Keep It Simple, Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor: A Cookbook

Keep It Simple, Y'all: Easy Dinners from Your Barefoot Neighbor: A Cookbook

by Matthew Bounds

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4.8 stars from 3,679 reviews. Top 63% of Nonfiction books we track.

144 pages~2.4 hr readPublished by Crown Publishing Group, ThePublished 2024-01-01

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Perfect for you if...

  • You're juggling work and family and need recipes that don't require fancy techniques or obscure ingredients.
  • You love the idea of meal prep but hate spending hours in the kitchen or cleaning up afterwards.
  • You want to cook at home more often but feel intimidated by recipes that assume you know what you're doing.

Maybe not for you if...

  • You're after complex, multi-stage recipes that showcase advanced culinary skills.
  • You follow restrictive diets (keto, vegan, etc.) and need recipes specifically tailored to those constraints.
  • You prefer fresh, seasonal, farm-to-table cooking over convenient pantry staples and rotisserie chicken shortcuts.

About this book

Keep It Simple, Y'all is a cookbook by Matthew Bounds featuring 60 recipes for quick dinners. The book includes slow cooker, sheet pan, and one-pot meals designed for busy schedules, with easy-to-follow instructions and budget-friendly ingredients. Recipes include dishes like Beef and Mushroom Stroganoff, Chicken Tortilla Soup, Shrimp and Veggie Stir Fry, Cajun Ranch Chicken Breasts, Goat Cheese Pesto Pasta, and French Onion Chicken Casserole. The recipes rely mostly on pantry ingredients and are flexible and beginner-friendly. Bounds includes tips encouraging cooks to adapt recipes by omitting disliked ingredients or substituting what they have available.

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