My Fat Dad: a new food memoir, recipe and giveaway

There are numerous cookbook and diet books arriving at bookstore shelves every day featuring regional and national cooking traditions, easy-to-make recipes well packaged with large colorful photos. Weight loss books describe specific diets and all the benefits that can come by following them. Despite the number of culinary books that I have read and reviewed, I haven’t really found a book that is so revealing and personal about the relationship between food, a daughter and her father.

My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food,Love, and Family, with Recipes has a clear and descriptive title but it goes beyond that. In a series of chapters taken out of her childhood, Dawn Lerman talks about her father’s serious weight problems, the serial diets he used to be on and off, her appetizing relationship with her grandmother and adds amazing and unique recipes for the readers to try. In this fast-paced, moving personal story, only healthy food and love are the winners.

As one of the food bloggers taking part in  My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food,Love, and Family, with Recipes blog tour, I chose the Sweet Potato Hummus as it is a paleo-friendly recipe and super easy to make:

Sweet Potato Hummus

Yields: 6 servings

1 large sweet potato (about 9 ounces)

1 (15-ounce) can chickpeas, drained and rinsed

5 tablespoons olive oil (plus additional, as needed, for thinning)

2 tablespoons tahini

2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

2 garlic cloves, peeled

1 teaspoon ground coriander

1 teaspoon ground cumin

¼ teaspoon salt

Pinch of nutmeg

Position the baking rack in the middle and heat oven to 425 degrees. Wrap the sweet potato in foil and bake in shallow baking pan until it can be easily pierced with a knife, about 45 minutes. Transfer to a cooling rack and allow the potato to cool completely. Peel the skin off the sweet potato and transfer to a food processor fitted with a blade. Add the chickpeas, olive oil, tahini, lemon juice, garlic, coriander, cumin, salt, and nutmeg, and process until smooth. If the hummus is too thick, add a little extra olive oil, or water and process until the desired consistency is reached.

Reprinted from My Fat Dad: A Memoir of Food, Love, Family, and Recipes, by Dawn Lerman, Berkley Books, 2015. Find more about the author here: http://www.dawnlerman.net/

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