Milk Street: Cookish: Throw It Together: Big Flavors. Simple Techniques. 200 Ways to Reinvent

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Throw together fast, flavorful meals in no time with just a handful of ingredients with 200 highly cookable, delicious, and incredibly simple recipes from the James Beard Award-winning team at Milk Street.
 In Cookish, Christopher Kimball and his team of cooks and editors harness the most powerful cooking principles from around the world to create 200 of the simplest, most delicious recipes ever created. These recipes, most with six or fewer ingredients (other than oil, salt, and pepper), make it easy to be a great cook — the kind who can walk into a kitchen and throw together dinner in no time.  In each of these recipes, big flavors and simple techniques transform pantry staples, common proteins, or centerpiece vegetables into a delicious meal. And each intuitive recipe is a road map for other mix-and-match meals, which can come together in minutes from whatever’s in the fridge. With most recipes taking less than an hour to prepare, and just a handful of ingredients, you’ll enjoy:Pasta with Shrimp and Browned ButterWest African Peanut ChickenRed Lentil SoupScallion NoodlesOpen-Faced Omelet with Fried Dill and FetaGreek Bean and Avocado SaladAnd for dessert: Spiced Strawberry Compote with Greek Yogurt or Ice Cream
When it’s a race to put dinner on the table, these recipes let you start at the finish line.

Our Top Reviews

Reviewer: Kay Vz
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Excellent!
Review: I have a bad habit of falling for the allure of a new cookbook and then not using it, but this one is different. Recipes are quick and simple with few ingredients, and the flavor is amazing. I’ve made two so far and both served husband and myself with leftovers for a second dinner. I’m really looking forward to making more from this book, as well as repeating the recipes I’ve tried.

Reviewer: veechman
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great cookbook!
Review: We have owned this cookbook for a few years now and have given it as a gift several times. We love the recipes and the ease of making them.

Reviewer: rubyvinyl
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Renewed hope that I will learn to cook
Review: Cookish’s simple recipes with shorter cook times and good flavor have already twice made it possible for me to feel like I successfully made yummy, homemade meals for my family. Nothing is more frustrating when trying to learn how to cook than recipes that take a long time and turn out meh. If I cook any recipe from anywhere, it always takes me two to three times as long to make it because I’m a rookie. So morale in cooking adventures and trying to build cooking habits has long been low. But I’m excited now! I actually want to pick out dinner for tonight!

Reviewer: Reviewer
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Nice change of pace
Review: I love the concept of this book – recipes with 6 ingredients that come together quickly. My only compaint is that while these are supposedly made with pantry ingredients, I find that most recipes have one ingredient that is not something I normally have in the house and requires advanced planning. Many of the recipes are also on the spicy side, though the chili can be cut down or eliminated. Overall, this is a great addition to my collection of recipes and I find myself opening it several times a week to come up with an idea for dinner.

Reviewer: BNB
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Spectacular!
Review: I have a bookcase full of cookbooks from the last 50 years—Craig Claiborne to Ottolenghi —but this is my new favorite. Many of these recipes are fridge to table in 30-40 minutes, including cooking time. The flavors are wonderful, the ingredients fresh, and the presentation beautiful. Fit for company, simple, elegant and delicious. The recipes also invite variation. I added white beans and a bit of apple cider vinegar to the pork with cabbage and peppers; I threw some frozen okra into the salmon with chipotle tomato sauce. What I love the most is that you can put a lovely meal on the table in half the time, without sacrificing freshness or flavor.

Reviewer: CandigirlATL
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for interesting flavors and low labor
Review: There are so many things I like about this book, from how it is organized to the results. Christopher Kimball has come up with a full assortment of straightforward recipes, with variations and substitutes, that don’t take a lot of work but are really interesting.I appreciate the care taken to describe the recipes as capturing the flavors of what often are much more complex dishes. Language like “inspired by“ let us know that we’re getting a hint but not the original (a distinction too often missed by less thoughtful recipe writers). Most ingredients can be found in a big box grocery store.Not a single recipe is more than two columns on a single page, and a lot of recipes are even half of a page. Even a novice home cook can tackle many of these recipes on a weeknight. even better, many (if not most) are single pot or pan recipes.If you are a home cook looking for simple dishes that invoke an array of world flavors (Mediterranean, African, Italian, Greek, etc.) with ingredients you can have or generally find, that won’t take a day to make, this is the book for you.

Reviewer: DAC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Great for pandemic era cooking!
Review: This book has saved me from pandemic-related cooking burnout. I’m really over meal planning, can’t do a lot of extra grocery trips to get that one item needed for dinner. With a short list of ingredients, there was always a good shot of having enough items on hand to get “cookish” for an unplanned meal. One that didn’t need a lot of energy to make. I love that they build in flexibility and provide several options of ingredients to use. Some people already cook that way, some of us like it spelled out. I think this book is best for people with some cooking experience, as it’s light on specific directions (amount of heat, cooking times), although it does give accurate approximations for how long the whole recipe will take. Everything I’ve tried as been extremely flavorful despite the short ingredient list.

Reviewer: cheapie pie
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Not so enamored
Review: I bought this after getting the Milk Street Vegetables cookbook, which is one of my great favorites. Although this one was highly rated, I did not find the recipes as enticing as those in Vegetables. If you need to choose between the two, you will love Vegetables for the tasty, relatively simple, and wide ranging recipes. I could live happily without this one.

Reviewer: Katherine Massie
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I own a lot of cookbooks. This may be one of my all time favorites now. I love the variety of recipes that are not ingredient heavy. With a focus on new and unique flavors, paired with approchable ingredients and techniques, I am really impressed with this little cookbook.

Reviewer: Brendagh
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Unlike some cookbooks I have purchased, this one has an index that is fully compatible with an ereader and makes it easy to search recipes!

Reviewer: Margaret Sarrasin
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: An outstanding cookbook – recipes are easy and packed with flavour, I have already recommended this book to other friends and family. So happy with my purchase

Reviewer: robyn mcdougall
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Like all Milk Streets, it’s hard to go wrong with this. Innovative recipes with an easy ingredient list but effective techniques that make things just work.

Reviewer: Coco
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: I enjoy the simplicity and the flavours of each of the recipes so far.

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