The Busy Mom's Cookbook
100 Recipes for Quick, Delicious, Home-Cooked Meals
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1.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $10.99
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Bravo’s Top Chef All-Star and Los Angeles executive chef serves up more than 100 quick and easy family recipes that she developed as a hardworking single mom.
America’s 26 million working moms face the challenge of getting a delicious home-cooked dinner on the table. For Antonia Lofaso, the issue hits especially close to home, because she holds down multiple jobs—in the food world, no less. She continues to participate in activities and appearances for Bravo and Top Chef while serving as executive chef of Black Market Liquor Bar. Through it all, she has developed a fantastic repertoire of meals that keep families bonded—quick, nourishing, hearty fare that soothes the soul.
Showcasing Lofaso’s top picks, The Busy Mom’s Cookbook includes breakfast favorites ranging from pancakes to the world’s best blueberry muffins, and easy but satisfying dinners such as Beef Stroganoff with Creamy Pappardelle and Fish Tacos with Corn Tomatillo Salad. She even tackles the brown-bag lunch with choices that the other kids will envy, including BBQ Chicken Pita Pocket and Turkey-and-Swiss Panini.
The Busy Mom’s Cookbook is the first book to bring star-quality culinary expertise to the specific needs of busy parents. Laced with memories and lessons from Lofaso’s own experience as a working mom, this cookbook speaks from the heart with inspiring, real-world wisdom and plenty of lighthearted humor to encourage every reader to savor the rewards of making mealtime memorable.
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Single mom and Top Chef contestant Lofaso presents a collection of easy, approachable recipes and suggests taking the time (even if it's a mere 15 minutes) to dine as a family. Her tone is realistic and encouraging "Enjoy! It's just food!" Helpful chapters include "The Better Brown Bag," which features a DIY (in seven minutes) cheese and charcuterie plate as an alternative to a shrink-wrapped meat-and-cheese packaged lunch. In the "School-Night Dinners" chapter, nothing takes longer than 30 minutes to make, even shrimp and sausage corn chowder and chicken paillard with baby peas and potatoes. While making the recipes appealing even for picky eaters, Lofaso introduces a variety of ingredients: pizza with prosciutto and burrata, bacon, brussels sprouts; goat cheese pie; and saut ed edamame with pickled ginger and ponzu have a hint of gourmet appeal. There's also a "Kids in the Kitchen" chapter, which comes with a warning about getting kids involved with cooking: "There will be disasters." But she adds, "Someday your kids will tell the story of how you taught them to make their favorite dishes."
