Fix-It and Enjoy-It: All-Purpose, Welcome-Home Recipes

If this is your concern: "I need an easy (fill in the blank with some common dish) recipe for tonight!" ...then this book is guaranteed to work for you. Here you will find 675 easy recipes for home-cooking dishes, including entrees, side dishes, and desserts. The source of these recipes is a plethora of talented home cooks from all over the USA. Taking a typical recipe, the potato salad on page 174 is second to none. I found it to be remarkably simple to prepare and the end result was one of the most delicious potato salads I've ever tried anywhere... and believe me, as a career park ranger, I've tasted a LOT of potato salad! A bonus in this book was that I had a choice of three potato salads, the two alternatives being "Easy Red Potato Salad" and "Sweet Potato Salad." All dishes are pretty much like this and they all use common ingredients. You'll find plenty of new recipes in here, dishes such as "Brandied Peach Chicken," "Creamy Crab-Stuffed Shells," and "Butter Rum Bananas." But all the basic dishes are in here too. Is this a specialty or gourmet cooking cookbook? No, but it doesn't purport to be. These are recipes designed to feed a family some really tasty food, without taking too much time or hassle, fairly economically, day after day. In all there are 284 pages, about three dishes per page, and the recipes are nicely categorized. Additionally, these recipes are easy to read as you cook. If the book has any shortcomings, there are perhaps two minor ones. We don't know in advance how people might have rated these individual recipes so you're more or less making them "on trust" until you get to try the finished product. The several I have made so far have all been very good so that's a good indicator as to the quality of them all. The second issue is that there are no photos or illustrations of the dishes; however, in home-cooking this is not so important a feature as it is in gourmet cooking so I didn't find this to be a huge shortcoming. I should mention that if you like this type of cookbook, you might also be pleased with one of my own favorites: Mr. Food Cooks Like Mama Definitely recommended.

The recipes in this book are really easy to fallow. I don't have to go out and buy any special ingredients usually have everything in my pantry.

This is a great cookbook for the "normal" everyday cook. I have tried 7 receipes and each has been delicious! I have had all the ingredients at home (didn't have to run for something special). I have many cookbooks and this is one of my favorites! Enjoy!

This is a wonderful reference, whether you're brand new to cooking or like myself, have been around the kitchen for 50 years. Most all of the recipes use ingredients that you normally have in your cupboards. When I get a new cookbook, I read them like a novel and check the ones I want to try. There's so many checks, I don't know where to start!

Lots of recips for every day cooking. Easy to make and always delicate. Now I am often baking American Pies.