Caroline Chambers
What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking: Make It Fast (Hardcover)
For the parent who still cooks dinner every night and would welcome shortcuts.
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Canada
Indigo
Price seen October 13, 2026
$46 CAD
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Why it made our lists
Gifts for people who love to cook
A cookbook of 100 dinners that each need no more than 30 minutes of work. For a parent who cooks every night and wants shortcuts. Written for American groceries and measurements.
What it is
A 2026 cookbook with 100 complete dinners that each take no more than 30 minutes of hands-on work. It is organized to cut steps and dirty dishes.
A hardcover cookbook from Caroline Chambers, follow-up to her What to Cook When You Don't Feel Like Cooking. It holds 100 dinner recipes, each a full meal needing no more than 30 minutes of hands-on work including prep, split into three chapters by time. Recipes carry swaps and shortcuts, and some anchor recipes can be turned into five different dishes. Indexes at the back sort meals by ingredient and by mood or occasion.
The details
- Recipes
- 100 complete dinners
- Hands-on time
- 30 minutes or less per recipe
- Pages
- 272
- Publisher
- Union Square & Co.
- ISBN
- 9781454963264
- Indexes
- By ingredient and by occasion or mood
From the shop's product page, read October 3, 2026.
Worth knowing
It is written for American kitchens, so measurements and some ingredients assume US groceries.
Skip it for a baker or dessert cook, since all 100 recipes are dinners.
- Good for
- Mom, Dad
- Interests
- Cooking, Books & reading
- Occasions
- Christmas, Birthday, Mother's Day
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