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I was sent a copy of Southern Living’s Quick Start Homemade to facilitate this review. All opinions are my own.

It is not very often that a recipe book comes along that contains so many easy and budget friendly recipes in it that I had a hard time choosing which to try out for the review. Quick Start Homemade by Southern Living was such a book.

Quick Start Homemade features recipes that are hearty and delicious. The book allows you to make all the recipes using commonly found ingredients and cooking techniques that are fitting for just about any level home cook. The book contains 101 recipes for commonly made home-style meals with an extra spin on them to break up the ordinary.

The Good:

The book included a ton of great photos. I was always told in college when I went to culinary school that the #1 rule of food presentation was “You eat with your eyes, first”. This book gets that. The pictures are bright, bold and you can practically smell the recipes through them.

I enjoyed how the book broke down meals into colored sections so you could easily find the section you were looking for. These were broken down into categories such as pasta, pizza, eggs and so on. There were not only dinners in it, but also great dishes for lunch and brunch.
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Southern Living Complete Quick and Easy Cookbook

Cooking for a family can be one of the most rewarding daily experiences- Or it can be one of the most dreaded. This vast difference in opinion mostly stems from one thought process, “What am I going to make?” and “What do we have?”

The best way to turn the dread into a positive experience is with practice, preparations, and a good cookbook. One such cookbook is the new Southern Living complete quick & easy cookbook. This cookbook specialized in easy, fast recipes that take 30 minutes or less. That is about as long as it takes for pizza be delivered.