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Reinventing Favorites Easy, everyday ideas for the ingredients you know and love
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hef Jamie Oliver has our number. After his popular “5 Ingredients: Quick & Easy Food” cookbook came out a few years ago, fans asked him to write another book focused on five-ingredient recipes. He has taken the number theme a step further with his new cookbook, “7 Ways,” which centers around ingredients he found we’re putting in our shopping carts week in and week out. Built around these 18 “hero” ingredients— including chicken, steak, salmon, broccoli, eggs and cauliflower—the book offers seven new ways to reinvent each with more than 120 recipes. Who couldn’t use more ideas for these favorites? As Oliver writes in the introduction, “Once again we’re keeping things simple, we’re pushing maximum flavor with minimum effort, we want fun, and we want solid, super-tasty recipes that consistently deliver.” Everyone tends to cook the same small repertoire of recipes, so he wants to help you expand on that and arm you with some new favorites. Check out the recipes here using chicken and salmon “heroes,” which just might become your new go-to dishes. The book includes the kind of food he enjoys at home with his family and hopes you will too. —Mary Subialka
4 real food spring 2021
