Cookbooks Every Cook Should Own
Cooking Anna and Kristina’s Grocery Bag Style, A Show On OWN
OWN Network’s, Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag, is one of my favorite shows. This is’nt your typical cooking show; Anna & Kristina are NOT professional chefs. I love them because they actually cook like I do! You’ll see them make mistakes, laugh about it and keep on going. Some recipes turn out better than others, but there is always a whole lot of fun!
The main concept is that they showcase one cookbook and cook several recipes from that cookbook in a set amount of time. Then, they have someone come and test what they made. Often the person coming is a professional chef. They always give great cooking tips and test out different kitchen equipment or ingredients. I have learned a lot by watching their show. At the end of the show they decide if the cookbook will get their A&K stamp of approval.
Using the Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag concept, my friend Jen and I decided to experiement! We included our children and husbands and made it a real family activity. We chose Jamie Oliver’s cookbook, Jamie’s Food Revolution because last spring both our families really enjoyed his show Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. Jamie really inspired all of our kids so we thought that would be a great cookbook to test and really get the entire family involved.
This is how we chose our recipes:
Each family member picked a recipe that they thought looked good. Thanks to the many pictures it really helped the kids decide what to choose.
We put the kid’s four recipes in a hat and chose two, and we put the adult’s picks in a hat and chose two. This way we made sure that a few of the kids picks were actually recipes we were making.
Once we had our 4 recipes we decided if the recipe came from your family you were responsible for getting the ingredients.
Here are the recipes:
Parsnip and Ginger Soup
Macaroni and Cauliflower Cheese Bake
Chicken Tikka Masala
Vanilla Cheesecake with Raspberry Topping
Like in the show, Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag, we had a set time. We started at 3:00pm and were hoping to be done by 6:30pm. Not really experiencing the pressure Anna and Kristina do on television, we didn’t want it to be too late because it was a school night. We finished cooking a little early around 6:15pm.
This was a lot of fun because I have never made a cheese cake! I would never have thought to make an Indian dish and wouldn’t have ever picked parsnip and ginger soup on anyday . . . Having someone to cook with really helped and encouraged me. Thank you, Anna and Kristina, for your pioneering example that cooking can be fun even if you make mistakes.
We sat down to a beautiful table and served each dish as a separate course. Our kids tried food they NEVER have before because they helped with preparation. They really enjoyed the soup and the macaroni and cauliflower cheese bake. The adults were shocked and delighted that the children ate the soup. The kids tikka masala was even something they thought was delicious considering no one has experienced authentic Indian cuisine before. The kids were a little disappointed in the vanilla cheesecake with raspberry topping because of its citrus taste. We all agreed the recipes were really good and relatively easy to make. We give Jamie’s Food Revolution cookbook our C&J stamp of approval!
A BIG thank you to OWN’s show Anna & Kristina’s Grocery Bag for inspiring our families to experience great cooking, togetherness in the kitchen, and awesome new foods!
Carrie Saba, Holistic Health Coach, helps others see themselves in a new light and recognize their inner strength. She is a lifestyle change expert and her clients are energized by her insightful, upbeat coaching style. She is great at zeroing in on where their passions lie and has very clear and targeted advice and always has their best interest at heart.
She offers valuable insight & lifestyle tips with her free monthly ezine, Wellness Tips with Carrie, as well as on her blog.
Carrie believes everything feeds our spirit including how we think, what we experience and what we eat. She specifically targets your challenges and fears and unfolds them to guide you in the direction needed for you to overcome and conquer them. She empowers her clients and believes everyone should know their brilliance and enjoy life! Learn more about Carrie by visiting her website.
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Carrie Saba, Holistic Health Coach, helps others see their inner strength through a new light. She offers valuable insight in her free monthly ezine, Wellness Tips with Carrie, as well as on her blog. Carrie believes our spirit is fed on how we think, what we experience, and eat. She empowers her clients and believes everyone should know their brilliance and enjoy life! Learn more about Carrie by visiting her website.
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The Good Cook $9.98 A classic! A snack or sandwich is an assembly-an easily handled platform or container that may be filled with any dozens of spreads, sauces or stuffing. How to form these assemblies is the subject of this book. Once you have mastered the priciples of assembling these snacks, you will be able to improvise countless arrangements and combinations to suit your own fancy. As inspiration, the second half of the book offers an anthology of more than 200 recipes, selected from the cookbooks of 21 countries. |
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150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know $14.99 It’s no secret that although Catholics are exposed to a great deal of Scripture as it is proclaimed and preached at Mass, many simply don’t read the Bible on their own. Consequently, most Catholics are at a loss to know where to locate specific Bible verses when the need arises. This book provides you with a particular set of passages that will help you through many key issues in your own life. These are among the most important for daily prayer and devotions, making important life decisions wisely according to God’s will for your life, dealing successfully with temptations, sorrows, setbacks and surprises, growing in holiness, consoling and counseling others and discussing your Catholic Faith with non-Catholics. Scripture is your guide to what matters most in life. If you’re not familiar with it, Patrick Madrid’s choice of 150 key verses can ease you in. If you regularly read and pray with Scripture, these verses will provide you rich food for thought. No matter what your situation, the Bible will help you evaluate the choices and make the decisions that confront you every day. Either explicitly or implicitly, Scripture addresses all of life’s problems, worries, dangers, questions and uncertainties. |
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Instant Cook $20.97 Donna Hay is swiftly becoming the source American cooks go to when they ask themselves, What should we have for dinner tonight? She has a passionate global following for her fresh and modern approch to food–bringing out clean, fresh flavors with simple techniques and streamlined instructions. In The Instant Cook, she offers more than a compendium of flexible recipes; it is an elegantly simple philosophy of cooking, and of eating. Donna Hay pulls together flavor comhinations and cooking skills from the Mediterranean and the Pacific Rim–two of the most flavorful and quick-cooking cuisines on the planet–to create delicious meals with a handful of ingredients in a few minutes. She gives home cooks the confidence to cook with instinct and with style. Exquisite full-color photographs on every page illustrate Donna’s signature look–chic yet never fussy. It reminds you that cooking is a pleasure. Pour a glass of wine and catch up with family as you cook; shop without waste or confusion; host a weeknight dinner party with little planning and less effort. The Instant Cook is destined to be the cookbook that you use everyday. |
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