Cook Once, Eat Twice: Time-Saving Recipes to Help You Get Ahead in the Kitchen

Cook Once, Eat Twice is a well written, graphically appealing tutorial guide with recipes by Nadiya Hussain to help cooks be more efficient and save time in the kitchen. Due out 18th March from Sourcebooks, it's 256 pages and will be available in hardcover format.

This is an *accessible* book full of info which anyone (even the least confident) can incorporate. It's full of ideas for using up leftovers and incorporating partial ingredients which might otherwise go to waste. The author leads readers from the very basics and beginning steps (pantry lists, necessary equipment) through universal basic recipes (bread, cooking and mashing the ultimate potato). The recipes are arranged into logical thematic chapters instead of by meal and dish type:  back to basics, lovin' your leftovers, ready meals, two dishes, never wasted again, easy bakes, and waste not want not. The waste not want not chapter is especially eye-opening and really squeezes a surprising amount of usable food out of things we throw away without thinking about (chick-pea water from draining the cans, banana peels(!?), apple cores and peels, date seeds (!), and several others).

Recipes are written with an introduction/background (full of chatty personal info and history). Ingredients are listed in a bullet list sidebar, followed by step-by-step simple instructions. Ingredient measurements are given in imperial (American) measurements. Most items should be easily findable at any well stocked grocery store in North America. Recipes which coordinate or use the same partial ingredients are linked in the introduction header. Nutritional information is not given. 

The photography is abundant, clear, and in color. Recipes are professionally styled and serving suggestions are appetizing and appropriate. 

The author/publisher have included a cross referenced index in the back of the book. 

Four and a half stars. This would be an excellent choice for public or secondary school acquisition, home use, or for a housewarming gift for a newly-fledged person living on their own for the first time.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.