Upside Down Cooking

by Dominic Franks

The book that flips your kitchen upside down, with joyfully delicious results.

Dominic Franks (@dominthekitchen) shows you how to play with your food and cook easy, impressive meals for every occasion. This is one-pan cooking like you've never seen it before.

With 85 recipes including twists on classic one-pot dishes – from mini puff pizzas to chicken pot pies, blueberry muffin traybakes to banana toffee tarts – Dom gives you the confidence to remix your own one-tray dinners, plus sides, snacks, party treats, and desserts.

Simply layer up tasty ingredients in a single pan, cover with puff pastry and other fabulous toppings, bake to gloriously golden perfection – and you’ll be turning out stunning upside down creations in no time at all. No fuss, minimal washing up, and never a soggy bottom in sight!

Genres: Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Cooking

203 pages, Kindle Edition

Published June 17, 2025

Reviews

[Dray · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting book with some good to great recipes. The inclusion of soups and salads does not fit the title although the recipes are useful. The savory bakes are the best part

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a fun but limited way to cook. The OG recipe, which is like a little tart with leeks, is great and his method makes it very easy. There are a few other variations on that that one, but when he gets into melting tuna salad into puff pastry it's just not good. Unless you're absolutely nuts over puff pastry, which I'm not. The chapters on deserts are also great, because the deserts look harder then they are - and don't involve puff pastry, rather just the method of upside down cooking. The blood orange cake and caramelized banana bread are amazing.

Worth checking out, but you may only like or use a few recipes.

[Carm · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the numerous videos enough and elegant and unique cooking style to buy the book. Most recipes feature using pastry in savoury ways. There are a few that don't as others have commented but if you don't plan on making a recipe that uses pastry this book is not worth the money, however lovely all the recipes might be. If you are on a specialized diet, you not find enough recipes to make this book worth purchasing. I probably will keep this book for occasional use. The author's creativity and ingenuity are fun to review from time to time. But because of dietary restrictions, I am unlikely to reach for this book often.

[Naomie Barnabas · Rating 5 out of 5]

A brilliantly fun and inventive cookbook that makes one-pan meals feel like a creative adventure with mouthwatering results and zero kitchen stress!

[Kelly Ann · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant! I really enjoyed reading this cookbook and can’t wait to start baking. 1st up with be the Cherry Bakewell Tart!