The Minimalist Kitchen by Melissa Coleman

The Minimalist Kitchen by Melissa Coleman

Melissa Coleman, creator of The Faux Martha, shares her refreshingly simple approach to cooking.

The Minimalist Kitchen: 100 Wholesome Recipes, Essential Tools, and Efficient Techniques is a cookbook, but more importantly, it's a framework for creating a minimalist kitchen, a kitchen pared down to the essentials so you can create more. This framework will touch everything in your kitchen from your ingredients, tools, pantry, to your cooking techniques, meal planning, and shopping habits. Once the framework is in place, you can make 100+ wholesome, mix and match recipes. You'll find Blueberry-Orange Breakfast Rolls, Banana-Coconut Baked Oatmeal, White Wine Spring Pasta, BBQ Black Bean and Quick Slaw Tacos, Crispy Pizza with Caramelized Onions, Chickpea Tikka Masala, Stovetop Mac and Cheese, and Two-Bowl Carrot Cupcakes.

It's true what they say--less is more. But this is also true--achieving simplicity is difficult. How do you know what to keep and what to get rid of? This comprehensive guide will hold your hand through the process and make dinnertime (and the kitchen) feel doable again. For best results, read this cookbook like a novel, from the beginning. Chapter 1: The Minimalist Kitchen sets the stage for how to make and use the recipes in Chapters 2-8: Breakfast, Main Dishes, Burgers Wraps & Sandwiches, Soups & Salads, Sides, Drinks, Dessert. Melissa's recipes are the practical application of the minimalist kitchen--using a pared down kitchen to its full potential. You'll find them to be vegetable forward and simple without compromising flavor. They're intentionally designed to fit the rhythm of the week and labeled weekday, weekend, and make ahead accordingly. Weekday recipes are quick and efficient, while weekend recipes are slower and celebratory. Some recipes have make ahead components to increase efficiency and break up prep times. You'll find ingredient lists ranging from 3 to 20 ingredients. But don't be scared by the longer list, as most of the ingredients are sitting in your well-stocked pantry. Look for Melissa's minimalist tips offering recipe-specific advice, a seasonal produce guide, and a handy metric equivalents chart to take the stress out of cooking.

Melissa Coleman Bramlage is an entrepreneur, registered nurse, mother and lawn-mower extraordinaire. Founder and former CEO of SaraBear, her patented diaper caddy line and popular brand was acquired in 2011. Melissa knew her experience in creating and marketing SaraBear could be eye-opening and inspirational for other would-be entrepreneurs. But for a long while the wounds were still too fresh, the exhilarating highs too high, the dark lows too low. By 2013, she was finally ready. It was time to tell her story. So, tell it she does, with candor and heart, revealing a journey of personal transformation by way of a one-in-a-million triumph. Melissa knows in the marrow of her bones and the pit of her stomach that to be a successful entrepreneur you have to be up before the sun, ready to face the day with all its potential joy and heartache. You have to shrug off the conventional advice of friends and family. You have to confront the road less traveled with the faith that your resume will read like hers, Doer of many things, none of which seem to have any relation to one another - unless you possess the eyes to truly see! These days, when she's not obsessively in quest of the perfect green lawn, Melissa can often be spotted along the country roads of upstate New York, with a drooling mastiff hanging its head out the window, as she proudly drives her embarrassed kids to and from the ball fields of their glorious youth.

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ISBN 13	9780848755263
ISBN 10	084875526X
Title	The Minimalist Kitchen
Author	Melissa Coleman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Time Inc. Books
Year published	2018-04-10
Number of pages	272
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