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Throughout the years that she has lived and worked in East Hampton, Ina Garten has catered and attended countless parties and dinners. She will be the first to tell you, though, that nothing beats a cozy dinner, surrounded by the people you love most, in the comfort that only your own home can provide. In Barefoot Contessa at Home, Ina shares her life in East Hampton, the recipes she loves, and her secrets to making guests feel welcome and comfortable.
For Ina, it’s friends and family–gathered around the dinner table or cooking with her in the kitchen–that really make her house feel like home. Here Ina offers the tried-and-true recipes that she makes over and over again because they’re easy, they work, and they’re universally loved. For a leisurely Sunday breakfast, she has Easy Cheese Danishes or Breakfast Fruit Crunch to serve with the perfect Spicy Bloody Mary. For lunch, she has classics with a twist, such as Tomato, Mozzarella, and Pesto Paninis and Old-Fashioned Potato Salad, which are simply delicious. Then there are Ina’s homey dinners–from her own version of loin of pork stuffed with sautéed fennel to the exotic flavors of Eli’s Asian Salmon. And since Ina knows no one ever forgets what you serve for dessert, she includes recipes for outrageously luscious sweets like Peach and Blueberry Crumble, Pumpkin Mousse Parfait, and Chocolate Cupcakes with Peanut Butter Icing.
Ina also lets readers in on her time-tested secrets for cooking and entertaining. Get the inside scoop on everything from what Ina considers when she’s designing a kitchen to menu-planning basics and how to make a dinner party fun (here’s a hint: it doesn’t involve making complicated food!).
Along with beautiful photographs of Ina’s dishes, her home, and the East Hampton she loves, this book is filled with signature recipes that strike the perfect balance between elegance and casual comfort. With her most indispensable collection yet, Ina Garten proves beyond a shadow of doubt that there truly is no place like home.
Customer Reviews:
Wonderful Tortilla Lasagna recipe in this book!!! WOW.......2007-10-13
Barefoot Contessa (Ina Garten) is a wonderful chef, great recipes
that have been proven to be great; and this book has a recipe for
tortilla lasagna you have to have.My wife and I recommend this
book which we feel is a classic. A must have. Ina is a brilliant
nice lady with a heart full of love for people and food - a great
match in this book.
You can always count on Contessa!.......2007-10-13
Well, she's cooked up another classic cookbook again. This time the theme of the book is food you serve at home- not in your house. The book starts out by defining what a home is to her- and to tell you the truth, it sounds a bit like mine: it's not perfect by any means, and is, in fact, a bit cluttered. Cluttered not so much in a messy way, but rather with personal items which ultimately are responsible for making the house into a home.
And so it is with her delicious recipes. Laid out in different sections such as dinner, soups, etc., each section is prefaced by several pages of interesting info on a selected food or food preparation topic.
A very down-to-earth cookbook, it is laid out well, has great pictures, and you'll even notice that the pages have a thick, smooth feel to them. Also suggest The Sixty-Second Motivator if you have trouble sticking to a healthy diet.
The best recipes where you don't care about fattening food.......2007-08-25
Very usable recipes; have not found one that wasn't delicious and don't take too long to prepare. Cupcakes are the best and crowd favorites. Very healthy salads and pasta dishes also; you can substitute for lower calorie alternates as well.
Always Buy Barefood Contessa.......2007-08-19
I've tried Giada DeLaurentis', Nigella Lawson, and various other cookbooks with mixed results. I ALWAYS have success with any of Ina Garten's recipes. I recommend her books to anyone who loves to cook.
This is a great cookbook........2007-08-07
Ina makes things seem simple. Her directions are easy to follow. I have made several recipes from this book and thought they all turned out good. You are lucky if you get one or two good recipes from an entire cookbook! Everything I have made from this cookbook is good.
