There are days when I love cooking, and then there are days when even peeling a clove of garlic feels like too much. My brand new cookbook, Simple Weeknights, is for those days. The ones where it’s 5 pm, everyone is hungry and, even when dinner is planned, you just don’t have an hour to give it. It’s filled with plenty of much-loved favourites and brand-new recipes, all ready in 30 minutes or less and built around the familiar, affordable supermarket ingredients we add to our trolleys week after week.
I wrote this book for anyone who wants to eat well, spend less and put a dinner on the table that everyone actually wants to eat, without dinner taking over the rest of the night. Good food, less stress. That’s what this whole book is about.
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Some nights you’ve got 30 minutes. Some nights you’ve got 15. Some nights you want to put everything in one pan, walk away and come back when dinner is done. Simple Weeknights was designed around real life, so instead of asking you to cook the same way every night, it gives you options depending on how much time, energy and patience you actually have.
Most of us aren’t buying a completely different set of groceries every week. We’re reaching for chicken, minced meat, tinned tuna, beans and the familiar ingredients we know our families will actually eat. Simple Weeknights shows you how to make those same ingredients feel completely different.
One pack of chicken could become a speedy green curry, one-pan chicken and broccoli ramen or a chicken souvlaki tray bake. Ingredients appear across multiple recipes on purpose, which means fewer one-off purchases, fewer half-used ingredients forgotten at the back of the fridge and less food going to waste.
You’ll also find flexible, fridge-clearing recipes and practical swaps throughout the book, so you can use what you have, change what you need to and make dinner work around you. More variety, without more effort.
Making dinner easier isn’t only about cooking faster. It’s remembering what needs using, keeping the food you’ve bought fresh, walking into a kitchen that’s ready to cook in and having a few simple systems that mean every night doesn’t feel like you’re starting from scratch. I’ve shared the practical things that help our home run more smoothly, including how I meal plan around the week we’re actually having, my morning and evening kitchen resets, the storage solutions I rely on, ways to make fresh produce last longer and the little shortcuts that save time every day. None of this is about giving yourself more jobs or running a perfectly organised home. It’s about taking a little pressure off.
To the Simple Home Edit community, thank you. The recipes exist because you cook them, and the ideas keep coming because you keep showing up, sharing what works and telling me what you need more of. I never take for granted that my recipes have found their way into your kitchens and become part of your family dinners.
Here’s to groceries that pull their weight, more time to put our feet up and a sink that doesn’t look like we’ve just cooked for a small restaurant.
My new book, Simple Dinners Every Day, is here! Click through to find a copy at your preferred retailer.
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