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[quote=Anonymous]Do you have an iPad?

My go-to cookbook is Mark Bittman's "How to Cook Everything" and there's an iPad app that goes along with it. It has all the same information as the paper book, is searchable, includes timers for various steps, and lets you make up shopping lists for the ingredients you need. I seriously credit that cookbook and app with turning me from a totally incompetent cook to a fairly decent one, because the big thing is just practice, practice, practice.

I also like Alton Brown's "I'm Just Here for the Food" and Maddhur Jaffrey's "World Vegetarian Cookbook" for when we're fasting.

If I had to pick 5 weekday dinner recipes off the top of my head right now, they would probably be:

black bean/tomato stew (Maddhur Jaffrey) over brown rice -- less than 30 minutes start to finish if you use canned beans
sauteed salmon filet with steamed vegetables (Bittman for cooking times), plus a quick vinaigrette-y sauce to drizzle on them
that skillet gnocchi recipe (http://www.eatingwell.com/recipes/skillet_gnocchi_with_chard_white_beans.html) -- I made it last night with sausage and DH and I argued over who got to have the leftovers for lunch!
Cooks Illustrated chicken tagine -- you cook the chicken partway in the microwave while you do everything else, and it takes about 40-45 minutes all told
pan-seared steak with a mustard/sherry/shallot pan sauce, plus salad[/quote]

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