Recipes and Other Nourishment for New and Expectant Parents 9780735240001, 9780735239999, 0735239991

Table of contents :
Introduction

What to Expect (From This Book)

You Can Go Your Own Way

The Pregnant Pantry

Tools and Equipment

Cravings

The part when you’re pregnant and revelling in highly specific food hankerings.

Really Crunchy Granola

Vanilla Almond Milk

Cold Fruits Smoothie Bowl

Choosing Motherhood

Wedge Salad with Green Ranch and Pickles

Caesar Salad with Garlicky Croutons

Summer Vegetable Succotash

Consider the Oyster: Thoughts on a European Pregnancy

French Onion Soup with Cheese Toast

Flakey Biscuits with Sausage Gravy

A Very Good Hamburger

We Need to Talk about Juno

Loaded Sheet Pan Nachos

Eggplant Parmesan

Spicy Noods

Cacio e Pepe

Tokyo to the Moon

Chocolate Sheet Cake with Sour Cream Frosting

The Big Chill

The part when birth is imminent and you’re preparing yourself, mind, body and freezer.

How to Freeze and Thaw

Freezer Hummus

Peach Gazpacho

Golden Squash Soup

You Don’t Need Everything, but These Things Are Important

Chicken Noodle Soup, Sort Of

Red Beet Borscht with Crème Fraîche and Dill

Mexican Adobo with Pork and Chilies

Three-Alarm Turkey Chili

Three’s Company

Brothy White Beans and Greens

Fairy Godmother Minestrone

Polish Meatballs with Lemon and Caraway

Red Pepper Curry Chicken

Sour Cream Scones

Chocolate Chip Banana Cake

Deliverance / Labour Day Lemonade

One Hand, One Love

The part when you’re hungrier than ever and always holding a baby (at least one).

Golden Milk Chia Pudding

Cool Hand Zucc

Peanut Butter Mother Lover

Moringa Matcha

Cinnamon Hocho

Breastfeeding: It’s Complicated

Red Flannel Hash

The Elephant in the Room

Pan con Tomate

High Acid, Deep Green Salad

Kabocha and Feta Salad

Green Pepper Pot Soup

Greens and Cheese Grandma Slice

How to Read with One Hand

Tamale Pie with Cornbread Crust

Cheaters’ Congee

All the Single Ladies

Walk-in Tacos

Fattoush with a Side of Flatbread

Fried Halloumi Plate with Green Beans, Potatoes and Jammy Egg

Turkey Tetrazzini

Broiled Maple Char

Mom Guilt

Kabocha Squash and Olive Oil Loaf

Ginger Cake

2 AM Cookies

A Full Plate

The part when your baby (and then, suddenly, toddler) has joined the family table.

The Good

Green Ginger Smoothie

Breakfast Cookies

Pancakes for the People

On the Kindness of Strangers

Cashew Cream Overnight Oats

Coconut Milk Rice Pudding

Ragamuffins

Molasses Brown Bread

Chilaquiles

On Postpartum Dating

Antipasto Pasta Salad

Triple Mushroom Soup

Beef Goulash with Buttered Egg Noodles

Roast Chicken in a Hurry

Mulligatawny

Red Lentil Dal with Spiced Onions

Saag Paneer (with Tofu Option!)

Red Rice and Beans

Invasive Species

Grilled Vegetable Heaven with Whipped Ricotta

Lemon Caper Roasted Cauliflower

Wilted Greens Forever

Spanish Tortilla

Comfort Me with Tinned Fish

Cottage Pasta

Cheesy Polenta

Hot Pepper Cornbread

Polenta Peach Cake

Peanut Butter Marshmallow Squares

When the Rubber Meets the Road

Home Economics

The part when you’re creating a world for your children.

Play Dough

Bath Bombs

Beeswax Wraps

Potato Stamps

Bath Paint

Fears as Family Heirlooms (or Not)

Finger Paint

A Calming Face Mask

All-Purpose Balm with Options

Basic All-Purpose Cleaner

The Exchange

Building Blocks

Stocks, sauces, spreads and one dough.

Pizza Dough

Quick Pickled Vegetables

Vegetable Stock

Chicken Stock

Roasted Applesauce

Cinnamon Pecan Butter

Raspberry Chia Jam

Mildred’s Yogurt Sauce

Lemon Curd

Aioli

Tzatziki

Pesto Change-O

Lemon Vinaigrette

Balsamic Vinaigrette

Green Ranch

Lime Crema

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