Empty Nest Cookbook

This feel-good cookbook will entice you to light the candles pour the Chardonnay and enjoy the music while preparing time-efficient interesting meals for two or more. The author who is an empty nester herself has created more than 200 original recipes for the book from appetizers to desserts as well as 25 menus with instructions. The cuisine is fun and light the mood is joyful and the setting is intimate as she presents food-and food for thought-for the unique period of life when the children are grown and gone and its just the two of you once again. Woven throughout are essays that offer positive insight and advice for this transitional time in life and for redefining yourself such as Youre Your Pets Mom Now No Need to Shut the Bedroom Door The Kids are Coming! Who Are You? Those Wold Whistles Arent For You All the Cookies Are Yours. The Empty Nest Cookbook marries old-style family cooking with the more sophisticated culinary yens of a working couple. In doing so it approaches the subject on three levels suited to the empty nester: cooking for two managing family visits and entertaining guests.