Homemade Simple: Effortless Dishes for a Busy Life
About this ebook
In a world of overly complicated recipes and exhausting meal prep trends, Homemade Simple remains the essential, trusted guide for getting real food on the table without losing your sanity.
Renowned culinary authority Amanda Haas delivers a beautiful, foolproof blueprint for healthy family meals designed specifically for anyone juggling a packed calendar.
Featuring a foreword by television star Ayesha Curry and gorgeous full-color photography by Kathleen Sheffer, this classic collection offers more than 100 flavor-packed recipes that feed everyone from picky eaters to hungry omnivores. Haas strips away the intimidation of from-scratch cooking, providing practical pantry strategies, prep guides, and adaptable meal plans that prove homemade cooking doesn’t have to be a chore.
Designed for Busy Home Cooks:
- Flexible Cooking for Modern Diets: Includes guidance for adapting recipes to gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free needs—making it easier to cook one meal for everyone at the table.
- Practical Meal Planning: Features realistic meal-planning ideas, prep and cook guidance, and pantry strategies designed to simplify everyday cooking.
- Essential Kitchen Staples: A dedicated chapter of go-to recipes—including Haas's famous Change-Your-Life Chicken Stock and vibrant Chimichurri—helps build flexible, flavorful meals from what you have on hand.
- Fast, Flavorful, Family-Friendly Recipes: From Sheet-Pan Halibut with Pesto and Spring Vegetables to Buffalo Cauliflower Hot Wings and Chicken-Coconut Red Curry Soup, the recipes are designed to maximize flavor in minimal time.
Homemade Simple doesn't ask you to change your schedule; it changes the way cooking fits into your life. It is the ultimate kitchen companion for fresh, nourishing, and completely effortless weeknight victories.
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About the author
Amanda Haas is a cook, author, and entrepreneur. Formerly the director of culinary for Williams-Sonoma, she has filmed more than 300 cooking videos for the brand and written three cookbooks, including the wildly popular Anti-Inflammation Cookbook. Haas can be found in one of a few places: her kitchen, grilling outside, attempting to keep up with her sons’ sports schedules, or visiting one of her favorite restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Kathleen Sheffer is a San Francisco–based photographer. She has worked with brands such as Veuve Clicquot, Marie Claire, and Eventbrite, and her photos have been published in the Guardian, Wine Enthusiast, and Forbes, among others.
Ayesha Curry is a New York Times bestselling cookbook author and television host. She has been featured in Food & Wine, Time, InStyle, Cooking Light, the Wall Street Journal, and many other publications. She lives with her family in Atherton, California.
