by Nick Roberts
Cooking for the can’t be @rsed is a cookbook for the genuinely busy, the tired, and the frankly unbothered. Sixty recipes, each rated on a 1–6/10 effort scale rather than a skill scale, with shortcuts, “ultra-lazy” versions, and the nutrition facts included without the diet-culture sermon.
The network read it the way it reads everything else: sceptically, and then again. What came through was that it actually works. The recipes are short, the steps are plain, and the effort ratings are honest about what a given dish will demand of you on a given day. It is the rare book that respects the reader’s time and doesn’t pretend cooking should be a performance.
It is endorsed not because it is a serious culinary text, but because it is exactly what it says it is — quick, low-effort food for real life, delivered with a sense of humour.
“Cracking book... Lots of simple recipe ideas that take hardly any effort to make all presented with a good measure of humour. I found it empowering and uplifting.”
— Nigel
