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Hi All,

So we all don't always have the time to cook from Thomas Keller books. I'm looking to pick up a few "real easy, real fast"week night type books that are still of quality. What's your favorites? Thank you.

Nigel Slater has written three books which fit your need, and which I have in my library. They all contain easy, fast and delicious recipes. These are "The 30-Minute Cook", "Real Fast Food", and "Eat" (his latest). I think "Eat" is probably my favourite, but I like all of them! I also like the fact that he starts most recipes with a comment about either the recipe, or the ingredients he's used, and often makes suggestions for ways to change or adapt the recipe.

I was going to say exactly the same. Most Nigel Slater books, and especially Eat.

I like what he says in the introduction: Sometimes we want to cook purely for the pleasure of it [...] but sometimes, we just want to eat. This little book is for those times.

Original, robust recipes, easy to scale, with photos of the finished recipes, and short recipes that tell you exactly what you need to know to make it work.

Other books I like when I want something easy: The Flavor Thesaurus by Niki Segnit, although I think you need some cooking experience to make it work. 365 reasons to sit down and eat by Stephane Reynaud. Short recipes, many photos (although some are not the finished product but the ingredients). The Frugal Gourmet books are not bad either. 

As a new Kindle owner, I've kept a close eye on ebook prices, and Nikki Segnit's Flavour Thesaurus is one of the few under-$10. entries that seems really worth getting.  There's a substantive enough free preview to give a potential buyer a good idea of how useful or not it would be.