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Cooking from Scratch for Teens

Make Your Own Healthy & Delicious Food
By Lisa Burns
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Cooking from Scratch for Teens by Lisa Burns is a lively cookbook designed to help young cooks master the kitchen with ease. Featuring 60 simple, wholesome recipes tailored for teens, it offers dishes ranging from Homestyle Baked Mac 'n' Cheese and Chicken Pot Pie Made Easy to The Best Party Popcorn and Totally Loaded Nachos. Lisa equips readers with essential skills and helpful tips to elevate everyday meals and entertain friends with confidence.
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This cookbook is ideal for teenagers venturing into cooking and young adults looking to develop practical skills in the kitchen with approachable, tasty recipes.

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These essential beginner-friendly recipes teach teens how to level up their kitchen game by cooking simple yet flavour-packed meals for themselves and friends.

Easy Recipes to Level Up Your Kitchen Game.

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Easy Recipes to Level Up Your Kitchen Game

Cooking from scratch is not as hard as you think! With a few healthy ingredients and simple foolproof recipes created just for teens, Cooking from Scratch for Teens will be your ultimate guide to cooking your favourite foods at home. Show off your cooking skills to friends and family with recipes for delicious dinners, party food, after-school snacks and more. Each stellar recipe in this can't-be-beat collection will equip you with all the essential skills you'll need to create fantastic, wholesome meals, thanks to Lisa Burns' helpful advice as a parent to a teen chef. Lisa guides you through the kitchen, so you can graduate from boxed mac and cheese and frozen burritos to Homestyle Baked Mac 'n' Cheese and Awesome Black Bean Taquitos!

Wow everyone at the table by cooking your family an awesome dinner like Chicken Pot Pie Made Easy or Fancy Lasagna with No Layering. Host an unforgettable movie night for your friends with The Best Party Popcorn and Totally Loaded Nachos. Discover the secrets to cooking the best pasta dishes, homemade pizzas, juicy steaks and hamburgers even better than your parents!

So, grab an apron and get cooking! With these 60 epic starter recipes and tons of teen chef tips, you'll be well on your way to a lifetime of happy, healthy cooking.

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"Lisa's delicious recipes are the perfect resource for young adults eager to establish their independence in the kitchen," praises Tiffany Dahle, author of The Totally Awesome Ultimate Kids' Cookbook. Ainsley Arment, founder of Wild + Free, adds, "Lisa mixes the perfect ingredients to create the ultimate recipe for teen chefs: tempting flavours, beautiful photographs and, best of all, fun."

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781645679141

Publisher: Page Street Publishing Co.

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 05 September 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Page Street Kids

Illustration: 60 photos

Audience: Teenage

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 13.0mm

Width: 200.0mm

Height: 232.0mm

Weight: 423g

Pages: 168

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Fiction Lisa Burns Young Adult

About the Author

Lisa Burns is the author of Family Meals from Scratch in Your Instant Pot® and the creator of the food and lifestyle blog This Pilgrim Life. Her work has been featured by BuzzFeed, Treehouse Schoolhouse, MOPS International and more. She lives in Greensboro, North Carolina, with her family.

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