The Don't Panic Pantry Cookbook
Mostly Vegetarian Comfort Food That Happens to Be Pretty Good for You
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- $18.99
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- $18.99
Publisher Description
This is the cookbook that seeks to answer the eternal question: “What am I supposed to eat?” Here the chef and writer Noah Galuten, host of the charmingly self-deprecating YouTube series “Don’t Panic Pantry,” serves up convenient, healthily delicious, mostly vegetarian comfort food, teaching you how to prepare meals and snacks you're genuinely excited to eat. With a Foreword by Iliza Shlesinger.
"Buy [Galuten's] terrific The Don't Panic Pantry Cookbook and your kitchen skills will jump off the plate.” —Chef Nancy Silverton, author of The Mozza Cookbook and Chi Spacca
As the world changes around us, we are constantly vacillating between two different versions of ourselves: the one who wants to be healthier and the one who wants to be excited, or comforted, by the food that we eat. We all want to eat “better,” but what does that mean? This book is here to say: Don’t panic.
Don’t panic about learning how to cook; or environmental sustainability; or nutrition. Don’t panic about what to make for breakfast or dinner or midnight snacks, because Noah Galuten has your back! In Noah’s kitchen, trying really matters, perfection is overrated, and better is good enough. Noah gives you the tools to create kitchen staples and vegetable-and-bean-centric dishes (with just a little meat too) that will become the beloved, simple, everyday meals you will make over and over in your home.
Includes recipes for:
“Chef Salad” with Cheddar Croutons and Probiotic RanchThree different versions of broccoli pasta (vegetarian, pescatarian or with rosemary-infused sausage)Noah’s Instagram-famous Krauty Beans30-second Vegan Tahini Dressing that will become your new favorite dipMiso Roast Chicken with Vegetables that you can prep in advance and leave in the fridge for several hours, or even a dayThe fresh herbed panko-crusted Mozzarella Marinara that made Galuten’s famously funny wife, comedian Iliza Shlesinger, break down in grateful tears.
Here are your pantry staples for the future, to help you make cooking at home the tastier, more convenient, don’t panic option.
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Chef and YouTuber Galuten shows home cooks how to transform pantry staples into familiar favorites in his winning debut. Many of the recipes—broccoli-sausage pasta, turkey meatballs, and chicken parm among them—are influenced by the Italian American fare Galuten's mother's cooked and his father's preference for vegetarian dishes. Indeed, vegetable odds and ends are put to use in such offerings as a veggie-loaded chopped salad dressed with a lemon vinaigrette, and a goat cheese and veggie scrap frittata with broccoli stems. Some pantry items prove to be surprisingly versatile: sauerkraut appears in a breakfast omelet as well as a smoked cheddar broccoli bread. There's no shortage of healthy salad options, among them a ginger-cilantro chicken salad that incorporates romaine lettuce, shredded cabbage, and pulled leftover chicken. Other recipes focus on basics, such as a tomato sauce that comes together "in the time it takes to boil water and cook pasta." On the snack end, there are rosemary-tamari almonds and olive oil kale chips. Galuten's instructions are straightforward, and he stresses that when it comes to cooking, "trying matters." For home cooks hungry for nourishing meals but facing a depleted refrigerator, this is a solid resource.
