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.
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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.
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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 better not be in a hurry.
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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?
Meet the Original Lazy Chef
Joanne McHugh is the mom-on-call, dispensing wit and wisdom for facing the minor struggles and the major challenges of young adulthood.
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She feels badly that young people today face more pressure than ever to have it all—even though nobody explains exactly how to pull that off.
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Since she is the original Lazy Chef, Joanne knows it's a drag to be responsible for landing dinner on the table every night. She hopes these recipes will mean you have one less adulting thing to worry about some of the time.
Joanne lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband of 35 years, a Labrador retriever, a couple of cats, and three grown children who are occasionally in residence.
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