Is her new job at an Oregon restaurant a recipe for disaster—or a second chance? Take one single dad in Oregon, working night and day to open his hot new restaurant. Mix in his irresistible new hire—a woman who’s flown to this mountain town from New York, burdened by a secret and looking for a fresh start. Simmer until a kiss leads to a clandestine affair that plunges Lachlan McKinnel and Eliza Coleman from the frying pan right into the fire . . . Praise for the novels of Rachael Johns “Appealing . . . believable characters and charming small-town setting.” —Publishers Weekly “A sincere and heartfelt story.” —RT Book Reviews
A must-read for any man going through the pain of divorce or bringing up their children as a single father. When Mark Tucker's marriage ended suddenly he feared that his life would fall apart. His family as he knew it would never be the same... he became the prime parent of his two daughters. Searching for books to help him through his trauma he found nothing. So he wrote one himself. What happens to Tucker is surprising and uplifting: through the darkness and despair of divorce he finds a strength in himself he didn't know he had. He becomes a better Dad and embraces life in ways he never thought possible. This is a moving, insightful and often hilarious book. It approaches a difficult subject from a practical and also entertaining way.
From the author of the New York Times Well Blog series, My Fat Dad Every story and every memory from my childhood is attached to food… Dawn Lerman spent her childhood constantly hungry. She craved good food as her father, 450 pounds at his heaviest, pursued endless fad diets, from Atkins to Pritikin to all sorts of freeze-dried, saccharin-laced concoctions, and insisted the family do the same—even though no one else was overweight. Dawn’s mother, on the other hand, could barely be bothered to eat a can of tuna over the sink. She was too busy ferrying her other daughter to acting auditions and scolding Dawn for cleaning the house (“Whom are you trying to impress?”). It was chaotic and lonely, but Dawn had someone she could turn to: her grandmother Beauty. Those days spent with Beauty, learning to cook, breathing in the scents of fresh dill or sharing the comfort of a warm pot of chicken soup, made it all bearable. Even after Dawn’s father took a prestigious ad job in New York City and moved the family away, Beauty would send a card from Chicago every week—with a recipe, a shopping list, and a twenty-dollar bill. She continued to cultivate Dawn’s love of wholesome food, and ultimately taught her how to make her own way in the world—one recipe at a time. In My Fat Dad, Dawn reflects on her colorful family and culinary-centric upbringing, and how food shaped her connection to her family, her Jewish heritage, and herself. Humorous and compassionate, this memoir is an ode to the incomparable satisfaction that comes with feeding the ones you love.
100 easy one-pan recipes any guy can make Whether you're living in a dorm, living that bachelor life, or trying to impress a date, being able to throw together a delicious meal is something every guy should know how to do. And the One-Pan Cookbook for Men is here to prove that cooking hearty and healthy meals takes little more than a skillet. No need for fancy cookware or ingredients here. Just grab your pan, follow the steps, and serve up anything from Italian Sausage Strata to Super Nachos to Vegetable Stir-Fry. No stress, no mess—The recipes in this cookbook are quick and simple so you don't have to spend a ton of time cooking or washing dishes to create a complete meal from scratch. One-pan 101—Find simple advice and guidance to master the basics of cooking, learn what kitchen tools to keep handy, what foods to always keep in your pantry, and cooking shortcuts to save time. Health conscious—These balanced recipes include veggies, grains, meats, and other nutritious foods so they're good-tasting and good for you! Get ready to master cooking basics with just a few tools and a little know-how!
The Best Simple Recipes offers more than 200 full-flavored easy-to-prepare recipes that can be on the table in 30 minutes or less in an easy-to-read paperback format. Just because time is short, it doesn't mean you have to settle for a can of soup or a sandwich for dinner, or making one of the many boring and flavorless fast recipes (which often aren't even as fast as they promise). Our test cooks have created more than 200 recipes that keep the ingredients and cooking time to a minimum and offer tons of flavor and plenty of variety. By combining steps, minimizing pans, and employing a little test kitchen trickery, our test cooks have made naturally fast recipes even faster, and they've made recipes that traditionally take hours ready for the table in half an hour. And while they used a minimum of ingredients, one thing they didn't minimize was flavor.
A former "New Yorker" editor chronicles her quest to overcome the convergence of the sudden loss of her brother, being dumped by her fiancé, and being evicted from her apartment by cooking her way across the country while staying with friends and family.
Following separation and divorce, many men find the prospect of having cook for themselves, and their children, a rather daunting task. This book is specifically written to help here: from reassurance and encouragement in the new life, through how to set up a kitchen including handy hints and healthy facts, to 79 recipes covering breakfasts, lunches, suppers and more. There is also a fun chapter about baking. The book is aimed at giving men not used to cooking the confidence to excel in the kitchen. Enjoy!
If baseball is a metaphor for life, the premise of this guide is that small improvements in diet and lifestyle made consistently over time will have significant, beneficial results for the health and well-being of the single father and his children. Includes a set of "Single Father's Golden Rules" to encourage a happy, fulfilled, and meaningful life for the single dad.
His son and daughter— They are her family, too Christina Braswell would do anything for her divorced best friend’s kids, including help their father. Park ranger and sudden single dad Brett Hendrix inspires trust and has everyone’s back. But Christina’s torn between loyalty and a deepening attachment to the handsome Sweetwater, Tennessee, lawman. Brett’s not making it any easier—Christina’s finally feeling as if she belongs somewhere.
Nonwhite and white, rich and poor, born to an unwed mother or weathering divorce, over half of all children in the current generation will live in a single-parent family--and these children simply will not fare as well as their peers who live with both parents. This is the clear and urgent message of this powerful book. Based on four national surveys and drawing on more than a decade of research, Growing Up with a Single Parent sharply demonstrates the connection between family structure and a child's prospects for success. What are the chances that the child of a single parent will graduate from high school, go on to college, find and keep a job? Will she become a teenage mother? Will he be out of school and out of work? These are the questions the authors pursue across the spectrum of race, gender, and class. Children whose parents live apart, the authors find, are twice as likely to drop out of high school as those in two-parent families, one and a half times as likely to be idle in young adulthood, twice as likely to become single parents themselves. This study shows how divorce--particularly an attendant drop in income, parental involvement, and access to community resources--diminishes children's chances for well-being. The authors provide answers to other practical questions that many single parents may ask: Does the gender of the child or the custodial parent affect these outcomes? Does having a stepparent, a grandmother, or a nonmarital partner in the household help or hurt? Do children who stay in the same community after divorce fare better? Their data reveal that some of the advantages often associated with being white are really a function of family structure, and that some of the advantages associated with having educated parents evaporate when those parents separate. In a concluding chapter, McLanahan and Sandefur offer clear recommendations for rethinking our current policies. Single parents are here to stay, and their worsening situation is tearing at the fabric of our society. It is imperative, the authors show, that we shift more of the costs of raising children from mothers to fathers and from parents to society at large. Likewise, we must develop universal assistance programs that benefit low-income two-parent families as well as single mothers. Startling in its findings and trenchant in its analysis, Growing Up with a Single Parent will serve to inform both the personal decisions and governmental policies that affect our children's--and our nation's--future.
