WINNER OF THE JAMES BEARD AWARD AND IACP AWARD FOR BEST GENERAL COOKBOOK — One of Epicurious’ Greatest Home Cooks of All Time delivers creative, delicious weeknight dinners with this quick and easy cookbook for beginner cooks and foodies alike. “More than 200 simple weeknight dinners that deliver big weekend flavor in under an hour–with many that take only 25 minutes.”
This is a collection of quick recipes for weeknight dining, inspired by Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television show, including dishes as yakiudon with pickled ginger, pork schnitzel, kale and white bean soup, Indonesian fried tofu salad, and three-cheese pizza. Nice one page directions with beautiful photos to match from the America’s Test Kitchen guy.
You can probably guess what my favorite chapter is! If you’re looking for a no-frills, quick and easy cookbook, this is the one you should go with. Yummy! GRADE: A
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction — ix
Fast — 1
Faster — 89
Fastest — 173
Easy Additions — 213
Supper Salads — 243
Pizza Night — 277
One Pot — 311
Roast and Simmer — 337
Sweets — 369
INDEX — 394
I have no interest in cookbooks other than the basic Betty Crocker. Not a foodie. I hate to cook and am not very good at it. I have no interest in tofu salad, kale and white bean soup, pickled ginger or pork schnitzel. None of which sounds the least bit appetizing to me.
Steve, I grew up cooking and baking with the BETTY CROCKER COOKBOOK. It’s a classic!
This book was a Kindle Daily Deal a few weeks ago—I grabbed for for $2.99, I believe. Of course, that means I have to look up recipes on my kindle but I can live with that. Julia is in Baton Rouge, slowly working her way through the wonderful AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN (which is where Christopher Kimball worked for years) cookbook you sent me, George, so when that book, plus the COOK’S COUNTRY (an ATK spinoff), and the MILK STREET cookbooks all showed up as Daily Deals, it was worth the cost—especially because the tables of contents and indices of all three books are reliably hyperlinked. In the MILK STREET book, I like the one-pot and roasting/simmering recipes—but, if you like to cook (and eat!), there’s plenty to enjoy.
I forgot to add: if you have ROKU, there’s an entire channel on ROKU TV that shows nothing but AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN, COOK’S COUNTRY, and MILK STREET episodes on an endless loop. If I can’t find a baseball game, it’s perfect background tv while I’m reading.
Deb, Katie got me into watching AMERICAN’S TEST KITCHEN. It’s addictive! I’ll have to give COOK’S COUNTRY and MILK STREET a try. Thanks for the heads up!
Deb, welcome back! We’ve missed you! Glad you and your family are okay and have power! I like MILK STREET TUESDAY NIGHTS because each recipe has a gorgeous photo to accompany it. I want to see what the food is supposed to look like. I’m happy Julia is having fun with AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN cookbook!
Does it begin with a “p” and end in an “a” by any chance?
Jeff, you know me so well! Yes, pizza!
Jackie uses two Calico Pantry cookbooks. Also, when my parents moved to California in the mid-’70s, their temple put out a couple of cookbooks with recipes supplied by the members (as fundraisers) and she bought them (these are trade paperback size) and used them a lot. As she got other new recipes she wrote them into the books (or pasted them in). She also has a couple of New York Times cookbooks and Weight Watchers , but uses them rarely. We used to have that Betty Crocker one, but it fell apart from use and age.
Jeff, I’m pretty sure that original Betty Crocker Cookbook is still available. We bought a new copy about a decade ago when ours fell apart, too.
Jackie reminds me that the Calico Pantry cookbooks were for Cerebral Palsy charities.
Jeff, I’ve purchased several charity cookbooks over the years, too.
So you’re having yakiudon with pickled ginger for your Labor Day meal? That’s different. We’re grilling, either steaks or burgers, to be decided.
Rick, our Labor Day menu is still being planned. We’re supposed to have some rainy periods plus some wind tomorrow. But I’m loving these low humidity 70s!
K. will kill me if I buy any more cookbooks.
Beth, Diane has a rule: if a cookbook comes into our house, a cookbook must exit our house.