Want to eat well without unnecessarily complicating matters? Looking to spend less time in the kitchen while still impressing friends and family with your culinary skills? The Lazy Chef will clue you in on how to land the best possible meal on the table with a minimum of effort.

Every Lazy Chef recipe’s ease-of-preparation has been rated on a five-point scale that indicates how much of a pain in the ass it is to make. Pick something with one thumbtack and you’ll be in and out of the kitchen in no time. Select a five-thumbtack dish, and you'd better not be in a hurry. Of course, even five-thumbtack recipes from the Lazy Chef are nowhere near as exhausting as the recipes you’ll find in more highbrow cookbooks. But what else would you expect from the Lazy Chef?

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