The Essential Pantry: Streamline Your Ingredients, Simplify Your Meals

by Maggie Green, Sarah Jane Sanders (Photographer)

For many home cooks, it can be a challenge to find the time, money, and ingredients to enjoy preparing a meal. Imagine a cookbook where you didn’t have to shop for expensive ingredients in unusual places or use them only once. Imagine a cookbook where you knew you had all the dry goods you needed to prepare quick and amazing recipes. Wouldn’t this change the way you think and feel about cooking?

Enter The Essential Pantry, the indispensable resource for cooks who want everyday recipes right at their fingertips, without the fuss of an extended shopping trip. Food and nutrition expert Maggie Green reveals the secret to her miraculous meal preparation routine: a well-stocked pantry. By bringing together a few fresh ingredients like meat, dairy, and produce with Green’s comprehensive list of easy-to-find, pantry-safe foods, you can prepare delicious recipes on time and within budget—without running to the store halfway through. Packed with amazing recipes like Greek-style green beans, zucchini and carrot pancakes, 10-minute flatbread pizza, spicy chicken asiago pasta, grilled pork chops with brown sugar brine, and Indian-spiced meatballs, The Essential Pantry will revolutionize the way you think and feel about cooking.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Food

165 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 1, 2018

Reviews

[Gladimore · Rating 1 out of 5]

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[Lisa Burke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVED, LOVED this cookbook. I absolutely love the concept of cooking out of your pantry. You don’t have to buy 50 ingredients or things you will use one time. The recipes were simple and healthy. Would definitely recommend it.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.75 stars

Decent recipes but nothing really new. There are a few I want to try.

However, there are very few photos that actually show what a recipe looks like. They're mostly photos of individual ingredients. Not very helpful if you want to know what a recipe should like.

[Jeanna · Rating 3 out of 5]

The concept of this cookbook is what truly caught my eye. Green lists things that are essential to keep in your pantry and then gives several recipes that utilizes items found in that pantry. The recipes were simple and basic, nothing unique.