The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook: 120+ Everyday Recipes for the Healthy Home Cook

by Laura Lea Goldberg, Alice Randall (Foreword by)

Overview

In Laura Lea Goldberg's new cookbook, The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook, the rubber of old-fashioned home-cooking meets the road of new healthy-food. With over 120 approachable, comforting, make-ahead recipes, this first cookbook from the creator of the popular "LLBalanced" website reaffirms that balance is possible: you can find the joy, relaxation, and healing of cooking for yourself, family, and friends during these frenetic times.

All of the recipes in are simple, familiar, and no-fuss. The majority of the recipes come together in thirty minutes or less and all are appealing to kids and adults alike, can be modified for picky eaters or can be proudly served at a dinner party. The food isn't dogmatic: a little of everything is used and flexibility is the key. With a focus on quality and moderation, the healthy aspects don't hit you over the head. They just make you feel good.

With helpful shopping lists and easy-to-follow menu plans, The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook will help any home cook create a foundation in the pantry and kitchen that will make the prospect of healthy cooking accessible and exciting, not stressful. It doesn't overthink things and focuses on consistency instead of perfection. In the end, The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook will have you discovering the balance of cooking delicious, healthy meals at home while re-connecting with yourself, family, and friends.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940611563
Publisher:	Spring House Press
Publication date:	05/20/2017
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Laura Lea Goldberg is a certified Holistic Chef, consultant, and founder/writer/photographer of the popular food website LLBalanced. After graduating from the University of Virginia, she discovered her passion for healthful cooking and nutrition while living a fast-paced corporate life in New York. She handed it all over to enroll at the Natural Gourmet Institute and headed back to her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to launch LLBalanced where she provides readers with affordable, comforting, and make-ahead family-friendly meals that are packed with nutrients and flavor. Her dishes are often remakes of Southern-influenced comfort food, with the intention that we can have the best of both worlds. She currently consults with individuals, corporations, and restaurants on all aspects of healthy eating and nutrition while contributing articles and recipes for, among others, Nashville Lifestyles, Southern Living, Shape, and Greatist.com. Laura Lea also has a regular local cooking segment on WSMV Channel 4, where she demonstrates how to make some of her most popular dishes.

Alice Randall is the New York Times bestselling author of the novels, The Wind Done Gone, Pushkin and the Queen of Spades, Rebel Yell, and Ada's Rules and the only person to ever study with Julia Child for credit at Harvard. An acknowledged authority on African-American cookbooks, Randall teaches the course "Soul Food, in Text, as Text" at Vanderbilt University. She also writes country music, including Trisha Yearwood's now classic "XXX's and OOO's (An American Girl)." Randall has been recognized by the National Institutes of Health as a Health Champion and is Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution Nashville Ambassador.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The LL Balanced Approach to Food
Chapter 2: Snack-itizers
Chapter 3: Beverages & Smoothies
Chapter 4: Breakfast: Sweet & Savory
Chapter 5: Bakery
Chapter 6: Lunch & Dinner Entrees: Red Meat, Poultry, Seafood & Veggie
Chapter 7: Sides
Chapter 8: Salads & Soups
Chapter 9: Desserts
Chapter 10: Condiments & Sauces
Appendix: Menus, Shopping Lists, and More

Editorial Reviews

05/01/2017
Goldberg, the woman behind food and lifestyle website Laura Lea Balanced, offers a friendly and relaxed approach to healthy eating. The recipes here are simple and most can be made in 30 minutes or less. Goldberg is never preachy and her recommendations to eat more nutritiously and mindfully are grounded in the idea of moderation and balance. Along with tempting recipes, Goldberg offers a useful list to build a healthy pantry, as well as recipe-by-recipe vegan substitutions. Innovative breakfast recipes include grain-free cinnamon waffles, blueberry-coconut morning porridge, and pumpkin-spice protein pancakes made with red lentils. Her Southern heritage (Goldberg hails from Tennessee) can be seen in recipes such as barbecue shrimp and quinoa grits, but her recipes also pull flavors from around the world, as evidenced by her Asian salmon cakes with sriracha aioli and refried-black-bean enchiladas with sweet-potato “cheese” sauce. Her vegan desserts sound good enough to convince the most devoted nonvegans, particularly her nondairy version of St. Louis’s famous gooey butter cake, here made with almond flour, cashews, and coconut sugar. Goldberg’s diverse and enticing recipes promise to make healthy eaters out of even the most reluctant. (May)

Publishers Weekly

"The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook: 120+ Everyday Recipes for the Healthy Home Cook calls upon whole ingredients to make up these yummy meals. They're nutritious and completely good for you!"

POPSUGAR

"Features more than 120 healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes for everyday, at-home occasions. Prioritizing whole foods and a balanced menu over diet fads and trends — and including pantry shopping lists and serving portion recommendations — the recipes manage to be nutritious and healthy while simultaneously comforting and satisfying. The perfect stocking stuffer for those resolving to eat healthier in the new year."

BETTER NBC News

"The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook isn't your average cookbook. Laura Lea hits the mark between home-cooked nostalgia and whole food goodness with recipes that'll keep your taste buds satisfied and your belly full from dawn til dusk."

Edible Nashville

“ The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook isn’t your average cookbook…Laura Lea hits the mark between home-cooked nostalgia and whole food goodness with recipes that’ll keep your taste buds satisfied and your belly full from dawn til’ dusk.” – Edible Nashville

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