Milk Street has spent years learning from cooks all around the world and applying those lessons to weeknight cooking here at home. This book takes the best of those great culinary ideas and pares them back to their most basic, essential elements. The result is a set of recipes that are genius in their simplicity.

Each of these 200 recipes works with just a handful of ingredients and short active cooking time; these dishes are done when you need them, or hands-off so you can let them cook while you do something else. The keys are high-impact ingredients, transformative techniques, powerful flavor combinations, and layers of texture. Milk Street Simple recipes help turn a straightforward bowl of pasta or a head of roasted cauliflower into a delightful meal, with no fuss and recipes that are endlessly flexible.

If you loved Milk Street’s Cookish, this collection of recipes is for you. Chapters include noodles and pasta, grains and rice bowls, soups and stews, easy roasts and braises, quick broils and grilling, traybakes (sheet pan dinners), vegetables and salads, stir fries, one-pot methods, and even desserts you can throw together quickly for a little sweet something to close out the day.

Other cookbooks by this author

• Christopher Kimball's Milk Street: The New Home Cooking
• The Classic Cookbook: The Best of American Home Cooking
• The Complete Milk Street TV Show Cookbook (2017-2019): Every Recipe from Every Episode of the Popular TV Show
• The Complete Milk Street TV Show Cookbook (2017-2019): Every Recipe from Every Episode of the Popular TV Show
• The Cook's Bible: The Best of American Home Cooking
• The Cook's Bible and the Dessert Bible Box Set: The Best of American Home Cooking
• Dear Charlie: Letters to My Children
• The Dessert Bible
• The Dessert Bible: The Best of American Home Cooking
• Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
• Fannie's Last Supper
• Fannie's Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
• Fannie's Last Supper: Two Years, Twelve Courses, and One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
• Fannie's Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
• Fannie's Last Supper: Re-Creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook
• The Kitchen Detective: A Culinary Sleuth Solves Common Cooking Mysteries with 125 Foolproof Recipes
• Milk street: Tuesday nights
• Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook
• Milk Street : Tuesday Nights
• Milk Street : Vegetables
• The Milk Street Cookbook: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Featuring Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show, 2017-2023
• The Milk Street Cookbook: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Featuring Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show, 2017-2023
• The Milk Street Cookbook (2017-2020): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Including Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show
• The Milk Street Cookbook (2017-2020): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Including Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show
• The Milk Street Cookbook (2017-2021): The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking, Featuring Every Recipe from Every Episode of the TV Show
• The Milk Street Cookbook (2017-2022), Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking with Every Recipe from the TV Show
• The Milk Street Cookbook (2017-2022), Fifth Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to the New Home Cooking with Every Recipe from the TV Show
• Milk Street Fast & Slow: Instant Pot Cooking at the Speed You Need
• Milk Street Fast and Slow: Instant Pot Cooking at the Speed You Need
• Milk Street Instant Pot: Bold, Fast, Fresh: A Revolution of Flavor in an Instant
• Milk Street Noodles: Secrets to the World’s Best Noodles, from Fettuccine Alfredo to Pad Thai to Miso Ramen
• Milk Street Tuesday Nights: More Than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast
• Milk Street Tuesday Nights Mediterranean: 125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine
• Milk Street Vegetables: 250 Bold, Simple Recipes for Every Season
• Milk Street Vegetables: 250 Bold, Simple Recipes for Every Season
• Milk street vegetables
• Milk Street: Cook What You Have: Make a Meal Out of Almost Anything
• Milk Street: Cook What You Have: Make a Meal Out of Almost Anything (A Cookbook)
• Milk Street: Cookish: Throw It Together
• Milk Street: Cookish: Throw It Together
• Milk Street: The New Rules: Recipes That Will Change the Way You Cook
• Milk Street: The World in a Skillet
• Milk Street: The World in a Skillet
• Milk Street: Tuesday Nights: More than 200 Simple Weeknight Suppers that Deliver Bold Flavor, Fast
• Milk Street: Tuesday Nights Mediterranean: 125 Simple Weeknight Recipes from the World's Healthiest Cuisine
• The Yellow Farmhouse Cookbook