Nearly every culture serves some sort of noodle, from fettuccine, ramen and spaetzle to lo mein, gnocchi and udon. So we traveled the world to learn the secrets to the best pad Thai, Italian ragù, spicy North African couscous and buttery Turkish noodles flecked with feta cheese. In Italy, we were taught the real fettuccine Alfredo—so much lighter, simpler and satisfying than what we knew. In Sapporo, Japan, we learned to develop the deep umami flavors of miso ramen with minimal time and effort. And from Ho Chi Minh to Lima, we learned the art of the quick noodle stir-fry, from Vietnamese shrimp noodles to Peruvian chicken and pasta. Noodles are a perfect canvas for spring and summer vegetables, as well as hearty wintertime baked casseroles. And if speed is the need, try hoisin-ginger noodles or our cheesy one-pan cacio e pepe, both ready in 20 minutes. What’s for dinner? Use your noodle.

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When you look around the kitchen only to think that you have “nothing for dinner,” this cookbook will provide the inspiration for a great meal. With “Cook What You Have,” you can make amazing and easy suppers out of the simplest pantry staples. The 225 recipes demonstrate the surprising possibilities that can be fashioned from the basic ingredients you already have at home. All of the recipes have fewer than 10 ingredients; most have fewer than eight; many have only six. The result is a range of weeknight-simple meals that nevertheless bring creativity and inspiration to every recipe. This is how any good cook thinks about preparing dinner: Cook what is on hand instead of starting with a shopping list that adds expense and effort. And forget about calling for take-out. You do have plenty to make for dinner.

 

It’s not cooking. It’s Cookish. Cookish is a fresh take on fast food at home. Six ingredients. Minutes, not hours. Fresh, bold flavors for any night of the week. Here at Milk Street we make this possible by traveling the world to find new ingredient combinations and new cooking techniques that make Cookish possible. And these recipes are so simple that we say, “Make a Cookish recipe once and you can easily make it again, without the recipe.” And when we say big flavor, we mean it. Charred Ginger-Lime Chicken, Turmeric Potatoes with Red Onion and Chutney, Coconut-Cilantro Rice, Pasta with Parmesan Cream, Salmon in Chipotle-Tomato Sauce, Spice-Crusted Pork Tenderloin Bites, and Swedish “Sticky” Coffee Cake to name just a few. You also get dozens of “Cookish Basics”, basic recipes that you can make over and over, using our suggested flavor variations. This is the cookbook you have been looking for.Recipes that deliver big flavors fast, not with tricks or gimmicks, but with solid cooking techniques and flavor combinations from around the world. Big flavor in minutes not hours. That’s the promise of Cookish.

Fast & Slow transforms the Instant Pot from a quicker way to prepare dinner to a better way! With 150 revolutionary recipes, we deliver fresh flavor combinations and big-flavor, one-pot meals that also simplify the cooking process.

Milk Street Fast and Slow shows you how to make the most of your multicooker (any brand will do, not just Instant Pot) with a host of one-pot recipes that show how to prepare the same dish two ways. For the quickest meals, use the pressure cooker setting to cut down on cooking time. Or if you prefer the flexibility of a slow cooker, you can start your cooking hours ahead. Our 304-page cookbook contains more than 125 recipes all shown in full color, and more than half the recipes can be made either fast or using the slow-cooker option on your Instant Pot.

Milk Street Fast and Slow delivers recipes for everything from breakfast to dinner and includes dishes from around the world. There’s soups and stews, like Chicken Rogan Josh and Pork and Hominy Stew with Cilantro and Lime to bean dishes (without soaking!) like Hummus or Cranberry Beans with Spanish Chorizo and Red Cabbage. We cook pasta right in the sauce and make hearty grain pilafs in a fraction of the time with conventional cooking. This book puts the Instant Pot to its most effective and efficient use.

Now simple midweek suppers will taste like Saturday night. Ginger-Soy Steak, Salt and Pepper Shrimp, Hazelnut-Crusted Chicken Cutlets, Pasta with Seared Cauliflower and Garlic, and Cuban-Spiced Burgers. Milk Street has searched the world for simple techniques that deliver bold flavor in less time. Here, we present more than 200 solutions for bold weeknight cooking, showing how to make simple, healthy, big-flavor meals that come together in minutes using pantry staples and just a few other ingredients.

In Vegetables we treat vegetables with respect. We traveled the world to find the best ways to treat vegetables, grains and beans with respect and with a fresh, lively approach, one that transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. In Athens, we learned how winter vegetable stews could taste light and bright, not hearty and heavy. In Cairo, we tasted eggplant and potatoes that punched up flavor with bold pops of texture from whole spices. And in Puglia, Italy, we had a revelatory bite of zucchini enriched by ricotta cheese and lemon. ​

You can be the best cook you know by following a handful of “new rules” in the kitchen. Use herbs as greens, not garnish. Stop stirring your polenta. Create creaminess without cream. Super-starch your pasta. Use less liquid for more flavor. Cook fish on one side only. Use baking powder in frittatas. Don’t purée your pesto! These simple, transformational principles will change the way you cook whether it’s Pasta with Sweet Corn, Tomatoes and Basil or Pan-Seared Salmon with Red Chili-Walnut Sauce or a Vietnamese Chicken Salad. With over 190 recipes and 75 New Rules for how to cook, your cooking will go from good to great. It will also be easier – less time and less prep – since the big, bold flavors of this new approach to cooking requires less time and technique to develop flavors.

