Make Ahead Meals for Busy Moms


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What if you could save valuable time, money and effort all while enjoying better meals with the whole family? Make-Ahead Meals for Busy Moms shows you how with a whopping 140 delicious feasts that are so easy, youll never opt for take-out again!The secret lies in Jane Doirons recipes optimized for make-ahead preparation. Youll get special menus perfect for freezing, pre-assembling or quick reheatingso that you can plan your familys dinners when youre ready, not when you feel pressured and stressed out.Inside Make-Ahead Meals for Busy Moms, discover:?Çó Mouth-watering appetizers like crab melts, mini bacon quiche and sweet and spicy meatballs?Çó Great-start breakfasts such as cranberry scones and make-ahead coffee cake?Çó Filling mains, sides and soups including Italian restaurant chicken, pork Florentine, healthy broccoli slaw and hearty chili?Çó Perfect desserts like tiramisu, mini cheesecakes and chocolate torte?Çó Much, much more!So go aheadmake your family fabulous meals on your time without the guilt of fast food. Take the stress out of dinner planning and try these delicious make-ahead recipes the whole clan will love!




Everyday Chic


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The supermodel, television and internet personality, busy mom, and author of the New York Times bestseller Everyday Supermodel shares a new set of tips and tricks for creating comfortable, inviting, organized spaces throughout your home—while making them beautiful and stylish too. Once upon a time, Molly Sims was a single girl who used her oven as a sweater drawer. Today, the model turned home chef, design diva, organizational guru, entertaining expert, and blessed mama uses her stove to whip up fabulous fare for family and friends. While she loves to cook, Molly also loves to entertain, and to make the home she shares with her husband and young children both beautiful and inviting. Juggling a successful career and growing household, Molly had to find solutions that worked for her busy life. In this inspirational guide written in her fun, sophisticated, relaxed girlfriend-to-girlfriend style—and flavored with just a touch of Southern—Molly brings together expert advice and her own insights to help you add that little "extra" to make your everyday life a little better, a little easier, and a little more special. Inside you'll find secrets and real life advice for simplifying, streamlining, and beautifying, including: Kicking clutter to the curb. Applying the accessory rule to your home—removing one piece. Feeding your family without stress. Using the right tools to plan parties like a professional, and tackle easy DIY projects. Prioritizing the positive without getting hung up on the perfect. Filled with lovely and instructive color photos from Molly’s own house, personal anecdotes, insight from Molly’s go-to experts, and easy-to-follow how-tos and lists, Molly’s charming guide will help you create the stylish home and life you want.




The Busy Mom's Cookbook


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Bravo’s Top Chef All-Star and Los Angeles executive chef serves up more than 100 quick and easy family recipes that she developed as a hardworking single mom. Many busy moms dread the challenge of getting a delicious and healthy home-cooked meal on the table. For single mom Antonia Lofaso, the issue hits especially close to home as she continues to do appearances for Bravo while working as an executive chef. Showcasing Lofaso’s top picks for quick and satisfying meals, The Busy Mom’s Cookbook includes breakfast favorites ranging from pancakes to the world’s best blueberry muffins, and easy but satisfying dinners such as Beef Stroganoff with Creamy Pappardelle and Fish Tacos with Corn Tomatillo Salad. She even tackles the brown-bag lunch with choices that the other kids will envy, including BBQ Chicken Pita Pocket and Turkey-and-Swiss Panini. The Busy Mom’s Cookbook is the first book to bring star-quality culinary expertise to the specific needs of busy parents. Laced with memories and lessons from Lofaso’s own experience as a working mom, this cookbook speaks from the heart with inspiring, real-world wisdom and plenty of lighthearted humor to encourage every reader to savor the rewards of making mealtime memorable.




