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Cooking Made Easy
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Cooking Made Easy is a new privately published cookbook for people with cognitive disabilities who can read, written by a teacher of independent living skills. Author Eileen Laird says, “I discovered there was a gap in cooking resources. I could find picture cookbooks, but not word cookbooks that simplified the cooking process. So, I created a cookbook to fill the gap. The result was that people who needed my assistance cooking before could now cook independently when using my cookbook.”
Recipes are written in large print and broken down into detailed easy-to-understand steps. A helpful feature is a listing of utensils needed for each recipe, such as pot holders or the size of saucepan needed, instead of just a food ingredient list. No step is overlooked, such as peeling an onion before chopping it or ending the recipe with “turn off oven”. One mom’s feedback: “[My oldest kids have cognitive disabilities] and cooking is probably their biggest difficulty in terms of independence, so they spend an unreasonable amount of their limited SSI income on frozen dinners…or eating at McDonald’s…so they are always short at the end of the month. I am so excited to hear about this resource!” One consumer’s comment: “I made French toast this morning and I liked that one and the book is easy to understand and to figure out…When I was little my mother tried to show me how to do them, but I couldn’t ever figure it out until this book came along.”
(Not available in bookstores) $19.95 plus $4.95 shipping, www.cookingmadeeasy.org or write: Eileen Laird, Cooking Made Easy, PO Box 2117, Boone, NC 28607
URL: www.cookingmadeeasy.org
Updated: 08/03/2010
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