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Celebrity chef Stuart O’Keeffe offers The Quick Six Fix

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Coming home from a long day of work and having to make a meal can be a pain. You have to gather who knows how many ingredients, prep them, and then actually cook them. Then you have to worry about cleaning everything up: leftovers, dishes and more. But Ireland-born, California-based celebrity chef Stuart O’Keeffe has a solution: The Quick Six Fix: 100 No-Fuss, Full-Flavor Recipes – Six Ingredients, Six Minutes Prep, Six Minutes Cleanup. O’Keeffe is best-known to Americans as a private celebrity chef on the Food Network’s Private Chefs of Beverly Hills, but now he’s here to help the common man.

“[In] The Quick Six Fix, O offers dozens of delicious recipes for breakfast, salads, soups, pasta, fish, chicken, pork, beef, sides, and desserts that will get you in and out of the kitchen in thirty minutes or less,” reads the book’s description. “Each requires no more than 6 key ingredients, 6 minutes of prep work, and 6 minutes of clean up.”

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O’Keeffe whipped up recipes inspired by his native Ireland, such as Bangers with a Melted Leek Mash and Cranberry Compote, Sweet Berries “Yorkshire Pudding,” and an Easter dinner favorite, Mustard Crusted Pork with Apple Cabbage Slaw. He even looked to his home in California to make dishes like Mexican Street Corn and the “LA” Cheeseburger. He also has recipes like Moules Frites and Pistachio Basil Buttered Crispy Salmon.

With 100 recipes that are quick and easy, you’ll save time and money while eating well at home. O’Keeffe offers tips on how to assemble a well-stocked pantry. Though it’s a cook book, O’Keeffe manages to teach readers that less is actually more.

Find The Quick Six Fix: 100 No-Fuss, Full-Flavor Recipes – Six Ingredients, Six Minutes Prep, Six Minutes Cleanup at Amazon.

Ann Binlot
Ann Binlot
Former Digital Trends Contributor
Ann Binlot is a New York-based freelance writer who contributes to publications like The Economist, Wallpaper*, Monocle…
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