True Comfort


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The TV star and author of True Roots shares 130+ of her favorite recipes for healthy, natural, wholesome comfort food in this essential cookbook. “Kristin’s family-friendly, decadently ‘health-ified’ recipes will have you reliving favorite memories and making delicious new ones bite after bite!”—Daphne Oz, Emmy Award-winning television host and bestselling author NAMED ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR BY DELISH Over the past few years, Kristin Cavallari has become known for the healthy recipes she cooks at home for her family. In her bestselling cookbook, True Roots, she shared the recipes that keep her motivated and inspired and in turn challenged fans to cook more meals at home and live a healthier lifestyle. Now, in True Comfort, Kristin turns her attention to some of the most-requested dishes that are hardest to find: healthy comfort food. True Comfort features her favorite recipes for cozy breakfasts (Apple Pecan Dutch Baby, Espresso Overnight Oats, and Sweet Potato Toast), lunches (Roasted Cauliflower Tartine, Nashville Hot Chicken Salad Cups, and Butternut Squash and Leek Chowder) and dinners (Red-Wine Braised Short Ribs, Oat Crust Chicken Pot Pie, and Saffron Seafood Cioppino) plus desserts (Orange Olive Oil Cake and Dark Chocolate Peppermint Silk Pie) and drinks (Cashew Eggnog and Rosemary Charcoal Latte). With tips and tricks to put together a well-stocked pantry, fridge, and freezer, this book goes beyond the traditional cookbook to help readers feel more like Kristin in the kitchen.




The Dinner Plan


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By the authors of the IACP award-winning cookbook Keepers: Defeat the obstacles and get dinner on the table—with organizational strategies and 135 recipes. Between work, family activities, mismatched schedules, and often bare refrigerators, there are all sorts of situations that make weeknight cooking a universally challenging—and frustrating—experience. The Dinner Plan offers five meal strategies—Make-Ahead, Staggered, One-Dish, Extra-Fast, and Pantry—that will help get dinner on the table no matter what the workweek throws at you. The 135 recipes—from main dishes to sides to salads and “lifesaver” condiments—provide lots of practical options whether time is super-tight, you haven’t had a chance to run to the store, or everyone is coming home at a different time. And most importantly, all of the recipes are “keepers”—brag-worthy, reliable, crowd-pleasing preparations that you’ll confidently turn to again and again. Shrimp Scampi, Sheet-Pan Chicken Fajitas, Foolproof Carbonara, and Mexican Skillet Lasagna are just a few examples of doable recipes that will earn their place in any busy cook’s repertoire. Rounded out with plenty of tips and a bonus section on healthful snacks called The Forgotten Meal, The Dinner Plan is every home cook’s indis­pensable weeknight dinner guide. “A savvy addition to the weeknight dinner genre.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)




Sheet Pan Everything


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NATIONAL BESTSELLER The simplest way to get a no-fuss delicious dinner on the table? The sheet pan! In the latest cookbook from Ricardo and team, you will find fuss-free, one-pan recipes the whole family will enjoy. Worried about what to make for dinner after a long busy workday? Take the stress out of cooking with these one-pan recipes! Lacking inspiration for flavorful meals the whole family will enjoy? Let the sheet pan will be the hero of your every meal! Love cooking, but hate cleaning up? Sheet pan meals are easy to make, and even easier to clean up! In this simple, beautiful, well-balanced cookbook, you will find more than 75 easy-to-follow recipes that are ready in a snap. Sheet Pan Everything has recipes that the whole family will enjoy, as well as strategies for how to plan your family's meals for the week. Inside are delicious recipes for any gathering, like Chicken Wings and Cauliflower with Honey-Mustard Sauce; Cheesesteak Subs; Parmesan-crusted Pork Chops; Cauliflower Tacos; Cheddar, Bacon and Baguette Strata; Beet, Chickpea and Pomegranate salad; Sheet Pan Raclette; Frangipane and Pear Tart; and Giant Ice Cream Sandwich. With recipes for weeknights, brunch, snacks, sweets, and entertaining, Sheet Pan Everything will inspire you with whole new ways to use your sheet pan!




