The Pioneer Woman cookbooks are filled with delicious from scratch recipes. There is a definite down-home almost Southern vibe to the comfort food type recipes, but there are definitely some very creative more interesting ones as well. Each book has step by step pictures and you feel like she is reading them to you herself. They are hilarious and filled with great pictures and tips. I have yet to make something out of this book that hasn't been AMAZING! - Maybe the mashed potatoes were a leeetle bit too rich for me. But other than that my friends... fantastic!