Cooking Together: Real Food for the Whole Family

by Sara Begner

Sara Begner’s requirements are free your mind in the kitchen and bring your appetite. This family cookbook requires no new cooking skills, no magic conjuring tricks, and no weird ingredients. Whether you’re watching ingredients melt together with Begner’s mouthwatering pizza, taking in the aroma of chocolate muffins, or sitting back to watch chicken roast in the oven, these recipes are sure to inspire everyday dinners and generous feasts.

With more than seventy easily cooked recipes, you and your family will have a ball in the kitchen. With fruit slices transformed into artful displays, chocolaty confections sprinkled with love, and meats tenderized to perfection, you will be able to bond over a fun-to-make, easy-to-enjoy, home-cooked meal. Helpful hands are sure to enjoy tossing spaghetti, rolling chocolate balls, and cracking eggs for marvelous creations.

With the addition of colorful photos and handy tips, these chef-inspired recipes will tempt your taste buds and inspire you to grab the spatula. So head into your kitchen, bring the whole family, and enjoy Cooking Together with those you love.

Genres: Cooking, Nonfiction, Cookbooks

144 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2012

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

some good classics and reminders about the importance of fostering a love of food with your children.

[Paula · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have a total love/hate relationship with this book. On the one hand, the suuuper crunchy-classy styling gets on my nerves - I feel like it sends the message that "cooking together" is an activity best undertaken when you have all the time in the world, a beautiful, serene kitchen, understated, elegant, monochromatic clothes, and, of course, beautiful blonde children produced by your own beautiful slender blonde self.

Instead of chasing each other around the kitchen yelling about preheating the oven and pushing the cat off the counter, which is how it works in my house.

On the other hand, this book is illustrated with photographs, not drawings, which always lends a cookbook more credibility, and the children are shown measuring, pouring, kneading, eating, etc. That is so key.

Now comes the really difficult-to-admit part: we have turned to this cookbook more than once, and had spectacular success with the recipes. Milo, who is twelve, chose to make bacon-wrapped meatloaf, and I swear he did it all himself, from planning to shopping to preparation to serving, and it was wonderful. Last night he made the saffron salmon soup, and it took not much more than the 20 minutes(!) promised by the recipe, and it too was tasty and satisfying.

Sure, I'd like to see these recipes come with menu suggestions - that soup needed a veg and some bread (which he also made! come on! props for my boy!) - and there are some pretty unusual ingredients involved, but the author is Swedish, so we just skip those recipes.

Sara Begner, you are beautiful and your kids are beautiful and damn you, you write a terrific, beautiful cookbook too.