Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library Reader Advisory Blog: Easy Dinner Ideas

Back to school is officially here. When you need ideas for delicious quick and easy meals for your busy family, look no further than the Community Library's cookbook collection. Here's a sample of some of our cookbooks that feature fast dinner ideas your whole family will love!

Food Network Magazine Great Easy Meals presents 250 easy to prepare meals with over 100 cooking tips and full color photos.

Find entrees and side dishes that can be combined for a complete meal in minutes in Sandra Lee Semi-homemade Weeknight Wonders: 139 Easy Fast Fix Dinners For Every Night Of the Week.

Rachel Ray's Big Orange Book is the ultimate collection of her 30 minute recipes with over 200 meal ideas and lots of photos.

Being Mortal by Atul Gawande

Genre: Adult Non-Fiction
Rating: 5 out of 5

"Being Mortal is about the limitations of what modern medicine can provide for people as their lives draw to a close. Gawande argues that the objective of medicine should not merely be treatment and survival; medical care should also ensure dignity in death and having control over one's final moments. He argues that instead of aggressively fighting the inescapable realities of aging, we should ask the hard questions of ourselves and our loved ones -- What makes life worth living? When should we try to extend our lives, and when should we choose a better quality of our remaining days over extending their quantity?

This book is difficult to read. Not because of the way Gawande writes -- his style is highly engaging, and he never lapses into excessively scientific jargon or overly simplistic explanations -- but because of the tough subject matter. Gawande draws on his own experiences as a doctor and peppers his book with honest and humane stories of his patients, friends, and family; the stories he tells make the book more accessible, and also more heartbreaking. (And that's not a bad thing.)

No one likes to think about their loved ones', or their own, impending mortality. But it's important to have these hard conversations, because as Gawande says, "endings matter." - Amanda

Easy Dinner Ideas

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