Homemade with Love: Simple Scratch Cooking from In Jennie’s Kitchen - Hardcover

Perillo, Jennifer

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0762447230 ISBN 13: 9780762447237

Publisher: Running Press Adult, 2013

Synopsis

With its delectable recipes and charming girl-next-door tone, Homemade With Love is sure to be a welcome addition to the kitchens of longtime readers of the blog, In Jennie's Kitchen. Jennifer Perillo has long written on the pleasures and importance of cooking from scratch, buying local, and eating at home. Jennie shares her love for her farmers' markets and local purveyors while dishing out a hearty dose of practical culinary know-how for the working parent-or any busy cook.

Jennie has been writing online since 2006, and developing recipes for more than 15 years, even after the sudden death of her young husband, Mikey, in 2011. Gathering her family together around the table was her recipe for healing; though many things about her life have changed, her commitment to eating for nourishment-physical and spiritual-has not. A seasoned recipe developer and personal chef, Jennie has crafted shortcuts (like two homemade all-purpose baking mixes, used as a base for baked goods such as breads, muffins, and cupcakes) to make good eating just a little easier. Try recipes like Orange-Scented Waffles, Carrot Fennel Soup, Lentil Ricotta Meatballs, Drop Biscuit Chicken Pot Pie, Strawberry Blender Sherbet, and Lemon Buttermilk Doughnuts. Simple, soulful recipes for every meal of the day emphasize farm-fresh produce and whole foods. Jennie's distinctive voice is an evangelist for eating close to home, lingering around the table.

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About the Author

Jennifer Perillo is a food writer and recipe developer who runs the blog In Jennie's Kitchen, which has been featured in Food 52, Saveur, Fine Cooking, Serious Eats, Bon AppƩt, and Oprah.com. She has worked as the Consulting Food Editor at Working Mother magazine, and contributed to a variety of print & online publications and food websites, including Food Network, Relish, Food 52, Cuisinart, Parade, and Parenting. She is the author of Homemade with Love.

Reviews

Too often, home cooks fear that producing nutritionally sound meals means spending a lot of time in the kitchen, time that very few can afford to devote out of their already overcrowded and demanding daily work schedules. Perillo respects these boundaries, so she has invented some relatively speedy but appealing dishes that emphasize sound nutrition. Sherry vinegar and molasses help deepen vegetarian onion soup. Tacos recycle leftover roast chicken. A spaghetti dinner proves much less burdensome when the meatballs are frozen ahead of time. Powdered chipotle lends popcorn a uniquely smoky flavor. For breakfast, she recommends getting dressed while boiling a pot of steel-cut oats for a morning cereal so much more satisfying than instant oatmeal. Even a birthday cake needn’t make the harried homemaker resort to a boxed mix when Perillo can offer a quickly mixed and baked cake frosted in a simple buttercream. Symbols quickly identify recipes as gluten free, egg free, vegetarian, or vegan. --Mark Knoblauch

Edition details

• Publisher: Running Press Adult
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0762447230
• ISBN 13: 9780762447237
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240