The Rush Hour Cook Presents Weekly Wonders: Weekly Menus Complete with Grocery Lists for Today's Busy Family

by Brook Noel

Once known as the Queen-of-Incapable Cooking, Brook has been spotted securing saram wrap with sailor knots, baking a cherry pie without pitting the cherries and coloring unboiled Easter eggs. Frustrated with the lack of a family dinner hour in her home (her husband had opted for large lunches at work(, she set out to create a cooking system (much to her husband's dismay) that would allow her to put great meals on the table quickly.

A CEO, mom, wife, daughter, volunteer, church-goer, author and speaker, Brook's time is at a premium.
Her hunt for the perfect dinner focused on recipes that met the following five Rush Hour Rules...

-All ingredients are pronounceable through the phonetic use of the English language.
-Each ingredient can be found in the market without engaging in a full-scale scavenger hunt.
-No list of ingredients shall be longer than the instructions.
-Each recipe has to be durable enough to survive the Queen-of-Incapable-Cooking.
-The Rush Hour Cook's finicky child will eat it-or some portion of it.

The result? Brook created weekly menus that fed her family while eliciting compliments! Now she brings her Weekly Wonder Menus to you, complete with grocery lists, so you can also implement this simple cooking solution in your chaotic kitchen!

Genres: Cookbooks

220 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2003

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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