Good Cheap Eats Dinner in 30 Minutes or Less

October 15, 2015

Budget-friendly cookbooks, such as Leanne Brown's Good and Cheap, are seeing a resurgence in popularity. Here, Fisher (Good Cheap Eats) shares new recipes for inexpensive meals that cook up quickly and serve four to six people. In sidebars accompanying recipes such as jambalaya pasta with sausage and chicken and decadence sundaes with caramel-lime sauce, she includes two-course menu suggestions and 101 time-saving tips. Busy cooks can easily tell which of her recipes are make-ahead, meatless, gluten-free, and freezer-friendly. VERDICT Fisher's compilation of soups, sandwiches, burritos, pizzas, and other courses is a practical guide to easy, everyday cooking. Recommended for families and college students, who may also enjoy America's Test Kitchen's The Make-Ahead Cook and Mark Bittman's How To Cook Everything Fast.

Copyright 2015 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

October 1, 2015
Blogger Fisher (Life as Mom and Good Cheap Eats) knows how to feed a family with quick, healthy, and easy-to-prepare dishes. And she has packed this book with some 200 recipes that do just that. Looking to wow dinner-party guests? This might not be your go-to reference. But if you want to nourish your kids with chicken-noodle soup, pork chops smothered in onions, or crispy sage chicken strips, this is a perfect choice. Fisher offers up an assortment of mix-and-match two-course dinners as well as dozens of time-saving tips for make-ahead dishes. She also devotes a whole chapter to desserts that can be prepped while dinner's cooking. This book likely won't make you a five-star chef, but it'll no doubt make you the star of your own dinner table.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2015, American Library Association.)