Title: Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes
Author: Mike Adamick, author also to Dad’s Book of Awesome Projects
ISBN: 9781440588174
Suggested Retail: $18.99 US, paperback 192 pages
Here’s a fun cookbook that’s loaded with easy recipes and is geared towards dads or more ideally, dad cooking together with their children. Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes allows you to create over 100 kid-friendly meals. Quite a few of the recipes also come with a beautiful colored photos.
Each recipe gives you a run-down of the tools needed, ingredients used, and then step by step instruction. We recently tried Quin…What? Salad. When I first hear of quinoa, I was wondering how it was pronounced too and how it was used. The author throws in a little humor, like pronunciation of this protein packed food.
We also sampled Sloppish Joes. I would have never thought of putting hash browns in a sloppy joe, but it was a hit with my family. I normally make sloppy joes from scratch and my middle child told me these were the best she had ever had.
The only other one we have tried so far is Five-Minute Chocolate Chip Mug Cookies. 🙂
Please excuse the mess on the stove. We had a small flour explosion when I took of the lid from the container. Here is my oldest helping. She did most of the mug cake assembly with some direction.
The recipes in Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes are categorized with their level of difficulty so you can gauge what age of child can work on the recipe. They range from easy peasy to hard.
Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes has provided us with cooking fun together. This book is geared toward dads, but moms will certainly enjoy sampling creations from this book too. Dad’s Book of Awesome Recipes would make a great Father’s Day, birthday, or general guy gift idea.
About the Author:
Mike Adamick is a stay-at-home dad who writes for the San Francisco Chronicle’s parenting blog, The Poop; KQED Radio; and the Daddy Issues column on Jezebel.com. His work has also appeared in the New York Times, McSweeney’s, Details magazine, MSNBC, NPR’s “Morning Edition,” the Los Angeles Times, and the New York Observer, among other media outlets. Mike lives in San Francisco with his wife, Dana, and daughter, Emmeline. You can visit his website at www.mikeadamick.com.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book to review. No other compensation was received for this post.
