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Just Roast Chicken excerpted from Cook Once, Eat Twice: The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your time spent in the kitchen as featured in the BBC2 TV show by Nadiya Hussain. Photography by Chris Terry.

Cook Once, Eat Twice: The ultimate guide to getting the most out of your time spent in the kitchen as featured in the BBC2 TV show by Nadiya Hussain

Pressed for time to cook in a busy week?

Cook Once, Eat Twice is all about delicious convenience, showing how to get ahead in the kitchen by cooking more efficiently and economically.

Nadiya Hussain shares a host of creative time savers, including trusty batch-cooking and meal-prepping ideas, clever ways to spin leftovers into new meals, simple baked treats that are easy to store and eat later, and even recipes to use up your scraps.

With recipes such as:

Chick Pea and Chicken Tray Bake
Sticky Honey Mustard Toad in the Hole Burgers
Cheese and Lamb Samosas
Courgette Spaghetti
Cheats Biria Tacos
Paneer Karahi
Lemon Sherbet Loaf

Nadiya shows how easy it is to stretch your meals, reduce your waste and make life simpler, so you always have satisfying food at your fingertips.
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Go-To Dinners: A Barefoot Contessa Cookbook by Ina Garten

Even Ina Garten, America’s most trusted and beloved home cook, sometimes finds cooking stressful. To make life easy she relies on a repertoire of recipes that she knows will turn out perfectly every time. Cooking night after night during the pandemic inspired her to re-think the way she approached dinner, and the result is this collection of comforting and delicious recipes that you’ll love preparing and serving. You’ll find lots of freeze-ahead, make-ahead, prep-ahead, and simply assembled recipes so you, too, can make dinner a breeze.

In Go-To Dinners, Ina shares her strategies for making her most satisfying and uncomplicated dinners. Many, like Overnight Mac & Cheese, you can make ahead and throw in the oven right before dinner. Light dinners like Tuscan White Bean Soup can be prepped ahead and assembled at the last minute. Go-to family meals like Chicken in a Pot with Orzo and Hasselback Kielbasa will feed a crowd with very little effort. And who doesn’t want to eat Breakfast For Dinner? You’ll find recipes for Scrambled Eggs Cacio e Pepe and Roasted Vegetables with Jammy Eggs that are a snap to make and so satisfying. Ina’s “Two-Fers” guide you on how to turn leftovers from one dinner into something different and delicious the second night. (more…)