INTRODUCTION

When we set out to develop Cooking Light Dinner A.S.A.P., the goal was to create a cookbook with simple, yet wholesome, recipes designed around the way today’s busy, health-conscious cooks prepare dinner. You can create healthy—and delicious—meals in 25 minutes or less, and Dinner A.S.A.P. shows you how to do that, and more.

Our key strategy to the easy-to-follow recipes is utilizing premade and prechopped foods from your grocery store’s deli, bakery, and frozen sections as starting points to help with menu prep. We even toss in simple tips throughout to help you shave off even more time for those nights you’re really in a rush.

And because the right groceries are such critical elements to our recipes, we include a Dinner A.S.A.P. 101 guide to help you with your shopping and cooking strategies; a Seasonal Produce Guide so you can make healthy choices and swap out ingredients based on what fruits and vegetables are at their freshest; and a Get Equipped section with details on what kitchen tools you should always have on hand—so you can always make Dinner A.S.A.P.—as simple as possible.

Sarah Gleim, Editor