It’s not even Valentine’s Day, but already I’m dreaming of the easy-peasy cooking days of summer, when dinner can be a smoke-kissed protein or veggie from the grill on a paper plate with a handful of potato chips.
It’s not that I don’t like to cook — I do! — but there’s something about gray skies and cold weather that makes me feel inexplicably lazy when I could be instantly energized, and comforted, by a slow-simmered roast, hearty pan of lasagna or big pot of homemade chicken soup.
That’s why I feel like we have a friend in Jamie Oliver, whose latest cookbook, “ONE: Simple One-Pan Wonders” (Flatiron Books $35) just hit bookshelves on Jan. 10. Its 312 pages are a lifesaver for the cook on the hunt for no-fuss, no-mess meals that still deliver big on taste, with (mostly) everyday recipes built around eight or fewer ingredients.
