It can be a challenge to prepare tasty and healthy home-cooked meals during the busy workweek. More and more people are turning to ready-made meals, which are often sodium-saturated, fat-filled, highly processed and expensive. Everyone Can Cook Midweek Meals is packed with easy-to-follow, healthy recipes ranging from classic family fare to innovative dishes inspired by global cuisine. Designed to make mealtime as stress-free as possible, the simply delicious dishes in Everyone Can Cook Midweek Meals are either straightforward enough to be whipped up after work, or designed to be made in advance and reheated.

Eric Akis has been a food writer for the Times Colonist newspaper, in Victoria, since 1997. His popular bi-weekly food column also appears in newspapers across Canada, including the Calgary Herald, the Vancouver Sun, The Province, the Hamilton Spectator, the Ottawa Citizen and the Edmonton Journal. Before becoming a journalist, Eric trained to become a professional chef and a pastry chef. He worked for 15 years in a variety of operations in Ontario and British Columbia, from fine hotels to restaurants to catering companies. In 2003, his experiences as a chef and food writer inspired him to create the bestselling Everyone Can Cook series of cookbooks, which includes Everyone Can Cook, Everyone Can Cook Seafood, Everyone Can Cook Appetizers, Everyone Can Cook Midweek Meals, Everyone Can Cook for Celebrations, Everyone Can Cook Slow Cooker Meals and the collected edition: Everyone Can Cook Everything. Eric Akis was born into a military family in Chicoutimi, Quebec, and has lived in six provinces. In 1992, he moved to Victoria, BC, and now makes the city his home, living there with his wife, Cheryl Warwick, also a chef, and his son, Tyler.

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