400 Three and Four Ingredient Recipes

by Joanna Farrow, Jenny White

Perfect for today's busy modern cook, this book shows how to achieve maximum flavor with minimum effort. Every recipe tastes sensational but requires just three or four ingredients, saving money and saving time on planning, shopping and preparation.

Genres: Cookbooks

Hardcover

First published June 12, 2006

About the author

Joanna Farrow trained as a home economist and has worked as a freelance writer for several food magazines including BBC Good Food Magazine. Joanna has written a diverse range of cookery books, from 30 Minute Vegetarian to Simply Cadbury s Chocolate and also styles food for book, magazine and advertising photography

Reviews

[Nicki Markus · Rating 4 out of 5]

I am a reluctant cook at best. I'll bake, but making main meals? Not on your life. Unfortunately, with my husband's forthcoming career change, I am going to have to start doing more of the evening cooking. Therefore, when I saw this book for $7 in one of the cheap bookstores in the city, I decided to give it a look. Overall, I am pleased with my purchase. Several recipes jumped out at me as looking interesting, and a number appealed to my husband, too, when he flicked through the pages. Only one thing stops me giving this book five stars, and that's the fact that many of the 'meals' are really only a part of the meal. With thing like chicken, I would expect to have to do some kind of vegetable and potato sides with it. However, when it comes to things like pasta, I would expect those to constitute the whole meal, but in some recipes that doesn't seem to be the case--it would be a pretty meagre repast. Therefore, I would have appreciated the inclusion of some serving suggestions for what could go with it. Even so, this is still a book with some good, simple-looking recipes, and I will be trying out a few of them in the coming weeks!

[Lee]

easy, prefer recipes where you don't have to go out and buy ingredients you'll never use again, wasteful