Stir, Laugh Repeat: a cookbook review

Martha Cheves has a cookbook that I recently purchased.

I do a lot of cooking and consequently, I read a lot of cookbooks.  All of them have many complicated recipes calling for a lot for ingredients. I always assumed that was the way of the cook. Until I got a copy of Martha Cheves' cook book Stir, Laugh, Repeat.

This cookbook specializes in simple recipes that should find favor with working couples who haven't the time or energy to cook complicated recipes.  Martha's recipes call for pre-packaged ingredients that could be stocked in advance and used as the need arises.

As an example, Martha has a chicken and rice recipe that has similarities to the Spanish   classic Arroz con Pollo, one that I make a lot.  I use chicken, rice, onions, peppers, tomatoes, broth, saffron and other spices.  It takes twenty minutes of prep work and an hour of stovetop cooking; adding ingredients, stirring etc.  Martha's recipes calls for chicken and a prepackaged box of saffron rice and a few other ingredients with almost no preparation time and less than a half-hour in the oven.

All in all, this cookbook should find favor with many busy families and others who aren't thrilled by cooking but like to eat.

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