We’re busier than ever, now that many of us are either working extra long hours in essential worker jobs (especially at grocery and big box stores) or trying to work from home while supervising our kids’ virtual schooling. That’s why The Easy Cookbook for Busy People came out at the right time this winter!
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Harper Davies presents over two hundred recipes that take just thirty minutes (or less! yay!) to prepare.
Chapters include Breakfasts (things like Mexican breakfast, several types of breakfast cookies, pancakes, crepes, doughnuts, and an intriguing Mango, Papaya and Nutella Tacos recipe); a vegetarian and vegan chapter; a chapter on Poultry including Chicken Bacon Rolls and Turkey Cutlets Rolls); a Beef, Veal and Pork chapter with things like beef fillets with green peppercorn sauce and veal escalopes with mushrooms); a seafood chapter; a chapter devoted to sandwiches, wraps and burgers; and a chapter on desserts.
I can’t recommend this as a “healthy eating” cookbook, as the cover of The Easy Cookbook for Busy People promises, since so many of the breakfast recipes involve cookies, sugar, milkshakes, doughnuts, etc. But you might enjoy some of the meal ideas and quick fixes for desperation dinners after a long hard workday.
I do want to note that when I previewed the Table of Contents from the 2020 edition, I found inexcusable amounts of misspellings and typos. I hope the 2021 edition benefited from a professional editor. I also don’t see a lot of photographs in the paperback edition. Think of this as a cheap-and-easy go-to, not a slick professionally edited beautifully photographed cookbook.
-Carrie