Southern Living: Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites


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A taste tempting assortment of family-friendly, quick-and-easy, and wholesome meals for the entire family features 130 recipes for dishes designed to appeal to both picky youngsters and their parents that can be prepared with a minimum of time and fuss, accompanied by simple menu plans, complete grocery lists, and nutritional analyses.




Family Freezer Meals


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FAMILY FREEZER MEALS is the ultimate cookbook to help you and your family eat healthy all year long. The book is packed with freezer cooker basics, best assembly methods, and the motivation to make freezer meals a staple in your life. With family-friendly recipes such as Cool Ranch Shredded Tacos, BBQ Maple Ribs, and Lentil Sloppy Joes, this book shows you how to stock your freezer with slow cooker meals that extend beyond slow cooker soups and stews. Plus, you'll get more for your money, less stress, and precious time back that you can spend with your family. Kelly is the wife, mother of five, and slow cooker addict behind Family Freezer Meals. She is committed to sharing healthy, simple, and budget-friendly recipes through the website's blog and freezer eCookbooks. Besides cooking and eating, Kelly loves spending time with her family, reading fiction, and running outside.




Dinner Made Easy with Six Sisters' Stuff


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When it comes to busy moms trying to create family meals, Six Sisters' Stuff blog is the go-to location for seven million readers every month. Their latest cookbook is a compendium of quick, easy, and delicious family dinner entrees, with all the organization, all the taste-testing with kids, all the hacks to cut the prep time, done by the Six Sisters. The complete family meal game plan is arranged along seven popular categories: 30 Minutes or Less including recipes for: Skillet Pork Lo Mein, Parmesan Pork Chops, Ham and Pineapple Pizza Roll-ups, Mini-Spinach Calzones. 5 Ingredients or Less including recipes for: Easy Gnocchi Casserole, Sweet and Tangy Meatballs, Baked Sloppy Joes, Marinated Pork Loin. Pantry Essentials including recipes for: Seven-Can Tortilla Soup, Crispy Coconut Strips with Pina Colada Dipping Sauce, French Dip Crescents, Chili Mac Skillet. Slow Cooker including recipes for: Honey Garlic Chicken, Tuscan Soup, Teriyaki Bowl, Mongolian Beef, Chipotle Pulled Pork, Salsa Verde Chicken. Freezer Meals including recipes for: Kung Pao Chicken, Country-Style BBQ Spareribs, Beef and Mushrooms, Ham and Cheese Potatoes, Honey Ribs, Beef Stew. One Pan, One Pot including recipes for: One-Dish Baked Fajitas, Sunrise Skillet, Mushroom Asparagus Chicken Stir Fry, One-Pan Chili Beef Pasta, Skillet Pizza. Casseroles including recipes for: Cheesy Chicken Quinoa Casserole, Country Breakfast Casserole, John Wayne Casserole, Chicken Tetrazzini, Chicken and Stuffing Bake, Poppy Seed Chicken Casserole. Each recipe is accompanied by a color photograph.




Southern Living Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites


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Let`s hear it for every busy mom`s new best friend! This all-new cookbook puts the emphasis on fast, family-friendly, and wholesome meals. So Mom can have more time to spend with her family, and less time scrambling in the kitchen. Designed to appeal to picky kids and discerning parents alike, Southern Living Busy Moms Weeknight Favorites features simple yet delectable main course recipes with easy-to-make side dishes that transform weeknight cooking into a meal to look forward to, not something to stress over. Every turn of the page reveals one great recipe after another, with quick tips and mouth-watering photography. 130 Southern Living kitchen-tested recipes were carefully selected for both kid appeal and ease of preparation. In addition, Southern Living food pros and busy moms across the country share real-world advice for getting in and out of the kitchen in a flash, with meals their kids love. Features: 130 easy recipes appeal to the diverse palates of today`s kids Simple menus with quick-to-fix sides round out dinner in no timeGrocery lists take the guesswork out of shoppingNutritional analysis for each recipeRecipes include classic kid cuisine that cooks up super quick.