The Quick Six Fix: 100 No-Fuss, Full-Flavor Recipes – Six Ingredients, Six Minutes Prep, Six Minutes Cleanup – A Celebrity Chef's Guide to Delicious Meals and Smart Shortcuts

by Stuart O'Keeffe

Save time and simplify with 100 fabulous quick-and-easy recipes—using 6 ingredients, 6 minutes of prep, and 6 minutes of clean up—from celebrity chef Stuart O’Keeffe. Preparing a meal doesn’t need to be difficult or require a lot of time, celebrity chef Stuart O’Keeffe insists. If you work efficiently while keeping your space clean and cook with minimal yet flavorful ingredients, you can get a great meal from stove to table fast. In The Quick Six Fix , he offers dozens of delicious recipes for breakfast, salads, soups, pasta, fish, chicken, pork, beef, sides, and desserts that will get you in and out of the kitchen in thirty minutes or less. Each requires no more than 6 key ingredients, 6 minutes of prep work, and 6 minutes of clean up. Chef Stuart begins with the pantry essentials and tools you’ll need to whip up a diverse range of amazing dishes at a moment’s notice, such as his tasty culinary school favorites, Moules Frites and Pistachio Basil Buttered Crispy Salmon. Indulge in delights that pay homage to his native Ireland, including Bangers with a Melted Leek Mash and Cranberry Compote, Sweet Berries “Yorkshire Pudding,” and an Easter dinner favorite, Mustard Crusted Pork with Apple Cabbage Slaw. And savor delights like Mexican Street Corn and the “LA” Cheeseburger influenced by his adopted California home. Stuart O’Keeffe believes in Fewer ingredients afford higher quality. With The Quick Six Fix, he teaches you how to take smart shortcuts, like pairing key store-bought items with homemade ingredients, to cut kitchen time and save you money. Illustrated with more than 75 full color photos, The Quick Six Fix is the secret to creating easy-to-make, great-tasting dishes that are sure to wow.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food, Reference

240 pages, Hardcover

First published March 1, 2016

Reviews

[Ivonne Rovira · Rating 3 out of 5]

Irish chef Stuart O’Keeffe, yet another celebrity cashing in with a cookbook, promises in The Quick Six Fix 100 recipes that require just six ingredients, six minutes to prepare and six minutes to clean up. There are some decent recipes here, but this is no Mom 100, Joy of Cooking, Great Food Fast nor Eat at Home Tonight — all cookbooks that will change your life! Really!

First the promise: Take both the ingredients and the prep time under advisement. O’Keeffe cheats a bit. Most recipes don’t count salt, pepper, butter or oil, but O’Keeffe also discounts items such as corn tortillas, fresh cilantro, sour cream, feta cheese, cherry tomatoes, scallions, sourdough bread, red onion, cream cheese, smoked salmon — indeed, any of the more than 100 items he advises you to keep on hand in his pantry suggestions. And I believe the prep time should be measured by scatterbrained moms like me, not seasoned chefs.

That said, there are some decent recipes here with about the average number of ingredients (more than six) and taking about the average amount of time, which means some take longer than the promised 30 minutes or less. Get it if it’s on sale or you can get it through Kindle Unlimited or the library. I wouldn’t pay retail.

[Andrew · Rating 4 out of 5]

O'Keeffe's book works for those (like me), who have some pantry staples, where 6 new ingredients, 6 minute prep time, 6 minutes of clean-up (that works for me) keeps those pantry staples interesting and unique.
The recipes are also no-mess, no-fuss, and for the most part, O'Keeffe doesn't add in those (can only use one time ingredients that you never know how to use them again outside of that one recipe). He also has a plethora of recipes that are good (and easy to alternate) for singles, couples and crowds.

[Bill Hsu · Rating 3 out of 5]

This looks like a fun, eclectic cookbook with relatively easy recipes. Depending on how you count 'em, I'm not sure it's always six of each. Not a lot of surprises (get a rotisserie chicken to cut down on prep time! umm), but some nice flavor combos and useful ideas. I haven't run through any of the recipes yet, but my somewhat edited version of the three bean chicken stew is in progress right this moment.

[Marco · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chances are you've seen Chef Stuart O'Keeffe on television cooking up a storm. His book "The Quick Six Fix" is a staple in my cookbook collection.

Simple recipes you can actually follow with ingredients that don't sound like you have to have a culinary dictionary to find out what they are.

