Jessica Merchant

I appreciate whenever anyone teaches me something — especially when it’s something I should have already figured out. Sure, I will marinade items the night before I cook it. But it never occurred to me to pre-prepare other aspects of dinner. Salad dressings, chopping vegetables, boiling pasta for pasta salads — all of that can be done ahead of time.

Yes, it was dumb of me not to realize this. But now I do! So an extra star for this OK cookbook for this invaluable nugget for quick cookery.

This cookbook is truly a celebration of food, with beautiful recipes that are a great mix between delicious healthy recipes and more scrumptious treats. Half of the recipes were actually already vegan (which is great for me!), just because the author favors equal parts healthy with equal parts 'treats', which I appreciated. I also enjoyed the author's personal antidotes she included for each recipe; I thought she had a unique and entertaining voice that shows how much fun cooking can be, and show more made me want to check out her blog where her recipes originated from: How Sweet Eats. This is a great new cookbook!

Sarah M. / Marathon County Public Library
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