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Fans of Food Network star Paula Deen enjoy her unpretentious Southern-gal persona as much as her easy, what's-not-to-like recipes. As a writer of four other cookbooks, including The Lady & Sons Just Desserts, restaurant owner, and purveyor of her own product line, she's also something of an entrepreneur. In Paul Deen Celebrates! she offers 170-plus recipes arranged by menus for traditional holidays and other, sometimes whimsical celebrations like Elvis's Birthday and Movie-Watching Pizza Party in Bed. The recipes, which are often Southern-rich, range from the more traditional, such as Shrimp Etouffé, Muffuletta Sandwiches, and Macaroni Salad, to the innovative, including Collard Green Wantons, Grilled Chicken Pita, and Scallop and Bacon Pizza. Her sweets include the likes of Old Fashioned Banana Pudding, Gooey Toffee Butter Cake and Margarita Mousse. Offered also are decorating tips, and "Paula's Pearls of Wisdom" like "treasure today's moment's because they will tomorrow's memories."
Deen's dishes couldn't be more approachable and will doubtlessly inspire many holiday menus. Readers should know, however, that she regularly calls for convenience products like cake mixes and canned soups, whose use (by now something of an American tradition in itself) can do little to make homemade food taste as good as it otherwise might. Paula Deen Celebrates! should, however, excite Deen's many fans, who, along with the attractive formulas, receive lots of "back-story" on the author's own celebrations, life, and mostly good times. --Arthur Boehm
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Beloved Food Network personality, restaurateur, and author Paula Deen loves a party, and in her latest book, Paula Deen Celebrates!, Paula shares with fans old and new how she celebrates a year's worth of holidays and special occasions. Now anyone can share in the down-home celebrations Paula, her husband, Michael, their kids, and extended family enjoy at their beautiful home in Savannah, Georgia.
What better way to start off the New Year than with a New Year's Eve Brunch with friends -- at midnight! This colorful celebration includes Crab and Spinach Casserole and Baked Tomatoes, and finishes with a quintessentially southern Hummingbird Cake and Irish Coffee. Welcome St. Patrick's Day, Savannah style, with Lamb Stew and Green Grits Pie. The centerpiece of an Easter dinner is a Peanut Butter-Glazed Ham, accompanied by Spinach-Swiss Casserole, Squash Boats, and flaky Butterhorns, with a bonus recipe for Ham Salad that makes eating leftovers a treat. Looking for a reason to party, south-of-the-border style? Try Paula's Cinco de Mayo Fiesta menu, with Macho Nachos and a cool and creamy Margarita Mousse. Paula honors the memory of her mother, and all the other women who have blessed her life, with a Mother's Day Tea of dainty sandwiches and irresistible cookies served on her best china, and fathers get their due with a Father's Day Boating Picnic. The Fourth of July is the perfect occasion for an Outdoor Grill Party and Low-Country Boil, and if what you want is a quiet evening at home, pop a movie in the DVD player and chow down on your choice of Paula's savory and sweet pizzas. Gather the family to watch some football and savor Jamie's Cheeseburger Pies, and give family and friends the gift of a sweet treat at the holidays with Paula's Icebox Fruitcake or Peppermint Bark. Her Christmas feast starts with Cranberry Holiday Brie and stars an impressive Standing Rib Roast, with Twice-Baked Potato Casserole. The show-stopping dessert is Paula's butter-laden Coconut Pound Cake glazed with coconut syrup and covered with icing and toasted coconut!
Paula brings you into her home, her kitchen, and her heart with family stories and photographs. This time, her husband, Michael, sons Jamie and Bobby, and brother, Bubba, chime in to share their memories, too. Decorating and serving ideas will inspire you to use what you have to carry through a theme to make the most informal meal special. And Paula shares her most private thoughts in a special feature -- Paula's Pearls of Wisdom -- which you'll find with each menu.
Paula Deen Celebrates! is Paula at her very southern best. Join her in making and sharing her best dishes for the best times of your life.
Customer Reviews:
On time.......2007-10-18
The cookbook came timely and was a great birthday surprise. I have had success ordering through Amazon everytime!
Party Time!.......2007-07-05
I loved this book by Paula Deen. It was given to me as a gift and I've used it for many parties. I especially love how the menu is all laid out for you. It's so easy to mix and match the ideas or use the entire menu for a party. It's written in true Paula style and any true fan would love this book!
