Live By the Book: The Mom 100 Cookbook

Following close on the heels wheels of The Truck Food Cookbook, this week’s Live By the Book style guide takes us all back to school, with The Mom 100 Cookbook: 100 Recipes Every Mom Needs in Her Back Pocket by Katie Workman. It’s only fair, now that the kids are back into their routine, that Mom gets to hit the books, too. Call it the textbook for the kitchen, the cheat sheet for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, Katie lays out a curriculum that can be adapted to any scenario (bake sale brownies due tomorrow?; in-laws coming for dinner? have the remnants of an elegant cheese plate languishing in the back of the fridge?) that delivers delicious dish after delicious dish that even the pickiest eaters can get down with. Here’s this week’s style syllabus to get you pumped to prepare meals for the kiddos…

…including Match & Munch puzzle piece sandwiches (for finicky, no-crust sandwich aficionados!), a lasagna tray to please everyone at the table (just like Katie’s “fork-in-the-road” recipes!), a split decision pie pan that allows for multiple flavors, two peas in a pod salt and pepper shakers (just sprinkle to taste!)…. Do I detect a theme? As it turns out, you can please them all. (And you’ve got a trophy to prove it.)

And hey, if not, at least you can defend yourself — with a tray of Fudgy One-Pot Brownies!