THE SKINNY: No more mediocre meals cobbled together last minute.  No more trolling recipe websites to figure out what side dish might work with steamed halibut.  No more shopping fiascos — like when you arrived home without eggplant for the ratatouille.  NoTakeOut.com helps you plan, prep and cook an entire meal, not just one dish.  We provide a complete menu, a shopping list and a game plan – basically, we help you organize to go from kitchen to table with ease.

Our menus call for seasonal, fresh ingredients, are uncomplicated and designed to be cooked in under an hour.  So whether it’s mango, cilantro or pecorino, we’ll bring new tastes to your table and even get you to make nice with some spice.

WHO’S IN THE KITCHEN: Three of us are stirring the pot at NoTakeOut.com - David and Kurt, two dads with day jobs and serious cooking hobbies, and Susan, an award-winning food journalist and author who lives – too good to be true — in France, where she founded and runs On Rue Tatin, a cooking school.

HOW WE GOT COOKING: It started with a craving, of sorts.  David and Kurt, long-time friends, loved to cook but longed to expand their repertoire.  And they wanted to help some of their food-loving, cook-shy friends produce a significant meal worthy of serious table-time with friends and family.  They envisioned a website to give really busy people the ideas and the tools to get organized and get cooking.  So they enlisted Susan, a food expert, to help plan and structure menus to be delicious, seasonal, sophisticated and easy.

‘Making mealtime manageable’ is kind of a mantra for us.  When you say you’re busy, we get it: you’re taking care of kids, working, shopping, maybe grabbing a workout –  oh yeah, and the laundry… You don’t need another hassle!  Our goal is to make food, meals and dining-at-home an easy family ritual and a daily pleasure.