The debut cookbook from the winner of the Amazon Prime Video original series America's Test Kitchen: The Next Generation. One hundred budget-friendly, home cook–developed recipes that transform everyday supermarket ingredients into something special, with meals, sides, snacks, desserts, and more. Forget takeout and get fired up for cooking at home while saving money and learning simple ways to build fast, easy meals around taken-for-granted ingredients. In Mostly Homemade, Antoinette Johnson dispels myths that cooking takes too long and buying ingredients is too expensive. She guides you through grocery aisles with a creative look at canned goods, condiments, frozen items, and more. You'll learn to shop efficiently to build a lean, must-have pantry and then how to make culinary magic in a flash using those few well-chosen items.