Cookbook.......2007-06-27
If you like Paula's TV show - then you'll love going through all of these wonderful recipes!
Best recipes! .......2007-06-09
Paula Deens recipes are perfect for Sunday family dinners and for any parties throughout the year. They are also great if you just want great homemade comfort food!
GOOD COOKBOOK.......2007-05-29
Good cookbook! Paula shares some of her fancier recipes in this book. Great for southern entertaining! Perfect recipes that your guest are SURE to LOVE!! I'm telling ya'll they will LOVE these eats! Enjoy!
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Customer Reviews:
I liked it.......2006-05-09
I had to buy this book for my Quantity Foods course as a part of my Dietetics major. I actually liked the book, and I am going to keep it for later use. I thought the book was organized very well. Some of the charts in Chapter 2 and 5 that we used quite often were a little hard to find (because there are so many!).
It also presented a good overview of things you wouldn't think would be in the book, such as the school lunch program, etc.
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Wow!!! A must have for all chefs.......2006-02-25
I had seen this book at a friends business and thought it was good. Since I have ordered and received it I have had the chance to really review the contents and find it one book that I can use daily. The CD rom is also fantastic in the number of recipes it contains. One nice feature is that you can size the recipes to what you need. Another great plus. Well worth the money. Tom Elliott, CEC
Food For Fifty.......2006-02-25
Very well written book, leaves nothing for the mind to question,I would highly recomend this book!
Love this book.......2005-07-23
This book is so helpful to me. I'm a new head cook at a Public school and plan to use many recipes from this book. Besides the great recipes it helps me with Nutritional planning, Variety menu planning with eye appeal, specific food information such as heating temps and storing food, and recipe adjustment. This book will be a tool I will use daily at work. I love that each recipe has the nutritional values per portion.
A vital MUST HAVE handbook for professionals!.......2003-06-09
Whether one is cooking in a restaurant or a school kitchen, this is the most valuable handbook. You'll want it at ready reference. I know, because never a week went by that I didn't consult it while running my bakery/deli in the Oregon Cascades.
I must confess that I didn't tell customers my recipe source. I preferred they think me a genius or as having come from a family steeped in cooking history. They knew I was no genius (hell, they knew I wasn't even very smart) but they did like the foods we provided. And, when I decided to produce a new, tasty meat pie, it was this book that I consulted to improve upon my concept.
Choose not to buy this book and you probably are never going to know what you don't know. Choose not to consult it while it sets on your shelf will probably endanger your relationship with your harshest critics.
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One of the biggest challenges in weight loss and maintenance is planning new menus that keep you on a healthful food plan, and that are also varied and appealing. Now the experts at Weight Watchers serve up an entire year of delicious menus that will help readers enjoy the process as well. The book features a main dish recipe for every day of the year, and a full day's menu built around that recipe, plus complete nutritional counts and Weight Watchers Selection Information. Designed to give readers more freedom of choice, Weight Watchers New 365-Day Menu Cookbook will make healthful eating easier and tastier than ever.
Customer Reviews:
OK.......2007-04-21
does not give the current information. I have to figure out points myself, Yuck
Great WW Recipes.......2006-04-09
If you're a fan of WW, you should love this book. It was written before any of the POINTS systems, so you have to do some calculations on your own. The nutrition info is provided for each recipe. This book is an especially good value because as another reviewer noted, for each main recipe, you get additional recipes provide a day's worth of meals.
I give this book four stars because I've always had to doctor my WW recipes. They tend to be on the bland side for me, but they are always good starting points. I also enjoy light cookbooks that provide tips for cutting fat and calories and this book does not. It's just recipes.
Not the book for my family.......2005-03-06
Way too many of the recipes in this book have ingredients I have never heard of! Also, the ingredient lists are often very long. I am donating my copy to the public library and will use "The Moms' Guide to Meal Makeovers" and "Quick Meals for Healthy Kids and Busy Parents" to help me provide sensible meals for my family.
