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The Gastrokid Cookbook: Feeding a Foodie Family in a Fast-Food World
By Hugh Garvey, Matthew Yeomans
Wiley - 2009
At first, I thought this book might be too trendy to be very helpful, but it has lots of very simple recipes that yield tasty and nutritious foods that kids might actually eat. It does not take the hide-the-vegetable tack of some other books. It has a grilled zucchini recipe with haloumi cheese that, if you can get a kid to try it, would appeal to them: smoky, salty, cheesy, but, really, it's mostly vegetable. Many of the dishes rely on this technique. Pair a very healthy item with a little bit of bacon, a little bit of cheese, garlic & parsley, smoked paprika, etc. Give the food some savoriness, without being over the top, and the kids will like probably it after you serve it to them two or three times. Other recipe examples from the book: watermelon & feta salad; cauliflower puree; Parmesan chicken cutlets; seared scallops; pancetta & sage pizza; make-ahead French toast.