Any cookbook recommendations for busy, weeknight family meals.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Milk Street Tuesday Night. Fast, easy, yummy.

You beat me to it.

What do you make from there that’s good? The recipes seem just ok to me. I have had the cookbook for two years but haven’t made anything. Any suggestions?

We don’t make a lot of the pasta or egg dishes. Some of our go-tos:
Vietnamese Meatball Soup w/Watercress (we like to add rice noodles)
Ginger scallion steamed fish
Ginger-soy steak w/Pear cucumber salad (cut broiling time on meat to 2 min per side)
Maque choux
Lomo saltado
Vietnamese shaking beef
Pasta w/browned butter yogurt and herbs
Toasted pearl couscous w/fried eggs
Moroccan chicken skewers (I could eat these every day; they’re our go-to for feeding guests)
Seared salmon w/avocado sauce and tomato-cilantro salsa

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I love to cook so I love cookbooks but if you or anyone in your family are at all picky I think buying one cookbook won’t generate that many good recipes for you. I think you may be better off browsing done if the recipe blogs and just bookmarking or printing recipes you want to try. You’ll have more options that way than in any one cookbook.

I bookmark recipes on my phone and then before grocery shopping I think about our schedule for the week and go through my saved recipes (I also have cookbooks and files with cut out recipes from magazines) and pick some and make a shopping list accordingly.

I use the skinny taste blog quite a bit, but also look at gimmesomeoven, dinneratthezoo, love and lemons, recipetineats, halfbakedharvest, and smitten kitchen - as well as others.

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The Melissa Clark Dinner in One also focuses on simple - soups, sheet pan meals, etc.

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Six O'clock Scramble
Dinner: A Love Story (book and substack)
Milk Street Tuesday Night (or really any America's Test Kitchen cookbook)

The best advice I ever got was to establish a repertoire of dishes your family like and rotate them. DH and I are empty nesters now, so we have more time to cook and don't often make those old family favorites, but when our kids come home, they always ask for them.

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Anonymous wrote:I love to cook so I love cookbooks but if you or anyone in your family are at all picky I think buying one cookbook won’t generate that many good recipes for you. I think you may be better off browsing done if the recipe blogs and just bookmarking or printing recipes you want to try. You’ll have more options that way than in any one cookbook.

I bookmark recipes on my phone and then before grocery shopping I think about our schedule for the week and go through my saved recipes (I also have cookbooks and files with cut out recipes from magazines) and pick some and make a shopping list accordingly.

I use the skinny taste blog quite a bit, but also look at gimmesomeoven, dinneratthezoo, love and lemons, recipetineats, halfbakedharvest, and smitten kitchen - as well as others.

PP who recommended Milk Street Tuesday Nights. I like looking up recipes if I want something specific - like, here are 5 recipes for chicken noodle soup, and I think this one will work for me. But if I have no idea what I want, I do much better with a cookbook because it’s bounded. I can spend 2 hours browsing food blogs and still not pick something, because there’s always something else to look at!

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Smitten Kitchen Keepers is a pretty good cookbook.

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Budget Bytes is my go to for quick easy (and cheap) recipes.

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Anonymous wrote:We love Milk Street Tuesday Night. Fast, easy, yummy.

How fast are the recipes. The ones I saw in the sample on Amazon say 40 minutes, which is more than I have on many weeknights.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We love Milk Street Tuesday Night. Fast, easy, yummy.

How fast are the recipes. The ones I saw in the sample on Amazon say 40 minutes, which is more than I have on many weeknights.

The sections are divided by time - Fast, Faster, Fastest. There are definitely some 20-min dinners in there. As with most things, they go faster once you’ve made them a few times.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We love Milk Street Tuesday Night. Fast, easy, yummy.

You beat me to it.

What do you make from there that’s good? The recipes seem just ok to me. I have had the cookbook for two years but haven’t made anything. Any suggestions?

My kids love the garlic cilantro soup and the zaatar chicken.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We love Milk Street Tuesday Night. Fast, easy, yummy.

You beat me to it.

What do you make from there that’s good? The recipes seem just ok to me. I have had the cookbook for two years but haven’t made anything. Any suggestions?

My kids love the garlic cilantro soup and the zaatar chicken.

Are those in the Mediterranean?

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Ali Slagle “I Dream of Dinner (so you don’t have to)”

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Anonymous wrote:Budget Bytes is my go to for quick easy (and cheap) recipes.

I like Budget Bytes too---and Spoon Fork Bacon.