Keepers: Two Home Cooks Share Their Tried-And-True Weeknight Recipes and the Secrets to Happiness in the Kitchen / Kathy Brennan and Caroline Campion 240 pp.

I apologize in advance for departing from our theme.  Let's say that reading this book was like spying into the kitchens of two cooks and moms who really have their acts together.  If I take home a cookbook and have success with one recipe, I give it a thumbs up.  Keepers provided me with not one, or two, but at least three kitchen successes.  Brennan and Campion have a common-sense approach to cooking family meals: healthy and tasty, but not too difficult.    No cans of soup or casseroles covered with potato chips here, but these recipes yield genuinely yummy stuff in less than an hour, and your kitchen won't be a complete wreck either.  Try skillet lasagna (it really works!), orecchiette with peas and prosciutto, and a casserole whose name I can't remember with Italian sausage and white beans which was fabulous.  --Kathleen