Wash Your Hands and Let’S Get Fresh!

By C. Trotter

These recipes are intended to help the beginning cook build confidence in the kitchen and prepare home style or restaurant style meals at a fraction of the cost in most cases.

Catering, private, and corporate cooking have influenced all the recipes I have chosen for this small collection of who I am, fresh, clean, bright and colorful. I am very pleased when I can easily make it taste better than the so-called original. I make them fresher, tastier, and most definitely in a clean atmosphere! You save money, time, and in some cases, a hospital visit! Home and Away prices will be listed under menu items. Just like your favorite sports team, usually you have a better chance and win at home and then there are times when you have to go away to pay play and you may lose.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Apr 14, 2016
• ISBN: 9781514467701

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Copyright © 2016 by C. Trotter . 736011

ISBN:   Softcover           978-1-5144-6768-8

              Hardcover         978-1-5144-6769-5

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Rev. date: 04/13/2016

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DEDICATION

I would like to dedicate this book and every one after, to my mother, Kathy J. Trotter. Thanks for always loving me and making sure I had all I needed! I Love You!

I also want to say thank you to my children, London and Cidney, for always bringing home 5-10 friends each to try out new catering recipes!

My Super Best Friend! Jessica Haynes-Jackson, for your constant prayers and encouragement and also for making my God children order their favorite restaurant meals from me!

Whether here on earth or resting in heaven, these people have all influenced me in some way and shown me what it means to Cook with Love! I thank you from the bottom of my heart!

Grandma Jones, Aunt Betty, Auntie Ozzie, Auntie Linda, Aunt Ellen, Grammy G, Aunt Melva and Uncle Rufus, Lueretha Haynes, Celestine Clough, Robert McLaurine, Alfred McGee, Georgia Gafford, Vickie Gray, Lisa Gunn, Linda and James Ross, Betty Threats, Redalian Lee and Jean Thayer!

You will always be my teachers!

I would also like to thank my consultants for my projects, Jean Thayer, Shirl McLaurine and Christian Nwuju

CONTENTS

BREAKFAST

BURGERS

PIZZAS

CHICKEN & CHOPS

SALADS

AMERICAN, ITALIAN & SEAFOOD

NACHOS AND TACOS

COMFORT

DESSERT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

MY PANTRY LIST

BOOK INGREDIENTS

FOREWORD

I wanted to put together easily recognizable foods using everyday ingredients that EVERYONE can enjoy! Nothing like purchasing a cookbook and you don’t know what the ingredients are that are being used.

Even as a homecook, it is important to safely prepare meals for your family from beginning to end!

Preparation is key to everything! Everything in its place and ready to go! I like to add fresh vegetables to a lot of recipes, I love their taste and beauty. Using the same flavor profile for a lot of dishes will also keep your grocery bill from hitting the floor.

Food tastes so much better when your smiling, maybe some music in the background or even some hungry teenagers wondering when the food will be done.

I thought it was extremely important to list Hand Washing as a step in the directions because beginning cooks and some who have been cooking, do not know when to stop, wash and go to the next cooking step.

It is my hope that these delicious, easy to follow, recipes will entice you to prepare safe and healthy