Great book but..........2003-12-18
I just recieved this the other day and have yet to make any recipes from this cookbook. But I have now tried several of the WW cookbooks and they always have great recipes, so there is no doubt that I will find some more healthy ones in this book.
I love how each page has a main recipe on it and then they have built a whole day of eating around that one recipe. Sometimes, there are smaller typed recipes in the daily menu area on each page. For example, on one page, the main recipe is for Grilled Chicken Caesar salad. Then to the right of the recipe, they have built a whole day of meals around this recipe. They have suggested what to eat for breakfast (banana and cereal), a light meal (beans and franks, carrot/celery sticks, whole wheat roll, yogurt), the main meal (which includes the Chicken caesar salad, creamy brocolli soup--provides the recipe, a peach and Italian bread) and an evening snack (3 cups of plain popcorn).
This is perfect for someone who needs to follow a strict menu to stay on track. Not everyone has the self discipline to make their own healthy menus and stay within the WW guidelines, so this would work well for those people. And each recipe/daily menu is different so you don't have to worry about being bored and eating the same things over and over.
The only real complaints I have about this book is that it is outdated compared to the newer WW cookbooks. It doesn't have any of the point values in the book, so you need to use the WW calculator to figure the point values out for each recipe. And the other complaint that I have is the book does have a few pictures in it, but most of the pictures are very unappetizing. They look like they just threw the recipe together and didn't worry about presentation. The more recent WW cookbooks make the pictures look very yummy, unlike this one.
Also, we all know that not everyone can eat the same amount of calories and continue to lose weight, so its unclear as to who this cookbook is geared towards. Someone who needs to be eating 1600 calories and actively losing weight still or someone who is maintaining their goal weight and need to eat around 1200 calories per day.
This cookbook looks like its worth a try, even just for the recipes and not the daily menus. But it't not as nice as the newer cookbooks that WW has put out in the last few years.
Doesn't Taste Like Diet Food!!!.......2002-03-11
This cookbook is the best I've ever tried! I had a pretty good selection of cookbooks before buying this one so I didn't really think a 'healthy cookbook' would be able to compare... but the recipes are really great! There's a large selection of tastes for simple to complex meals.
Plus for each day/page the book does not just give you one recipe. You'll be given a full menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner! Side dish ideas and drink ideas that will go good with your main dish are suggested! It's deffinatly a unique and helpful cookbook. You'll love it!
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Dr. Elson Haas has helped thousands recover from chemical dependency through what he calls the missing link in the American diet: detoxification. His tried-and-true program set forth in THE DETOX DIET shows how to cleanse your body of sugar, nicotine, alcohol, caffeine, and other harmful toxins for improved health, energy, and well-being. For those who have experienced the diet's benefits and would like to make detoxification a lifestyle choice, THE NEW DETOX DIET presents a comprehensive plan for lifelong vitality. Dr. Haas has teamed up with nutritionist Daniella Chace to provide 50 all-new recipes and menu plans to nourish your body and help you detoxify with minimal side effects. THE NEW DETOX DIET includes tasty, nutritious recipes like Baked Apples, Smoked Wild Salmon Salad, and Mango Salsa. Dr. Haas and Ms. Chace also share case studies and personal stories of triumph over toxic substances. Even after years of a damaging lifestyle or bad eating habits, you can break the cycle of addiction and achieve greater vitality and improved overall well-being.
Customer Reviews:
Don't need along with the 21-day Detox book:.......2007-08-04
This book is not a companion for the Martha Vinyards 21-day Detox diet book. I was fooled into thinking it was.
Never knew the value of Detox.......2007-07-20
This book is a great read. I never knew the importance of regularly cleansing my body of all the toxins. This book will teach you how to do that, as well as what foods to eat to get you there. Highly recommend this book in conjunction with how to lose weight with www.wrapnlosefat.com. Great reading.
What happens after the 21 days?.......2007-07-12
It seems to me that this could be a good kick-start to get you on the road to weight loss but unless you add exercise to the equation and change your eating habits long term, you won't acheive long lasting results.
I need motivation for diet and exercise and use this exercise motivation game The Fitness Challenge Board Gameto keep me moving.
