Thank you, Alyssa Brantley and Adams Media, for The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book. This cookbook has been really helpful for me as I’m in my one-pot cooking era and getting back into cooking after I went through a burnout. The 100 easy one-pot recipes make it so simple to prepare healthy meals without the stress of a lot of clean-up and I love that I can change ingredients to non dairy or vegan options. It’s perfect for those days when I just don’t feel like cooking but you also don't want to spend a lot of money.

Aesthetically pleasing cookbooks are my weakness. I am very excited to try out some new recipes! Very intuitive and helpful to separate recipes by cooking vessel as I can go directly to the sections for Dutch oven, sheet pan, and slow cooker meals since those are my preferred “lazy” cooking methods. You get a good variety of flavors using common and wholesome ingredients, plus the food in the photos looks delicious! Will definitely be buying the physical copy when it comes out.

The layout of this cookbook was easy to follow and had really beautiful photographs of the dishes. The composition of the dishes was beautiful and I especially loved the changing background colors of the photos - it seemed really inviting, bright and intentional which makes me want to try the dishes more.

Here’s a few that I saved for later and can’t wait to try!

🍽️ Avocado Black Bean Quesadillas with Spicy Jack Cheese
🍽️ Quick Beef Enchilada Skillet
🍽️ Peanut Sauce Chicken and Cabbage Bowls
🍽️ Meatloaf Casserole with Tater Tot Topping
🍽️ Copycat Barbecue Chicken Naan Pizza
🍽️ Black Bean and Chicken Burrito Bowls
🍽️ Old Bay Corn Chowder with Pancetta

And also pretty much every “weeknight wok win” 😉

These recipes felt attainable and not overwhelming. Would recommend grabbing this cookbook!

I like that it gives specific pans, as that can affect cooking. The breakdown of macros is nice, as is the time breakdown between active and hands-off cooking as that helps with how much energy I have to spend. Tips and substitutions are always great. The best part about the cookbook is that the recipes aren't super basic. They give off fancier vibes with less effort than expected.

Thank you Adams Media and NetGalley for the advanced electronic review copy of this wonderful book. This is a one pot/skillet/bowl/pan, etc edition and I enjoyed the clear, easy, concise list of ingredients and directions to create something delicious for dinner. This is a must have in every home and would make a great gift.

I dont usually review cookbooks but I was naturally intrigued by the title. This is the prefect simple cookbook. I loved the variety of recipes and cant wait to try some out.

The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book includes 100 easy one-pot recipes. The cookbook begins with an introduction to one-pot cooking including necessary tools and tips. Next are the recipes for skillets, Dutch ovens, mixing bowls, casseroles, sheet pans, grills, Instant Pots, soup pots, and slow cookers. The cookbook ends with a list of recipes with a prep time of 5 minutes or less, 10 minutes or less, no active cooking time, or a total time of 20 minutes or less to help if you are short on time.
Each recipe includes an introduction to the dish, an ingredient list, numbered directions, and prep and cook times. However, less than half of the recipes include a photo. The cookbook could benefit from having more photos of the dishes as it helps readers see what the final dish looks like and if they would like to make it. That said, there are several recipes I would like to try including the Avocado Black Bean Quesadillas with Spicy Jack Cheese, Greek-Inspired Chickpea Salad with Pita Bread, Vegetarian Risotto with Parmesan, and Shortcut Vegetable Lo Mein. The recipes seem fairly straightforward to make, and they would be great for beginners in the kitchen who do not have much time to cook.

This is an incredible cookbook!

These recipes are easy, straightforward, + nutritious, and are perfect for the reluctant chef. I also appreciated the inclusion of the macros per recipe and substitution options. Having the recipes sorted by preparation style is a nice addition too! (skillet, sheet pan, dutch oven, casseroles, grill, + mixing bowl)

I’m super excited to try the Creamy Sun-Dried Tomato, Shrimp, + Gnocchi Skillet, Rotisserie Chicken Caprese Salad, Artichoke Dip Chicken + Rice Casserole, Lazy Lasagna, + Mediterranean-Inspired Orzo Chicken.

