Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

 

Book: Deceptively Delicious: Simple Secrets to Get Your Kids Eating Good Food

Basic Information : Synopsis : Expectations : Thoughts : Evaluation  : Table of Contents : References

Basic Information:

Author: Jessica Seinfeld

Edition: eBook on Libby from  the San Francisco Public Library

Publisher: Collins

ISBN: 9780061251344 (ISBN10: 0061251348)

Start Date: November 12, 2024

Read Date: November 14, 2024

208 pages

Cookbook

Language Warning:  None

Rated Overall: Not rated

Synopsis:

This cookbook is oriented towards getting children to eat healthy. Rather than nagging them to eat the foods good for them, Seined, who is Jerry Seinfeld wife, disguises the food through pureeing the items which the children are reluctant to eat. Such as pureeing butternut squash and mixing some into Mac&Cheese, for example.

Seinfeld book is broken into parts: What Parents need to know to get this done, the nutrition aspect of cooking and sample recipes. She also has enlisted the help of Joy Bauer, a nutritionist.

Expectations:

Recommendation: Erica B

When: November 12, 2024

Date Became Aware of Book: November 12, 2024

Why do I want to read this book: Erica who is a health educator indicated that this is a book which can help with picky eaters, which I am.

What do I think I will get out of it? An avenue to enjoy foods which is currently outside of my eating field.

 

Thoughts:

In looking at the background for this book, I saw that both Jessica and Jerry Seinfield were sued for this book. Jessica because another author felt she stoled the idea behind this book from her; Jerry because that same author felt she was slandered by him. Both cases were dismissed.

I do not like the premise for this book. At its best, you are getting children to like foods in a way which they will accept. At worst you are teaching children not to trust their parents. It seems like Sienfield is pretty open with her children about what she is doing.

If you have a food which you do not like and mix it in with food which they do like in a way which they will not notice, that is what she is doing. Such as if a child does not like butternut squash, but you pureed it and mix it in with food with the same color, lets say, Mac&Cheese, the person will learn to like butternut squash.

I am a picky eater and my health educator suggested this book.

Seinfeld’s website has some of the recipes.

Here are the recipes she has in the book. The ones bolded are the ones I want to try:

• Breakfast

  • French Toast

  • Applesauce Muffins

  • Scrambled Eggs

  • Banana Bread

  • Pancakes

  • Peanut Butter and Banana Muffins

  • Coffee Cake

  • Green Eggs

  • Peanut Butter and Jelly Muffins

  • Blueberry Lemon Muffins

  • Baked Egg Puffs

  • Oatmeal

• Mealtime

  • Meatball Soup

  • Chicken Nuggets

  • Italian Meatloaf

  • Mashed Potatoes

  • Beef Stew

  • Chicken Salad

  • Rice Balls

  • Mozzarella Sticks

  • Homemade Ketchup

  • Aloha Chicken Kebabs

  • Pita Pizzas

  • Deviled Eggs

  • Tofu Nuggets

  • Chicken Alphabet Soup

  • Macaroni and Cheese 1

  • Macaroni and Cheese 2

  • “Buttered” Noodles Burgers 1

  • Tuna Salad

  • Burgers 2

  • Spaghetti Pie

  • Pasta with Bolognese Sauce

  • Spaghetti with Meatballs

  • Ranch Dressing

  • Greek Dip

  • Quesadillas

  • Salsa Dip

  • Creamy Potato Soup

  • Lasagna

  • Grilled Cheese Sandwiches

  • Avocado Spread

  • Twice-Baked Potatoes

  • Waffle Sandwiches

  • Pink Pancakes

  • Tortilla “Cigars”

