One-Pot Wonders

by Brook Noel

It's 5:00 ... Do You Know Where Your Dinner Is? In this fourth volume of the four-part series, Noel shares quick and easy recipes that can be prepared in one-dish. Born without a domestic gene in her body, Brook Noel has been spotted securing saran wrap with sailor knots, baking a cherry pie without pitting the cherries and coloring unboiled Easter eggs. When challenged by a friend to create a one-stop-cookbook solution for today's manic moms and dads, Brook, much to her husband's dismay, accepted the challenge. (He had taken to eating large business lunches and opting out of dinner.) A CEO, mom, wife, daughter, volunteer, author and speaker, Brook's time is at a premium. The recipes you'll find within this small volume are the few that survived Brook in the kitchen while also living up to the Rush Hour Cook Rules (see below). Take this simply cooking system and try it in your kitchen! Soon you will transform you chaotic rush hour into a smooth and sane dinnertime. THE FIVE RULES OF RUSH HOUR RECIPES
1. All ingredients may be pronounced through the phonetic use of the English language.
2. Each ingredient can be located in the market without engaging on a full scale scavenger hunt.
3. No list of ingredients shall be longer than the instructions.
4. Each recipe has to be durable enough to survive the Queen-of-Incapable Cooking (Brook Noel) and elicit a compliment.
5. The Rush Hour Cook's finicky child will eat it--or some portion of it.

72 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Brook Noel is the author of nineteen books, specializing in grief and bereavement and life management and balance for today’s busy woman.

Noel is known for going “beyond the book” by creating a whole experience to interact and support her readers through online and in-person events, Q&A chats, message boards, and communities. She maintains two regular columns, The Daily Rush and Good Morning, and a free weekly e-zine, The Challenge Weekly with a combined readership of over 70,000.

Her greatest passion is the Make Today Matter Life System Online which is the basis for The Change Your Life Challenge. “I feel like everything I have done or experienced in life has culminated in this program and book. The program isn’t just about family time, or menu planning, or procrastination, or organizing-it is about every major area of a woman’s life.”

Noel was recognized in 2003 as one of the Top 40 Business People Under the Age of 40 by the Business Journal. She is a spokesperson for the Home Business Association and was featured in their top entrepreneur issue and also a a spokesperson for the Whirlpool Corporation specializing in the time crunch of busy moms.

Noel has conducted workshops for and/or appeared on/in:CNN Headline News, ABC World News, FOX Friends, Woman’s World, Our Children (National PTA Magazine), Los Angeles Times, Cedars-Sinai Medical Systems, Parent’s Journal, Booklist, Foreword, Independent Publisher, University of Washington, UW-Milwaukee, University of Michigan, Single Parents Association, AM Northwest, Town & Country, New York Post, “Ask Heloise,” Bloomberg Radio-and hundreds of other publication, shows, and stations.

Brook lives in Wisconsin with her husband, their thirteen-year-old daughter, a golden retriever and a Puggle named Roxie.

Brook has been inspired by her life’s experiences and the people around her. She strives to help others through her creative expression. She is passionate and her vocation is also her avocation.

Brook is also a life coach and dedicates a part of her time, each week, to working with women in one on one coaching sessions.

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