Friday, January 9, 2009

Five Nights a Week - Valli Little




This has been out for over a year but is a very useful book. All of the recipes come from Delicious magazine. The 5 nights a week section is really a collection of recipes that you can easily cook after work, but which taste great and offer heaps of variety.

This book has 150 selected recipes, across a range of different areas. Soup to salad to entree to cooking all types of meat and fish. What all the recipes seem to have in common is minimal preparation and cooking time so you can spend the most time actually enjoying the food with friends and family.

My wife and I have used this book very widely. In fact it has been one of our most used cookbooks over the last 18 months. It is well marked with at least 15 recipes being cooked on more than one occasion. In fact we have given copies to friends and family all over the place.

If you want a no nonsense cookbook, that you don't need to be a chef to understand and which has simple easy to follow directions this is it. Unlike other books that fit into this category it assumes you want variety, a range of choices some very healthy others a little more luxurious.

Some of our favourites include easy Chicken and artichoke rice, Low-fat Berry Tiramisu, Herb Crumbed Lamb Cutlets, the list goes on. So this one gets a highly recommended from me.

You can pick up your copy from any ABC shop, although i have seen it in other places

1 comment:

  1. This is a truly excellent cookbook. I hate to cook (and luckily do it only 1 night a week, yay!) but I use this one a lot. Sunday night meals are much improved since I started using this.
    The Wife.

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