Clear guide to detox.......2007-04-01
A clear and practical guide to detoxification that uses everyday ingredients and helps you feel great.
The New Detox Diet:.......2006-08-20
Good information and clearly mapped out. Knowledgable commentary and practical applications.
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The menu is an essential part of any foodservice operation. Using the menu as a management tool in every area of operation--from planning the facility and purchasing food to promoting items to customers and providing exceptional service--can help ensure success. This book serves as a guide both to developing a menu and to using it as a control document.
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Rachel Ray puts the fun back into entertaining with this exciting collection of recipes, all designed to feed a crowd or smaller gathering in 30 minutes or less.
Customer Reviews:
An Early Cross Between Rachael Ray 2, 4, 6, 8 and Rachael Ray's Open House Cookbook.......2007-03-07
Some will call this book Rachael Ray 30-Minute Meals 3. I beg to differ. In fact, Get Togethers is an earlier cross between two other superb Rachael Ray books, the recent 2, 4, 6, 8 (published in 2006) and the older Open House Cookbook (originally published in 1999 and reprinted in 2005).
What are the main differences? In the Open House Cookbook, Rachael is mostly looking at parties, holiday gatherings, and larger dinners. Since this is an early book, it leans heavily to Italian cuisine and spiced up versions of traditional American fare. In 2, 4, 6, 8, the perspective is from a couple who occasionally add 2, 4, or 6 people for some meals or don't mind having a leftover meal.
Get Togethers is also aimed at social occasions, but it has a focus more on the traditional sizes of serving 4-8. There are a few special dinners for two. Reflecting Rachael from 2003, this book is less based on Italian menus and provides more adventure in cuisines and seasonings.
If you want to throw a big party, Open House Cookbook provides more choices. If you want to do something special for two, 2, 4, 6, 8 has more choices.
I found the breakfast and brunch ranges in Get Togethers to be a limited, often built around frittatas and scrambled eggs. By comparison, the lunches are terrific for their range, imagination, and eye appeal. She also provides some excellent ways to provide snacks for cocktail parties and watching sports on television. Another section takes major holidays and provides fast ways to serve eight.
In terms of 30-minute thinking, I'm sure Rachael can do all of these menus in that amount of time. I'm also pretty sure I couldn't do any of the menus for 8 or more in 30 minutes. But I'm sure I could be done in less than an hour.
One of the best parts of the book comes in the beginning where she provides a list of prepared items you can use straight from the store and describes a number of ways to present your meal to dress up the occasion.
The book had a number of excellent menus and recipes that I recommend including:
Brunch alcoholic drinks; Southern comforts brunch; Tex-Mex brunch; Backyard bistro luncheon; Havana luncheon; Big burger lunch; High tea in low country; A dip in the Mediterranean; Snack attack party; Lite bites party; Seductive supper; Baja blowout; Seven samurai plus two; Meat and potatoes a deux; TV dinner for two; Express lane dinner date; Three cheers for chili; Couch coaches' nachos; Tailgate with gusto; Big wrap tailgate party; Halloween; Thanksgiving; Italian Thanksgiving; Everyday Thanksgiving; Happy Hanukkah; UK for a Queen; Cooking for 10 in 30; Night light; Positano dinner; Road to Morocco; Cooking for 10 in 30 Italian style; Cooking for 8 in 30 French style; and German heirloom.
The small, but elegant, number of photographs display lovely ways to present the recipes.
If you cannot afford to buy all three cookbooks, you'll probably find that Get Togethers will fit more of your entertaining needs than either of the others.
Yumm........Yummmm......Yummmmmm...........2007-01-27
More delicious RR recipes in 30 minutes or less. These are presented in menu form and are delish! I have made several and people rave about the food. Most of it is pretty good for you too! No shake and bake here, folks, this is the real deal. If you want to feel like you are eating out everyday,make these recipes. They are not difficult or weird....just REALLY TASTY!
