I was given an ARC by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.



This is my first time reviewing a cookbook.  It's an excellent book with clear instructions on how to freeze your sauces and how to unfreeze them once you want to use them. The recipes are well written and easy to follow even for amateurs like myself. There also recipes to go with your sauce such as pasta or rice and tofu. Most sauces are also vegetarian friendly which is really awesome. The first chapter features sauces from across the Americas such as a delicious creamy Chipotle and a Creole red gravy.

I tried several recipes starting with the Chimichurri which is one of my favorite sauces it goes well with several meats but also with Italian food, it originates from Argentina and there are many variations but the recipe in this book has quickly become my favorite. The recipe is super easy it doesn't require too much work and your kitchen won't be too messy. All you need is a good knife, a cutting board, a bowl and  freezer bags. I followed the recipe but replaced the jalapeños with chiles and added a pinch of cumin. Even after a few weeks in the freezer the taste was still great.  Due to the chiles my sauce looks a tad bit different from the one in the book. Since I had quite a lot of sacue I put some in jars and gave them to friends and neighbours who enjoyed them just as much as I did.

The next sauce I made was the Sambal from the Asian inspired chapter. Sambal is one of those sauces you'll always find in Indonesian households. I usually only make sambal using my grandma's recipe which has anchovies in it. The version in this book is a more mainstream sambal and a lot less spicy than my grandma's which is a good thing because not everyone enjoys crying while eating. Again the recipe is so easy to follow you won't mess it up. I used this sambal to make sajoer beans a traditional side dish in my kitchen whenever we eat beef rendang.

The next sauce I made was the mango salsa. I ended up with a bit more than the recipe suggests much to the delight of my neighbours and friends. The challenge was to find the perfect mangos and peaches I live in a very small town and exotic fruits are hard to come by. This sauce required a bit more work than the previous sauces and my blender wasn't quite up to the task but it still came out really well. I served the salsa with minced meat tortilla's and it was a huge succes! Even after a month in the freezer it was still to die for! My apologies for the quality of the pictures it's fairly difficult to make good pictures of food. This sauce also goes great with manchego cheese which is a spanish cheese made of sheep milk.

All in all this is a great cookbook for amateurs but also for the more advanced cook with too little time on their hands. The author really understands all the different cuisines and did an awesome job presentation wise. Often with cookbooks there are pages for just 1 recipe and some are so complicated or time-consuming that it takes the joy out of cooking altogether. I'll be buying this book as soon as it comes out.

What a great collection of sauces. It covers that range of proteins that can be used and flavor profiles that you will get.

I love the premise of this cookbook. I can make various sauces on the weekend and then easily pair them with proteins, veggies, pasta, rice, or potatoes during the week to make dinner prep quick and easy. All excess sauces can be frozen for future use. You can even turn thick sauces into soups by thinning them out with broth or milk. Brilliant! I appreciate the photos since I like to see the finished recipe to get me craving the dish. I eat with my eyes first. This book is beneficial to single people, couples, and families. It's a great help to anyone that wants to quickly cook tasty and easy meals.

The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution by Elisabeth Bailey is a fabulous cookbook as the author has presented a smart solution on how to fix meals on the fly. The author starts off her cookbook by writing about the magic of sauces, how to prepare them, and how to freeze them for later use. She includes an explanation of how to pour the sauces into freezer storage bags (which she recommends using to save freezer space) so the process is a simple one. There are photos illustrating this procedure. 

Each sauce recipe includes meals you can make using the recipe. The All-American Barbecue sauce gives the following meal suggestions:

1 cup sauce per one pound of chicken. Serve with French fries and steamed corn.
1 cup sauce per pound of pork. Serve with grits and green salad.
1 cup sauce per pound of beef. Serve with biscuits and Caesar Salad.
1/4 cup sauce per sandwich. Spread sauce evenly over hamburger bun. Top with cooked burger and slice of cheddar cheese. Serve with roasted mixed peppers.

