The Empty Nest Cookbook

By Joy Smith

Book Overview

This feel-good cookbook will entice you to light the candles, pour the Chardonnay, and enjoy the music while preparing time-efficient, interesting meals for two or more. The author, who is an empty nester herself, has created more than 200 original recipes for the book, from appetizers to desserts, as well as 25 menus with instructions. The cuisine is fun and light, the mood is joyful, and the setting is intimate as she presents food-and food for thought-for the unique period of life when the children are grown and gone and it's just the two of you once again.

Woven throughout are essays that offer positive insight and advice for this transitional time in life and for redefining yourself, such as "You're Your Pet's Mom Now," "No Need to Shut the Bedroom Door," "The Kids are Coming " "Who Are You?" "Those Wold Whistles Aren't For You," and "All the Cookies Are Yours."

The Empty Nest Cookbook marries old-style family cooking with the more sophisticated culinary yens of a working couple. In doing so, it approaches the subject on three levels suited to the empty nester: cooking for two, managing family visits, and entertaining guests.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1581823762
• ISBN13: 9781581823769
• Release Date: October 2003
• Publisher: Cumberland House Publishing
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 7.0" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Enjoying My Empty Nest

Not only does this book have wonderful recipies that I turn to time and again for taste, elegance, and simplicity, but the essays touch my heart, reminding me of the importance of building relationships and how they change and evolve over time. The nest is never empty for long; we're always cooking for someone and this book makes it easy!

A feel-good guide to tending the kitchen

Featuring more than 200 original recipes and 25 menus with "kitchen cook friendly" instructions, The Empty Nest Cookbook is an enthusiastically recommended, feel-good guide to tending the kitchen and preparing family meals after the children are grown and gone. Interspersed with thoughts and essays that offer illuminating insights to this new phase of domestic life, The Empty Nest Cookbook includes sometimes indulgent but always delicious delights which range from Strawberry Salsa; Home-Fried Potatoes; Sausage and Peppers; to Baked Amaretto Pears; Gourmet Turkey Burgers; Mile-High Lemon Meringue Pie; and Glazed Cranberries and Onions.