Stirring up fun with food : over 115 simple, delicious ways to be creative in the kitchen / Sarah Michelle Gellar and Gia Russo ; photographs by Amy Neunsinger.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Sarah Michelle Gellar wanted her kids to love different types of food and spend time with them, too. She realized if they were involved with the process of making food, they'd eat it more readily.

Why stop with making healthy brownies when you could decorate them? Or put them on a stick? Why just cook broccoli, when we can make broccoli bread pudding cups?

The book is organized by month with fun projects for everything from Super Bowl parties to Valentine's Day and Halloween. There is even a Star Wars Day full of licensed Star Wars designs!
Anyone--even fear of crafting moms--can make amazing food their kids will want to share and eat. By getting kids in the kitchen and encouraging exploration, the possibilities are endless!

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Publishers Weekly Review

Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Gellar's path from teenager to young mom is a trajectory undoubtedly mirrored by many of her fans, and they have a treat in store with this book, which goes beyond the merely aspirational and Pinteresty with blueprints for natural foods made from scratch that also manage to be cute and clever. Vegetables are allowed to be their own delicious selves, as in baked crunchy green bean "fries." For each month, the proverbial busy mom gets a meal's-or a party's-worth of simple recipes that hang together. Some have show biz links, such as July's Shark Week menu or May's Star Wars menu (Gellar and husband Freddie Prinze Jr. voiced characters in an animated version of the franchise). Recipes are solid, thanks to coauthor Russo's Martha Stewart Living background, and are as tempting for adults as for children-if a little weighted toward muffin-size versions of staples such as macaroni and cheese and shrimp lo mein, and a cheerful variety of food-on-a-stick that includes Caesar salad and latkes. Agent: Dan Strone, Trident Media Group. (Apr.) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.

Booklist Review

She may be best known for her role as Buffy in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but actress Gellar proves that she can also slay in the kitchen with her debut cookbook. Gellar and coauthor Russo offer more than 100 recipes that will not only get parents excited about cooking but the kids, too. Gellar and Russo knew that if they were going to get their kids to eat food that was good for them, they would need to get their kids involved in the cooking process. But, as they say, why cook when you can craft? So together, they came up with recipes such as Apple Pie Pops, Tortellini Batons, Snowflake Pizzas, and S'mores Parfait. These recipes and 100-plus more offer fresh ingredients and a fresh take on traditional cooking. With carefully curated recipes for every month of the year, as well as different holidays, parents and kids alike will enjoy seeing what kind of fun they can cook up in the kitchen all year long.--Wathen, LynnDee Copyright 2017 Booklist

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Sarah Michelle Gellar is an Emmy award-winning actress with starring roles in TV and film including Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Crazy Ones, and Cruel Intentions. In 2015 she co-founded Foodstirs, a culinary lifestyle brand and e-commerce site that's modernizing baking and bringing families together in the kitchen.

Gia Russo created original content and developed products for Martha Stewart Living, and later started her own lifestyle brand, MiGi, which released bestselling cookbooks. She's worked with brands like Williams- Sonoma and Pepperidge Farm, and Gia has contributed to hundreds of magazines. She joined forces with Sarah Michelle in 2015 to launch Foodstirs