Taste of Home Meal Planning


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Save time and money with smart meal preps that carry you through the week. Recipes, monthly meal plans, and shopping list pointers help busy families plan smart. Today’s family cooks know that a bit of planning goes a long way when it comes to serving up the homemade favorites folks crave. That’s why they’re turning to this ultimate resource for make-ahead convenience—Taste of Home Meal Planning. Featuring 475 smart, sensible, speedy and sensational recipes, this must-have cookbook is every home cooks dream come true! The all-new book also offers a monthly meal plan, the secrets to cooking once and eating all week, Test Kitchen approved frozen meals that reheat in a jiffy, on-the-go breakfast ideas and more! Whether you’re a meal-planning pro or simply looking to beat the kitchen clock on busy nights, you’ll make the most of your time—and your grocery bill—with the incredible recipes, meal plans, kitchen hacks and timesaving ideas found in Taste of Home Meal Planning.




Mastering the Art of French Cooking, Volume 1


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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but as Child herself says in the introduction, 'If you can read, you can cook.'" —Entertainment Weekly “I only wish that I had written it myself.” —James Beard Featuring 524 delicious recipes and over 100 instructive illustrations to guide readers every step of the way, Mastering the Art of French Cooking offers something for everyone, from seasoned experts to beginners who love good food and long to reproduce the savory delights of French cuisine. Julia Child, Simone Beck, and Louisette Bertholle break down the classic foods of France into a logical sequence of themes and variations rather than presenting an endless and diffuse catalogue of dishes—from historic Gallic masterpieces to the seemingly artless perfection of a dish of spring-green peas. Throughout, the focus is on key recipes that form the backbone of French cookery and lend themselves to an infinite number of elaborations—bound to increase anyone’s culinary repertoire. “Julia has slowly but surely altered our way of thinking about food. She has taken the fear out of the term ‘haute cuisine.’ She has increased gastronomic awareness a thousandfold by stressing the importance of good foundation and technique, and she has elevated our consciousness to the refined pleasures of dining." —Thomas Keller, The French Laundry




Taste of Home Farmhouse Family Dinners


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Few things bring families together like sharing a comforting homecooked meal. Creating those memories is easier, quicker and more rewarding than ever with Taste of Home Farmhouse Family Dinners This lovely keepsake cookbook features more than 200 recipes perfect for special nights around the dinner table. From Roasted Chicken and Savory Pot Roast to Hearty Potato Chowder and Five-Cheese Lasagna, the appeal of a homemade Sunday meal simply can’t be beat. You’ll find all of these classic recipes and hundreds of others in addition to a handy menu planner, table settings, time-saving tips and stories from families about their own Sunday dinners. Cherish the satisfaction of serving a meal you prepared yourself and create memories that last a lifetime. It’s easy with Farmhouse Family Dinners from Taste of Home. CHAPTERS Starters Salads & Breads Side Dishes Entrees Desserts Sunday-Dinner Menu Planner RECIPES Roasted Chicken with Veggies Beef Burgundy Family-Favorite Pork Chops Tangy Meat Loaf Linguine with Shrimp French Onion Soup Corn Chowder Fresh Greens with Buttermilk Salad Dressing Twice-Baked Sweet Potatoes Wild Rice & Mushroom Casserole Apple Dumplings Homemade Cherry Pie Pineapple Orange Cake Layered Brownie Dessert




The Minimalist Kitchen


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The practical art of making more with less--in the kitchen! Melissa Coleman, the creator of the popular design and lifestyle blog The Faux Martha, shares her refreshingly simple approach to cooking that delivers beautiful and satisfying meals using familiar ingredients and minimal kitchen tools. The Minimalist Kitchen includes 100 wholesome recipes that use Melissa's efficient cooking techniques, and the results are anything but ordinary. You'll find Biscuits with Bourbon-Blueberry Quick Jam, Pesto Garden Pasta with an easy homemade pesto, Humble Chuck Roast that's simple to prepare and so versatile, Roasted Autumn Sweet Potato Salad, Stovetop Mac and Cheese, and Two-Bowl Carrot Cupcakes. While The Minimalist Kitchen helps tackle one of the home's biggest problem areas Ñthe kitchenÑthis book goes beyond the basics of clearing out and cleaning up, it also gives readers practical tips to maintain this simplified way of life. Melissa shows you how to shop, stock your pantry, meal plan without losing your mind, and most importantly, that delicious food doesnÕt take tons of ingredients or gadgets to prepare. This streamlined way of cooking is a breath of fresh air in modern lives where clutter and distraction can so easily take over.




