This is not like other cookbooks. This is the one you will use every single night of your life until you’ve memorized the recipes and then you no longer need it. The recipes will become yours. There are no fancy pictures, no tales of travel to exotic places, and no impossible to locate ingredients.
There are thousands of beautiful cookbooks out there that I read as fiction: Fun, mysterious, and never gonna happen in real life.
This is a book born of decades of cooking with no money, no time, and no inclination to really apply myself. I come from a long line of not great cooks, so the fact that I’m putting together a cohesive collection of edible recipes that are easy to make and yummy is a miracle.
Mostly, I did this because I wish someone would have written this years ago when I was young and needed to know it was okay to take shortcuts in meal making…so I could watch more TV.
