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Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs

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Wow! I really don't know what I was expecting from a teen cookbook, but it sure wasn't this. The fresh ingredients and gorgeous photographs on each page make me want to try nearly every single dish. I'm years away from being a teen - I can only imagine what a great tool this would be for people unaccustomed to making their own meals.

The emphasis of this book is on making sure all the recipes presented are both healthy and delicious. Fruits and vegetables are the real stars here, with a focus on nutrition and flavor. The whole point of the book is to steer teens away from processed foods, to learn to prepare healthy foods that are better for their growing bodies. The result is a very inspiring cookbook that will jump start even the most reluctant or inexperienced cooks.

The recipes are segmented into seven chapters: (1) Bread, Butter & Breakfast; (2) Bowls: Soups & Pasta; (3) Sandwiches, Burgers & Pizza; (4) Salads, Big & Small; (5) Dinner Specials with Vegetables; (5) Side Dishes and (6) Desserts & Drinks. I like that the dishes really cover a lot of ground. Some are very simple, like the Tower of Peaches, while others are slightly more complex and involved, such as Crepes with Fresh Blueberry Sauce. There are comforting, down home dishes (Loaf of Whole Wheat Bread) and the slightly more exotic (Asian Summer Rolls.) There are comforting soups, great big sandwiches, lovely breads and tasty desserts.

The cooking directions and explanations are so straightforward that anyone could pick up this book and follow a recipe start to finish. And at the end, I'm confident you would have a beautiful, impressive dish chock full of fresh ingredients!

Some of the recipes I would have passed right by if it weren't for the delectable photos. Definitely, I would have flipped right past Overnight Vegetable Tabbouleh, but the photo stopped me in my tracks. Chicken Parm with Roasted Grape Tomatoes (pictures below) immediately was marked as must try, even without reading the ingredients. I don't care what's in it - based on the photo alone I know I will be eating it. The same holds true for dozens of dishes; they look so fresh and appetizing that it makes me want to ravage the produce aisles immediately so that I can begin cooking.

This book is an absolutely wonderful way to entice your kids into the kitchen and get them helping with the preparation of some very healthy food. Teaching your children to cook with vegetables, fruits and grains is one of the very best things you can do for them. All the recipes were prepared and tasted by an actual team of teenagers. If they can do it, so can you and your family! This week, we will be trying the Carrot Ginger Tomato Soup and the Silver Dollar Potato Pancakes.

I am so happy to have discovered this book. I have others written by Rozanne Gold and this is one of my favorites. My daughter loves to cook and so we poured over it to find what we want to make. There are many great recipes to choose from. We started with the caesar salad with green apple croutons..loved it! Easy to prepare and tastes great. Another favorite is the rosemary lemon custard cakes..simply delicious. My daughter's new favorite dessert.
My daughter has decided to order these for her friends for the holidays. This is a very important book for all teens to have. And the recipes and not just for the kids, they are for everyone to enjoy. And healthy too! By the way..check out how great the photos are.

I picked up EAT FRESH FOOD at the bookstore and couldn't put it down. I bought it, took it home, and have been cooking daily from it since.

I'm not the book's target demographic. I'm 45, and have been cooking since I was 15. I've always had a difficult relationship with food. Since I became a wife and mother, I've been determined to cook and provide healthy homemade meals for my family, but I've long felt like a failure. I love food, I love the creativity of cooking, I love reading and buying and collecting cookbooks (I have 100 of them) but my family never ate my cooking.

My meals would become leftovers, go in the fridge, then get thrown out 1 week later.

Lots of money wasted. Lots of my pride hurt.

Meanwhile, the kids made themselves box macaroni and frozen pizza.

I'm not sure what magic has happened since buying EAT FRESH FOOD and I began cooking from it, but my kids are eating and enjoying my cooking. My ex husband didn't like my cooking. Now, my new fiance can't get enough of what I cook. When I made the cauliflower cheese sauce for the broccoli, he licked the pot clean.

Yesterday my notoriously finicky 19 year old daughter said, "Mom, everything you've made in the last week has been absolutely delicious." I nearly fainted with joy. This girl never eats anything except frozen pizza. Now she's eating...carrot soup?

Some of our favorites include the pasta primavera, macaroni and cheese and cauliflower, the pizza with the baking powder crust, and the cantaloupe sherbet.

I have around 100 cookbooks, but I think they may be going in storage for now. I'm planning on simplifying life and simplifying my kitchen. This book will be the basis of what I cook for my family for a good time to come. I'm not sure what Rozanne Gold does with recipes that makes them so different and enjoyable for kids and adults, but my guess would be simplicity, fresh ingredients and last but not least creative genius. I'm hoping Rozanne Gold writes more cookbooks like this one! How about MORE EAT FRESH FOOD?

