num_pages: 272
description: 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 its 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.Its true what they sayless is more. But this is also trueachieving 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 28: Breakfast Main Dishes Burgers Wraps &amp; Sandwiches Soups &amp; Salads Sides Drinks Dessert. Melissas recipes are the practical application of the minimalist kitchenusing a pared down kitchen to its full potential. Youll find them to be vegetable forward and simple without compromising flavor. Theyre 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. Youll find ingredient lists ranging from 3 to 20 ingredients. But dont 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 is a home cook and baker designer wife mama and minimalist. Her popular blog The Faux Martha was named a Huffington Post Top 10 Food Blog and was selected as a Better Homes and Gardens Top 10 Baking Blog nominee and a Saveur Blog Awards Style &amp; Design finalist. After spending three decades bouncing around the states shes happily planted under the snow banks of Minneapolis MN with her husband Kevin and tiny sous chef Hallie. Melissa cooks with the rhythm of the weeksimple modern and mostly vegetarian on weekdays and slow and classic with a heavy dose of brunch on the weekend. She is in the process of decorating The Fauxhouse their modern city farmhouse. The Minimalist Kitchen is her first book publishing in April 2018. Learn more about Melissa's design aesthetic and cooking philosophy at thefauxmartha.com.
language: English
title: The Minimalist Kitchen: 100 Wholesome Recipes, Essential Tools, and Efficient Techniques
publisher: TI Inc. Books