Simply Laura Lea: Balanced Recipes for Everyday Living
Hardcover – Illustrated, April 7, 2020
Description
"A friendly and relaxed approach to healthy eating. [Laura Lea's] diverse and enticing recipes promise to make healthy eaters out of even the most reluctant." - Publishers Weekly on The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook " The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook isn't your average cookbook. Laura Lea hits the mark between home-cooked nostalgia and whole food goodness with recipes that'll keep your taste buds satisfied and your belly full from dawn til dusk." - Edible Nashville The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook "Features more than 120 healthy, easy-to-prepare recipes for everyday, at-home occasions. Prioritizing whole foods and a balanced menu over diet fads and trends―and including pantry shopping lists and serving portion recommendations―the recipes manage to be nutritious and healthy while simultaneously comforting and satisfying. The perfect stocking stuffer for those resolving to eat healthier in the new year." - NBC News, BETTER "I wanted to bring back a type of food that’s nutrient dense but doesn’t take away from what people really love,” [Laura Lea] says. “If anything, they can get the best of both worlds.” With her second cookbook, Simply Laura Lea , it’s clear that she’s done just that. - Southern Living Laura Lea is a certified holistic chef, consultant, and the founder/writer/photographer of the popular food website LLBalanced . After graduating from the University of Virginia, she discovered her passion for healthful cooking and nutrition while living a fast-paced corporate life in New York. She handed it all over to enroll at the Natural Gourmet Institute and headed back to her hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, to launch LLBalanced where she provides readers with affordable, comforting, and make-ahead family-friendly meals that are packed with nutrients and flavor. Her dishes are often remakes of Southern-influenced comfort food, with the intention that we can have the best of both worlds. She currently teaches cooking classes and consults with individuals, corporations, and restaurants on all aspects of healthy eating and nutrition while contributing articles and recipes for, among others, Mind Body Green , Nashville Lifestyles , Southern Living , Shape, and Greatist.com. Sean Brock is the founding chef of the award-winning Husk restaurants and the chef/owner of Audrey, opening next year in Nashville. His first book, Heritage, was the winner of the James Beard Award for Best American Cookbook and the IACP Julia Child First Book Award in 2015 and was called “the blue-ribbon chef cookbook of the year” by The New York Times . Brock won the James Beard Award for Best Chef Southeast in 2010 and was a finalist for Outstanding Chef in 2013, 2014, and 2015. His TV résumé includes Chef’s Table and The Mind of a Chef, for which he was nominated for an Emmy. Raised in rural Virginia, Brock is passionate about preserving and restoring heirloom ingredients. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee. Find him on Instagram @hseanbrock.
Features & Highlights
- Featuring recipes drawn from familiar classic dishes and new favorites, Laura Lea’s new book,
- Simply Laura Lea
- , offers delicious home-cooked food without sacrificing healthy eating.
- In
- Simply Laura Lea
- the author of
- The Laura Lea Balanced Cookbook
- and creator of LLBalanced.com offers a collection of over 130 delicious, balanced, and healthy recipes based on the food she eats every day. Unlike diets that prescribe food restrictions that are neither attainable nor desirable on a long-terms basis, Laura Lea promotes an attainable approach to cooking and eating healthy for life. All of the recipes collected here follow the LL Balanced Approach to Food:
- Focus on whole, fresh foods that make you feel great.
- Focus on whole, fresh foods that make you feel great.
- Ditch any preconceived idea of what you should eat, and list to your body; it is your best wellness guru.
- Ditch any preconceived idea of what you should eat, and list to your body; it is your best wellness guru.
- Indulge in moderation, and occasionally, not in moderation!
- Indulge in moderation, and occasionally, not in moderation!
- Have fun and don’t take yourself, or your food, too seriously. Enjoy food in a relaxed atmosphere and in the company of dear ones.
- Have fun and don’t take yourself, or your food, too seriously. Enjoy food in a relaxed atmosphere and in the company of dear ones.
- Above all, practice self-love and patience in the kitchen. It will translate to the rest of your life.In Simply Laura Lea, you’ll find familiar dishes that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. And with ingredient lists comprised of a limited number of easy-to-find items, recipes are approachable and easy-to-follow for new or seasoned home cooks. As Laura Lea likes to say: "No diet, no dogma, just great healthy food."
- Above all, practice self-love and patience in the kitchen. It will translate to the rest of your life.
- In
- Simply Laura Lea
- , you’ll find familiar dishes that can be cooked in 30 minutes or less. And with ingredient lists comprised of a limited number of easy-to-find items, recipes are approachable and easy-to-follow for new or seasoned home cooks. As Laura Lea likes to say: "No diet, no dogma, just great healthy food."
