My guest this week is Melissa Bahen with her new book Farmhouse Weeknights.
Melissa Bahen’s Farmhouse Weeknights has over 80 nutritious recipes to help busy home cooks get dinner on the table in an hour or less, every night, for their hungry families.
“What’s for dinner?” No matter who we are, what stage of life we are in, or where we live, we all have to deal with this question―every day. We need a book that has the answers!
Farmhouse Weeknights: Quick and Wholesome Recipes for Dinner takes the brainwork out of deciding on your family’s dinner plan. Melissa Bahen offers a compilation of time-tested, wholesome comfort-food recipes straight from the kitchen in her farmhouse to your table. This cookbook focuses on fresh ingredients and making meals from scratch, but it also embraces smart shortcuts and time-saving tips that will help readers get dinner on the table with less work. Every recipe in the book carries the promise of having dinner ready in under an hour (except for slow-cooker recipes that only require prep time and are then hands-off all day), comes with serving suggestions to make a complete meal, and has a list of time savers. Get a copy now
You will find recipes for breakfast for dinner; soups; salads; sandwiches; pastas; slow-cooker main courses; skillets, sheet pans, and bakes; and after-dinner treats. Learn more here!
Melissa Bahen started Lulu the Baker in 2008, a popular online source for recipes, projects, and snapshots of modern country life. Since then, she has published Scandinavian Gatherings: From Afternoon Fika to Midsummer Feast and Farmhouse Weekends: Menus for Relaxing Country Meals All Year Long. Her modern farmhouse kitchen has appeared in Rachael Ray Everyday, Better Homes & Gardens, Belong Magazine, Taproot Magazine, Eugene Magazine, and Cloth Magazine. She is a recipe and project developer for online brands, including Canada Dry, Albertsons, Hidden Valley Ranch, and many more. Shelives with her husband, four children, and many animals on her farm near the community of Pleasant Hill in western Oregon. Follow Melissa @luluthebaker, Facebook & X
Good Life Guy’s Wine of The Week:
2024 Babich Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough NZ
Perfumed and lifted. Notes of mandarin and spice with blackcurrant, honeydew melon and apple. Mineral notes. Soft lime entry soon joined by riper citrus and florals. Apple & green kiwifruit and sweet spice lingers. Lively and expressive with a medium light weight and a fine texture. Layers of fruit distributed across the entire palate. ABVB13%
Decanter95, NYIWC93
Learn more about this classic Sav Blanc – Grab a bottle or three at Jacob Liquor Exchange on N. Rock Road