What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking

Recipes for busy people who love good food 🙋‍♀️🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️—I see you out there, and Caroline Chambers does too. This darling woman from North Carolina marries a Navy SEAL, moves to Coronado, CA, and starts a catering company before transitioning to developing recipes for publications and wineries. Then she had three children, COVID hit, and her chance to create her own recipes finally came along.

She wrote a cookbook—an NYT bestseller, no less—and wow, does she have a lot of good recipes inside. Whether you’re cooking for two or twenty, this book could pull even the most beat-down human out of the deepest cooking rut. My favorites so far have been the Dilly Chop and Buttery Shrimp Orzo.

Let me tell you what sets this book apart from all others: it breaks down the recipes by prep time—15, 30, 45 minutes, 1 hour, and a little longer. How brilliant is she? I want to meet this woman; she's got it going on.

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