The 10-Minute Home Cook
60 weeknight dinners with 5 ingredients or fewer — real food, no recipes to memorise. A photo, one line, three steps.
$19.90 one-time · PDF e-book · 80 pages · instant download
Five ingredients. Ten minutes of real work. A photo of every dish.
Every dinner here has five ingredients or fewer (olive oil, salt, pepper, garlic and a lemon do not count — keep those and every recipe is possible), takes about ten minutes of actual work, and needs nothing you would not find in an ordinary supermarket. The recipes are written as methods you will recognise after the second time and never need to look up again.
Eggs, toast and things on bread (10)
Shakshuka, garlic mushrooms on toast, the proper cheese omelette, frittata, eggs in purgatory, Welsh rarebit, halloumi with honey and chilli, smoked salmon bagel.
Pasta, grains and noodles (12)
Aglio e olio, cacio e pepe, the cover pasta (tomato, garlic, basil), tuna and lemon, pesto with beans and potato, carbonara without cream, orzo with peas and feta, gnocchi in sage butter, egg fried rice, peanut noodles.
Chicken (10) · Fish (10)
Lemon garlic chicken, honey-soy chicken, schnitzel, shawarma-style, coconut chicken, mustard cream chicken, quesadillas · salmon with soy and ginger, garlic prawns, fish tacos, baked cod with olives, crispy-skin bream, smoked mackerel and potatoes.
Vegetables and beans (12) · Sweet things (9)
Crispy chickpeas, roasted broccoli with parmesan, white beans and rosemary, halloumi traybake, black bean tacos, cauliflower with tahini, red lentil soup, butter bean stew · grilled peaches, strawberries with balsamic, chocolate mug cake, affogato, figs with honey.
How each recipe is written
A photograph, the idea in one line, the ingredients for two, and three numbered steps that fit on one screen. Ends with the five-ingredient method — six patterns that generate a hundred more dinners — and the ten pantry items worth keeping.
Who this is for
Anyone who gets home at seven and wants real food by seven-fifteen: students, parents, people who cook alone, people who think they cannot cook. Photographs are Creative Commons images of the dish or its closest cousin, credited at the back.
About the author
Meir Gilady is an Israeli entrepreneur and independent thinker based in Holon. Alongside a career in commercial real estate he builds software under the AILAMA name — including AILAMA Mind and ToolVerse — and writes about physics, technology and everyday wellbeing on Medium.
Questions
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