A very helpful book, packed with nutritious and seemingly tasty recipes! I have to admit, I saved plenty of them for future use. It seems like there is something in here for every taste, as it includes breakfast recipes, as well as bowls including meet, vegetables, and fish, a variety of sauces and vegetarian and/or gluten free alternatives. Highly recommended!

It's a good thing I wasn't too hungry while browsing this title or else I might have licked my computer screen. The wide range of ingredients used are such that their cost or availability is fairly accessible to most cools. The variety and relatively uncomplicated recipes is a plus.

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What a terrific cookbook! Nice, healthy recipes, color photos sprinkled throughout, relatively easy ingredients to get.....I really enjoyed just looking through this cookbook and am looking forward to trying quite a few of the recipes. Definitely a book for the Library collection, since bowls are one of the latest food trends. I would highly recommend!

The author uses a variety of grains and rice in her cooking from wheat berries, barley and quinoa - to black rice, brown rice and sorghum.
The author starts out your day with a banana bread bowl using bananas, brown rice, butter, flaxseeds and sea salt. Theses ingredients are mixed together to make a delectable meal! You are then treated to an apple crisp bowl using grains, carmelized apples, milk, butter, honey and cinnamon. There is a luscious recipe for pumpkin pie rice pudding using brown rice, pumpkin puree, spices and coconut milk.

There are vegetable recipes, such as Balsamic Roasted Mushrooms and Brussels Sprouts with goat cheese and gremolata and a Thai Vegetable Curry that uses Thai curry paste, sweet potatoes, gingerroot and coconut paste to make a delectable bowl of spicy goodness!

There are recipes for Asian meatballs, chicken burrito bowls, Roasted whitefish and carmelized carrots in yogurt sauce, and Yogurt marinated lamb kabobs.

Enjoy eating healthy, varied and easy to serve bowls - the pictures make you want to eat off of the page!

This is a very inspiring book which gives recipes to create healthy and substantial lunches, which can be served in a bowl, which is the trendy way of eating now.
The chapters cover, fruit, eggs,vegetable,legumes,chicken turkey, pork, beef, lamb and seafood. There are lots of colour pictures of the finished dish which is important to me as i like to see the finished result to compare with my own results.
I was pleased to see adaptions and variations for vegetarians which as most of the recipes are based around grains is easy to do. Every grain used, is given it's own page, with cooking instructions and whether you need to soak the grains, or not, which again is handy if you have not cooked these before.
I cooked the Cucumber Tabbouleh with Chickpeas & feta, and the finished result was a lovely summer salad dish and filling enough as a main dish. It was easy to make with ingredients which are easily accessible and cheap to make for those on a budget.
All in all this book is great to have on the recipe shelf, and don't be put of if you are vegetarian or vegan too, as the recipes are easily converted.
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Nicki introduces us to this delicious, healthy and trendy meals that are the Bowls. The recipes are  includes nutritional information and historical facts.

This book gives you the guidance to confidently try new ingredients and unlike a lot of cook books, it reads well. I love the extra attention given to the narrative, it made for a pleasurable read on it's own. 

Bowl food is in my DNA!

I love reading cookbooks. First of all, I love cooking and secondly, I love discovering new ways to prepare delicious and nutritious meals. The past year or so, I often encountered meal-in-a-bowl types of recipes. I tried a few and love the concept. When I saw that Storey Publishing was offering an ARC of Build-a-Bowl: 77 Satisfying Nutritious Combos: Whole Grain + Vegetable + Protein + Sauce = Meal by Nicki Sizemore on NetGalley, I jumped on the opportunity to request it. The book is a fast read and it offers wonderful insights into the provenance and nutritional values of grains. Nicki also offers great tips on how to cook the numerous variety of grains listed in the book. The recipes are well detailed and easy to follow. She suggests great substitutions to change up the recipe or to make it vegetarian. There is something for everyone in this cookbook. I am planning to try a few recipes this weekend when I will have some time to prepare the grain portion. I am really looking forward to it!

Thank you NetGalley and Storey Publishing for this delicious ARC. Build-a-Bowl: 77 Satisfying Nutritious Combos: Whole Grain + Vegetable + Protein + Sauce = Meal by Nicki Sizemore will be available at your favourite bookstore on September 4th, 2018. This is a great book to have in your kitchen or to give as a gift.

Bowls are the new plate and while there may be a few bowl themed cookbooks there is none quite so flavorful or with attention to texture as Nikki Sizemore’s Build-a-Bowl which I might insert the word “better” into the title because this really is the bees knees of bowl themed recipes and absolutely deliciously inspiring.

A visually enticing book with a simple but wide variety of recipes on how to build a bowl. This book takes something seemingly very simply and single faceted and makes it exciting and shows many wonderous possibilities that be created and invented with this concept.

Wonderful cookbook, will definitely be added to my collection. The collection of recipes allows for healthy eating that are flavorful.  I like the description of the different bases and how each section is broke up to make it easy to find what you want without having to look at each recipe. The recipe layers are described in sections so you can add some from a few to make one that is perfect for whatever your needs. The photographs were great making me want to try them all.

A great cookbook full of interesting recipes.
Highly recommended!
Many thanks to Storey Publishing and Netgalley for this ARC

A great cookbook, with a variety of sweet & savoury hearty, healthy recipes with beautiful photos.  The recipes are easy and can easily switched up to suit personal preferences.

This is exactly the kind of book I was looking for. Informative and beautifully illustrated. The grains information was invaluable and the recipes are doable.

I received a copy of this book through NetGalley and Storey Publishing for an honest review.
Build-a-Bowl by Nicki Sizemore is a wonderful cookbook filled to the brim with wonderful and fresh recipes that just make the reader drool to taste each and every one of them. It is also filled with great information on different grains and their varieties as well as the different wheat varieties. All this information can be used to determine which grains to use for the base in filling your bowl. The beautiful illustrations and how they are placed through the book enhance the easy and nutritious recipes. I tried three of the recipes. As breakfast is my most important meal as well as the members of my family. These were the Peaches in Cream Bowl, Apple Crisp Bowl and Pumpkin Pie Rice Bowl. For the whole family breakfast on Sunday the Lox and Eggs with Roasted Mushroom and Spring Peas recipe. All recipes were easy to prepare and cook and they were very Yummalicious. Bowl food is not just a trend but a way of life to some people and I can see more Bowl Food Meals being served and enjoyed in my household. I highly recommend this book.

I’ve never eaten this way before. I have a friend who does a lot of “bowl” eating. Now I know why. I like that she breaks everything down, especially the grains. The pictures are very appetizing and the recipes look incredible. I feel the need to give this a whirl.

What a lovely cookbook. I appreciated how she went into explaining to her readers the different base's, so that we could mix and match and create a bunch of different recipes, by knowing what to do for the base of a bowl! While I haven't tried any of the recipe's yet, there were so many that I would LOVE to whip up and enjoy. There was great diversity among the recipes.

This book does provide you with a good formula for making a healthy bowl.  It explains the different bases and how to store and cook them.  You can get that info online for free though, so the star of the book is obviously the recipes.  

There are sections for fruit bowls, legumes, veggies, eggs, and meats.  There's nothing spectacular here, but it's bowls, so I both wanted and expected simple.  A bit meat heavy for my liking, but you can always edit / substitute.  It's got more than enough ideas to get you started on making bowls if you're stuck for inspiration.

Fabulous book! 
I have been trying to think of dishes that are healthy but packed full of flavour and fun to put together. 
This is perfect for people who want to try new foods, eat healthier with food that packs a punch.