MOOP!

Historical fiction: We're about to zoop out the door so I'll have to look up the exact title if you can't find it, but it's got "The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" in it and it's by Orson Scott Card (who I am still not boycotting despite his odious views on certain subjects). Part of it is true-to-history, and part is alternate-universe -- but it's pretty clear which is which, iirc.

Also Harry Turtledove has a whole series of alternative-universe historical fiction. I don't know if that's helpful.

Your dislike of cooking makes you more more similar to both of us over here at Hypertwin Central, and does not make me at all sad. (I could probably write a further paragraph on this subject. but it would be getting a bit off-topic and... time.)

I could whang together something resembling recipes for stir-fry chicken and stir-fry spaghetti sauce, if that would be useful (ingredients, just so you know what kind of Thing they each are: garlic, lots of chopped onion, chopped pepper, tomatoes, and whatever spices and sauces you happen to have on hand; ratios very flexible) but I don't have it written down at the moment since I do it mostly extemporaneously.