Kitchen Coach

Kitchen Coach Jennifer Bushman can help you get good food on the table Monday to Friday and enjoy making it! She'll help you set up an efficient kitchen and identify the weeknight cooking challenges you may face--working late, keeping to a budget, pleasing picky eaters, juggling family schedules--then guide you to great recipes to suit your need or mood of the day. You and your family will be glad you cooked! * "What to Cook" chart to solve your "What's for dinner?" questions * Meal-planning cues--from Easy Preparation to Something Special * 150 simple, healthy recipes for all kinds of weeknight situations * Sensational salads, hearty pastas, fresh fish entrees, and tempting chicken recipes * Themed dishes for "comfort food" or sophisticated "spa cooking" nights, and more * Fun foods for kids--including wraps, tacos, pizza, and foods-on-a-stick "Jennifer is a working woman's dream. . . . There is something for everyone's palate in this book. If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this is all you need!" --Elizabeth Vargas, anchor, ABC News "Jennifer Bushman's creative dishes can stir even the most jaded, overworked cook. This is an invaluable book to help survive our rushed, stressed modern lives." --Shirley O. Corriher, author of CookWise "Finally a book that matches . . . [Jennifer's] vibrant, lively, and creative personality. . . . Every kitchen needs Jennifer as their 'kitchen coach'!" --Joanne Weir, host of the PBS series Weir Cooking in the City and author of Weir Cooking in the City "Jennifer Bushman's . . . enthusiasm reaches right out from the page and there is no reason not to cook once you have Jennifer's book in hand." --John Ash chef, teacher, and author of John Ash Cooking One on One "Jennifer Bushman, champion cooking teacher, personifies a true Kitchen Coach: always guiding, encouraging, and inspiring." --Flo Braker, author of The Simple Art of Perfect Baking and Sweet Miniatures

Praise for the Kitchen Coach "Jennifer is a working woman's dream. . . . There is something for everyone's palate in this book. If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this is all you need!" --Elizabeth Vargas Anchor, ABC News "Practical tips trump celebrity gloss. . . . Bushman's casual, fun approach to dining . . . should appeal to busy cooks." --PUBLISHERS WEEKLY "This book is full of yummy-sounding recipes, helpful advice on how to set up your kitchen, and Jennifer's own contagious enthusiasm for the pleasures of spending time in the kitchen--a potent combination!" --Martha Holmberg Publisher, Fine Cooking magazine Kitchen Coach Jennifer Bushman can help you make great meals for and with your family. She shows you how to fit cooking into your busy schedule and prepare delicious food everyone will love. In her warm, enthusiastic style, she not only provides recipes, techniques, tips, and inspiration, but also gives you the confidence to cook any night of the week! The Kitchen Coach gives you: * Great ideas to get the whole family involved in meal preparation * Meal-planning cues--from Easy Preparation to Freezer-Ready * 160 family-tested recipes for all kinds of situations * Recipes for tempting appetizers, savory soups, sensational salads, fresh fish entrees, and hearty main courses * Lots of options for more convenient cooking--One-Dish meals, Make-Ahead dishes, Slow-Cooker specialties, first-night and Encore main courses, and more * Fun food for kids--including Mini Meat Loaves and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

An essential resource and cookbook for anyone diagnosed with cancer, filled with nearly 100 nourishing recipes designed to support treatment and recovery. A cancer diagnosis can be overwhelming, frightening, and uncertain. Like many others, you may be unsure about what to do next. You'll want to learn more about what's ahead and what you should eat to nutritionally support your body at a time when eating and cooking may simply be too challenging. The Living Kitchen will help cancer patients and their caregivers navigate every stage of their cancer therapy, before, during, and after treatment. Within the pages of this indispensable guide, certified nutritionists Sarah Grossman and Tamara Green provide easy-to-understand, research-based nutritional information on the science behind how food relates to your health and the effects of cancer. As experts in cancercare cooking, Sarah and Tamara have included nearly 100 healthy, easy-to-prepare, whole-food recipes specially designed to relieve specific symptoms and side effects of cancer and its therapies (including loss of appetite, sore mouth, altered taste buds, nausea, and more) and to strengthen your body once in recovery. With energizing snacks and breakfasts; superfood smoothies, juices, and elixirs; soothing soups and stews; and nutrient-rich, flavorful main dishes, these are recipes that you, your family, and your caregivers will all enjoy. At once informative and inspiring, empowering and reassuring, The Living Kitchen will educate cancer patients and their caregivers about the power of food.

Home Economics Teacher in a book. With many schools eliminating Home Economics or Life Skills classes, people may not have basic skills for providing healthy good tasting food for themselves or their family. Cooking Coach provides basic skills and information in a concise resource guide and recipe book in one location. In our fast-paced world, many do not have the time or inclination to search for information. The book includes information and recipes that have been used. Many are friend and family favorites that have been used many times for years. Readers can successfully use the recipes and basic measuring, shopping and entertaining information to be confident in the kitchen. The book is designed to make cooking enjoyable and eating even more fun.

"Jennifer is a working woman's dream. . . . There is something for everyone's palate in this book. If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this is all you need!" --Elizabeth Vargas anchor, ABC News "Practical tips trump celebrity gloss. . . . Bushman's casual, fun approach to dining . . . should appeal to busy cooks." --Publishers Weekly "This book is full of yummy-sounding recipes, helpful advice on how to set up your kitchen, and Jennifer's own contagious enthusiasm for the pleasures of spending time in the kitchen--a potent combination!" --Martha Holmberg Publisher, Fine Cooking magazine Kitchen Coach Jennifer Bushman can help you make great food for family and friends on the weekend and enjoy making it. She'll help you set up an efficient kitchen and identify the weekend cooking challenges you may face--you're tired from the work week, last-minute guests are coming, your family has conflicting schedules--then guide you to great recipes to suit your need or mood of the day. You and your family will be glad you cooked! The Kitchen Coach gives you: * A "What to Cook" chart to solve your mealtime dilemmas * Meal-planning cues--from Easy Preparation to Something Special * 150 simple, healthy recipes for all kinds of weekend situations * Dishes for barbecues, brunches, picnics, potlucks, parties, and family get-togethers * Hearty soups, seafood specials, Burger Night favorites, simple slow-cooked dishes * Fun foods for kids--including pancakes, pizza, grilled foods, and fondue

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The cupboards are overflowing, the linen closet holds towels and tools, and your once tidy family room might as well come with a ringmaster. But that's called living, right? Wrong! Marni Jameson is here to prove that you can turn a hectic home into a haven--and do so without being voted off the island. With chapters such as "Kids are Great--They Only Dismantle Your Home One Piece at a Time," you'll laugh as you learn whether to opt for solids or patterns; what constitutes "indestructible flooring"; how to organize your house from top to bottom; and how to decorate so home appeal goes up and blood pressure goes down. House of Havoc is that indispensable guide for making the most of the house you have without driving everyone around you nuts.

From the discovery of fire to the latest space mission, the Encyclopedia of Kitchen History brings together the rich diversity of kitchen history in one accessible volume. Students, researchers, scholars, and culinary aficionados- from beginners to experts- will find this Encyclopedia to be a fascinating look into the history of the kitchen from the foodstuffs prepared to the tools and implements used as well as the innovators who shaped its function and utility.