with a picture next to every receipe. Variety of all types of food and various ways of preparing them. Breakfast- Lunch - Dinner Grilling, Baking, Slow Cooker it's all there!