The Working Parents Cookbook: More Than 200 Recipes for Great Family Meals

To help the hordes of busy parents who have to feed their children on the run, this husband and wife team have gathered 200 quick, family-friendly recipes that they have taste-tested around their own dinner table. Two serious foodies, journalist Jeff Morgan (Dean & Deluca: The Food and Wine Cookbook) and wife Jodie, a social worker and self-trained cook, offer sophisticated, typically 30-minute dishes--and, more importantly, strategies for how to get children to swallow them. The Morgans include a brief primer on healthy eating, shopping and stocking the kitchen, and amply cover breakfast through dinner, and all sorts of snacks, sweets and appetizers in between. Most of the selections are clever variations of more standard foods, like the Salmon Burger with Aioli or their""house"" green salad tossed in a homemade one-minute vinaigrette that their daughters constantly request. Recipe introductions and sidebars offer time and/or money saving tips. For example, the Morgans often substitute canned cannellini beans in the Minestrone Soup instead of soaking and cooking dried ones (which saves time but costs more). While many recipes (as well as the penciled fruit graphics and colorful retro design) will appeal to kids and their more seasoned counterparts, some--like the Country Pate Sandwich with cornichons and sliced onions--may push the palate for both. However, if a child is not yet ready for the Prosciutto, Fig and Goat Cheese Pizza, the authors also include a simple Margherita. Overall, this cookbook promises to be a helpful resource for parents.