I can’t say enough good things about this cook book but I will try!

I wanted to check this book out because I literally “don’t want to cook” all the time. I have ADHD and I hate having to plan an entree, a vegetable, and a carb plus there’s all the dishes and at the end of the day I would rather just eat a sandwich every day than deal with it. I have kids though, and kids need food 🤷‍♀️.

This cookbook has about 100 recipes and I counted 79 that were appealing to me and they all have ingredients that are not weird or expensive. Every recipe literally requires one pot, pan, instapot, etc. Every recipe I’ve tried has been super yummy. I don’t have a ton of pots and pans to wash after dinner so I don’t get super overwhelmed with the dishes.

I know I’m going to sound super over dramatic when I say this cook book has changed my life and I’m going to recommend it to everyone I know but I’m bring totally serious. Please get this cookbook if you have ADHD or problems with executive functioning or if you have toddler at home or if you’re just a human being who is responsible for feeding yourself and/or others. 😂

WOW!

I was so excited to be selected to review this cook book!

As a busy mom of 7 and a holistic nutritionist, I LOVED so much about this book. My older kids are now at an age where they are beginning to cook for the family and gain skills to take with them into college. This book was PERFECT for that! I loved the section at the beginning of the book that walks readers through various kitchen utensils and cooking vessels. This can often be a big challege for chefs new to the kitchen space.

Being that there are one pot/pan meals, it keeps the stress levels low as there is no need to balance starting different parts of the meal at different times and temperatures - this is key for teens and young adults confident in the kitchen to build these key skills for life! The full colour photography was beautiful! Seeing how the meal should look (or could be plated) will be so helpful for those making these recipes for the first time.

I appreciated how the ingredient lists were kept simple but healthy, many easy to find pantry and fridge basics but combined to create a beautiful meal fit for a dinner party, at home date night or just to impress friends and family!

This book will be my new go-to gift for kids off to college or adults getting their first place away from home.

Thank you Alyssa Brantly, NetGalley and the publisher for this opportunity!

I believe my entire review can be summarized in five words - I've already placed a pre-order!

I don't like cooking. I don't like spending time in the kitchen. It isn't my thing, especially in a ongoing recovery from a very unhealthy relationship with food. So when I saw this was literally called The "I Don't Want to Cook" Book, I was immediately interested. The fact that it is dinners all done on one pot! Remember how I mentioned I don't like spending time in the kitchen? This includes cleaning.

Doing an ARC review of a cookbook can be difficult. Do you just read it cover to cover? Do you make a handful of recipes? Do you make ALL the recipes? I did a full read, and selected a few recipes to try out to give it a go and get a feel for how it is laid out. Having already placed a pre-order for the physical copy, you could say I loved it! I think my mother is still in shock when I told her I bought a cookbook...

If you are like me and your kitchen brings feelings of anxiety, then I highly recommend this cookbook. Very fast and easy recipes, all laid out well to follow from beginning to end. Lots of substitutions are offered, so you don't feel like you need to go and buy ingredients that you will only use once and then you have a fridge full of condiments and a spice cupboard full of 5-year-old containers.

Thank you to NetGalley and Adams Media for a digital advanced reader copy. All opinions are my own and I am leaving this review voluntarily.

There are some nights that you just don't feel like cooking and this is a pretty decent book showing how to make quick, easy cleanup dinners when you just don't feel like it.

Most of the recipes are make in a skillet, on a sheet pan, or in a pot, which is perfect. The pictures could have been styled a bit better, since a lot of the finished products didn't look incredibly appetizing (kinda bland) and of course there could have been a few more pictures too. A decent book to give you ideas to riff on, but not much more.

I received a free ebook copy of this book from NetGalley in exchange for a fair review.

Thanks to Netgalley and Adams Media for this ARC in exchange for my review.

