Sheet Pan: Delicious Recipes for Hands-Off Meals

To me, the most important aspects of a cookbook are: "Do the recipes taste delicious?" and "Is the recipe successful?" (i.e. cook times are correct, directions are appropriate). This cookbook accomplishes both.

I've read plenty of various cookbook reviews which talk about how pretty the pictures are, or how the reviewer thinks the recipes look so delicious, but you can tell they haven't cooked any recipes yet. Well, I have.

So far I've made:

Dijon-Rosemary Chicken Thighs with Maple-Glazed Pumpkin
Chicken Drumsticks with Green Olives &: Cipollini Onions
Spicy Asian Chicken Drumettes with Broccoli & Spiced Walnuts
Mexican Stuffed Peppers with Chipotle Sweet Potatoes
Skirt Steak with Smoky Compound Butter & Blistered Shisito Peppers
Persian Stuffed Acorn Squash with Ground Lamb & Pomegranate
Ahi Tuna Nicoise Salad with Olive Oil-Dill Aioli
Garlicky Shrimp with Asparagus Fries & Meyer Lemon Aioli
Salmon Provencal with Fingerling Potatoes & Cherry Tomatoes

In each case, the recipes were delicious. All are keepers and in rotation. Also, cooking on sheet pan is just plain easier. There's less clean up involved, less prep work and you don't dirty your stovetop. The dishes come together pretty quickly and cooking times aren't too long.

Because everything I've made so far has been great I have a lot of confidence that the recipes I haven't tried yet will also be delicious.

I really love sheet pan dishes and these are wonderful. No, i did not get a discount for buying this book for a review. I paid full price for this book on Amazon. I have tried several of the recipes and they all have been really, really good and very easy. Last night I made the Spicy Asian Chicken Drumettes with Broccoli & Spiced Walnuts...I did use a family pack of chicken legs instead and twice as much broccoli and doubled the marinade. It was very good, I especially liked the broccoli. I made the Roasted Chicken with Giant Croutons, Sweet Potatoes and Arugula, used more arugula but this is excellent! Pork Chops with Apricots, (did not use the apricots cause they are not in season) Red Cabbage & Blue Cheese was also excellent, my husband really loved the cabbage and he is not fond of cabbage. Tonight I am doing half a recipe...I am only using the garlicky shrimp recipe and then doing my own vegetables. I have been making these meals low carb because that is my new eating plan for the year. These are all meal recipes, no desserts and I am glad. It works perfectly for me. Chapters are meat, seafood and vegetables. The book is 111 pages including the index. There are quite a few color pictures. Eventually i will get through most of these recipes including dishes that are not on my eating list at the moment. I think it is money well spent.

I should know better than to buy a cookbook sight unseen. The reviews were so promising, but it is not a great cookbook for busy people as it promised. The recipes are really complicated. If you want really fancy meals that take a long time to prepare, but cook on one sheetpan, this is your book. I found two recipes in the entire book that my family would eat and that I had time to prepare. Bon appetit!

I'm a 72 year old woman, who has enjoyed cooking all my life. At my age, I still want to cook good food, but without so much work. This book is fantastic. It provides recipes for low labor, delicious, easy-clean-up meals. I not only use it a lot, but have given several additional copies to enthusiastic friends.

My favorite cookbook at the moment!! To prepare the quantity I need for my family, I use 2 sheet pans... one for meat & one for veggies. I've always used sheet pans for making dinner so this is a familiar process. I'm cooking a lot of the same entrees, but with a fresh approach using new & different ingredient combinations. Clean up is a breeze!! This book was a suggested item from Amazon. SO happy I purchased it!!

There are a lot of great recipes, but not necessarily limited to one sheet pan. The thing I like best about sheet pan meals is that everything is on one pan which makes for less clean up later. Some of these meals are entrees only. Lastly some of the measurements are not exact or it says one thing in the ingredients list and another in the instructions.

Like so many people, when the quarantine began I spent a lot of time cooking elaborate recipes. But as time has gone on, my enthusiasm has waned. I've bought ingredients for exciting meals... and then found myself ordering a meal to be delivered rather than spend time in the kitchen. The most energy I can muster is 15-20 minutes of "throw it together" dinners -- and that matches the "sheet pan supper" model perfectly.

I already have a few cookbooks in the genre (such as Sheet Pan Paleo), but I hankered for more. I bought this sight-unseen based on the Amazon reviews, and I'm glad I did.

I consider a cookbook a winner if it has three recipes that I want to make again, and it's a bonus when I put little slips of paper into several more that say "make this!" This Sheet Pan cookbook has already passed its first hurdle, with two recipes that earned our Seal Of Approval, and there are certainly more that'll appear on my table in coming weeks.

As the premise suggests, all of these are baked in the oven on a one or two pans. The ingredients aren't always mixed together; for instance, the deservedly popular "Dijon-rosemary chicken thighs with maple-glazed pumpkin" has you put the chicken on one end of the pan and the squash at the other end. (This makes it easy to add items, or to take off the veg if it cooks faster than the meat.)

Most recipes are designed to be start-to-finish in under an hour, with only a few minutes of prep time, and serve 4-6. That isn't always the case, as with the dish I cooked yesterday: a good-sized pork shoulder that roasts (with garlic, salt, and pepper) for three hours, then a half hour of roasting brussels sprouts alongside tomatoes; the latter are mixed with cilantro, parsley, lemon, and cumin. I'll have leftover pork roast for several days -- a welcome boon for weekday lunches.

The recipes are also extremely forgiving. Certainly the recipes are best viewed as templates and flavor-suggestions; for instance, I had carrots and thyme in the house, but no rosemary or squash. No problem; the chicken recipe was inspiration, and also gave me some idea how long everything took to cook.

One happy discovery is that most of the recipes are paleo-friendly. As I recall from my library trial of Molly Gilbert's Sheet pan suppers, those recipes used a lot of white potatoes and other starch. But while most of McMillan's recipes involve meat or seafood (there's some all-veg options, but I wouldn't suggest this book for 100% vegetarians), the accompaniments are welcome in my household: Mexican stuffed peppers with chipotle sweet potatoes; spicy Asian chicken drumettes with broccoli and spiced walnuts; whole roasted fish with fennel, lemons, and chimichurri sauce. All those have been whispering, "Cook me!"

No desserts, here, but that's fine with me.

There are few ingredients that are hard to find, and even fewer that are pricy. It's an inexpensive cookbook, too. This is easy to recommend!

I love this book. I bought one for myself and then bought 2 more for my daughters. Love the recipes and really appreciate the pictures. For me, a good cook book includes lots of pictures, and this one has a lot. I don't usually follow directions exactly but love to wade through cook books to get ideas on combinations of spices and methods for cooking something in a new and tasty way. I love this book because of the "sheet pan" method of cooking some fantastic recipes. Easy, clean, one pan cooking works for me. Give it a try.

This is my favorite cookbook! I’ve tried about 10 of the recipes, and every single one was delicious. Most contain fewer than 20 ingredients. The only downside: If you’re looking for a weeknight cookbook, many of the recipes in this book take about 30 minutes to prep and 45 minutes or more to cook. There are recipes that take closer to 30 min start to finish (especially the seafood recipes), but there are also recipes that take over two hours (like the ribs). So, many of the recipes won’t work for busy weeknights.

We are loving each and every recipe in this wonderful and innovative new cookbook, but sadly, the first time I opened the book to search for a recipe, the front of the binding cracked and broke all the way down, so now it's just taped back together. It no longer has a beautiful exterior (with all the tape), but otherwise, it's a lovely book full of delicious recipes.