Food that’s fast, but not fast food! These recipes are healthy, delicious, and easy to make. You won’t have to spend a fortune or a lot of time cooking or cleaning up with these recipes, featuring Beef and Potato Picadillo, Sweet and Spicy Chicken Black Bean Enchiladas, Unstuffed Cabbage Roll Skillet, and Baked Breakfast Taquitos. Your family will love these fresh and perfectly balanced meals with amazing ingredients and spices. Cooking has never been simpler or more satisfying.
From the Kitchen of Food Blogger Amy Flanigan at bellyfull.net comes an exciting cookbook with busy families in mind. From balancing tight schedules, and juggling work, family, sports, and kids, everyone seems to be on the go, and wholesome dinners fall by the wayside. However, Amy Flanigan is here to bridge that gap with her cookbook - Delicious and Nutritious Family Meals Made Quicker- Good Fast Eats.
Jumpstart your success within the very first pages with tips, techniques and guidelines to combat dinnertime stressors, including; tips on menu planning, reading through the recipe, prepping ahead of time, and paying attention to the small details. Once you realize you have all the tools for success, your dinnertime recipes will soon follow.
Stock up with specially designed lists starting with your spice drawer, and moving into the pantry and refrigerator, making sure you have the entire tool set necessary for success. Then, it’s jump right into the chapters on tasty chicken, pork, beef, seafood and even meatless entrees. Szechuan Chicken and Snap Peas, Easy Cashew Chicken, Cumin Lime Grilled Sirloin with Roasted Vegetables Chickpea Curry Sesame Noodles with Roasted Broccoli, Moo Shu Pork and Grilled Fish Tacos with Chili-Lime Slaw are just some of the tempting recipes that fill this book. No matter what your cooking style or flavor preference, there is something for every family.
From an author who lives in the real world and knows you do too, comes a cookbook specially designed for those families on the go. Good Fast Eats is inviting from the very first page with full-page photos of each recipe, along with serving sizes and cook times, leaving out the guesswork out, making readers want to instantly jump into the kitchen and start cooking. From main entrees, soups and desserts, there’s a little for everyone. With the delightful surprise of meatless options to include nine tempting dishes such as Italian Stuffed Zucchini, Roasted Tofu with Eggplant and Cherry Tomatoes, even Tex-Mex Migas Waffles, opening up the possibilities for even those who want meatless options.
Sweet tooth lovers can marvel over the Ricotta Blintzes, or Cookies and Cream Cheesecake Parfaits, while soup lovers will be thrilled with the simplicity of egg ribbons in the Egg Drop Soup. With cooking and metric measurements, along with the needed staples already in your pantry, the dinners are low cost and easy to carry out, often with only the use of only one or two pans. With meals that are healthy, flavorful and easy to prepare, any one can be successful.
*Review originally published in Dixon's Independent Voice Newspaper column- For the Love of Books.
Amy Flanigan’s cookbook of family meals has so many great recipes. There are recipes for chicken, pork, beef, seafood, meatless, soup, and sweets. Each recipe has easy to read and follow instructions. Pictures of these delicious-looking meals and desserts enhance the book as well. Those that love to cook will thoroughly enjoy this fantastic new and easy recipe book. I would recommend this recipe book to not only beginning cooks, but those that enjoy cooking as well.
Genre: non-fiction, recipe book Publisher: Cedar Fort Publication date: October 1, 2016 Number of pages: 144
Content Rating: G Book Rating: 5 stars
A print review copy of this novel was provided by Cedar Fort. A review was not required and all views and opinions expressed are my own.