Own Your Kitchen: Recipes to Inspire & Empower: A Cookbook

Chef Anne Burrell, Food Network star and co-host of Worst Cooks of America, shares 100 of her favorite, irresistibly delicious recipes and dozens of essential techniques to keep you rocking in the kitchen.

Owning your kitchen is about being in charge when you cook—understanding how flavors work together, how to improvise with ingredients you have on hand, and, above all, how to feel confident and stress-free when making meals.

In Own Your Kitchen, celebrity chef Anne Burrell shares 100 high-brow/low-stress recipes to get you comfortable with dozens of essential techniques—like how to create the perfect omelet, how to butterfly a chicken for an easy roast, and how to bake a focaccia to doll up any meal. Along the way, she offers priceless tips, such as what can be made ahead (like her garlic-ginger-soy-citrus marinade that can be used with just about anything) or how to coax flavor out of a chicken with a garlic rubdown.

Try out your new skills and build your repertoire with impressive twists on classics like Carbonara Frittata, Olive Oil-Poached Salmon, Grilled Hanger Steak with anchovy-butter sauce, and—maybe best of all—Hawaiian Pork Roast. Anne walks you through her seasonal faves, like Zucchini Cannelloni, Wilted Romaine Salad with Toasted Hazelnuts (great crunch!), and Pumpkin-Ricotta Pancakes with Chunky Apple-Raisin Sauce. When at the farmer’s market, you’ll keep in mind her Spring Veggie Stew with bright asparagus and sugar snap peas (or, as Anne suggests, any combo of spring veg) and the super easy Crispy Crunchy Kale Chips.

Here is Anne at her most personal, complete with her enthusiastic, sassy approach to how to get the most out of ingredients and whip up the stunning dishes that she likes to cook at home

Anne Burrell was the New York Times bestselling author of Cook Like a Rock Star and Own Your Kitchen. She hosted Food Network’s Secrets of a Restaurant Chef and Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell and co-hosted Worst Cooks in America. A graduate of the Culinary Institute of America, Anne worked at Lidia Bastianich’s Felidia and Peter Hoffman’s Savoy and taught at the Institute of Culinary Education. She passed away in 2025.

Suzanne Lenzer is a food writer and stylist. Her most recent collaboration is Flavor Exposed with Angelo Sosa. She has worked closely with cookbook author Mark Bittman and her work appears regularly in various publications, including the New York Times. A graduate of the Institute of Culinary Education, she lives in New York City.