cover image Food Network Magazine’s 1,000 Easy Recipes: 
Super Fun Food for Every Day

Food Network Magazine’s 1,000 Easy Recipes: Super Fun Food for Every Day

Editors of Food Network Magazine. Hyperion, $24.99 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4013-1074-5

In this new cookbook, the Food Network Magazine does what it does best: present a collection of easily prepared dishes that emphasize creative twists on crowd favorites. With its condensed recipes and eye-catching layout, this is a good book for people who want to be inspired and play around in the kitchen rather than follow a long, precise recipe. Tired of your old hamburger? You’ll definitely find a replacement among the 54 recipes offered in the chapter on “Burgers and Hotdogs.” A slew of diner classics (think: chile cheeseburgers) is complemented by inventive if not authentic takes like the hoisin burger or turkey Niçoise. The suggested menus are a fun addition, with appealing photos and themes that you’d actually use in real life, like a menu for a kids’ sleepover (pizza nachos, Jucy Lucy burgers, yogurtwiches, and lemonade). Basic cooking tips scattered throughout will help beginner cooks and reinforce the magazine’s can-do attitude. Sure, there’s an entire chapter devoted to nachos and potato skins, but embrace it. (Mar.)