Cooking for Dummies with IKEA

IKEA has done it again. In addition to furniture for people with two left hands, the chain has now come up with something for the kitchen dummies among us.

The Easy Recipe Series is a book consisting of various posters, each featuring an illustrated recipe. The drawings show exactly what you need and how much of it. All the images are the correct size, allowing you to measure ingredients such as garlic and onion as you place them on the paper. Of course, this is no coincidence: all the ingredients are available at IKEA.

Into the oven

Once everything is ready, fold the packet closed and put it straight into the oven. Wait a little while and voilà, your salmon with lemon or prawns with olives and tomatoes are ready. You don’t have to worry about the ink on the baking paper; you can simply eat it.

For now, this is still an IKEA Canada initiative, which presented the posters during a kitchen trade show. We would love to see these handy booklets come to the Netherlands too.