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The bestselling author and Emmy Award-winning cohost of ABC's The Chew takes the intimidation out of cooking and shows you how to savor life fully every day with this gorgeous cookbook featuring more than 125 easy, healthy, and delicious timesaving recipes.For many people, especially those who aren't quite at home in the kitchen, the idea of cooking a homemade meal can be terrifying, uninspiring, or just feel like a chore. In The Happy Cook, Daphne Oz makes cooking fun and relaxing, and shows anyone - newbie or seasoned expert - how to celebrate every day with delicious meals that are as easy to create as they are to enjoy. Like cooking with a good friend and a glass of wine, The Happy Cook is filled with friendly advice, expert tips, inspiring ideas, and best of all, 125 simple yet fabulous recipes, all using just a handful of ingredients, that will transform the most nervous or reluctant novice into a happy, confident home cook.Here are recipes for the whole day and the whole week, from Saturday dinner parties to quick-and-easy weeknight leftovers. With The Happy Cook, eating well is a breeze with delights such as:Breakfast - Crispy-Crunchy Honey-Thyme Granola, Chocolate Almond Breakfast Bars, and Coconut-Mango PancakesLunch - Kale and Plum Salad with Miso Vinaigrette, Warm Spring Pea Soup, Seared Garlic-Lime Shrimp Banh Mi and Philly Cheesesteak QuesadillasDinner - Truffle Salt Roast Chicken with Lentils and Squash, Cashew Soba Noodles with Fried Shallots, Sea Bass Roasted Over Citrus, and Apricot-Rosemary Glazed Lamb ChopsDessert - "Outlaw" Carrot Cake with Brown Sugar Buttercream, Better Brownies, Sour Apple Juice Pops, and Nutty Banana "Ice Cream"The Happy Cook is all about real-life application - and real-life success. Celebrate every occasion and every meal with mouthwatering, vibrant, easy food. It's not about perfection, as Daphne makes clear. It's about the confidence to get into the kitchen, have fun, and become a happy cook!
About the Author
Daphne Oz is an Emmy Award-winning television host, New York Times-bestselling author, chef, wife and mother of 4. America tuned in to learn alongside Daphne as she cooked up a healthy, happy life full of taste, flavor and delicious fun as co-host of ABC's hit daytime show The Chew and is the newest judge to join the cast of FOX's MasterChef Junior. Daphne is currently launching a new syndicated talk/cooking show - The Good Dish with co-hosts Gail Simmons and Jamika Pessoa - which launched on Fox stations across the U.S on January 17th. In Spring, 2022, Daphne will publish her fourth cookbook, Eat Your Heart Out: All-Fun No-Fuss Food to Celebrate Eating Clean, a collection of 150 recipes that make healthy eating fun.She is a highly sought-after guest on shows like The Today Show, Good Morning America, The Rachael Ray Show, Fox & Friends and The Dr. Oz Show. Daphne has also been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Reader's Digest, Glamour, Teen Vogue, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, People, and US Weekly. In addition to Eat Your Heart Out, Daphne is the author of The Happy Cook, Relish and The Dorm Room Diet. She received her chef's degree from the Natural Gourmet Institute and is a graduate of the Institute of Integrative Medicine. She holds an undergraduate degree from Princeton University.Daphne Oz loves food. In fact, she's built her career around this love of exploring and enjoying the world, bite after wonderful bite. But she knows first-hand how endless indulging robs you of the truly memorable moments - and makes it hard to stay healthy. On the other hand, restricting ourselves with too many rules means we stop enjoying mealtime and start missing out. She shows her followers how to live a Life Unlimited balancing healthy living with life's indulgences while living a life full of style, beauty and passion.Daphne lives in Florida with her husband, John, and their four children.