Between my ADHD and working in a kitchen, when I get home I really don't want to cook, so I'm always looking for recipes that are quick and tasty and with as few dishes as possible, so I gave this book a try. I liked that the recipes were grouped by how they're cooked like air fryer or insta-pot, and that the recipes are pretty straight forward. There wasn't really anything that popped out and wowed me, but overall it's a solid start and good book to have when cooking is a pain.

This book sounded like it would be perfect for me - it's important to me that I eat home-cooked meals when I am at home, which is usually three or four nights a week. They ideally have to have carbs, protein and vegetables. I want them to be easy to cook, easy to clean up and for there to be left-over for lunch the next day. Unfortunately I didn't find this book very inspiring. despite it's clear lay-out and nice pictures. A large part of that is that it is American-centric. All measurements are in ounces. There are lots of shortcut foods that are not easily available here, like Frank's RedHot Original Cayenne Pepper Sauce, Montery jack cheese or marinara sauce. Even without this, I didn't find the recipes called to me. Maybe it was the way things were phrased. Chapters called 'Dump and Go' do not make me want to cook, or eat that. I shudder at pre-shredded cheese (it has anti-caking agents, which can make it less melty), and some of the short-cuts were 'make a salad' or 'here's a sandwich'. I think this book might have appealed more when I was starting out with cooking, before I had worked out which short-cuts work for me and which do not.

Thanks to the publisher and Netgalley for this arc. There were some interesting ideas here and I appreciated having the recipes grouped by ways to cook, like instant pot or skillet. Ultimately though it did not seem as useful to me as I had hoped.

This cookbook was great! I really enjoyed the recipes featured in this cookbook and the fact that it catered to those of us who like to stick with simple meals most of the time when cooking for yourself and/or family members. I like the way the author organized the recipes featured in this book and thought that she did a great job featuring a variety of recipes that could be cooked in a single pan.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this book!

This is by far one of my new favorite cookbooks It is so creative and the pictures in it are gorgeous some of the recipes are really fun and every single one that I tried was super tasty This is a cookbook that I'm going to go back to over and over again because there's so many different things to try there was over 200 pages in this cookbook so there's a recipe for just about every single person there's a recipe for every single occasion and it's just a really good cookbook to have for some quick and easy recipes so that you can still have an amazing tasty fulfilling home-cooked meal for yourself as well as for your family to enjoy without having to dirty up a bunch of different things in your kitchen

I love a cookbook that is aimed at helping those who don't naturally enjoy cooking or find it accessible. This cookbook has such a genuine emphasis on taking the stress out of cooking which I think is so wonderful for anyone who doesn't have the time/energy to spend hours standing over a pot and buying fancy equipment just to make dinner. Because of this, I would recommend this book to any level chef and I think it could work for anyone who has even the slightest interest in healthier/more exciting meals.

There is such a variety of interesting recipes and its frankly impressive how all of them can be done in one pot! I'm also obsessed with the timing split into active time and hands off time, so that the reader can very accurately grasp how much time needs to be spent in the kitchen per recipe and I think this is such a useful aid for time management - I wish more cookbooks had this level of innovation and attention to detail!

My main critique is that this book is not suitable for those with dietary restrictions/food preferences. There were no vegan recipes in chapter 2, 3 which made me very sad and there wasn't a big emphasis on substitutions which is a shame because I think this cookbook would be perfect for family cooking/dinner hosting so it just lacked the flexibility and options for those who follow vegan/vegetarian diets.

The book has pretty pictures and easy enough recipes that would attract readers and unexperienced cooks.

I really love the concept of this cookbook, and the focus on convenient ingredients (like pre-cut vegetables!). I'd like to try to make a few of the recipes. Unfortunately this just really does not work as an ebook. There are parts where the text from one thing got inserted into another and, if one wasn't careful, it could easily result in a Friends-esque beef trifle situation. Definitely the kind of cookbook you'd want to own in hard copy.