Homemade Simple

Effortless, family-friendly recipes for getting fresh meals on the table—even on the busiest days.

In a world of overly complicated recipes and exhausting meal prep trends, Homemade Simple remains the essential, trusted guide for getting real food on the table without losing your sanity. Renowned culinary authority Amanda Haas delivers a beautiful, foolproof blueprint for healthy family meals designed specifically for anyone juggling a packed calendar.

Featuring a foreword by television star Ayesha Curry and gorgeous full-color photography by Kathleen Sheffer, this classic collection offers more than 100 flavor-packed recipes that feed everyone from picky eaters to hungry omnivores.

Haas strips away the intimidation of from-scratch cooking, providing practical pantry strategies, prep guides, and adaptable meal plans that prove homemade cooking doesn’t have to be a chore.

Designed for Busy Home Cooks:

• Flexible Cooking for Modern Diets: Includes guidance for adapting recipes to gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free needs—making it easier to cook one meal for everyone at the table.
• Practical Meal Planning: Features realistic meal-planning ideas, prep and cook guidance, and pantry strategies designed to simplify everyday cooking.
• Essential Kitchen Staples: A dedicated chapter of go-to recipes—including Haas's famous Change-Your-Life Chicken Stock and vibrant Chimichurri—helps build flexible, flavorful meals from what you have on hand.
• Fast, Flavorful, Family-Friendly Recipes: From Sheet-Pan Halibut with Pesto and Spring Vegetables to Buffalo Cauliflower Hot Wings and Chicken-Coconut Red Curry Soup, the recipes are designed to maximize flavor in minimal time.

Homemade Simple doesn't ask you to change your schedule; it changes the way cooking fits into your life. It is the ultimate kitchen companion for fresh, nourishing, and completely effortless weeknight victories.