The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook: 101 Asian Recipes Simple Enough for Tonight's Dinner Hardcover – Illustrated, August 15, 2017

This is my first review even after years and thousands of dollars in purchases on Amazon. I felt I owed it to the author after finally feeling thrilled with a cookbook purchase.As an aspiring "home chef" without talent or experience, I've bought dozens of cookbooks hoping to find one that would enable me to create cuisine, not just mundane meals. Sadly, I have been let down countless times. Sure, my lack of cooking skills puts me at a huge disadvantage, but I'm not buying complex books. I tried to stick with cookbooks that focused on the novice. In the end, my dishes looked nothing like the photos, tasted nothing like the description, and left me with little more than dirty dishes and buyer's remorse.The Steamy Kitchen Cookbook changed that for me. I've now cooked six meals from within these pages and every single one of them left me literally smiling at first bite. Just like one of those corny food commercials. :) Here's why:1. The ingredients were all found at my local supermarket...unlike books that sent me to far away places in search of obscure spices that I'd never use again.2. The book was fun to read, kept my attention, and gave me insight like no other cookbook had given me in the past. Most just started right in with the recipes, leaving me with more questions than answers. Unlike the Steamy Kitchen, they focused on the "how" without ever addressing the "why".3. The steps were easy to follow, the dishes easy to prepare, and the end result actually matched the photos. The other cookbooks I bought should have come with a sous chef because I was way out of my element. I never realized how inadequate they were until I read and followed this book.4. The flavors were solid, delicious, and spot-on. I couldn't believe I made these meals. They seemed complex to the taste but they were actually quite easy to make. I wasn't the only one in our family raving about the food I cooked. If you knew me, you'd know how incredible that is.The Scallops & Fruit Salsa...amazing. The Salmon with Cucumber Relish...amazing (I used her 250-degree slow-cook method instead of steaming). The Crab Cakes...best I have EVER tasted. I could go on and on. And I will, in my kitchen, until I've cooked every meal in the book.If you are hesitant to purchase this book...don't be. Even if you actually ARE a chef, unlike me, you'll find the dishes and flavors to be divine. But if you're a hazard waiting to happen in the kitchen, like me, this book will literally motivate you to keep trying.Yeah...it's that good.

I love buying cookbooks. I love the pictures, the recipes, and trying new things. However, not many cookbooks have appealed to me because of their long, complicated recipes, so most of the time, these lovely cookbooks end up sitting on my shelf collecting dust.A good friend of mine got me this for Christmas, and I literally jumped for joy when I opened the package. Jaden is one of my favorite food bloggers, and I couldn't wait to try out her new recipes.I feel like she gets it-- who wants to spend 8 hours at work, only to come home and spend another 3 hours on dinner after stopping by the grocery to buy 50 things you didn't have and are only going to use once? She gets that I need dinner now, I want it good, and I want it to only LOOK like I spent a lot of time on it. This book is perfect. Her recipes are fresh, fun, and very simple. I've made some good stuff in a dinky studio kitchen (with no oven), and my husband is happy after a long day at pharmacy school. I HIGHLY recommend it, even for your kitchen-fearing friends!I also bought this book for a friend of mine who lives in Florida. I told her no excuses about not being to cook Asian food; if Jaden can do it, she can!

I bought this book to support a fellow food blogger and have never gotten around to writing a review. I don't know a lot about Asian cooking, but Jaden has created recipes that are really easy to understand, and don't scare me to try. She doesn't use impossible hard-to-find ingredients, either. Her photos are beautifully done, and naturally food styled-- that is, no food-styling tricks of inedible dishes. I like that what you see is what she would feed to her own family. She has a great blog, too.

So this is a great book. Jaden Hair illustrates how to make some great asian inspired dishes. Some of the recipes are incredibly easy, but many would take you a little longer or have too many ingredients to make it simple enough for a weekday meal for a family with a busy schedule. But if you are looking for a book with some great asian inspired recipes that will surely satisfy your family and you dont mind putting in a little elbow grease, here is your book. The book is beautifuly illustrated and easily explains through pictures, how to do more complex tasks, step by step. Only a few of her recipes contained ingredients that I thought may be hard to find outside of the asian grocery store, however, I had no problem finding any of them in my local grocer. Buy the book! You will enjoy it.

The hoison ribs is an amazing recipe but other then that I have't had much success. You need a lot of ingredients for each dish. It also was an item paired up with my steamer that I purchased but there is not one recipe that I can use my steam dish for. A little false advertising.

If you've never heard of Jaden Hair or cooked any of her online recipes, let me just tell you right here and now that her cookbook will not disappoint you. Full of amazing and beautiful full color photos for each recipe, you can decide what you want to make for dinner this week simply by feasting with your eyes.For years, I used this beef broccoli recipe I'd found online and when I tried Jaden's beef broccoli recipe, my husband simply looked up at me after the first bite and said it was the best beef broccoli I'd ever made. When I made it for my in-laws, they absolutely loved it.Jaden gives you very great instructions and also writes with the same quirky, cute, and friendly tone as she does online. This is the kind of cookbook I absolutely adore, because the photography makes it something you can look through not only for recipes but for visual representation and her writing style really makes you feel as though you've got a friend in the kitchen. After cooking several of her recipes, I'm pretty much convinced that nothing in her cookbook will taste less than amazing.

This book came early. It is fabulous, wonderful easy to do recipes.

Excellent cook book for asian cookery. Great explanations to techniques, rather than "fry the vegetables" type explanations. This means that finished results are very much better. She also has great stuff on line which is very good, and part of my reason for buying the book, as it was a real way to say thank you.

Love love love this cookbook! I am just so happy with it. I've read the entire cookbook from cover to cover. Jaden Hair's Steamy Kitchen cookbook is filled with simple yet elegant Asian food containing easy to obtain ingredients. Guaranteed success even for a beginner cook. I've made 6 dishes so far and very one turned out beautifully. I'll keep making more. Thank you Jaden :)

Gestern ist das Kochbuch bei mir angekommen. Ich hatte noch keine Chance etwas zu kochen, aber alle Rezepte schauen vielversprechend aus. Jaden hat auch einen Blog, in dem sie viele Hundert Rezepte preisgibt. Ich habe das ein oder andere Gericht ausprobiert und bin restlos begeistert (z.B. vom Käse-Souffle).Zu Beginn des Buches erzählt sie von ihren liebsten Küchen-Utensilien und von den Zutaten, die ein Muss sind. Danach kommen die Rezepte, die einfach aufgebaut sind und sehr lecker sind. Asiatische Gerichte mit neuem Wind, eine echt gute Mischung.Sehr gut hat mir die Gestaltung des Buchs gefallen. Die vielen persönlichen Bilder sind ein tolles Extra und die vielen Rezepte machen Lust auf mehr.Wirklich ein rundum gelungenes Kochbuch!

I like the recipes