Title:	Girl Dinner: 85 Snack Plates and No-Cook Meals
	Author:	Alejandra Diaz-Imlah and Jamison Diaz-Imlah
	Published:	August 13, 2024, Cider Mill Press
	No. of Pages:	208
	Cover Price:	$13.98 Hardcover, $ 11.95 Kindle

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If you’re into fun snacky dinners, you’ll want to pick up Girl Dinner: 85 Snack Plates and No-Cook Meals. The authors have taken a unique take on making fun, tasteful dinners in small amounts of time and with ingredients picked up at the store or ones that are around the house. There are dozens of ideas for putting together good meals without needing to cook or do anything fussy. Some of the menus do require cooking, such as making homemade fries (that’s what an air fryer is for), and once anyone reads the menus, the possibilities seem endless.

Most of the ideas don’t really require a recipe, but the ones that do are straightforward and succinct, with ingredients listed first, followed by step-by-step instructions. However, most readers won’t need much in the way of instruction, since most of the meals are no-brainers. That is not to say they are unexciting or boring – rather they are fun and most readers will want to make something from this book often.
One thing that makes a good cookbook is good, professional photographs. This cookbook has plenty, and they make it hard to decide just what to make next. Many of us have too much to do and don’t want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen; this makes it possible to get more done at home and still eat.
All told, these fun snack-type meals will make it seem like you’re attending a fun party and grazing a buffet table. Fun! Fun! Fun!

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.