Introducing the lifesaving cookbook for every mother with kids at home—the book that solves the 20 most common cooking dilemmas. What’s your predicament: breakfast on a harried school morning? The Mom 100’s got it—Personalized Pizzas are not only fast but are nutritious, and hey, it doesn’t get any better than pizza for breakfast. Kids making noise about the same old lunch? The Mom 100’s got it—three different Turkey Wraps, plus a Wrap Blueprint delivers enough variety to last for years.
Katie Workman, founding editor in chief of Cookstr.com and mother of two school-age kids, offers recipes, tips, techniques, attitude, and wisdom for staying happy in the kitchen while proudly keeping it homemade—because homemade not only tastes best, but is also better (and most economical) for you. The Mom 100 is 20 dilemmas every mom faces, with 5 solutions for each: including terrific recipes for the vegetable-averse, the salad-rejector, for the fish-o-phobe, or the overnight vegetarian convert. “Fork-in-the-Road” variations make it easy to adjust a recipe to appeal to different eaters (i.e., the kids who want bland and the adults who don’t). “What the Kids Can Do” sidebars suggest ways for kids to help make each dish.
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KATIE WORKMAN was a kid who loved to cook, and a kid who loved cookbooks. She grew up teaching herself how to cook from the Silver Palate Cookbook, making bumpy homemade pasta following Marcella’s Hazan’s instructions in The Essentials of Italian Cooking to the letter, and asking for the entire Moosewood trilogy for holidays.
Her first job after college was with Clarkson Potter Publishers, specializing, naturally, in cookbooks, and she remaine
KATIE WORKMAN was a kid who loved to cook, and a kid who loved cookbooks. She grew up teaching herself how to cook from the Silver Palate Cookbook, making bumpy homemade pasta following Marcella's Hazan's instructions in The Essentials of Italian Cooking to the letter, and asking for the entire Moosewood trilogy for holidays.
Her first job after college was with Clarkson Potter Publishers, specializing, naturally, in cookbooks, and she remained there for 12 years learning every part of the cookbook publishing world while becoming a Senior Editor. After a shorter stint as Associate Publisher at Workman Publishing, Katie left to help launch Cookstr.com as the Founding Editor in Chief in 2008. This was also the beginning of her career as an active food writer. She established the popular Cookstr weekly newsletter, and wrote for many websites and publications, including The Daily Beast, AOL Food, KitchenDaily.com, AARP.com, bravo.com, Boston Globe and New York Magazine. She currently writes a bi-weekly column for The Huffington Post.
Katie lives with her husband and two children in New York City, where friends, neighbors, and families with kids are all welcome at her table.
Visit Katie's website and blog at: http://www.themom100.com/. Find Katie on Facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/katieworkman100/. Find Katie on Pinterest at: http://pinterest.com/katieworkman100/.
As a mom of 3 teenage boys I am always in search of new recipes to get me out of my weekday cooking rut. The MOM 100 has it all quick, healthy, simple recipes that are delicious. My boys love the cheesy chicken enchiladas as well as the soy ginger flank steak, I doubled the recipe hoping for leftovers but there was not a scrap to be had. I also love Katie's quick whit and real advice, I found myself reading on in the book just to get to the next funny anecdote or story. I have tried at least a dozen of the recipes and cannot wait to get to the next one. Thanks Katie from a busy mom who needed a cooking boost!
I was very disappointed in this book. I have 2 small children and am an o.k. cook who can make the basics. I was tired of feeding the children chicken nuggets in a pinch, and was looking to this book for help. The recipes were either too basic and obvious or too elaborate for children. Examples include: oatmeal with toppings, popcorn for a snack, salad with dressing, scrambled eggs, spaghetti with sauce, pizza, fruit pieces on a skewer, tacos versus Risotto (which cooks forever) and Honey-Hoisin Tofu where she suggests "you can sprinkle on additional scallions for color!" I would return the book to amazon if didn't cost me about the same to ship it back.
I've had the cookbook about two months now, and that's about the length of time I give a cookbook before I am ready to review it, with the exception of a few here and there. Make no mistake, this cookbook is a bit more basic than most. However, for all the basics, the photography, the stories and the tips make up for it two-fold. Katie is a mom who knows kids. She knows we struggle to make good, healthy food for our families, she knows we struggle with the time to prepare wonderful meals, and she knows what it's like to have a picky eater.
I have a picky eater. Then I have two more semi-picky eater, and then I have two that will eat anything. An interesting variety to say the least. But how do I get the three pickier ones to join in with the two that aren't? I use Katie's cookbook, I introduce spices, seasonings, vegetables and ingredients slowly but disparately in recipes they are already familiar with. I make eating fun, I ask them to help me, I take Katie's recipes and I might even twist them up a bit. I am a food blogger, so I am with no shortage of cookbooks, recipes or even my own knowledge and experience. Katie's cookbook is a wonderful book for busy mom's, young mom's and new mom's. It shows you how to get started early on, so you're not facing problems as they get older. Yes, she has some basic, simple recipes that we might already know, but try her renditions - they are awesome. She also has several new twists on old classics, and my favorite part of the whole book is that most of the recipes have a number of ways to extend them or change them up so you could eat the same recipe everyday for a week and nobody would know because it's all so different. Overall, I feel like this is an excellent cookbook.... If you're an advanced chef, however you probably should skip this one, as you will just be complaining later and that isn't fair to Ms. Workman.Read more ›
I'm not married and I don't have kids but I truly love this cookbook. The recipes are completely understandable and consistently produce delicious results. I've made the ginger soy steak literally 7 times. You can really tell that Katie Workman must have tested each recipe dozens of times in the process of writing this cookbook because they are completely spot-on. There's also a really nice variety of different recipes to choose from - comfort food, dishes with asian flavors, healthy salads and recipes for vinaigrettes, appetizers, desserts, etc. If Ina Garten's Barefoot Contessa series met Real Simple Magazine and had a baby with it, it would be this book!
I read good things about this new cookbook in a magazine and then online here at Amazon. This weekend we had 9 for dinner and I made the Lamb Chops with Lemony White Beans and Spinach from the chapter titled "mixed company dinners". The meal was FANTASTIC and very easy to prepare!! My guests were super impressed and the 3 kids present all ate their lamb and sampled the beans (a friend contributed a pasta salad side which the kids preferred - oh well). For dessert, I made the Gingersnaps cookie recipe and followed the author's instructions for homemade ice cream sandwiches. We ate these outside with paper towels before the end of the evening. The ice cream sandwiches were amazing!
My only concern is the proofing/editing of the book... the Gingersnaps cookie recipe calls for 1 egg, but the recipe instructions refer to "eggs" plural... this is sloppy editing... I've found this issue before in a Martha Stewart cookbook I own and like very much... it's annoying to wonder "did I need more eggs? or is this an error in the directions?".. in this case, I suspect it was 1 egg needed because the cookies tasted great.
I look forward to trying more recipes - thanks to the other Amazon reviews for recommending the book.
With The Mom 100 Cookbook, Katie Workman has delivered an easy solution to every parent who needs help expanding their cooking repertoire. She has obviously experienced all the challenges of feeding a family - such as rushed mornings, making appealing lunch boxes, introducing more variety at dinnertime, and satisfying picky eaters - and she has answers and advice for all of them. Her recipes are delicious, appeal to the whole family, and are easy to make. The back of the book features suggested menus for occasions like kid birthday parties, "Company Brunch", and holidays, as well as recipes sorted by things like "Dinner in under an hour," "Make-ahead dishes," and "For the picky eater." I can't imagine a more helpful book to help navigate family meals and find joy and satisfaction in the kitchen!
