The Minimalist Kitchen
100 Wholesome Recipes, Essential Tools, and Efficient Techniques
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
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 -the kitchen-this 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 doesn't 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.
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In her first cookbook, Coleman, creator of the food blog The Faux Martha, exhibits an easy approach to organizing the kitchen and cooking. Coleman aims to separate the minimalist from the "stodgy and austere" and largely succeeds, though it is a surprise to discover that a list of "essential tools" for the minimalist kitchen includes items such as tortilla warmers. The author excels when providing tips: a clever dough-stacking method results in extra-flaky biscuits and scones, while scrambled eggs are finished off the burner to avoid overcooking. Ideas for reusing leftovers are also practical: beef tacos are made with the remains of the roast on the following page. Coleman even includes some throwback meals such as pasta with vodka sauce and a chicken Caesar salad. The chapter on drinks features cold-brewed coffee, ice tea, and lemonade, as well as a pair of smoothies, and a margarita and sangria. A dessert chapter covers such familiar though satisfying items as chocolate chip cookies and peach cobbler. Plenty will appeal to those who like the author have young children and are on the hunt for swift, simple, palatable fare.