Real Life Dinners :: Rachel Hollis

• Real Life Dinners: Fun, Fresh, Fast Dinners from the Creator of the chic Site by Rachel Hollis on Amazon

Rachel Hollis' main meal recipes truly are ready for almost anyone's real life prime time. Plus, what an altogether fresh, fun book design bound (and bound) to stay open on a table or recipe stand so you easily can reference where you are when preparing the current culinary delight. Each left-hand page features title, description, and an enticing portrait of the dish itself; right-hand page details ingredients, directions – "method" if you want to rock some pretension – and photographs of the recipe in progress.

Front of the book includes a narrative intro to Rachel's background and families, a revolutionary overview of table manners, a list of essential ingredients always to keep on hand, and a two-page spread of four of her favorite spice-herb blends. Chapters full of traditional Americana fare along with ethnically-inspired cuisine mostly relate to the usual evening meal of dinner, but of course you can flex time everything for your schedule and preferences.

Rachel has tested all these limited-ingredient, generally simple dishes on her family that's pictured throughout the approximately 200 pages. As soon as I started reading, I knew Real Life Dinners would be far more than an attractive shelf-sitter, though I don't yet know what I'll venture to make first. I love that Rachel lives locally to me in the city of Los Angeles, though she doesn't mention which neighborhood. The much MUCH too small type of the ingredients lists and the index is the only thing I'd revise for future editions of Real Life Dinners.

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