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The Happy Cook

125 Recipes for Eating Every Day Like It's the Weekend

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The bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning cohost of ABC's The Chew takes the intimidation out of cooking and shows you how to savor life fully every day with this gorgeous cookbook featuring more than 125 easy, healthy, and delicious timesaving recipes.

For many people, especially those who aren't quite at home in the kitchen, the idea of cooking a homemade meal can be terrifying, uninspiring, or just feel like a chore. In The Happy Cook, Daphne Oz makes cooking fun and relaxing, and shows anyone—newbie or seasoned expert—how to celebrate every day with delicious meals that are as easy to create as they are to enjoy.

Like cooking with a good friend and a glass of wine, The Happy Cook is filled with friendly advice, expert tips, inspiring ideas, and best of all, 125 simple yet fabulous recipes, all using just a handful of ingredients, that will transform the most nervous or reluctant novice into a happy, confident home cook.

Here are recipes for the whole day and the whole week, from Saturday dinner parties to quick-and-easy weeknight leftovers. With The Happy Cook, eating well is a breeze with delights such as:

  • Breakfast—Crispy-Crunchy Honey-Thyme Granola, Chocolate Almond Breakfast Bars, and Coconut-Mango Pancakes
  • Lunch—Kale and Plum Salad with Miso Vinaigrette, Warm Spring Pea Soup, Seared Garlic-Lime Shrimp Banh Mi and Philly Cheesesteak Quesadillas
  • Dinner—Truffle Salt Roast Chicken with Lentils and Squash, Cashew Soba Noodles with Fried Shallots, Sea Bass Roasted Over Citrus, and Apricot-Rosemary Glazed Lamb Chops
  • Dessert—"Outlaw" Carrot Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream, Better Brownies, Sour Apple Juice Pops, and Nutty Banana "Ice Cream"
  • The Happy Cook is all about real-life application—and real-life success. Celebrate every occasion and every meal with mouthwatering, vibrant, easy food. It's not about perfection, as Daphne makes clear. It's about the confidence to get into the kitchen, have fun, and become a happy cook!

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      • Library Journal

        November 15, 2016

        Oz (Relish) is the daughter of Dr. Mehmet Oz and cohost of The Chew. Sharing healthy-ish recipes aimed at busy parents and professionals, she frames cooking as an enjoyable activity rather than a duty. To keep everyday cooking from becoming overwhelming, she favors quick-and-easy preparations that require little hands-on cooking time. Readers can mix and match dishes such as kale and plum salad with miso vinaigrette, avocado toast with lemon-chile oil, skirt steak with brown sugar-cumin rub, and pistachio cakes with rose-cardamom icing. Alternately, they can follow one of 15-plus special occasion menus (e.g., spring dinner party, vegan delight brunch). VERDICT Sure to satisfy Oz's fans, this contemporary cookbook features many delicious recipes. However, there are a few errors, like a missing oven temperature for chocolate-dulce de leche layer cake.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

      • Booklist

        September 1, 2016
        With the success of her previous Relish: An Adventure in Food, Style, and Everyday Fun (2013), cohost of The Chew Oz expounds on her philosophy that good food prepared by a happy chef is the heart of any familyand home. Dishes reflect cross-country trends: the now ubiquitous avocado toast (with a variation like butternut-squash and ricotta toast); lots of kale, cauliflower, and broccolieither hidden in recipes or the featured main ingredient; and unusual-usual spices and additives, like muhammara and sriracha, among others. Along the way, attention is given to lightening up traditional and nouvelle fare: a carrot cake, sans raisins and cream-cheese frosting; roasted plums with tahini dressing as a salad substitute. Tips, variations, and sidebars will guide inexperienced cooks to consider shortcuts and alternatives (try refrigerated piecrust, or include horseradish for its healing properties). Unfortunately, claims notwithstanding, many of the 125 recipes are rather long or need unusual or hard-to-find ingredients, and don't include time estimates or nutritional analyses. Still, the name draw alone will find eager readers.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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