No time to cook? Not anymore!

Being quarantined at home gives us the chance to try new recipes to create tasty meals.  So why not try some e-cookbooks?  You can access them with your WPL library card.  If you don't have one, you can sign up for an instant digital card with Overdrive here.  Here are some recommendations:

Baking ebooks
  Comfort Food ebooks

Vegan ebooks & audiobooks

Healthy Cooking on a Budget ebooks 

Here are a couple of our favorites from the Comfort Food book list:

Dinner in an instant, 75 modern recipes for your pressure cooker, slow cooker, and Instant Pot by New York Times food columnist, Melissa Clark.  Her recipes are chock-full of tips-- including dietary information and instructions for cooking on multiple settings--busy home cooks can decide whether they want to have their dinner cook throughout the day while they tend to other tasks, or in a quick twenty minutes before the family sits down to eat. Recipes include Fresh Coconut Yogurt, Japanese Beef Curry, Osso Buco, Smoky Lentils, and Lemon Verbena Crème Brulee. 

Try some of the New York times self-quarantine recipes or a recipe from Melissa's recipe box. (no subscription needed).

One of our favorites from this title:
Pressure Cooker Chicken and Dumplings

Healthyish, a cookbook with seriously satisfying, truly simple, good-for-you (but not too good-for-you) recipes for real life. Lindsay Maitland Hunt is an expert recipe developer who has created recipes for everyone from college students to busy families to seasoned home cooks. For anyone trying to eat a bit more healthfully, this book offers 131 recipes with straightforward instructions, using as few pots and pans as possible and easily found ingredients.  Included are guilt-free recipes for every meal of the day such as Banana–Avocado Chai Shake, Peanut Butter Granola, Quick Rotisserie Chicken Tacos with Smashed Avacados, One Pot Spicy & Creamy Chicken Pasta, Simple Salmon & Quinoa Bowl and a Single-Serving Chocolate and Peanut Butter Cookie. Created for novices and experienced cooks alike, these recipes offer time-saving tips and tricks, and vegetable-centric dishes.

Lindsay also writes for Real Simple,  Delish.com, Food Network, and Food & Wine.  Check out her blog here.

One of our favorite recipes from this title:
Turkey and Chicpea Burgers with Dill Havarti.