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What a perfect cookbook!

This beautiful book, the second to be presented by Antoni Porowski, our favorite foodie from Queer Eyes Fab Five, is packed with recipes for easy and healthy dinners for the work week, featuring “big” Salads, Vegan and Meatless meals, and Eggs For Dinner, as well as a succulent selection of higher carb comfort food (Pasta!), perfect for weekend splurges. Separate chapters are also provided showcasing delectable Seafood, Poultry, Red Meat recipes, as well as Snacks and Sides, and lovely food to be shared “On a Cold and Rainy Night”.

Like having dinner with a good friend, this book is comforting, cheerful, celebratory – many recipes have multiple gorgeous full page photos and each is graced with simple, clear and concise instructions, all based on easily accessible ingredients.

Although I marked almost every single recipe in this book as a “to-try”, some of my absolute favorites, along with the sections they appear in, are listed below:

1. Big Salads – Lean protein with delicious greens and special ingredients, the recipes in this section are as beautiful as they are healthy and delicious.
– Sicilian Tuna Salad with Oranges and Beets
– Sweet Pea Falafel Salad, with Yogurt-Tahini dressing – (In an interesting twist the falafel uses canned chickpeas and chickpea flour as well as frozen peas).

2. Vegan and Meatless Meals – Gorgeous soups, stews and plates featuring veggies and legumes, quinoa, and tofu.
– White Bean and Cauliflower soup with Herby Oil- (Almost a stew, this looks mouth-watering!)
– Chili Roasted Winter Squash with Lentils, Lime and Arugula

3. Break an Egg – A wonderful assortment of frittatas, polenta, omelets and more.
– Cheesy Polenta with Eggs, Mushroom and Thyme – (Poached eggs nestled in creamy herbed polenta with mushrooms)
– Masala Spinach Omelet – an open faced lightly Indian spiced omelet

4. Sandwiches – Includes hand-held favorites like beef, pork or lamb burgers, burritos, and pita pizzas
– Chicken and bean burritos with spicy pineapple slaw

5. Comfort food – pasta!
-Rigatoni alla Vodka, with Chicken
-Lemon Spaghetti with Toasted Walnuts and Parsley

6. Seafood
-Grilled swordfish and veg with citrusy salt.
-Scallops with burst cherry tomatoes and corn

7. Poultry
-Sheet Pan Chicken with Rosemary and Grapes
-Chicken Rice Bowl with Chili Mayo and Ginger

8 Red Meat
-Strip Steak with Harissa Butter and Parsley Salad
-Smokey Bean and Sausage Ragout

9. Cold and rainy nights
– The Best Damn Nachos
– Cheese Fondue (with good things to dip!)

10. Snacks and Sides
– Sweet Potato Wedges

A big thank you to NetGalley, the publisher and the author for an advance review copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. All thoughts presented are my own.