special edition of What I'm Reading Wednesday (combined with Food for Friday?)

[topaz119]

Right, so for some reason, all the Cooking Light cookbooks for Kindle are on sale today, most for $3.99. This includes several variations on their Fresh Food Fast concept, which at least means it's do-able for a non-insane weeknight (some nights, we're lucky if we can put peanut butter to bread before somebody has to be somewhere else.) There's also one with slow cooker recipes, too. I have some issues with CL's portion sizes sometimes but for that price, one decent meal from the whole book is more than worth it. I know I've talked to a couple people on my flist/circle about dealing with dinner during the week so I thought I'd pass this along.

FWIW, I *did* manage real food tonight: shrimp scampi, couscous and steamed broccoli. Ice cream for dessert, because dessert can't not happen around here.

Also of the good: the farmer's markets are gearing up around here and the strawberries are starting to look real instead of plastic. I am so sick of winter veggies and apples you don't even know...

Good weekend, everybody!

Comments

[fitzumble]

Will check those out. I'm back in the area temporarily and think I'm going to have to do actual cooking while I'm here, lol. ALL my stuff is STILL in storage and will be for the next few months, so I guess I will just haveto start over with the cookbooks.

[topaz119]

I'm trying to not overload on cookbooks--I have too freaking many as it is--but for a couple of bucks from a reputable group, I can't resist. And I don't know what side of town you're on, but the Decatur Farmer's Market is back up to 3x week, which bodes well for local fruits and veggies.

[kare.livejournal.com]

I can't wait until strawberries are actually edible!

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

They're pretty close now--the ones we had at lunch this week (the guy who runs our work cafeteria has the best suppliers ever) smelled amazing and tasted almost as good.

[1orelei.livejournal.com]

Several variations on the Fresh Food Fast concept...

... all published about the same time. Are they each 280 different receipes, or the same recipes across all three (four?) books? If you happen to know, that is. (I'm reading reviews trying to decide!)

[topaz119.livejournal.com]

hmmmm, I don't know--I have only one of the FFF books (the 24/7 one) and the other ones are the Real Food and slow cooker one so I can't really compare...

Can you tell from the reviews? Are people commenting about getting the same recipes over and over?