The Peanuts Family Cookbook: Delicious Dishes for Kids to Make with Their Favorite Grown-Ups

by Weldon Owen

Grab your supper dish and head to the kitchen for scrumptious meals from the Peanuts Gang! The Peanuts Munchtime Cookbook features 50 simple, kid-friendly recipes covering snacks, drinks, desserts, breakfast, lunch, and, of course, SUPPERTIME!

The Peanuts Munchtime Cookbook is a collection of easy-to-make recipes for junior chefs to prepare with their favorite grownup. Featuring classic Peanuts art and comic strips, as well as 25 original Peanuts illustrations, this cute compilation will bring together generations of Peanuts fans.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking

128 pages, Hardcover

First published October 9, 2018

About the author

Weldon Owen is an imprint of Insight Editions, a publisher of illustrated books on food & drink, photography, music, and popular culture. Elegant and informative, Weldon Owen titles showcase the best of art, photography, and design in exquisite presentations of the bookmaker's craft. They are located in San Rafael, CA.

Reviews

[Marie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Cute cookbook for Peanuts lovers. A brief introduction that states Charles Schulz's love for family dinners. Comic strips throughout. All the recipes have names that connect to Peanuts themes or characters.

Con: very little originality at all. Recipes are for stuff like waffles, chicken pot pie, chicken noodle soup, brownies, etc. All things I already have recipes for, just with names that connect to Peanuts.

Another con: the cover says it's a cookbook of "delicious dishes for kids to make with their favorite grown-ups" but a lot of recipes are too complicated for kids.

Still, decided to try these:
•Peanuts Butter & Jelly Muffins: Delicious! Whole fam loved, even NPH! And not too hard to make at all.
•Sloppy Joe Cool: Really good! Recipe says you can make with either ground beef or ground turkey; I used ground turkey.
•Woodstock's Upside-Down Cake: Easy AND delicious! And we had just read a Peanuts book where Woodstock upends his wet nest on Snoopy, so there was connection and giggles.
•Sweet Babboos: Easy. Kinda bland. Basically Thumbprint Cookies.

[Natalie Pietro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Being a Peanuts fan since little, I remember a time longing for Sunday nights to come. Remember sitting on the couch next to my mom reading the Sunday comics. Discovering Charles Schultz’s clever little world of Charlie Brown and his Peanut gang made my childhood nights memorable.
Then many comic strips later this book, this cookbook of sorts was created. Created to delights fan of all ages and bringing back some nostalgia in ones life. Recipes based on Peanuts Comic Strips with some reference to food. The Great Pumpkin Pie based on Linus speech about the Great Pumpkin or Charlie Brownies, due to Charlie being nerves speaking to a girl that he fumbled and said his name was Charlie Brownie. Silly Charlie. And who could forget Snoopie’s alter ego Joe Cool. Well how about some Sloppy Joe Cool.
Now this book does lack in photos. To many pictures of the Peanut gang and comic strips and not any of the food made from the recipes. I cringe at cookbooks without pictures. I did let that slide seeing they had a comic strip that coincides with the recipe at hand. Still photos help sell a recipe. Though these were kid friendly recipes so they were quick easy and sounded yummy.
So now it’s time to get my little gang of peanuts together to cook up some new family favorites. Fun cookbook to bring back childhood memories and to make new memories for generations to come.

[June Jacobs · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have been a fan of Peanuts since I was a child, so when I saw this new book in our library's catalog I requested it.

This book contains some great artwork by Charles M. Schulz and is very colorful and engaging. There are many of Mr. Schulz's original four-panel comic strips included in the book.

There is a wide variety of recipes presented in the book for a variety of occasions. Some of the recipes include more healthful ingredients such as 'low-sodium' broth and olive/canola oil.

I wish there had been photographs of the finished dishes for children to reference. I also wish the fonts used for the recipes and instructions were larger to make them easier to read while working in the kitchen.

I believe this would be a fun book for families and other groups to use together in the kitchen for some good, old-fashioned, 'off-screen' fun!

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I borrowed this book from the New Book non-fiction shelf in the Children's section of the local public library.

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[Sbwisni · Rating 3 out of 5]

Loved the art and comics…cute recipe names…but in general the recipes were super basic, just with fun names 🙃 Not mad about having a look see thanks to the playful art and name, but wouldn’t use it to seek out new recipes! I’m always willing to try a new sloppy Joe recipe though. That might be the only one I try 😆

[Shelly-Ann Stone]

Peanuts fam