Kitchen Coach Family Meals: Stress-Free Recipes to Cook For and With Your Family [Paperback]

Jennifer Bushman (Author), Sallie Y. Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 10, 2006 | Series: Kitchen Coach

Praise for the Kitchen Coach

"Jennifer is a working woman's dream. . . . There is something for everyone's palate in this book. If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this is all you need!"
--Elizabeth Vargas Anchor, ABC News

"Practical tips trump celebrity gloss. . . . Bushman's casual, fun approach to dining . . . should appeal to busy cooks."
--PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This book is full of yummy-sounding recipes, helpful advice on how to set up your kitchen, and Jennifer's own contagious enthusiasm for the pleasures of spending time in the kitchen--a potent combination!"
--Martha Holmberg Publisher, Fine Cooking magazine

Kitchen Coach Jennifer Bushman can help you make great meals for and with your family. She shows you how to fit cooking into your busy schedule and prepare delicious food everyone will love. In her warm, enthusiastic style, she not only provides recipes, techniques, tips, and inspiration, but also gives you the confidence to cook any night of the week!

The Kitchen Coach gives you:
* Great ideas to get the whole family involved in meal preparation


* Meal-planning cues--from Easy Preparation to Freezer-Ready


* 160 family-tested recipes for all kinds of situations


* Recipes for tempting appetizers, savory soups, sensational salads, fresh fish entrees, and hearty main courses


* Lots of options for more convenient cooking--One-Dish meals, Make-Ahead dishes, Slow-Cooker specialties, first-night and Encore main courses, and more


* Fun food for kids--including Mini Meat Loaves and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

Editorial Reviews

From the Inside Flap

When you've already put in a full day, you probably don't want to think about what to put on the dinner table. With today's busy schedules, wouldn't it be nice if you could find a way to fit home cooking into your schedule—and enjoy it? Now you can! Jennifer Bushman—the Hitchen Coach—shows you how.

Jennifer knows that with typical hectic lifestyles, it can be difficult to make time for the family to enjoy meals and activities together. In Kitchen Coach: Family Meals, she shows you how to get the family involved in meal preparation so it's a team effort, and even shares ideas to help your family find its cooking style. Jennifer gives you efficient techniques, creative recipes, and lots of great tips. More importantly, she inspires you to enjoy cooking.

Jennifer encourages you to lose yourself in the sensory experience of cooking—the sound of onions sizzling in the pan, the scent of breakfast bacon, the aroma of chicken roasting in the oven. She tells you how to stock a pantry so you'll be prepared. She "codes" recipes with meal-planning cues so you'll know at a glance which are Easy Preparation, Take-Along, No Cooking Needed, Make-Ahead, Freezer-Ready, Ready & Waiting, and Something Special. And she gives you ideas that will fit any schedule and any occasion.

The 160 family-tested recipes for stress-free, everyday cooking span the full range of a day's meals, from breakfast to dinner and from appetizers to desserts. Special Encore sections help you turn leftovers into sumptuous dishes such as Chicken and Yogurt Pitas, and Pork or Beef Enchiladas. Make-Ahead recipes encourage you to prepare extra and freeze family favorites like Turkey & Green Chile Enchilada Pie, Stuffed Flank Steak with Roasted Peppers & Feta Cheese, and Corned Beef Hash. One-Dish Meals such as Grandma's Baked Spaghetti, Mandarin Orange Turkey Sauté, and Spicy Scalloped Ham and Potatoes let you serve great meals with minimum fuss and mess.

A mom herself, Jennifer includes recipes and ideas to use when your children want to cook, or when you want to make something special just for them. Follow her lead and help them make English Muffin Pizzas, S'Mores in a Blanket, Peanut Butter Bananas on a Stick, and more. The kids will love pitching in and will enjoy every bite.

Each chapter offers practical ideas and solutions for planning and preparing meals, and each recipe has tips on ingredients or techniques that will help you build your culinary skills as you go. Before long, you'll be confident enough to improvise! So don't let daily hassles keep you from enjoying your own home cooking. Prepare and eat delicious meals together, with the help of the Kitchen Coach.

Also available in the Kitchen Coach series:

Kitchen Coach: Weeknight Cooking ISBN: 0-7645-4314-8

Kitchen Coach: Weekend Cooking ISBN: 0-7645-4313-X

From the Back Cover

Praise for the Kitchen Coach

"Jennifer is a working woman's dream. . . . There is something for everyone's palate in this book. If you love to cook, or just love to eat, this is all you need!"
—Elizabeth Vargas Anchor, ABC News

"Practical tips trump celebrity gloss. . . . Bushman's casual, fun approach to dining . . . should appeal to busy cooks."
—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

"This book is full of yummy-sounding recipes, helpful advice on how to set up your kitchen, and Jennifer's own contagious enthusiasm for the pleasures of spending time in the kitchen—a potent combination!"
—Martha Holmberg Publisher, Fine Cooking magazine

Kitchen Coach Jennifer Bushman can help you make great meals for and with your family. She shows you how to fit cooking into your busy schedule and prepare delicious food everyone will love. In her warm, enthusiastic style, she not only provides recipes, techniques, tips, and inspiration, but also gives you the confidence to cook any night of the week!

The Kitchen Coach gives you:

• Great ideas to get the whole family involved in meal preparation

• Meal-planning cues—from Easy Preparation to Freezer-Ready

• 160 family-tested recipes for all kinds of situations

• Recipes for tempting appetizers, savory soups, sensational salads, fresh fish entrees, and hearty main courses

• Lots of options for more convenient cooking—One-Dish meals, Make-Ahead dishes, Slow-Cooker specialties, first-night and Encore main courses, and more

• Fun food for kids—including Mini Meat Loaves and Chocolate Chip Cookie Pizza

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Product Details

• Paperback: 232 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (April 10, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0764543121
• ISBN-13: 978-0764543128
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 10.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,061,029 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Kitchen Coach Family Meals: Stress-Free Recipes to Cook For and With Your Family (Paperback)

I bought this book after seeing featured on the local news show. I thought it was very interesting to go over the suggested shopping lists and found that I had almost all of them in the house already. Most of the recipes are a little more detailed than I like to do on weekday evenings because they take too long but I love the fact that I can plan special meals for my family when I have time and that they aren't real difficult or involved. The mix of fresh ingrediants with things you can buy premade works really well and I love the bread recipes! I especially like the fact that there are dishes that freeze really well and they have instructions for you on how to freeze them. Not nessesarily a book for beginners but one I am certainly glad to have in my kitchen library.