Rozanne Gold's latest book is truly one of the only healthy and tasty teen cookbooks on the market today. I've made several of the recipes already including the salad with "turkey pasta" and the healthy version of macaroni and cheese with red pepper sauce and it was all delicious. I'm dying to sample the salmon with wasabi peas crumbled on top, what a brilliant idea! I also appreciate that most of the recipes are meat free as I am attempting to lower my meat consumption for both the planet and the health of my family. A must buy for a hungry family who appreciates yummy, guilt-free food.

As a Registered Dietitian I am thrilled to finally see a book like EAT FRESH FOOD- there has been nothing like it written before. I'm so glad that Rozanne Gold took on this challenge. She used a team of kids to create and test recipes that they would like to eat, not fancy chef food. The recipes use ingredients that are fresh and unprocessed with twists that make the recipes healthy without making them "health food". Well done!

My daughter has decided she doesn't like eating meat any more and she is never happy with anything I put in front of her. So I bought EAT FRESH FOOD and said we are going to cook together. We sat down and spent over an hour pouring through the recipes. She was thrilled with all the choices and they were healthy, not greasy fattening grilled cheese sandwiches. Ultimately she chose the chickpea burger with mango salsa for dinner and the chocolate mousse cake with raspberries for dessert. We actually cooked them together and sat down to eat as a family. Everyone loved it. And it gave us the chance to talk at dinner about healthy eating and natural ingredients. Thank you Rozanne Gold and Helen Kimmel for a great book, a delicious dinner and some fabulous mother-daughter time.

Far too much of the typical adolescent diet is composed of fast foods, sugar drinks, and a paucity of fresh fruits and veggies. That's why "Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes For Teen Chefs" from award-winning chef, restauranteur, and cookbook author Rozanne Gold is such a welcome contribution to personal and family cookbook collections. Superbly illustrated throughout with full color photography by Phil Mansfield, "Eat Fresh Food" is specifically designed and intended to provide teenagers with nutritious, palate pleasing, appetite satisfying, 'teen friendly' recipes that range from a Grape-and-Pignoli Breakfast Cake; to a Chickpea Burger with Fresh Mango Salsa; to a Crunchy Wasabi-Lime Salmon with Red Cabbage and Sugar Snaps; to a mouth-watering dessert like Olive Oil-Chocolate Chip Cookies! "Eat Fresh Food" is ideal for young kitchen cooks, but upon reflection, it is also a prime choice for another culinary demographic -- men who have never been trained or previously expected to cook for themselves, friends or family, and now find they need to.

I bought the book Eat Fresh Food for my tween, who showed a real interest in cooking while she was taking her first home economics class in the 8th grade. I was drawn to the book because it was about real teens cooking foods that they like to eat, so I thought it would be a winner in my household, not only with my tween, but my teenager also. We thought we were up against a real challenge, but the pictures enticed my kids to pick recipes that looked scrumptious but were healthy too.My kids love fajitas and anything in a pita, so they immediately got excited about making the ' pita Fajita'. I think they were surprised that they enjoyed the flavor of the Tahini paste, which at first there was a bit of objection to using. The recipe came out great and it seemed that it was easy for them to make and not so much of a mess for me afterward, which any parent would welcome! Recently my teenager has taken to eating somewhat healthier foods than she used to. I think that she really appreciates 'Eat Fresh Food' because of the many different but healthy and tasty ingredients that go into all the recipes. This enticed her to try and make the Grape and Pignoli Breakfast Cake. My two kids had a really fun time pressing all the grapes into the crust, during which time I think that they ate most of the grapes, but managed to leave plenty to give that cake a real grape flavor, which we all loved, especially my husband.What a blessing, a healthy and fun cookbook for kids with surprisingly easy to make recipes, we love it!!!!


- The Ludwig Household!

I just purchased Rozanne Gold's "Eat Fresh Food: Awesome Recipes for Teen Chefs" for my 17-year-old daughter. She doesn't have a weight problem, but with childhood obesity doubling since 1980, many kids do. Gold, with nutritionist Helen Kimmel, and several "teen chefs," has put together a book of recipes that includes fresh, local ingredients and stresses low-fat, easy preparations. Photos of the teens having a ball at the stove give the pages a lively, "join the party" mood. My daughter and a couple of her friends whipped up the "Bow Ties with Wilted Tomatoes, Spinach, and Feta" and loved the result. So did I. This weekend the kids are coming back to bake "Rosemary-Lemon Custard Cakes." The recipe serves six and only has two tablespoons of butter. This book is a winner.

My 11-year-old daughter spied this book in a local bookstore and begged me to buy it. She is really into cooking and loves fresh, healthy food. I gave in and bought it for her - and I'm so glad I did! Every recipe we've tried thus far has been a winner. Out of all the cookbooks we own (and we own a LOT), I think this is one that we will use most often. The recipes are simple to make and use fresh, healthy ingredients. For a busy family, this cookbook is a must-buy.