Effortless, family-friendly recipes for getting fresh meals on the table—even on the busiest days.
In a world of overly complicated recipes and exhausting meal prep trends, Homemade Simple remains the essential, trusted guide for getting real food on the table without losing your sanity. Renowned culinary authority Amanda Haas delivers a beautiful, foolproof blueprint for healthy family meals designed specifically for anyone juggling a packed calendar.
Featuring a foreword by television star Ayesha Curry and gorgeous full-color photography by Kathleen Sheffer, this classic collection offers more than 100 flavor-packed recipes that feed everyone from picky eaters to hungry omnivores.
Haas strips away the intimidation of from-scratch cooking, providing practical pantry strategies, prep guides, and adaptable meal plans that prove homemade cooking doesn't have to be a chore.
Designed for Busy Home Cooks:
- Flexible Cooking for Modern Diets: Includes guidance for adapting recipes to gluten-free, vegetarian, vegan, and dairy-free needs—making it easier to cook one meal for everyone at the table.
- Practical Meal Planning: Features realistic meal-planning ideas, prep and cook guidance, and pantry strategies designed to simplify everyday cooking.
- Essential Kitchen Staples: A dedicated chapter of go-to recipes—including Haas's famous Change-Your-Life Chicken Stock and vibrant Chimichurri—helps build flexible, flavorful meals from what you have on hand.
- Fast, Flavorful, Family-Friendly Recipes: From Sheet-Pan Halibut with Pesto and Spring Vegetables to Buffalo Cauliflower Hot Wings and Chicken-Coconut Red Curry Soup, the recipes are designed to maximize flavor in minimal time.
Homemade Simple doesn't ask you to change your schedule; it changes the way cooking fits into your life. It is the ultimate kitchen companion for fresh, nourishing, and completely effortless weeknight victories.
Praise
“Amanda is such a good cook that it hurts my feelings. This is her deal, and you’re about to see why. I kid you not, while I was just reading the unpublished manuscript, I put ingredients for five of her recipes in my online grocery cart. I refuse to sacrifice taste or decadence, and Amanda serves up an entire cookbook of bangers. Just buy this cookbook and thank me later.”JEN HATMAKER, host of the For the Love podcast and four-time New York Times–bestselling author
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“Homemade Simple is such a no-brainer go-to—such a family-pleasing, inviting-over-the-neighborhood-for-a-perfect-Friday-night kind of book—it’s too bad its title couldn’t be longer: Homemade Simple: Fun, Crowd-Pleasing, and Joyful! Thank you for telling me what’s for dinner, Amanda!!”JENNIFER GARNER, actress, Save the Children trustee, and cofounder of Once Upon a Farm
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“I love Amanda Haas because her recipes are as delicious as they look on Instagram. And the best part? Most of them come together faster than you can say ‘takeout.’ From her Sheet-Pan Halibut with Pesto and Spring Vegetables and Orecchiette with Broccoli, Lemon Zest, and Parmesan, she's got something for every member of the family.”KATIE COURIC, award-winning journalist and founder of Katie Couric Media
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“Amanda’s my ultimate kitchen-hype woman! The nourishing recipes in her new cookbook, Homemade Simple, will inspire and empower you to make dynamite home-cooked meals with minimal effort and maximum flavor.”MICHELLE TAM, New York Times–bestselling cookbook author and creator of Nom Nom Paleo
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“Amanda’s done it again! Simple family classics they’ll request on repeat, layered with batch cooking how-tos and realistic weekly meal planning.”JULIE LA BARBA, MD, FAAP; board-certified pediatrician and host of the Paging Dr. Mom podcast
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