As an Associate Food Editor, Bridget Hallinan primarily focuses on home cooking content for Food & Wine.com. She writes and edits recipe content, interviews chefs for helpful tips and tricks, and works on franchises such as our cookbook roundups and taste tests.
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With a mix of time-tested classics and modern favorites, the 17th edition of the Better Homes and Gardens Cookbook continues to deliver approachable, reliable recipes for home cooks. There are more than 1,000 recipes, each with a photo and helpful tips for ingredient swaps or flavor variations. Besides step-by-step recipes, this cookbook also serves as a reference guide with handy at-a-glance charts for meat and poultry cooking times; how-to-photos to teach technique; and a photo identification guide to clarify the broad range of ingredients available today.
Finally, a collection of recipes that are truly designed to be cooked for one, while factoring in no-waste solutions, time-saving tips and kitchen improvisation ideas. The book is cleverly divided into sections according how the modern cook likes to eat: The Main Event, Sides to Match or Eat on Their Own, Simple Soups and Stews, Salads and Sandwiches, One Pan Dinners and Something Sweet. Its chockful of tips to make you a better cook regardless of your experience, including how to stock a basic pantry, making the most of your microwave and weekly menu and shopping list suggestions.
Registered dietitians will be the first to tell you that nothing makes cooking easier than having an arsenal of healthy cookbooks to pull from. In particular, they rely on titles that contain quick and easy recipes that taste great, don't take long to make, and capture what it means to eat healthy from a variety of perspectives. Even on their busiest days, they can rest assured that the contents of their kitchen bookshelf will help them find a nutritious meal they can get on the table in no time.
With this criteria in mind, we asked some of our favorite registered dietitians to recommend the healthy cookbooks they swear by for speedy recipes, which can be helpful for cooking beginners (or people who are short on time). Along with some tasty meals, their picks do a good job of representing what healthy eating means to people around the world, while also providing some excellent tips and tools to help minimize your kitchen workload overall. With grocery shopping lists, meal prep tricks, and plenty of tasty breakfast, lunches, and dinners in between, these books are just waiting to help you out.
So many cookbooks begin with impossibly long pantry lists, many containing ingredients you have no idea where to find. Lopez likes this one because it keeps the lists short and sweet by telling you just what you need to make the most basic and tasty recipes, like sesame rice bowls with tofu and quickles (that's quick pickles!). Or Tex-Mex meatballs that can be made entirely with premade ingredients, like your favorite jarred salsa.
"This cookbook is designed for busy cooks and uses the SIMPLE acronym to tell you the level of intricacy needed for each recipe: S for short on time, I for 10 ingredients or fewer, M for make ahead, P for pantry-led, L for lazy-day dishes, E for easier than you think," Feller previously told SELF. The idea is to remove the guesswork so the home cook can choose a dish, dive in, and make it." Recipes include fresh, vegetable-forward ideas like grilled beefsteak tomatoes with chili, garlic, and ginger, and braised eggs with leeks and za'atar.
Skip the store-bought rotisserie chicken, and make this easy air-fryer roasted chicken recipe right at home! Simply season and cook. You'll be left with perfectly cooked juicy meat and irresistibly crispy skin.
These air fryer cauliflower steaks are an easy way to fancy up your meal times in the most effortless way! With crispy florets that have a wonderful natural nutty flavor, this low carb cauliflower recipe is easy to make with just a few simple ingredients.
Peasant Bread Fans! There is now a book: Bread Toast Crumbs, a loaf-to-crumb bread baking book, filled with tips and tricks and answers to the many questions that have been asked over the years. In the book you will find 40 variations of the master peasant bread recipe + 70 recipes for using up the many loaves you will bake. Learn more about the book here or buy it here.
While I love all the recipes that I post here on the blog, some of my all-time favorites are actually in my cookbooks: The Love & Lemons Cookbook and Love & Lemons Every Day. Both best-selling books are packed with 100+ vegetarian recipes, gorgeous photography, and resources to help you become a home cooking pro!
Instant Pot recipes are all the rage, so it's only natural that we take a step back from our beloved Crock-Pots to revisit a truly classic cooking method: pressure cooking. You're probably picturing the terrifying pot of years past that was known for leaving remnants of green beans on the ceiling. Well, times have definitely changed. Electric pressure cookers of today are more like a fast version of a slow cooker and have little-to-no risk of taking your eyebrows off. Whether you're looking to invest or you were gifted one and have no idea what to do with it, keep reading to discover easy pressure cooker recipes that are perfect for a beginner.
Artichokes are some of my favorite veggies so it's good to know how to cook them with a pressure cooker! I always make spinach and artichoke dip-stuffed mushrooms for Thanksgiving so I'll have to bookmark that recipe ;)
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