125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World’s Healthiest Cuisine

So much more than fish and pasta, the true cooking of the Mediterranean is a lesson in how simple, healthy food can be prepared from almost anything.
Spain, Italy and France and Greece are just the start. The cooking of the Mediterranean also includes Turkey and Syria, Tunisia and Morocco, Israel and Egypt, Bosnia and Algeria. With thousands of years of culinary history and hundreds of cuisines, the Mediterranean region has one thing in common: big flavors married to everyday ingredients that combine and transform quickly and easily.

And though every recipe delivers big, naturally healthy flavors, the ingredient lists don’t go on forever. Nor does the cooking. It’s food you really can make for dinner, even if you start cooking at 6 p.m. and need dinner on the table in an hour. Real food for real people. Most of all, Tuesday Nights Mediterranean delivers food inspired by the many and diverse countries that make up the Mediterranean region, not just the usual suspects. This is not a diet cookbook, but it does offer naturally healthy recipes with big, interesting flavors.

The updated Milk Street Cookbook will help to change the way you cook. This 726-page companion to the Milk Street Television Show contains every recipe from the first six seasons — episodes airing from September 2017 through August 2023. You'll find simple recipes that deliver big flavors and textures fast, such as Colima-Style Shredded Braised Pork, Lebanese Baked Kafta with Potatoes and Tomatoes, Braised Beef with Dried Figs and Quick-Pickled Cabbage, Japanese-Style Chicken and Vegetable Curry, Turkish Flatbreads, Banana Custard Pie with Caramelized Sugar, Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Cream Cheese-Caramel Frosting, and Italian Flourless Chocolate Torta. Better yet, each recipe is displayed in oversized color photography. Order today for big flavors. Simple recipes. Better cooking.

This handsome hardbound edition of Milk Street Magazine includes all issues published in 2017, plus our 2016 Charter Issue. Using high quality embossed cloth binding, the annual edition will keep your issues of Milk Street in perfect condition for years to come. The annual edition also includes a full-year index, so you can find any recipe, article, review or other magazine content in just a few moments. In 2017, we set out to change how we cook with a sense of adventure, a new brighter palette of flavors, and plenty of time spent traveling from South Africa to Central Mexico, from Changdu to Chiang Mai and all points in between. Our 2017 Milk Street Annual preserves our entire first year of publication in a permanent, handsome, practical reference book for your cookbook library.

This handsome hardbound edition of Milk Street Magazine includes all issues published in 2018. Using high quality embossed cloth binding, the annual edition will keep your issues of Milk Street in perfect condition for years to come. The annual edition also includes a full-year index, so you can find any recipe, article, review or other magazine content in just a few moments. Our 2018 Milk Street Annual preserves our entire year of publication in a permanent, handsome, practical reference book for your cookbook library."

This handsome hardbound edition of Milk Street Magazine includes all six issues published in 2019. Every recipe from 2019 is included, from Miso-Gochujang Pulled Pork and Molletes, to Roasted Cauliflower with Tahini and Lemon and Maple-Whiskey Pudding Cakes. Using high quality embossed cloth binding, the annual edition will keep your issues of Milk Street in perfect condition for years to come. The annual edition also includes a full-year master index, so you can find any recipe, article, review or other magazine content in just a few moments. Our 2019 Milk Street Annual preserves our entire year of publication in a permanent, handsome, practical reference book for your cookbook library.

This handsome hardbound edition of Milk Street Magazine includes all six issues published in 2020. Every recipe from 2020 is included, from Pour-in-the-Pan Pizza with Tomatoes and Mozzarella, Vietnamese Caramel Chicken, and Sesame Noodles with Chicken and Scallions, to Zucchini Salad with Lemon, Herbs and Ricotta, Patatas Bravas, and Swedish "Sticky" Chocolate Cake. Using high quality embossed cloth binding, the annual edition will keep your issues of Milk Street in perfect condition for years to come. The annual edition also includes a full-year master index, so you can find any recipe, article, review or other magazine content in just a few moments. Our 2020 Milk Street Annual preserves our entire year of publication in a permanent, handsome, practical reference book for your cookbook library.

This handsome hardbound edition of Milk Street Magazine includes all issues published in 2021. Using high quality embossed cloth binding, the annual edition will keep your issues of Milk Street in perfect condition for years to come. The annual edition also includes a full-year index, so you can find any recipe, article, review or other magazine content in just a few moments. Our 2021 Milk Street Annual preserves our entire year of publication in a permanent, handsome, practical reference book for your cookbook library.