Normally the prospect of following recipes makes me a little dizzy and cross eyed. Add I tend to get a pit in my stomach when I see a recipe that is labeled "healthy". Usually, healthy means no sweets, no wheat, no dairy... no fun! But when I started flipping through
The Organic Family Cookbook by Anni Daulter all of that melted away. I was immediately drawn to this beautiful book full of mouth watering photography and equally tantalizing recipes.
You know what's so cool about this book? It's so accessible. You don't have to be a hard core, from scratch kind of person to dive right into these recipes and feel like you are making a healthy change for the better. I was able to dig up many ingredients I already had but never knew what to do with and make some delicious dishes. And none of it felt like "work", it was all good fun and easy too.
My favorite part about this book is all of the little side bars chock full of fun ideas, from crafts to cool party ideas to what you should look for when buying eggs. The side bars in this book are so fabulous they could be a whole other book in themselves!
I let Zach pick the first recipe and surprise, surprise he flipped to the desserts and decided on chocolate chip cookies. I always followed the first recipe Google gives you when making chocolate chip cookies in the past, so I was surprised to see some completely different ingredients for this classic cookie. Did you know you can put healthier ingredients into a regular chocolate chip cookie and your kids will never know? Oh and the touch of adding dark chocolate chips... bliss!
I am so thrilled that Anni has offered to give away a copy of
The Organic Family Cookbook to one lucky reader here. All you have to do to enter is head on over to the
Organic Family Cookbook Facebook page and hit "like"
and leave a comment here letting us know you did. If you are not on Facebook, don't sweat it, just leave a comment here. I will leave comments open until January 19, 2012 and announce a winner here that night. Thank you Anni!
Random.org picked #6 so Abby is the winner! Thank you everyone for entering and thank you Anni!
Abby, please click the "Contact" tab above and email me your contact info. Enjoy!
