Sheet Pan Suppers: 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven

Why wasn’t this cookbook written long ago? Never mind, I’m just glad that Molly Gilbert has finally written a book about cooking with sheet pans. Forget Indian tagines (clay pots), fancy Le Creuset Dutch ovens, $50 pizza stones, Williams Sonoma au gratin pans and all the other high-priced kitchen cookware that overflow our cabinets. All you need is an 18-inch-by-13-inch rimmed sheet pan. Or two.

With that $10 to $15 investment, you can use Gilbert’s wonderful cookbook to produce everything from Breakfast Berry Cobbler or Big Dutch Baby with Meyer Lemon Sugar for breakfast to Herbed Goat Cheese & Zucchini Tarts and Baked Crab & Corn Cakes with Tangy Aioli for appetizers to Classic Roast Chicken and Mustardy Potatoes for dinner to show more Carrot Layer Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting or Salted Rosemary Toffee Crunch for dessert. And for a mere $1.99, Sheet Pan Suppers: 120 Recipes for Simple, Surprising, Hands-Off Meals Straight from the Oven is a real bargain you can’t do without! show less

Sheet Pan Suppers is a beautiful book to behold: all glossy photos and heavyweight papers, although I do wish it would lay flat so that I could more easily stay on the recipe. But, of course, the true test of any cookbook is the recipes. And the recipes look wonderful!

The first recipe I tried was Lemon & Herb Sole on Crispy Potato Rafts. Gilbert notes that haddock, halibut and cod are also good choices for this dish so I used the wonderful frozen cod I get from the “fish guys” who come to my door in their truck once a month. I substituted dried thyme for the fresh and I skipped the capers because I didn’t have any on hand. I’m sure that made some difference in the finished product but the recipe still came out a keeper.

My show more seven-year-old grandson whose usual comment on my cooking for the past year-and-a-half has been consistently only “good”, pronounced these potatoes as “GREAT”. I’d have to agree. As Gilbert says: “They’re hot and crisp and supremely garlickly, a noble base for the delicately light, flaky, herb-, lemon-, and butter-flavored fish fillets.” show less

Are you as sick of playing the crock pot game as I am? Do you have better success with roasting? My answer to these questions is yes! This book is amazing and has so many wonderful recipes! I had started to mark pages that I wanted to photocopy, however it turned out to be most of the book! This will simply have to be a purchase for my personal collection of cookbooks. The roasting method is so simple I feel as though anyone can make these dishes. The author put a lot of thought into including a wide variety of recipes that are not simply desserts. She covers appetizers, various meats, and breakfasts. Nothing is too complicated and most of the ideas make my mouth water. I especially look forward to trying the Pecan "Fried" Fish, and the show more Spicy Brown Sugar-Rosemary Cashews recipes upon my purchase! I definitely recommend this cookbook to anyone.

Ashley C. / Marathon County Public Library
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This one has some interesting and original ideas, and I enjoyed the author's sense of humor in the descriptions.

Just skimmed through it for ideas. Looks good. Will borrow from library when I want more ideas.

120 recipes for simple, surprising, hands-off meals straight from the over Plus breakfasts, desserts, and snacks, too

Great book! Testing out two of the chicken recipes tonight.