REVIEW AND GIVEAWAY – Southern Living: What’s For Supper: 5-Ingredient Weeknight Meals Cookbook

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Southern Living What’s for Supper: 5-Ingedient Weeknight Meals: Delicious Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House (August 5, 2014)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848742966
• ISBN-13: 978-0848742966
• Cover price $19.95

How do you pull off cooking a from-scratch meal every night of the week? Southern Living has the tips and tricks of the trade with their new book, What’s For Supper: 5-Ingredient Weeknight Meals written by Southern Living Test Kitchen Specialist Vanessa McNeil Rocchio.

Faced with the daily challenge of cooking healthy, affordable, and quick meals for your family is reason enough to head to the take-out menus, but What’s For Supper: 5-Ingredient Weeknight Meals will have you saving both time and money. Drawing upon the brand’s legacy and expertise, the book shows home cooks how to make family-friendly meals such as Ginger Pork Chops with Grilled Peach Relish, Smoked Salmon with Goat Cheese and Asparagus Frittata, Sausage with Kale Grits, and Molten Hazelnut Brownies.

WHAT’S FOR SUPPER: 5-Ingredient Weeknight Meals is much more than a compilation of easy recipes – it’s an indispensible tool for seasoned cooks and novices alike. It teaches you how to stock your pantry with basics, such as a variety of oils, vinegars, and condiments for flavorful, fast cooking. The tips for timesaving and equipping your kitchen will give you huge advantages when that six o’ clock crunch time rolls around.

In less time than it takes to order-in delivery or drive to the closest fast food joint, these made-from-scratch meals will be on the table. The recipes are Southern Living Test Kitchen-approved, and they’re guaranteed to be as easy as a quick stop to the grocery store, grabbing 5 simple ingredients and within 30-minutes enjoying a gourmet supper with your family.

About the author

With over 20 years of experience in the Southern Living Test Kitchens, Contributing Editor Vanessa McNeil Rocchio, a Texas native and busy mom herself, shares her quick and easy dinnertime solutions with the magazine’s nearly 16 million monthly readers. Vanessa’s regular magazine features include “What’s for Supper?” and “Quick-Fix Suppers.”

I love meals that don’t call for a ton of ingredients. Even better when those meals are easy to make and are ready in a short time. This cookbook is chock full of meals that are intended to be exactly those things. The beginning of the cookbook offers suggestions for items to stock your pantry and kitchen with, as well as tips on how to save time in the kitchen. Then come the recipes.

Chapters include:

• Hot Off The Grill
• No-Cook Suppers
• Pastas And Pizzas
• Not Just For Breakfast
• Dinner In A Dish
• So Easy Sides
• 3-Ingredient Desserts

I have to say that I really enjoy Southern Living cookbooks. They’re just so well put together. I have come to expect them to make me smile, and upon first going through this one that’s exactly what I did. This cookbook is jam packed with gorgeous color photos. There isn’t a single page that doesn’t have one or more photos. The recipe photos will make you want to eat for sure. They also make me want to try cooking the dish, which is why I find photos in a cookbook so important. The photos aren’t the only thing that make me smile. Each and every recipe includes prep and cooking time. There are all sorts of tips sprinkled generously throughout the book pertaining to substitutions, shopping, prep work and more. The only thing the cookbook doesn’t have that I wish it had is an index at the beginning of each chapter. I find them helpful in finding what I’m looking for quickly when time is an issue. This cookbook would be perfect for anyone interested in making quick meals in a hurry.

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What’s your go-to quick meal with limited ingredients?