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The crabby cook cookbook, 135 almost-effortless recipes plus survival tips, by Jessica Harper ; illustrations by Ingo Fast

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The crabby cook cookbook, 135 almost-effortless recipes plus survival tips, by Jessica Harper ; illustrations by Ingo Fast

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The crabby cook cookbook

Oclc number

617425176

Responsibility statement

by Jessica Harper ; illustrations by Ingo Fast

Sub title

135 almost-effortless recipes plus survival tips

Summary

Introducing a very funny, slightly edgy, winning new kind of cookbook Jessica Harper<U+2014>that Jessica Harper, star of Minority Report, Stardust Memories, Love and Death, Pennies from Heaven, and more<U+2014>is a working mother of two who faces the same problems of every other woman who<U+2019>s the designated home cook: How do you feed a family of picky eaters when you<U+2019>re not crazy about being in the kitchen in the first place? A natural-born storyteller and terrifically engaging writer, she does what she<U+2019>s done all her life<U+2014>entertain us<U+2014>while at the same time offering 100 not just easy but really easy-to-make, really tasty recipes. Her stories are filled with charming crabbiness<U+2014>of cooking early in the day for the two kids who eat only six things, then later for the husband who eats only about eight things, none of which share common ground with those first six; of inviting her mother-in-law for dinner and handing her an apron; of suffering HAS<U+2014>Hostess Anxiety Syndrome<U+2014>having the book club over and picking The Good Earth because it matches the neighborhood<U+2019>s great new Chinese take-out, so no cooking involved! She wants to give a Nobel Prize to the person who invented bagged salad, and she recounts a wonderful story of making homemade turkey pot pie for the very first time<U+2014>its crust tasted like rosemary-scented Play-Doh<U+2014>to serve to Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford

Table Of Contents

Are you a crabby cook? -- Breakfast, slow and fast -- Mom's little lost lamb (and other lunch options) -- The cycle of seven (burgers, casseroles, and other regulars) -- A toast to the roast -- Let 'em eat pasta -- Go, fish! -- Beside myself -- Let me (not) entertain you -- Salad days -- The chicken years -- Just desserts -- Conversion tables

Target audience

adult

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