The Ultimate Meal-Prep Cookbook


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Turn meal prep aspirations into dinnertime reality 1 short shopping list gets you 5 weeknight meals Meal prep no longer means filling your freezer with boring casseroles, dipping into the same pot of beans every day for a week, or spending all day Sunday cooking. Instead, use these smart meal plans to customize fast, fresh dinners that fit your ever-changing schedule. We've done the work of building 25 weekly plans that minimize shopping and kitchen time and guide you through prep-ahead options, make-ahead options, and ingredient substitutions. So now you can reap the benefits to make your life easier, your grocery bill lower, and your dinners better. ATK's meal plan strategies are easy to put into practice: * Prep your vegetables and grains for the week in a weekend "power hour." * Prep bulk pantry ingredients ahead in a "pantry power hour" so they're ready to go in a flash. * Cross-utilize fresh ingredients creatively to prevent food waste and dinner boredom. * Make, store, and reheat full meals with no loss of flavor. * Double meals or meal components to freeze half for later. Let's-get-real features streamline your cooking: * Weekly grocery lists max out at a dozen items. * Active cooking time for recipes maxes out at 45 minutes. * Loads of pantry substitution suggestions let you adapt recipes according to what you have on hand. * To make planning even more flexible, we've added a chapter with 30 pantry meals that don't add anything to your weekly shopping list, making them perfect to prepare any night. With a grocery list of just 11 items and some on-hand pantry staples, you can enjoy a week of Crispy Chicken with Carrot, Orange, and Chickpea Salad; Meatballs and Lemon Orzo with Mint and Dill; Teriyaki Stir-Fried Beef with Green Beans; Herb-Poached Salmon with Cucumber-Dill Salad; and Sun-Dried Tomato and White Bean Soup with Parmesan Crisps. A thorough introduction explains how to build a strong, diverse pantry (and make the most of it), how to store prepped ingredients to keep them fresh, how to store cooked food safely, the smartest ways to reheat food, essential meal-prep equipment, and more.




Smitten Kitchen Every Day


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NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook—this everyday cookbook is “filled with fun and easy ... recipes that will have you actually looking forward to hitting the kitchen at the end of a long work day” (Bustle). A happy discovery in the kitchen has the ability to completely change the course of your day. Whether we’re cooking for ourselves, for a date night in, for a Sunday supper with friends, or for family on a busy weeknight, we all want recipes that are unfussy to make with triumphant results. Deb Perelman, award-winning blogger, thinks that cooking should be an escape from drudgery. Smitten Kitchen Every Day: Triumphant and Unfussy New Favorites presents more than one hundred impossible-to-resist recipes—almost all of them brand-new, plus a few favorites from her website—that will make you want to stop what you’re doing right now and cook. These are real recipes for real people—people with busy lives who don’t want to sacrifice flavor or quality to eat meals they’re really excited about. You’ll want to put these recipes in your Forever Files: Sticky Toffee Waffles (sticky toffee pudding you can eat for breakfast), Everything Drop Biscuits with Cream Cheese, and Magical Two-Ingredient Oat Brittle (a happy accident). There’s a (hopelessly, unapologetically inauthentic) Kale Caesar with Broken Eggs and Crushed Croutons, a Mango Apple Ceviche with Sunflower Seeds, and a Grandma-Style Chicken Noodle Soup that fixes everything. You can make Leek, Feta, and Greens Spiral Pie, crunchy Brussels and Three Cheese Pasta Bake that tastes better with brussels sprouts than without, Beefsteak Skirt Steak Salad, and Bacony Baked Pintos with the Works (as in, giant bowls of beans that you can dip into like nachos). And, of course, no meal is complete without cake (and cookies and pies and puddings): Chocolate Peanut Butter Icebox Cake (the icebox cake to end all icebox cakes), Pretzel Linzers with Salted Caramel, Strawberry Cloud Cookies, Bake Sale Winning-est Gooey Oat Bars, as well as the ultimate Party Cake Builder—four one-bowl cakes for all occasions with mix-and-match frostings (bonus: less time spent doing dishes means everybody wins). Written with Deb’s trademark humor and gorgeously illustrated with her own photographs, Smitten Kitchen Every Day is filled with what are sure to be your new favorite things to cook. Look for Deb Perelman’s latest cookbook, Smitten Kitchen Keepers!




The Skinnytaste Cookbook


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Get the recipes everyone is talking about in the debut cookbook from the wildly popular blog, Skinnytaste. Gina Homolka is America’s most trusted home cook when it comes to easy, flavorful recipes that are miraculously low-calorie and made from all-natural, easy-to-find ingredients. Her blog, Skinnytaste is the number one go-to site for slimmed down recipes that you’d swear are anything but. It only takes one look to see why people go crazy for Gina’s food: cheesy, creamy Fettuccini Alfredo with Chicken and Broccoli with only 420 calories per serving, breakfast dishes like Make-Ahead Western Omelet "Muffins" that truly fill you up until lunchtime, and sweets such as Double Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies that are low in sugar and butter-free but still totally indulgent. The Skinnytaste Cookbook features 150 amazing recipes: 125 all-new dishes and 25 must-have favorites. As a busy mother of two, Gina started Skinnytaste when she wanted to lose a few pounds herself. She turned to Weight Watchers for help and liked the program but struggled to find enough tempting recipes to help her stay on track. Instead, she started “skinny-fying” her favorite meals so that she could eat happily while losing weight. With 100 stunning photographs and detailed nutritional information for every recipe, The Skinnytaste Cookbook is an incredible resource of fulfilling, joy-inducing meals that every home cook will love.




