Start Fresh: Your Child's Jump Start to Lifelong Healthy Eating: A Cookbook [Hardcover]

Chef Tyler Florence believes that everybody deserves to eat delicious, flavorful food prepared with care and the freshest ingredients —and that goes for babies, too. InStart Fresh, he takes the expertise he has used to create his own line of organic baby food and presents quick, user-friendly recipes for 60 purees packed with simple, easy-to-digest fruits, vegetables, and grains straight from the earth—nothing fake or processed allowed.
A practical, charming little package from a caring dad and exceptional chef that thousands have come to trust , this book will give parents the tools they need to prepare nutritious food their babies will love to eat—for a truly fresh and healthy start.TYLER FLORENCE is the author of six cookbooks, including the bestsellingStirring the PotandDinner at My Place, and the host of the Food Network showTyler's Ultimate. He owns a kitchen retail store, The Tyler Florence Shop, in Mill Valley and Napa, CA, and has launched signature lines of babyfood and cookware and cutlery at major retailers across the United States. He opened the Wayfare Tavern restaurant in San Francisco in June 2010. He lives in Mill Valley, CA with his wife and two children.The Basics

GETTING STARTED

WHAT YOU'LL NEED

Making baby food is easy, so we're not talking about accumulating a lot of unnecessary kitchen equipment. As a matter of fact, you probably already have everything you'll need on hand. Most of the recipes in this book use one of two cooking methods: steaming or roasting. Both are very straightforward techniques that can be accomplished with just a few essential pieces of equipment.

FOR STEAMING

You'll need a large pot with a tight-fitting lid. If you find a pot that comes with its own steamer basket that fits inside, fantastic; if not, you can manage just fine without it--a pasta colander that can sit over the pot or a collapsible steamer insert that fits inside works juslS4