Dinner Solved!: 100 Ingenious Recipes That Make the Whole Family Happy, Including You!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have lots of recipes that are not only interesting and delicious and fun, but also easy to adapt to those who are more adventurous or maybe have a need for something more bland? This cookbook answers those needs and more. The twenty chapters in this book cover everything from breakfast foods, sandwiches, salads, meat, fish, poultry, pastas, to desserts and more. There is a vegetarian section as well. The recipes have the usual instructions but also have suggestions about what the kids can do to help. What a nice touch! There is a list of ingredients in the introductory section that lists things that will “jack up the flavor or interest” in the foods in this book. The layout in the book is beautifully clean and easy to navigate. Gorgeous photographs, while not there for every recipe, are plentiful and engender the desire to try the recipes.

Recipes have a personal anecdote to go with them in which author Katie Workman tells bit about how the recipe came about. The writing is crisp, clean, and, best of all, fun and interesting. If you can only have one cookbook, it should be this one.