‘I Hate to Cook’ Author Peg Bracken Dies at 89

Start cooking those noodles, first dropping a bouillon cube into the noodle water. Brown the garlic, onion and crumbled beef in the oil. Add the flour, salt, paprika and mushrooms, stir, and let it cook five minutes while you light a cigarette and stare sullenly at the sink. — Recipe for “Skid Road Stroganoff,” from “The I Hate to Cook Book” (1960), by Peg Bracken.

She died last Saturday at her home in Portland, Ore. She was 89.
obit HERE
her work available HERE