While the ingredient combinations in The Chopped Cookbook are not quite extreme, the premise of the book is the same: "use what you've got to cook something great." My husband and I have often marveled at how the culinary masters are able to combine such extreme flavors and ingredients, this book is like the magician's cheat sheet! In the opening pages, the Chopped pantry is explained. It lays out a formula for truly creating amazing meals with what you probably have on hand. 

It seems that the trendy thing now is to have step by step photos to accompany every recipe. If that's your thing, this cookbook isn't for you. But if you like photos of food that will make your mouth water, photos so beautiful that you can almost smell what's cooking, then this is definitely a book you should buy! I know what a cracked egg in a dish looks like, I don't need extra pages for silly things like that. This cookbook is absolutely chock full of the things that matter most: delicious food and beautiful photos. A few of the sections are pasta night, chickens gone wild, eggs after breakfast and big salads. My favorite section is called, "completely fun ways to cook vegetables." I started going through, marking recipes to try but decided quickly that was silly-- I want to make everything. This is quickly becoming my favorite, go-to recipe book for weeknight meals and fun date night fixin's!

Though I received this book for free from WaterBrook Multnomah Publishing Group for the purposes of this review, the opinions are my own. 

Book Introductions: A quick overview of each book of the Bible including key concepts, verses, teachings, terms, etc.

Unpack: Traditional bottom-of-the-page study notes that give verse by verse explanations of text.

Dig Deep, Look Close: Articles and photos adapted from the Archaeological Study Bible

Q&A: Gives answers to some of the most common and perplexing questions about the Bible.

People in Focus: Examine Scripture through the stories of the most important people of the Bible.

Insight: Helpful articles that include background information.

Guided Tour: Gives a birds-eye view of the entire Bible. 

Highlights: Abbreviated notes that point out interesting facts, discuss difficult texts and highlight things that are often overlooked. 

Reflect & Respond: Kind of like a short devotional reading. 

You could easily get lost in the sea of information that is included in this Bible. The content is (for the most part) concise and solid teaching. However, there are two issues I have. The first is the e-version of this Bible is not very intuitive. Perhaps the navigation is different on each reading device, but I found the Kindle version to be a bit difficult to get used to. (I had to read the instructions at the beginning to figure it out!) My other complaint is the "contemporary" NIV translation... this is not exclusive to this particular Bible, but I strongly dislike the addition of "women" where the historical text did not add that, and using pronouns such as "they/their/them" as opposed to "he/him/his." This may seem minor to some but it is a strong deviation from the original, inspired text. But of course, that is just personal preference. Overall, this is an excellent Bible resource with in-depth study materials. 

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