The author includes directions for preparing a base for you sauce. Here you will read about how to cook pasta, rice, baked potatoes, tofu, chicken, shrimp and scallops, white fish, pork and beef. You will also find information on how to prepare sandwiches, and soup too.

Towards the end of her cookbook you will find a section called More Flavor Enhancers where you will find recipes for compound butters and flavored salts.

Finally, you will find a printable meal planner to help you prepare your weekly meals.

Overall, this is a well-written cookbook that will help ease meal preparation while creating tasty meals.

Recommend.

Review written after downloading a galley from NetGalley.

"The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution" is a great addition to meal planning and prep routines to help get tasty meals on the table on busy nights. No matter your cooking comfort, there are sauces in here to allow anyone to develop a simple meal using whatever your preferred protein or starch canvas and travel the world via your plate.

Several sauces are in queue for me to make & incorporate into my meal planning: Chorizo Garlic; Pumpkin Coconut Cream; Teriyaki Spinach; Coconut Lemon; Curried Spinach; Parmesan Leek; Balsamic Onion; Meyer Lemon Spinach; Gorgonzola Chive Butter; Blue Cheese, Pear & Hazelnut; Basil-White Wine. I look forward to making some of the compound butters to have simple flavor enhancers on hand for some simple protein + market produce skillets. 

Free ARC provided by NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. This cookbook is available October 30th.

Practically a new sauce for every day of the year (or close to it). I couldn't believe the combinations. Interesting, informative, and so great photos.

WoW what a book The Make-Ahead Sauce Solution by Elisabeth Bailey is. It's packed with so much information from the beginning of this book. How to make the sauce, how to bag and store the sauce in the freezer ready for quick meals, How to defrost the sauce for your meals, to use with meat, vegetables, pasta, rice etc and so much more. It will help you make a boring baked spud, or a bland chicken breast, plain pasta etc into a lovely tasty meal without buying a sauce mix from your local Supermarket, which will save you money and you know what ingredients are in this sauce you have made. 
I found this book packed with wonderful easy to make sauces  from Yellow, red or green curry sauces, all-American barbecue, to pasta sauces to teriyaki sauces etc. It even gives you information how to use some sauces and make into a lovely soup for a cold winters night. Its packed with 61 lovely meals that so easy to prepare and make with good illustration throughout. 
So, if you  struggle to make imaginative meals for your family or a meal just for two, this is a book for you, Especially as you can prepare these sauces in advance and stash them in you freezer for a later date.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Storey Publishing for the ARC to review this brilliant book.

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In the beginning of the book, the author discusses how she makes sauces on the weekend to use with meat, pasta, potatoes, rice or any other food you choose to mix it with. She also gives you directions on how to fill freezer bags with sauce, and that they should be labeled for easier reference when creating a meal.  
There are sauces for every taste :  creole, chipolte, mole, pumpkin coconut cream, vegetable, bacon gravy, Thai peanut, and hot orange. The ingredients to the sauces are easily available, there are precise directions, and there are suggestions on adding potatoes, rice, beef, pork, and chicken to the sauces to make a meal.  You will enjoy making and using these sauces with your favorite recipes!

Thank you for the opportunity I can't wait to try all of the recipes that are offered in this book! Very easy to follow too.

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The book can be used for any type of cooker. The book contains supportive illustrations and step by step instructions to create delicious and simple sauce. Also, the author provide the suggestions and ratio of ingredients needed to use in different scenarios like soup, grill and others. yummy ways.

This would be a useful book for any cook pressed for time.  Clear instructions make it suitable for a beginner cook.

The first chapter covers the method for filling and freezing bags of premade sauce, then goes onto simple instructions for cooking quick bases that you would serve the sauces with, including pasta, baked potatoes, tofu, chicken, fish etc.

