Real homemade food for your family is easy to make! 

Can't decide what to make for dinner that everyone in the family will enjoy? Are you craving healthy, simple and delicious recipes for breakfasts, packed lunches, snacks and weekday dinner when you're short on time? Are you looking for ways to make mealtime fun and get your family involved in the kitchen? Well, look no further. An advocate for simple, healthy cooking, Michael Smith knows that his most important job is family cook, so he wants to inspire and help you create great-tasting meals for your own family—and make some lasting memories along the way! 

Michael is passionate about cooking real homemade food. In Family Meals, he shares easy-to-make recipes that he loves to cook for his own family, along with tips on how to make cooking together fun. Turn your kitchen into a gathering place for your whole family while you prepare and share meals. 

Family Meals features 100 recipes straight from Michael's home kitchen. Kick-start your day with Nutmeg Waffles with Banana Butter, Nutty Seed Granola or Tropical Fruit Smoothies for breakfast; pack delicious lunches and snacks like Chicken Lettuce Wraps and Granola Muffins to get the whole family through their busy day. And, you'll find a variety of one-pot meals, hearty soups, stews, casseroles and quick, easy-to-make meals that are all great for a busy week. Your whole family is sure to enjoy dihes such as Weekend or Weeknight Beef Stew, Stovetop Chicken with Herb Dumplings, Tortilla Lasagna and Chia Veggie Burgers, plus treats your family won't be able to resist like Boston Cream Cupcakes and Fallen Chocolate Cake Stuffed with Whipped Cream. 

Family Meals is a must-have for families to enjoy cooking and eating healthy, delicious food together. 

Food Network star Chef Michael Smith has been cooking professionally for over twenty years. An honours graduate of the prestigious Culinary Institute of America in New York, Chef Michael's contagious love of food has earned him friends and admirers worldwide. His early career was spent in restaurants from London to South America, but in 1992 Chef Michael returned to Canada and joined the kitchen at Prince Edward Island's The Inn at Bay Fortune. Soon Chef Michael's focus on regional cooking and local ingredients had earned the restaurant a reputation as one of the top places to eat in Canada. Six years later, Chef Michael invited television cameras into the inn's country kitchen for his first hit television show, The Inn Chef, which premiered on the Life Network. Its popularity helped to launch Food Network Canada. After opening his own restaurant in Halifax, Chef Michael returned to Food Network Canada in 2001 in the show Chef at Large. It was followed by Chef at Home in 2004, which gave viewers a behind-the-scenes look at Chef Michael's home kitchen and the way he cooks for family and friends. This show became wildly popular almost immediately and still remains the highest rated Canadian show on Food Network Canada. Chef Michael is the author of three previous Whitecap cookbooks. Open Kitchen: A Chef's Day at The Inn At Bay Fortune, published in 1998, won the bronze medal at Cuisine Canada's Cookbook Award. Chef Michael followed its success with The Inn Chef and Chef at Home: Cooking with and Without a Recipe,which has sold over 30,000 copies.

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“[Michael Smith] may be an author and the host of several TV shows, but this father of three is also a home cook. He gets the struggle of balancing the need of bringing home the bacon as well as cooking it.” - Toronto Star
“[An] accessible new book, beautifully illustrated … The language of the recipes is … bright and easy to follow.” - The Gazette