The Best Skillet Recipes is just one of many great cookbooks put out by America’s Test Kitchen. Their mission is to test recipes over and over until they find the “best” version, using blind taste tests. This particular test kitchen book has chapters on skillet basics, stovetop to oven recipes, skillet pasta, skillet suppers, pot pies, casseroles, and pizza, stir-fries and curries, hearty eggs, vegetables and sides, and desserts. Each chapter has numerous recipes laid out clearly and most have easy variations. There are plenty of informative illustrations, comparisons between store-bought ingredients, and even some history behind the dishes thrown in. The only negative comment I have about this cook book is that there are very few photos of the finished dishes; the more color photos, the more likely I am to try the dish!
So, about the actual food in The Best Skillet Recipes…literally everything I have made from its pages has been a hit in my household. I will probably use this Baked Ziti with Sausage recipe for the rest of my life. Never again will I use a jar of spaghetti sauce! The recipes for Pasta with Peas and Prosciutto and Phyllo Pie with Spinach and Ricotta were also winners. Every recipe really does only require a single skillet; just make sure that skillet is oven safe. If you already have that, you’ll probably have many of the ingredients for these recipes in your pantry and fridge, too. These aren’t difficult or extremely sophisticated recipes, but they are essentially guaranteed to taste good.