The remaining chapters provide recipes for sauces from across the world, cheese and wine sauces, pestos and salsas. A final chapter touches on flavoured butters and salts.

The range of recipes ensures that most cooks would find something here to extend their repertoire of sauces.  I made the Sausage Ragu and found it tasty and great served with pasta.  Having never used beer in a cheese sauce, I gave I tried the Cheddar Ale sauce; it was well flavoured, but rather too thick.  On that point, I noted that the Green Peppercorn  sauce used  1 cup butter, 1 cup flour to 1 cup vodka which is again way too thick and creates a stodgy unappetising sauce.  I thought the section on salsas and pestos provided an interesting and varied range of no-cook sauces and I will certainly be trying more of these in the summer.

I love to make homemade sauces; they make the dish every time taste so much better. So when I saw this book on sauces, I had to have it.  I got so many ideas and delicious recipes from this book.  If you like sauces like I do, this is a must have recipe book. Would make a good Bridal Shower/wedding gift.

An excellent creation for those of us who, at the end of a long day, wondering what will we make the family for dinner! Bailey provides instructions for 61 "sauces" that can me pre-made, frozen, and then combined with pasta, rice, potatoes, meats, seafood or tofu. Simply thaw the sauce, combine, and serve!
The author begins with instructions on how to prepare and freeze the sauces. She gives easily understood, yet thorough directions. 
She then breaks the book down into different types of sauces.  Asian, Mediterranean, Cheese & Wine, and Pestos and Salsas. All look delicious! She provides illustrated charts of the quantities of sauce and base to combine. 
The book is also beautifully photographed. It will have your mouth watering!
I received this book from NetGalley, as a pre-release edition, in exchange for a fair review. In the case of this book, the review was easy, and to emphasize how much I enjoyed it, I will be pre-ordering several copies to give to family and friends as Christmas presents. It's that good!

I was pleasantly surprised when I started looking through this book. It was *more* than I thought it would be. The sauces look delicious. At the end of the recipes it gives you different ideas on how to use the sauce. The pictures are pleasant. Can't wait to add this book to my kitchen shelves.

This is exactly the type of book that I love to read, lovingly turning over the pages, drinking up the photos and being inspired by the recipes.  I don't know why it took so long for this book to be written, but it is what I have been waiting for.  No more boring steamed salmon and vegetables.  There is now no excuse for boring mid-week meals.

Delicious and Time Saving. 

I get home rather late and I don't have a lot of time to prepare and a time-consuming meal that I'll wolf down before taking a quick shower and going to sleep. these recipes are simple and easy to make, also has easy to find ingredients that I use often. 

My favorite recipe is the chipotle sauce, the bacon gravy, and the BBQ sauce. I made these three the most with a variety of bases like chicken and shrimp, also added some extra things to it like some asparagus and mushrooms to the chipotle sauce and it was delicious. 

My sister in law also has little time to cook so I shared a few tips with her. 

I love the fact that I can freeze these! so I make some sauces over the weekend, freeze them in zip lock bags and use them during the week. So much better than stressing about cooking dinner or ordering takeout too many times during the week.

This is a gorgeous recipe book of a wonderful variety of sauces. It even advises how to successful freeze and unfreeze the sauces to help with meal prep. Good resource to help with looking spice up your meals and also plan your meals better.

Great book! This book gives you instruction on how to create a variety of sauces ahead of time, and freeze it until you are ready to use it. The recipes are great for busy families, working parents, and busy people. :) I can't wait to try these recipes, they look great! :)

This book is organized by country/style of cooking.
There are dozens of recipes in this book (as evidenced in the subtitle which escaped my consciousness prior to review), many of them interesting surprises. Most of the recipes didn't particularly grab me, but I saw no glaring flaw and imagine others may like them. I suppose my let down was that I was expecting more of a book on how to create your own sauces from the different bases whereas this was more of a recipe book. This is the most exhaustive sauce book I've seen so I imagine it will have some very happy customers.