I recently bought a cookbook *despite* its cover, and it may be one of the most useful cookbooks I ever bought.
It's called "Quick Wins - Healthy Cooking for Busy Lives", by Ella Mills, and the "healthy" claim definitely makes me want to recoil. But somehow, I still opened it, and somehow, I still bought it.
It's a vegetarian-mostly-vegan (and probably the only non-explicitly-vegan thing in there is yogurt, which, well, easy sub) cookbook, with easy but non-trivial recipes, mostly using beans as proteins (I like beans!), typically using canned beans, and a few recipes in there I can actually make with whatever I have in my pantry/fridge at a given time.
The recipes are not mind-blowing, but they're consistently satisfying, and the recipe writing/editing is good.
I particularly like the section about "batch cooking", which is on the lower side of what one typically understands as batch cooking, BUT it's one base recipe, targeted for 4 portions, and a second recipe to twist the left-over 2 portions (the whole book is using 2 portions as a unit).
The portions themselves tend to be on the large side, and I probably need to adjust for that slightly; still, I've been cooking with that book quite a lot in the past few weeks, and I'm happy I went beyond my impression of the cover :)
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