  • Sloppy Joes

  • Tacos

  • Turkey Chili

  • Couscous

• Dessert

  • Brownies

  • Chocolate Pudding

  • Doughnuts

  • Chocolate Peanut Butter Dip

  • Banana Marshmallow Dip

  • Chocolate Chip Cupcakes

  • Frozen Yogurt Pops

  • Gingerbread Spice Cake

  • Blueberry Oatmeal Bars

  • Chocolate Cupcakes

  • Chocolate Fondue

  • Chocolate Chip Cookies

  • Blueberry Cheesecake Cupcakes

  • Lemon Raspberry Cupcakes

  • Graham Cracker Ice Cream Sandwiches

  • Carrot Cake Muffins

  • Yellow Cake

  • Hot Cocoa

  • Fruit Punch

  • Marshmallow Crispy Treats

  • Angel Food Cupcakes

  • Chocolate Cake

  • Oatmeal Raisin Cookies

  • Chocolate Chip Muffins

  • Banana Pudding Pie

A word of warning-I have not tried any of these recipes at the time of this writing. Some of the reviewers really liked the results. Others said that things like the brownies were uneatable. I may be adding to this review after I have tried a few recipes.

Evaluation:

 I am a picky eater and my health educator suggested this book as an avenue to get me to eat more healthy things. The concept I think is good. The idea is to mix in foods which a person does not like with foods which they do like. The problem I see is that if this is done deceptively, then it becomes a trust issue. On the other hand, if there is agreement about the direction, then all can work towards the appropriate goals. I have not tried it yet, so I cannot determine the results.

  

 

Table of Contents:

• Contents
• Foreword                    06
• Introduction                    08
• Meet the Kitchen Cabinet            14
• The Program                16
• Equip Your Kitchen        18
• Stock Your Kitchen        22
• The Purees: How-To        24
•  Vegetable Purees        28
• Fruit Purees        30
• What Every Parent Should Know
• About Nutrition                32
• Easy Nutritional Guidelines
• For Children                34
• What?s In That Veggie?        37
• What?s In That Fruit?        40
• The Recipes                    42
• Breakfast Recipes            46
• Mealtime Recipes            68
• Dessert Recipes            152
• Index                        201
• Credits and Acknowledgments        208

References:

• Author's Web Site
• Wikipedia-Book
• Amazon-Book
• Amazon-Author
• Barnes and Noble
• GoodReads-Book
• GoodReads-Author
• Start Cooking blog
• Reddit

Make the Bread, Buy the Butter

Book: Make the Bread, Buy the Butter
Author:Jennifer Reese
Edition:Hardback
Read:March 23, 2015
285 pages
Rated: 3 1/2  out of 5

Synopsis:
Reese tries to form a somewhat objective opinion on the question of make or buy. It is just not a matter of being frugal, but there is cost, healthiness, time and taste to factor in. This book was written after she found herself out of work. A matter of curiosity drove her to consider, when do you make something and when to buy it. Over all, she considers store bought, mass-produced food to be less tasty than home cooked-of course, that may be just that she can cook.

Thoughts:
What is her criteria? Does she stick with it? One factor she says is time. Another is taste. She really deals on the nutritional or additives which goes into store bought products.

She seems to be one of those folks who has not come across a cookbook which she does not like. But on her blog, she does says that occasionally she needs to winnow out her collection for those not used.

A thought as I was reading about her tries at having chicken, ducks, goats and I am assuming other animals, would I want to be her neighbor. She lives in a sub-urban neighborhood, so I am assuming she does not have acres of land to keep these animals on. But since some of the chickens were attacked by raccoons, I assume, she is also close to non-urban territory.

Obviously, a question is which recipes do I want to try?

• Peanut butter
• Bagels
• Bread 
• Nutella
• Hash Browns
• Maple nut scones
• Barbecue spaghetti
• Flourless chocolate cake-Turned out pretty good, but would have been better if I had taken it out a few minutes earlier.
• Cheese its
• Isabel's Chocolate Chip Cookie
• Chocolate sauce

Evaluation:
When I started reading this book, I was thinking, will this be just a recipe book? Or is this something more? I am also reading another book which I am only skimming, sort of like this book. But the difference? This book is interesting, it is fun. She writes personally and with humor. But I will say that after awhile, it got a bit repetitious. But what cookbook doesn't? After all, there is just so many ways to crack an egg.

