Nourishing Families: December 2010

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Pear Cranberry Salad

This is a wonderful salad to serve with your Christmas dinner. Prepare the underlined recipes from your "Scratch" cookbook and then add to the Pear Cranberry Salad.

pear cranberry salad

Delectable Flourless Chocolate Cake

This is a super rich chocolate cake that is best served with organic vanilla bean ice cream and fresh berries!

Delectable Flourless Chocolate Cake

Here is a new seasoning mix for Italian Dressing. Mix up the herbs and spices and store in an airtight container for later use. Make delicious creamy Italian Dressing or use it as a rub for fish or chicken before grilling!

Italian Dressing -

Creamy Potato Soup

New recipe that hits the spot on a cold winter evening! If you have a high power blender like the Blendtec blender see the note at the bottom of the recipe for a super quick meal!

Creamy Potato Soup

Here's what critics are saying about "Scratch". . .

Book Review by Kathryn Jones

What do chickens do?

Scratch.

What do mothers do who want their children to grow up healthy and happy?

Cook from scratch of course.

In a time when “quick fix” meals are all the rage, Tammie Duggar’s cookbook, “Scratch—Real Food, Real Recipes” is a god send. Instead of opening up a spaghetti sauce can for yet another Italian meal or scrambling in the cupboard for my family’s latest boxed surprise, I am finally doing anything but digging, and Duggar is showing me how easy it is to cook without the bottle, the box or the microwavable package.

“I want readers of my book to re-connect with real food; to fall in love with the process of meal preparation and to re-capture something special that our culture has lost,” says Duggar.

“Scratch,” published by Morris Press Cookbooks, includes over 250 recipes, including gluten free and dairy free options. Mothers who are intimidated by cooking from scratch will be pleasantly surprised at the easy, guilt free recipes. I know I was. I discovered that cooking from scratch was less inexpensive than I originally thought and what I put together was quick, easy and healthy. My favorite recipe is Black Bean Salsa, which incorporates frozen corn, tomatoes, and green onions. It’s very tasty!

Though there are no pictures in “Scratch” to show the finished product, I found the recipes simple and specific enough that not having photos did not matter to me.

“Scratch,” is indeed a cookbook for our time. Cooks of all ages will enjoy the hard cover 3-ring binder for easy adding and viewing, the tabbed recipe sections, and the ingredient substitution list. They will love how they can make real food…fast; how they can please even the pickiest of family members.

“Scratch”

Morris Press Cookbooks

2010

ISBN: 098453301-X

Pages

Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Pear Cranberry Salad

Delectable Flourless Chocolate Cake

Italian Dressing

Creamy Potato Soup