These are comfort foods with a twist and ready in no time. All the recipes are designed with only six ingredients, and six minutes of prep time and cleanup - a snap if you're looking for something to make for others or something flavorful for yourself.

There's great recipes like "Mexican Street Corn", new recipes for staples like beef stew, and a great one for "Popcorn Cauliflower Nuggets"!

A terrific cookbook, lots of recipes and great pictures.

[Abigail · Rating 3 out of 5]

I picked this up because I like the show on the Food network called Five Ingredient Fix....thinking this would be just like it but it uses over 6 ingredients and I just felt deceived also the pictures didn't always match the description..

[Jessica · Rating 1 out of 5]

There’s a 13 ingredient recipe in his 6 ingredients cookbook. I’ll give him salt, pepper, olive oil & water. But his “gimmies” include, amongst 46 others, hoisin sauce and 4 kinds of vinegar. C’mon. That’s not in the spirit of the book title or it’s marketing.

Instructions are terrible. For example, at one point in a recipe he tells you to simmer the sauce but doesn’t tell you to lower the heat. That’s “duh” if you cook a lot but ruins a recipe if you don’t. Then later in that recipe, he fails to mention raising the heat to cook super crunchy veggies past el dente (a little crunch is good, nearly raw isn’t, in specific recipes).

Finally, I made 3 recipes: the bacon/potato/kale soup, penne arrabiata and a coconut shrimp curry. All of them were one note dishes and for a 51 item pantry PLUS up to 6 other ingredients, there no excuse for that. Could the recipes be tweaked? Sure. But if you’re paying $27.99 for a cookbook, the recipes should be (mainly) good, as written.

This book is subjectively and objectively poorly written.
If you’re a novice cook or like tasty food, this book isn’t for you.

[Debbie · Rating 3 out of 5]

As others have said, the cover is misleading. "Quick"? Some are, some aren't, most prep takes twice as long as the time listed. "Six" ingredients? Only because he chooses which ingredients to count. "Six" minutes prep? No. "Six" minutes cleanup? Maybe for a smoothie, or salad, but nothing else.

However ... some of the recipes are delicious and worth trying. Just skip the claims on the cover.

[Maureen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nicer to look at than use.

[Rebecca · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pictures of recipes? Yes.
Commentary on recipes? Yes.
Nutrition facts? No.
Recipe Style? Supposedly quick cooking dinners, mostly Anglo-American style.
Any keepers? A couple.

[Chuck Knudsen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Yeah, see, funny thing about this. The 6, 6, 6 moniker sounds really good, but it is *rarely* stuck to, which makes it complete nonsense. There's a caveat in the introduction about only counting the main ingredients or some claptrap, but that's ridiculous. If I have to dice an onion that counts as a damn ingredient. Pick a page, any random page, and you will no doubt find a recipe that is fudging on the six ingredient thing, and probably inaccurate on the timing as well. Bleh.

Oh, also, kind of a mediocre picture to recipe ratio, maybe 1:4. Disappointing all around.

[Cindy Kerschner · Rating 5 out of 5]

How many times have you said, “I wish I had a quick fix for dinner tonight?”
Believe me, I totally get it. Some nights I could stare at a piece of chicken and wish it could talk back to me with a dinner idea. I think I have a solution for you.
THE QUICK SIX FIX is the must-have tool for creating easy-to-make, great-tasting dishes with helpful pantry suggestions, quick preparation methods and fast clean-up solutions. Most recipes take just six key ingredients!

[Kalei · Rating 2 out of 5]

Should have given this recipe book one star because from the cover it's very misleading. It's more like 6 ingredients not in your pantry if you have a pantry stocked to feed a family of 6 at all times. The recipes seem interesting and good but I didn't bother trying them out because it wasn't very innovative with new flavor combinations. Seemed like recipes I could find in any other cookbook.

[Jennifer · Rating 2 out of 5]

The recipes are okay, and they are fast to do and clean up, but the six ingredient part of the title is a total lie. There is a long list of pantry ingredients that are not included in the six ingredients.

[Jan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of good recipes that seem doable. Tonight I'm making Buffalo Chicken Wings and Skillet Mac and Cheese. Sounds delicious and super easy!!!

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really liked this book. The recipes look yummy and seem really easy to make. I made the risotto recipe and it was really good.

[Katy]

October cookbook club. I glanced through but nothing stood out to make. Croissant bread pudding showed up at the meeting though, and it was divine.

[Danielle Mccoy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The concept is great but the food isn't that inspiring or something that sounds worth the work.