Toasted or One Bite Wont Kill You

Toasted: The New Toaster Oven Cookbook

Author: Maria Hauschel

Toasted is about a simpler approach to cooking. For one to four people, formal or casual, the toaster oven is the answer. This energy efficient, space saving, quick cooking appliance gives everyone the opportunity to make delicious meals without the fuss or muss of a conventional oven. Whether you are a novice cook, or an expert, Toasted has it all: Pesto Gorgonzola Bruschetta, Asiago Potatoes, Lasagna and even whole roast leg of lamb! Toasted recipes are designed for all makes and models of toaster ovens.

See also: Massage or Silent Passage

One Bite Won't Kill You: More Than 200 Hundred Recipes to Tempt Even The Pickiest Kids on Earth: And the Rest of the Family Too

Author: Ann Hodgman

The toughest challenge many cooks face each day is feeding their own children. By her own admission, the writer and humorist Ann Hodgman's kids are the worst eaters in the world, and if she finds something one likes, the other invariably hates it. Now, for all similarly beleaguered parents, Hodgman brings together more than two hundred recipes that everyone in the family can agree on, like Nonthreatening Cheese Fondue, Taco Bake, and Roast Pork Loin with Apple Crust, many of them gathered from fellow parents. With hundreds of tips and anecdotes from other parents, One Bite Won't Kill You makes the task of feeding kids not only a little easier, but also a whole lot more fun.

Children's Literature

Illustrations by Roz ChastA cookbook that is amusing AND offers useful recipes is worth reading. The author's introduction sets the tone of pragmatic parenting in the kitchen with a dash of humor and a sprinkle of irreverence. The recipes include chatty remarks about the recipe or its origin. A recipe warning, "Never refrigerate the batter" is accompanied by an illustration of a stern cook's face. All the line drawings illustrating the book are clever. Anecdotes about the author's friends and children are scattered throughout the recipes. Advice is given under such headings as, "How to Make Pork Tenderloin 100 Percent Better" or "Making Jell-O More Grown-Up." Certain recipe names will intrigue the reader--Vaguely Mexican Soup, Spinach Frisbees, Zoocakes, and Blue Brains. This latter recipe calls for blueberries, cottage cheese and Berry Blue Jell-O. The entire cookbook is joyful reading if you are not a purist regarding food preparation. But don't look for details on fat, protein or calories per serving. Such information would detract from the book's purpose, which is to get picky eaters to eat. The author's concluding remarks titled "Why None of This Matters," offers a refreshing sense of balance and truth.