Cooking Light: Cookbook Review
The food looked so good that my appetite increased ten fold, luckily a fast walk during lunch kept me from hitting the Chinese buffet.
This new Cooking Light cookbook, edited and compiled by Heather Averett, contains over 500 of their best recipes and really covers just about all aspects of eating, but as usual in a reduced-Calorie way.
Contents
This highly illustrated cookbook is divided into 11 sections from Appetizers and Beverages to Desserts and everything in between. The content offers readers a variety of low Calorie meals that seem easy to prepare.The only category omitted which I thought could be useful to readers is Breakfast. There were several breakfast items scattered through the other sections, but it would have been nice to have seen more recipes placed in their own section.
The recipes overall seem to use pretty standard ingredients that one should have on hand or that would be easy to find at any grocery store. To me, there's nothing worse then cookbooks that require you to buy all of these hard to find, expensive spices and seasonings that you might use once a year or only once if you don't care for them.
Cooking Light includes some cooking tips and food facts through-out, such as "5 ways to shape dinner rolls" which would help novices prepare some of the recipes. However, perhaps a few more tips could have been provided as I have trouble seeing novice cooks pulling off some other recipes as well.
One section I really liked was the one titled "Sandwiches". Maybe it's a guy thing, but I love a good sandwich. Often people just slap some meat, cheese, lettuce, and mayo on two pieces of bread, but with a little extra effort, like the recipes in this cookbook, a really creative and tasty sandwich can be prepared.
Cooking Light's recipes live up to their reputation by including nutrition information at the bottom of each recipe. Although this is great, I found the print to be quite small, so maybe a chart could have been a better format. I suppose with 416 pages, over 500 recipes, and many illustrations they were concerned with saving some space.
Overall, I thought this cookbook is well put together and usable, making a fine addition to anyone's collection or perhaps a great gift to someone as their first cookbook seeing that it covers all of the bases.
Living in New Zealand it's hard to find the soft pretzels I enjoyed in America so I tried the "Soft Pretzel" recipe and they were devoured by me and my friends. I definitely recommend that one.
The Best of Cooking Light Everyday Favorites was published in 2008 by Oxmoor House in the USA and retails for $24.95.
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Always up for good books to read. Thanks
ReplyI usually enjoy the recipes in Cooking Light magazine, so I'm excited to see the cookbook from them. I also love that they usually use pretty standard ingredients (nothing weird or hard to find) and are all pretty healthy.
ReplyGood review, this might be worth checking out!
Sahil M
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One of my favorite mags puts out a cookbook. This is one I'll look for. I wonder if they'll have my all-time favorite cake recipe in it - a wonderful coconut cake with marshmellowy - coconut frosting that was on the cover a few years back. My favorite veal parmesan recipe came from there too - a lightened up version with the chicken baked in the oven after being coated in pre-toasted panko - so that you didn't have to brown it in a pan full of oil.
ReplyCooking Light has consistently produced a great magazine with top notch recipes. I think this just might have to be a Christmas present for my family.
ReplyI always like to see a cookbook like this. I think we can all agree that the first step to losing weight and feeling better is finding foods we can eat.
We don’t want to be stuck eating a salad every day. We should get to eat fun foods and still lose weight.
So many diets make the mistake of telling us what we can’t eat instead of what we can eat. They tell us we can’t have carbs, or fats, or coffee. Then, when we get off the diet, we go crazy.
Diets that focus on deprivation end up causing people to binge. When people binge, they are unable to maintain their weight loss. Every time they lose a pound, they gain two.
When someone has a lot of different recipes, they have a much more reasonable approach to dieting. They aren’t trying to crash. Instead, they are working toward a long term solution.
The key to dieting is not deprivation. In reality, there are three keys to a successful diet. Those keys are:
• Variety
• Opportunity
• Reward
You need to have variety in food choices, the opportunity to eat great foods, and the reward of losing weight. That is what makes a diet successful.
John Tenn
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