Live Life Deliciously with Tara Teaspoon: Recipes for Busy Weekdays and Leisurely Weekends

by Tara Teaspoon

Overview

As a food editor and stylist for Martha Stewart, Tara knows how to create and showcase gorgeously themed meals for every lifestyle and occasion.

In her first cookbook, she shares more than 120 delicious showstopping recipes that are designed to impress. From leisurely weekend brunches spent over burrata cheese with grilled peaches and orange zest chimichurri to easy weeknight rice bowls with carrot-ginger dressing to a mouthwatering Italian crostata baked tart, Tara explains how to put together and master several special go-to dishes from the culinary capitals of the world to add to your repertoire.

The book also features a section where she provides a basic recipe which can then be easily transformed into two or three new recipes to make meal planning a breeze during busy weeknight schedules.

Live Life Deliciously with Tara Teaspoon shows serious foodies how to present food as an interesting and beautiful culinary experience with dishes that taste as delicious as they look.
 
 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781629727851
Publisher:	Shadow Mountain Publishing
Publication date:	10/06/2020
Pages:	288
Sales rank:	672,346
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Tara has spent more than fifteen years in the food publishing industry creating recipes and articles, and food styling for various magazines, books, television and advertising.

Most recently she has been the Food and Entertaining Director of Ladies’ Home Journal magazine. Prior to the Journal, Tara was a Food Editor at Martha Stewart Living,Kids, and Weddings magazines. She has appeared on the Martha Stewart television show, The Today Show and as a judge on The Food Network Thanksgiving Challenge.
 

Table of Contents

Table of Contents:

• Intro
  • New Pantry Staples
    • A quick list of ingredients to add to your pantry
  • The Right Equipment
    • A list of what Tara considers essential tools for every kitchen
  • Bites, Dips, and Snacks
    • Restaurant-Style Salsa – Weekday easy
    • Burrata with Grilled Peaches and Orange Zest Chimichurri – Weekend leisurely
  • Salads, Bowls, and Dressings
    • Salmon, Veggie, and Carrot-Ginger Rice Bowl – Weekday easy
    • Watermelon Arugula Salad with Raspberry Balsamic Vinaigrette – Weekend leisurely
  • Side Love
    • Cheese-and-Herb Potato Gratin – Weekday easy
    • Green Beans with Browned-Butter Almonds, Garlic, and Mint – Weekend leisurely
  • Weeknight Routines (Weekday Easy)
    • Easy Chicken and Biscuits with Honey Butter
    • Thai Chicken Meatball Lettuce Wraps with Sweet Chili Sauce
  • Adventurous Dinners (Can be either weekday easy or weekend leisurely)
    • Peanut Noodle and Pork “Satay”
    • Sweet Glazed Sausage Tartine with Greens
  • Meals for Gathering (weekend leisurely)
    • Orange-Ginger Pork Dumplings
    • Moroccan Chicken Kebabs with Chermoula Sauce
  • Morning Glories
    • Giant Blueberry Streusel Muffins
    • Mexican-Spiced Black-Bean Hash Browns and Eggs
  • Sweets to Share
    • Cherry, Anise, and Almont Crostata
    • Butter Pecan Cake with Browned-Butter Whipped Cream

Editorial Reviews

07/06/2020

Bench aka Teaspoon, former food editor for Martha Stewart’s Living and Ladies Home Journal, debuts with a stylish cookbook aimed at cooks who “have a passion for feeding people.” Bench begins with a chapter called “Bites, Dips, and Snacks,” which includes burrata with grilled peaches and orange zest chimichurri; a Little Italy antipasto board; and an innovative grapefruit guacamole. “Salads, Bowls, and Dressings” features a salad of butter lettuce, fig, and ricotta, as well as an assortment of vinaigrettes and dressings. Sides include variations on roasted vegetables and a mac and cheese adorned with caramelized onions; a chapter on weeknight cooking showcases chicken and biscuits, while “Meals for Gathering” offers Moroccan kebabs with chermoula sauce (a “party-table centerpiece”), as well as a showstopping three-foot “Never-Ending Party-Sub” that feeds 14 people. For Bench, preparation is key: she lists her go-to equipment (food processor, microplane, stand mixer) and introduces “new pantry staples” (sumac, ponzu, multiple vinegars). Throughout, Bench provides valuable serving and storage suggestions, swaps, and presentation ideas. These tempting, flexible recipes will go a long way in helping home cooks expand their repertoire. (Oct.)

Publishers Weekly

"Live Life Deliciously brings Tara’s style of modern yet comfortingly familiar recipes right to your hands. Both serious and casual cooks will find success and cooking joy by following her simple but impressive takes on classics and flavorful creations.”
 

Susan Spungen

"Tara's passion for cooking and entertaining paired with her exceptional professional experience make for a cookbook adventure that no kitchen should be without. It's the perfect companion for those essential, everyday recipes, while also an incredible cooking exploration of new pantry staples equally fit for special occasions or lazy weekends. Page after page, there's not one recipe in this book I can't wait to bring to life in my own kitchen again."

Kelsey Nixon