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Robin Miller
Feeding Your Family the Quick Fix Way
By Donna Smith
Robin Miller knows a thing or two about trying to get a healthy meal on the table during a busy workweek. She is not only the host of the Food Network's Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller, author of a new cookbook, Quick Fix Meals (Taunton, 2007), and the "Quick Fix Meals" Interactive Cookbook, but mom to Luke, 3, and Kyle, 5.
Miller started her career in food by writing and testing recipes for Family Circle magazine, which soon lead to making cookies with Al Roker on NBC's Today Show and pancakes with Harry Smith on CBS's Early Show, and even appearances on The View.
"I love feeding people and I love creating new and interesting combinations of flavors (with ingredients from all over the globe, yet locally available)," Miller says. "It's always a quest for me to create something new and fun and then share it with my family and friends."
Her love of food and busy lifestyle combined, and the "Quick Fix" way of cooking was born. The Quick Fix way is "planning and thinking ahead so that weeknight meals come together with ease (and quickly!)," Miller says.
and do whatever I can to streamline meal preparation for a dinner later in the week," she says. "It could be prepping ahead, making a meal kit or making extra of something to morph into another, completely different dish on another night." In her book, Miller has broken the Quick Fix way into three meal planning strategies: In the Bag, Morph It and Dinner Express. Her In the Bag method means preparing ingredients for complete meals and then putting them into separate plastic bags. For Morph It, she takes one ingredient and turns it into several different dishes. Her Dinner Express meals cook up in about 20 minutes.
