Jessica Merchant describes herself as "seriously, passionately, inexplicably in love with food." She writes about her adventures in the kitchen on her blog, How Sweet Eats. And now her family-friendly recipes are featured in a new cookbook, "The Pretty Dish."
She's also a fan of homemade beauty products, so a chapter in her new cookbook includes recipes for sugar scrubs, face masks and homemade lip balms.
However, most of the cookbook is devoted to what Merchant calls "everyday" recipes. She says her family has salmon every week, because it's loaded with nutrition. So, she has come up with this quick way to prepare it _ covered with a rub of brown sugar, spices and barbecue sauce, broiled in the oven and then topped with a mango salsa.