Reese has over 120 recipes for some of the basic hints of American life. Things like bread, peanut butter, cup cakes and pie. You can see what food I like! Almost all of the recipes has a handy summary of:

• Make it or buy it:
• Hassle:
• Cost comparison:

Each chapter is divided up like a cookbook into the type of food. Are the recipes any good? At our book group, several people made a recipe or two and all thought they were good enough to eat. I am not sure that any of them were to die for but I suspect that is not Reese's objective. It is more to provide good alternatives in a practical way to ready-made food.

Also, there are cute stories to start each chapter, as well as background, such as what is kosher salt, or how to's, like how to choose nuts. Hint: the one in chapter 2 about eggs and chicken is worth the price of the book.

How do you evaluate what is essentially a cookbook? Probably by making something. But the slaw is not the only thing Reese slings, words and stories are part of the fun of the book. The bottom line, if you are looking for a serious recipe book, look for a book by Child's or Pepin. But Reese's book will provide  some good advice for the rest of us.
 



New Words:

• Desiccated (4): remove the moisture from (something, especially food), typically in order to preserve it.

Book References:

• Laurel's Kitchen
• Artisan Baking Across America by Maggie Glezer
• The New Complete Book of Breads by Bernard Clayton
• The Bread Baker's Apprentice by Peter Reinhart
• The Essentials of Cooking by James Peterson
• The King Arthur Flour Baker's Companion
• Good to the Grain by Kim Boyce
• Artichoke to Za'atar by Greg and Lucy Malouf
•  The Breakfast Book by Marion Cunningham
• Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
• The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse
• Family of Man by Edward Steichen
• The Cooking of Scaninavia
• The One-Block Feast by Margo True
• The Modern Art of Chinese cooking by Barbara Tropp
• Mrs Chiang's Szechwan Cookbook
• Japanese Cooking: A Simple Art by Shizuo Tsuijo
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver
• The Omnivore's Dilemma by Micheal Pollan
• Farm City by Novella Carpenter
• The Encyclopedia of Country Living by Carla Emery
• Food Rules by Michael Polan
• Top Secret Recipes by Todd Wilbur - a look behind the scenes for the recipes of fast foods
• Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingels Wilder
• Indian Cookery by E. P. Veersawmy
• Fast Food Nation
•  Wild Fermentation by Sandor Ellix Katz
• The Serial by Cyra McFadden
• Honey Handbook
• The Craft of Baking by Karen DeMasco
• Frugal Housewife
• Charcuterie by Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn
• Ethan Stowell's New Italian Kitchen
• The Oxford Companion to Food
• The Book of Jewish Food by Claudia Roden
• Aquavit by Marcus Samuelson
• Liquers for All Seasons 
• In the Kitchen with a Good Apetite by Melissa Clark
• Joy of Jams, Jellies and other Sweet Preserves by Linda Ziedrich
• The last Crumb Bakery
• The Blue Ball Book of Preserving
• More Home cooking by Laurie Colwin
• The River Cottage Cookbook
• Mustards Grill Napa Valley by Cindy Pawclyn
• Fancy Pantry by Helen Witty
• Cakewalk by Kate Moses
• Good to the Grain by Kim Boyce
• Baking by Dorie Greenspan
• The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz
• The Cake Bible by Rose Levy Beranbaum
• I Hate to cook Book

Good Quotes:

• First Line: Until recently, I never considered making my own peanut butter,
• Last Line: As my mother wrote on each copy of the recipe: Makes 12 large slices, 24 lady slices.
•  Inferior mass-produced often costs more-and sometimes quite a bit more-than homemade food. (4)
• It can be healthy, not to mention joyful, to get carried away. (78)

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Breads and Spreads
• Eggs
• Breakfast
• Vegetables
• Restaurant Food
• From Beak to Tail
• Junk Food and candy
• Dinner
• Fruit
• Honey
• Cured Meats
• Duck Eggs
• Cheese
• Goats
• Turkey
• Thanksgiving
• Drinks
• Canning
• Having People Over
• Desserts
• Afterwords
• Appendix

References:

• Author's Web Site
• Amazon-Book
• Amazon-Author
• Barnes and Noble
• GoodReads-Book
• GoodReads-Author
•  NPR
•  Christian Science Monitor review
• Book Blog about the book, from a book a day from the Williamson Regional Library