Saturday, February 20, 2021

An Easier And Healthier Way To Cook

 Imagine cooking delicious and easy recipes with just five ingredients. You can, thanks to a new cookbook, 5 Ingredient Semi-Homemade Meals (Mango Publishing Company 2021) . This is a helpful way to eat better and also shop better. The book will help many  home chefs improve their lives and habits.

The book is written by husband and wife team Bobby and Dessi Parrish. They are the creators of the very popular Flav City videos on You Tube. There  they and their toddler daughter Rose teach fans how to shop correctly in stores such as Aldi and Costco and cook cleanly - that is without scary sounding preservatives and additives. The beginning of the book explicitly explains the difference between free range and farmed meats along with showing healthy pantry staples such as olive oil and grass fed ghee. The Parrishes also have a list of clean baking ingredients like grass fed butter and pure vanilla extract. They have also paired with Thrive, the sponsor for their six year old You Tube series. This is not your typical cookbook, There are testimonials about how the Parrishes changed  followers lives with their clean and easy cooking as well as non traditional chapters called  Happy Hour for bar nibbles and one for Dessi's Paleo Sweets -  which features  everything from immune boosting tea to sticky date pudding. Other chapters revolve around comfort food and carnivore style. There are also ones on seafood and one primarily featuring broths and soups.

The recipes are a wide range that are delicious, There's nothing diet about them. Breakfast lovers will enjoy the easy cook of Mini Meatball Breakfast Hash, made with only ground turkey,spinach , bell peppers and eggs . It's served on a bed of cauliflower rice for extra flavor and goodness. Busy parents will appreciate the no bake five ingredient cinnamon and cacao powder infused. granola and breakfast tacos bursting with eggs, bacon and avocados.  For an easy lunch or dinner there is the comfort food fried wild rice and chicken with homemade mirepoix, the mix of celery, red onion and carrots. Another comfort dish is the  cauliflower mac and cheese , a different spin on the classic casserole. Grilled Korean short ribs are another simple but flavor packed dish, enriched  by the spicy Korean chili sauce gochujang. Those who love bar nibbles will love the Parrishes' recipes for crispy pan cauliflower pizza and crispy baked chicken wings. along with a sugar free margarita recipe !! For those wanting something much simpler and cleaner there is nourishing beef bone broth featuring beef bones, celery, carrot and onions. The seafood too is a simple and good like  crunchy  shrimp tacos and salmon Cobb salad. Of course there are sweets, from date brownies and a dairy free berry panna cotta made with coconut cream.

If you want to eat and shop better then get 5 Ingredient Semi Home Cooked Meals. It's chock full of good ideas and good recipes. It's the first step in getting healthy.