60 Recipes Easy to Make and Easy to Clean: Delicious FULL Daily Meals All on 1 Baking Sheet!
When I was offered a copy of this great cookbook for an honest review from the publisher, I jumped at the chance because I loved the idea of the simplicity of the recipes!
This cookbook is not photo-rich. Each chapter begins with a photo for that chapter’s theme. Sure, being chock full of photos would be terrific. But for the publisher to have done so, this cookbook would cost 2 or 3x the price. Photos are the most expensive part of book publication, hence the price of coffee table books, richly packed with photos. I miss them a tad here, too. But I appreciate the price point for New Apartment and New Home Buyers and folks just starting out.
The first 11 pages of Sheet Pan Basics introduce the premise and practices of doing this kind of simple cooking. So many cooks are looking for cookbooks giving us to cook with 1 sheet, 1 pot cooking simplicity. While we crave recipes made with one sheet or pot for ease of preparation as well as clean up. The Healthy Sheet Pan cookbook delivers just that and with yummy options to suit all palettes and dietary needs!
At the time of my writing this review, the LOOK INSIDE feature for these 60 Recipes is not yet activated, and there is no TOC Table of Contents cited. It is as follows:
Introduction viii
Chapter 1 Sheet Pan Basics 1
Chapter 2 Breakfast 13
Chapter 3 Poultry 25
Chapter 4 Beef & Pork 41
Chapter 5 Seafood 67
Chapter 6 Vegetarian 83
Resources
Part of what appeals to me about doing Sheet Pan cooking is the sheer simplicity and ease of it: 1 sheet, 1 meal! Ruthy points out that by doing Sheet Pan cooking, we are roasting more of what we’re cooking, which really brings out the flavors, I think especially in chicken!
I have to say I am most intrigued by all of the breakfast options because they featured such items as spiralized veggies and not just, breakfast cereal or toast which is what our quick breakfasts have become recently. I am inspired! All the salmon dishes sound terrific, and since we are both watching our cholesterol, having salmon multiple times a week with different ways to prepare it is great. But you can’t get me to play with Tilapia. It just doesn’t do it for me, but I know I can take the recipe and substitute a different fish still to make use of the recipe.
My fiancé will be quite pleased. There are a number of recipes featuring eggplant! More options for eggplant is always well-received in our home. Plus, as it turns out, eggplant is one of the highest fiber veggies out there, which also benefits our cholesterol watching.
The Beef and Pork section looks seriously scrumptious. Most of the beef recipes are with kinds of steak. The pork recipes feature both loin and chops. Great things to look forward to this winter!
Mildly disappointed with one or two of the recipes like 2 pages devoted to loaded nachos (she did contribute 1 variation which is slightly different). It’s just so basic and traditionally prepared on a baking sheet, I didn’t think she needed to include it here. Ditto the Tomato Caprese Flatbreads and bake Ratatoille. However, there are so many dishes where Ruthy is playing with different ingredients and putting altogether on a baking sheet into fast meals, that I am still utterly delighted with this cookbook and will definitely be attempting some of these recipes shortly! Parsnips, white beans, sweet potatoes and radishes: I’m intrigued!
This cookbook, as Ruthy keeps touting throughout, is terrific for folks just starting a home, college and grad students, first apartments, young marrieds, and newly bachelored folks. Because you only need 1 great baking sheet, it’s a low price point entry point for cooking full weekday meals quickly and easily.
Highly recommend!
Just included the open book shot to give you an idea of the terrific interior layout, making the recipes very easy to follow. I hope the inside view pic is sufficiently blurry as not to rob Ruthy of her intellectual property. It was just to give you a sneak peek inside!