A godsend for anyone intimidated by cooking! If you can't cook but must cook, this book can help you cook - and with stylel Here is a modern woman's survival guide to life's cooking challenges, filled with recipes, menus and tips to make you look good when cooking is just not optional. Divided into three nonconventional but reality-friendly sections - Sustenance, Decadence and Observance - The Girl Can't Cook will take you from nifty nosh for the working week to decadent dinner dates and beyond. Simple soups, salads, between bread, those ubiquitous chicken breasts, easy Asian, fasta pasta, the impressing anyone menu, fondues, pizza parties, passage to India, intimate dining, Middle Eastern mezes, decadent seafood dishes, southern barbecues, wintery wonders, grandes finales, the Sunday roast, Valentine's Day. just bring a salad, the duty dinner, day-trippin' picknicking, the ladies lunch, birthday bashes, emergency sugar fixes...and much more!