Cook Yourself Happy is a beautifully illustrated cookbook with over 100 delicious Danish recipes. This cookbook promotes the best of Danish cuisine, presenting a mouth-watering selection of authentic, traditional Danish recipes, which have been handed down through the generations.

The concept of ‘hygge’ plays a big part in Danish cuisine. It roughly translates as ‘cosiness’ and refers to activities such as sitting by the fire on a cold night, family and friends eating together, reading a good book – things that improve your quality of life. This book is firmly embedded in this concept – the recipes and ingredients that Caroline uses are drawn from classic Danish origins and influences, and her recipes are designed to improve your sense of wellbeing and to be shared with friends and family.

A wealth of recipes covers every meal and occasion – whether a light lunch of Warm Smoked Salmon with Pickled Cucumber, the heartier national dish of Stegt Flaesk (fried pork belly) or Pheasant Ragout, a delightful dessert of Baked Apples with Marzipan and Raisins, the most traditional of Danish pastries, or a wonderful Hot Chocolate with Orange Syrup, Cook Yourself Happy is filled with enriching food that your friends and family will adore.

Food, family and Denmark are Caroline’s first loves, and this is echoed in the book with photographs of Caroline cooking at home, interspersed with gorgeous photographs of her family home in Denmark.  Drawing on traditional age-old family recipes, this beautifully illustrated cookbook focuses on the most delicious and nourishing traditional Danish recipes that will boost your sense of wellbeing both inside and out.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Love it.

2 October 2017

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I’ve been waiting for this book to be published for a long time and it hasn’t disappointed. I made Granny’s Kale and Bacon Soup for my son who is a fussy eater and he wolfed down the entire bowlful – he’s asked me to make the Tomato Soup with Kale Pesto tomorrow (probably without the Kale Pesto, but at least it’s a start!).

My neighbour is Danish and she served Tre Slags Sild for a lunch party one day so I was naturally delighted to find these recipes in Caroline’s book as well. This will be a cookbook that becomes well thumbed and oil stained.

The photography is beautiful, quite calming, in fact. And I love the fact that there are two ribbon bookmarks (rather than the usual one) so that you can easily access two recipes at a time; it saves me flicking backwards and forwards or raiding the post-it note collection.

22 September 2017

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OMG!!! a life changer, I am challenged in the Kitchen, but these recipes are so easy to follow, quick to make and utterly delicious!!

The avocado and caviar my favourite, so easy for dinner parties, the combination of tastes, easy to make and exquisite!!!! roast Pork to die for…

my new favourite find…

5.0 out of 5 stars Scrumptious Delicious

13 November 2017

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I love the book! The quality is excellent which echos the recipes inside. Very easy to follow and read! I love Kale and I am always looking for something different to eat with it – try Kale and Quinoa salad – delicious (I added chicken breast for my husband) – fantastic combination. I can’t wait to make Poussin casserole! An ideal gift for those who love to cook and most of all food – this does make cooking a very happy household!

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful and inspiring book creating an urge to try all …

1 October 2017

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Beautiful and inspiring book creating an urge to try all the delicious recipes. Being a Dane living abroad, they bring back many happy memories of beautiful traditional dishes all created with a personal twist by the author which make them sophisticated and unique. Can’t wait to share them with my family.

4.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful but expensive for the Hardcover Version…eBook much cheaper here

4 February 2020

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I was looking for some good danish recipes. It’s a beautiful book with lovely memories but expensive and the recipes use quite expensive and potentially not easy to source ingredients.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious, healthy, and simple to follow recipes! Can’t wait to try them all!

9 October 2017

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Loving with this cookbook. Have already tried three of the recipes (Kale Soup, Chickpea Salad, and Rasberry Balls) and they each turned out to be delicious. The meals are healthy and relatively simple to make! I also really enjoy that love Caroline provides personal anecdotes and stories behind each recipe. Cannot wait to share these dishes with my family.

5.0 out of 5 stars I truly recommend it. Also it has 2 navy ribbons in …

13 January 2018

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This is such a lovely book. You can see and feel how much hard work as gone into the thought process of all the meals in there. I truly recommend it.

Also it has 2 navy ribbons in the book which you use as books which I find such a nice touch .

5.0 out of 5 stars More than just a cookbook….

29 September 2017

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“Cook Yourself Happy” is exactly what I did. In fact it is much more than a cookbook. A little story is accompanying every single dish making cooking even more fun. You actually feel the passion for food that Caroline Fleming has and together with that little story for that specific dish you simply start enjoying cooking before you have even started. And remember. It is the Danish way.