The 5-Ingredient Fresh & Easy cookbook [antikvár]

IntroductionI get it. You love to eat well and want to feel good (maybe even a little proud) when you call friends and family to the table. But life just keeps happening, and modern routines don't always help the home chef.If you're in what I'd call a high-hustle phase of lifejuggling your career, shuttling kids, commuting to work, or just trying to rally your friends for dinner despite everyone's busy schedulesI'm glad you picked up this book.I adore cooking and come from a long line of Southern farm-to-table cooks. But the women who raised me and sparked my love of great food also lived a completely different lifestyle than many of us do now. I yearned to keep those traditions alive and translate them into my crazy, but wonderful, modern life as the working mom of two amazing, oh-so-busy daughters.For twenty years, I had a full-time publishing career while raising my kids. We all bounced between piano and violin lessons, swim team, soccer, basketball, band, orchestra, and church activities. I even got talked into coaching basketball one season!Catching up wdth my girls and husband around our dinner table was the highlight of my day, so dinner needed to become a priority. But how? At first, I felt completely overwhelmed.Unfortunately, during my early years as the family cheflong before I became a food bloggerI didn't always have a weekly meal plan. I'd find myself foraging in the pantry at the last minute, scrambling to pull together a dinner with a bit of this and dash of that.Eventually, I realized that I needed a little planning, better organization, and easier recipes. When I was a teenager, my grandmother lived with us and taught me to cook delicious Southern dishes using produce from my dad's farm. Every day, she would whip up a fiill meal that always included fresh garden vegetables like green beans, okra, or corn, accompanied by a skillet of hot cornbread and a plate of delicious, home-grown tomatoes. At the time, I took for granted ourviii