Food Family Style
August 13th, 2012. Filed under: Monday's Musings.
Texas ‘Queso Queen’& Entrepreneur Shares Secrets to Family Dinner
Time may be short and budgets may be tight, but these 365 mouthwatering recipes are sure to draw families into the kitchen and around the table day after day. Crowned Queso Queen, Leigh Oliver Vickery shares her passion for including the whole family in cooking and eating dinner around the kitchen table. From tasty breakfasts, soups and salads to sumptuous main dishes and desserts, Food Family Style delivers just what readers’ families ordered.
Vickery is an entrepreneur and founder of Leigh Oliver’s (www.leigholivers.com), a specialty, all natural food company. Her original white cheese queso and more than 25 other products can be found in Central Market, Whole Foods Market, Brookshire’s, Costco, Kroger and other retail venues across the country. She is now in her second season as a food offering at the Dallas Cowboys stadium when you order chips and queso or cheese steak. Those popular choices even made the list of foods given a four star review by the Dallas Morning News.
Throughout Food Family Style are symbols indicating recipes that double easily, freeze well, are gluten-free or vegetarian, can be made in a slow cooker, and more. And since there’s more to mealtime than just the food, this innovative book also includes tips about how to involve kids in meal preparation, meaningful conversation starters and simple ideas to bring warmth to your home.
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I’ve been seeing a lot of yummy looking recipes in this book.
One thing I really like is the fact that these recipes truly are simple. I used to do a lot of the time consuming fancy recipes. I’m over that now.
At the present I’m on a limited meal plan for several months. Then I’ll be able to try many more of these recipes. I’ve currently had to modify some of them a bit.
One really good thing is all the gluten free recipes here. My next one to try will be the Slow Cooker Jambalaya. My mouth is watering just reading the ingredient list.
***A special thank you to Donna Hausler for providing a review copy.***
Leigh Oliver Vickery is creator and founder of Leigh Oliver’s, a specialty “fun food” company with numerous products on the market in at least twenty-five states and grocery chains, including Whole Foods Market and Costco. She is the former food editor of the Tyler Morning Telegraph in Tyler, Texas, and now blogs at www.onebighappytable.com. Leigh also has a regular twice-weekly segment on two local TV stations called “One Big Happy Table with Leigh Vickery.” She lives in Tyler, Texas, with her husband, two sons, and three dogs.
Available August 2012 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.