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 752-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.

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.