Taste of Home Most Requested Recipes


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ENJOY OVER 600 OF THE BEST OF OUR BEST, ALL-TIME FAVORITE, 5 STAR, MOST REQUESTED RECIPES ALL IN ONE BRAND NEW COLLECTION! Take the guesswork out of cooking with Taste of Home Most Requested Recipes! Each of the 633 dishes in this mouthwatering collection is a Five-Star dish as rated on TasteofHome.com, won a recipe contest and/or received raves from Taste of Home readers! Whether whipping up a family favorite on a busy weeknight, creating an attention-getting dish for an office potluck, serving crowd-pleasing munchies for a weekend party or a planning a spread for a special occasion, you’ll find what you’re looking for here. After all, these are the foods today’s home cooks serve and share time and again. Each tried-and-true recipe has been tested and approved by the experts in the Taste of Home Test Kitchen, offers easy-to-follow instructions and calls for ingredients you likely have on hand! Serve your family nothing but the best! With Most Requested Recipes at your fingertips, it’s never been easier! • Over 600 of our most sought-after recipes • Top-rated dishes from TasteofHome.com and contest winning recipes • “Five Ingredients” and “Fast Fix” icons help readers make the most of their time and budget • Special chapters spotlight slow-cooker and casserole recipes as well as holiday favorites CHAPTERS Appetizers, Snacks & Beverages Breakfast & Brunch Soups & Sandwiches Side Dishes, Salads & More Hearty Main Dishes Casserole Entrees Slow Cooker Dinners Breads & Rolls Cakes, Pies & Desserts Cookies & Candies Seasonal Specialties




The Lazy Genius Way


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Be productive without sacrificing peace of mind using Lazy Genius principles that help you focus on what really matters and let go of what doesn't. If you need a comprehensive strategy for a meaningful life but are tired of reading stacks of self-help books, here is an easy way that actually works. No more cobbling together life hacks and productivity strategies from dozens of authors and still feeling tired. The struggle is real, but it doesn't have to be in charge. With wisdom and wit, the host of The Lazy Genius Podcast, Kendra Adachi, shows you that it's not about doing more or doing less; it's about doing what matters to you. In this book, she offers fourteen principles that are both practical and purposeful, like a Swiss army knife for how to be a person. Use them in combination to "lazy genius" anything, from laundry and meal plans to making friends and napping without guilt. It's possible to be soulful and efficient at the same time, and this book is the blueprint. The Lazy Genius Way isn't a new list of things to do; it's a new way to see. Skip the rules about getting up at 5 a.m. and drinking more water. Let's just figure out how to be a good person who can get stuff done without turning into The Hulk. These Lazy Genius principles--such as Decide Once, Start Small, Ask the Magic Question, and more--offer a better way to approach your time, relationships, and piles of mail, no matter your personality or life stage. Be who you already are, just with a better set of tools.




Taste of Home Make It Freeze It


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Today’s family cooks know that by stashing delicious, home-cooked meals in the freezer, dinner preparation (and cleanup) is a snap. That’s why the 295 recipes inside Taste of Home Make It, Freeze It Cookbook make it easier than ever to find the perfect dinner solution. Within this brand new book, you will quickly discover mouthwatering recipes that include freezing and reheating instructions—a key to mealtime success for today’s home cooks. In addition, three At-a-Glance Icons offer proven value-added benefits that increase purchasing decisions—as do the book’s 200+ full-color photos, step-by-step cooking instructions and standout tips and hints. You will also enjoy a bonus chapter highlighting recipes that yield enough to serve a dish one night and store a second in the freezer when time is tight. The book also includes a clip out listing of classic freezer fare (pizzas, mac-and-cheese, chicken casseroles, waffles, etc.) readers can use as a reference to easily find such recipes in the book, stock their freezer and just as quickly locate the reheating instructions. Appetizer and dessert recipes that offer make-ahead convenience help busy cooks save time when preparing for summer get-togethers, neighborhood block parties, church picnics and other warm-weather events. In fact, all of the recipes in this must-have collection are ideal when time is tight…whether hosting a backyard barbecue or a holiday open house. When it comes to setting delicious foods on the table, Make It, Freeze It Cookbook is one book today’s home cooks simply can’t be without! CHAPTERS: Introduction, Freezing Basics, Breakfast & Brunch, Entertaining Made Easy, Fresh-Baked Breads, Sides & More, Heartwarming Soups, Beef Main Dishes, Poultry Favorites, Pork Specialties, Other Entrees, Sweet Treats BONUS: Cook Once, Eat Twice Recipes Included: Cheesy Chicken Casserole, Southwestern Lasagna, Hearty Meat Pie, Honey-Maple Pork Chops, Cordon Bleu Quiche, Sausage-Lover’s Pizza, Individual Provolone Melts, Lunch-Time Enchiladas, Summer Corn Casserole, Freezer Buttermilk Biscuits, Bacon-Egg Croissants, Sunny Brunch Quiche, Mocha Walnut Dessert, Rocky Road Bites, Frosty Strawberry Torte, and Frozen Chocolate Swirl Cake