The Instant Pot is a revolutionary home appliance that is taking home-cooking to a whole new level. Even in the most basic model, the Instant Pot is able to perform the abilities of five home gadgets–a pressure cooker, rice cooker, slow cooker, steamer, and warmer–in one device. Its versatility makes the Instant Pot is the perfect all-encompassing cooking tool for anyone’s kitchen. With The …
With The Everyday Instant Pot Cookbook, veteran and celebrity chef Brian Woolley has curated and cultivated an astounding collection of delicious recipes to try out with your Instant Pot. Featured within this cookbook are sections on how to cook red meats, poultry, pork, seafood, vegetables, and more with your Instant Pot Easy-to-follow instructions make this book accessible to anyone–parents who work long hours, college students, young adults with limited space, beginner cooks, or professional chefs. The book also includes an introduction to the Instant Pot and meal planning as well as a thirty-day sample meal plan and blank grids to track and record your own meal planning.
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Engaging, refreshingly honest and delightful!
I can’t remember the last time I read I book that was this entertaining! Part memoir, part advice book, part recipe book—adding up to a hilarious, irreverent, and often poignant book! Although I have never been a single parent, I could still relate to so many of the author’s stories and insights, and I imagine that single parents will be able to commiserate with the author’s challenges and the successes. I really enjoyed Lillibridge’s style of writing, fresh and funny but very honest!
“My ambition to become an amorphous glob of green Jell-O with no backbone, opinions, or suggestions made me one heck of a boring wife.”
Reasons to pick this book up:
If you are/were a single parent and/or your kids and/or ex/spouse drive you crazy….pick this book up
If the chapter called, “Single Parenting Turns you into a Teenager” makes you curious…pick this book up
Recipes for Homemade gourmet-ish Tortilla chips, desperation popcorn, chocolate cookies, and a homemade spa type skin exfoliant entices you…pick this book up.
Need help explaining how Santa can make it to all Malls on the same day….by way of oversized elves maybe….pick this book up
Love to be able to cry, laugh and understand that you are not alone in this crazy world…pick this book up.
If the chapter “Cleaning Tips for Slackers” which starts off with “lock the children in the closet until you are finished cleaning, or their 18th birthday, whichever comes last”… sounds interesting and entertaining…pick this book up.
If you to need to make a spider contract with all those creepy things in your house…such as “Spiders larger than a nickel but smaller than a quarter would be nervously relocated to the outdoors.”…pick this book up.
Nannies versus husbands….enough said, you will need to…pick this book up.
Want to know if a clean vehicle is possible with kiddos….pick this book up
If you can relate to any of the above, this is worth reading!
When I originally flipped this book open to take peek, I flipped to a page that read, “don’t bother picking up the toys on the floor, just vacuum around them. When company appears, act surprised at the mess your children made while you were taking a shower.” Right then I realized this book is LIFE and started it immediately because I could relate so much to that.
This was definitely a 5 read!
Lara Lillibridge has combined a diary, journals, recipes and other intriguing information in her Memoir “Mama, Mama and Only Mama” The Genres for this book are Memoir, and Humor. The author gives witty advice on” divorce, dating, parenting, crafting, and simple recipes.” (Stated above loosely from the cover) Some of the recipes involve opening a bag from the freezer, or a can. Some seem like science experiments, but no stress, so all is fine.
Parenting is difficult, and the author has a sense of humor when it comes to her children.Things just seem to work out, no rhyme or reason. Lara Lillibridge has a way of describing what can be as sticky situations, and manages to go with the flow.
I found myself chuckling at many of the situations in Lara’s life. Dating is also very interesting. Some of it is a learning experience. Lara gave one of her first boyfriends a key to her home where she lived with her children. She realized that it might not be a safe idea and learned from that.
Lara has nick names for her children, Big Pants, and Little Pants. (She also has nick names for her ex-husband, and boyfriend) Seriously, Lara does give some advice based on her experiences that can make other women feel more comfortable. This was a delightful and fun read, and I would highly recommend it.
While “Mama, Mama, Only Mama” is a departure in style and tone from her previous memoir, “Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home,” this is a lovely memoir of Lillibridge’s life as a single mom. She captures the pathos of raising children on one’s own in the ups and the downs of motherhood. This book manages to be both humorous and heartfelt, treading that line while dealing with heavy topics such as children and grief, introducing new partners to children, and managing the nights while the children are with their other parent. Yet there is a lighthearted side as well in dealing with the tooth fairy, locking oneself out of the house, and baking. The recipes in here provide comic relief, a nice tension breaker for the more serious moments. You don’t need to be a single mom yourself to relate to this story; these stories of motherhood are universal to all parents.
Mama only mama is hilarious!! It also is a memoir filled with Lara’s wisdom and first hand experience for a newly single parent. From dating, cooking and raising her children while trying to stay sane! We all know raising children is not easy! Each child wants your undivided attention. Lara is a twice divorced single mom with two sons she takes you on a wild ride she’s honest and she made me thankful I have my husbands help because raising my son is very trying at times I can’t imagine raising two sons on my own so I admire her strength! As Mother’s I don’t think we stop at think about the massive amount of work we accomplish in just one day! Lara reminds us to appreciate the small things in life and to remember to laughter is the best medicine! She also shares dating advice some she learned from her own experience. I could also feel and sense how much she loves her children. I give this four stars I recommend this book for all mothers!
Such a great memoir about single parenting young children…full of laughs, some tears, lots of Cheerios, and tons of love.