Cook This Now: 120 Easy and Delectable Dishes You Can’t Wait to Make

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Melissa Clark, New York Times Dining Section columnist, offers a calendar year’s worth of brand-new recipes for cooking with fresh, local ingredients-replete with lively and entertaining stories of feeding her own family and friends.

“Easy to prepare and incredibly satisfying, this is inventive comfort food at its best. A must for any passionate home cook.” —Gwyneth Paltrow, actress and author of My Father’s Daughter

Many people want to eat well, organically and locally, but don’t know where or even when to begin, since the offerings at their local farmers’ market change with the season. In Cook This Now, Melissa Clark shares all her market savvy, including what she decides to cook after a chilly visit to the produce section in the dead of winter; what to bring to a potluck dinner that’s guaranteed to be a hit; and how she feeds her marathon-running husband and finicky toddler. In addition, she regales us with personal stories about good times with family and friends, and cooking adventures such as her obsessive cherry pie experimentation and the day she threw out her husband’s last preserved Meyer lemon.

In her welcoming, friendly voice, Melissa takes you inside her life while providing the dishes that will become your go-to meals for your own busy days.

Recipes include:

Crisp Roasted Chicken with Chickpeas, Lemons, and Carrots with Parsley Gremolata Baked Apples with Fig and Cardamom Crumble Honey-Roasted Carrot Salad with Arugula and Almonds Quick-Braised Pork Chops with Spring Greens and Anchovies Coconut Fudge Brownies—and much more.

Melissa delivers easy, delicious meals featuring organic, fresh ingredients that can be uniquely obtained during each particular month. It can be a real challenge to feed families these days, but Melissa’s recipes and inviting writing encourage home cooks to venture outside of the familiar, yet please everyone at the table.

ASIN ‏ : ‎ B005N90IP0
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Balance
Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 4, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 32.9 MB
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 421 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1401304010
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up
Best Sellers Rank: #14,093 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) #3 in Seasonal Cooking (Kindle Store) #8 in U.S. Regional Cooking #10 in Healthy Living
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Customers find this cookbook fantastic, filled with great recipes that work well and use easily accessible ingredients. The book is organized by month, making it easy to use, and customers find it engaging, with one noting it’s fun to use year-round. They appreciate the writing style, with one customer describing it as sincere without being over the top, and they find the recipes tasty, with one mentioning how spices are used in an unusual and delicious way.