Get Togethers: Rachel Ray 30-Minute Meals.......2007-01-09
Book was a repurchase. When mother was visiting she fell in love with the book. Easy reading and good food. My wife gave her our copy. I had to replace it! Excellent book with great recipes for quick prepare real meals.
Fast, easy and delicious!.......2006-01-14
"Get Togethers" contain some wonderfully delicious recipes!
One just cannot go wrong with Rachael Ray. Talented as can be, she makes Cooking fun! I never bought recipe books while raising my children, too many ingredients (so I thought) & too much work with them running around. NOT SO! The Mother/Father of today can zip up a great meal fast with the children running around with Rachaels recipe's. Try it:-) betcha like it! Jeannie!
Rachel multi-tasks!.......2005-10-20
More fine, quick recipes from one of my favorite cooks. Rachel knows how to reduce a recipe to its basics without compromising the taste. On the day it arrived, we found a recipe that had to be shared -- the Chili Casserole. I look forward to trying most of the others. I go back to Rachel Ray's cookbooks time and again -- many of her recipes have become standards in my cooking. But she can sure multi-task! I rarely do one up in thirty minutes until I have done it several times.
Book Description
Savvy cooks are already setting a place at their tables for the 11th edition of an always popular collection. This handy compendium gathers more than 1,000 recipes from a years worth of Cooking Light, the worlds most widely read food magazine. Tips, techniques, planning, preparation, presentationtheyre all there, not to mention updated and innovative dishes in the lighter, guilt-free versions we love.
Customer Reviews:
Includes some great quick options.......2007-07-15
I agree with other reviewers that the organization can be frustrating, but I still think this is an excellent cookbook. It includes a range of recipes from the complex to the relatively simple. This particular edition of the Cooking Light series includes a segment on how to help a family organize their kitchen and make some quick weeknight meals. Personally, I am particularly a fan of the quicker recipes, and every one I have tried has been a huge hit with my family -- even my 2 year old.
An outstanding collection........2007-04-19
COOKING LIGHT is a leading food magazine in this country, offering tips on nutrition and tested recipes which convert high-calorie productions to healthier fare. The 2007 annual collection of COOKING LIGHT ANNUAL RECIPES is packed with over a thousand of such recipes, including 100 meal plans with dishes which include the latest cooking techniques and conveniences. Public lending libraries will find it a very popular lend: it compiles recipes from 2006 and provides a seasonal approach which makes it easy to take advantage of fresh produce and ingredients. An outstanding collection.
Diane C. Donovan
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Best Cookbook!.......2007-03-09
This is my favorite cookbook, I use it all the time, and haven't found a bad recipe yet!
A mixed blessing.......2007-03-08
Been a subscriber to the magazine for years and look forward to each new issue. When I'm looking for inspiration for the week's menus, the first book I turn to is my "Complete Cooking Light Cookbook." The recipes, whether I'm getting them from the book or the magazine, have always led to a good result and many have become family favorites.
Having said that, I have to agree with alphagirl about the weird organization of this book. Organized by the *month in which the recipe was published*? Jumpin' jiminy. Most people can't remember which month they last took their car in for an oil change, let alone which month's issue of a magazine had a fabulous recipe for 'Uber Tubers'. It's driving me nuts that I can browse through one section that contains all the fish dishes, for example. Like alphagirl, I find it obnoxious to have to keep flipping back and forth between 'fish' in the general the index and the recipes.
Huge ding on overall star rating: there is no way to tell from any of the indexes (and there are several, to help overcome the problems caused by organizing the book according to magazine issue) which recipes are vegetarian friendly, which is a mandatory feature for any multi-purpose cookbook in our 2-omnivore/1 vegetarian household.
I understand the point of keeping related recipes together, such as presenting together every recipe from a cooking lesson article, regardless of the dish type. However, because people don't march into the kitchen and cook their way from start to finish through any one of the 'cooking lessons', wouldn't it make more sense to organize the book traditionally, then have smaller chapters/sections for each cooking lesson, which can reference the recipes already provided in the 'beef' or 'soups' sections? That way I can go bone-up on my beef cooking skills by reading the advice and technique information, then tackle any of the beef recipes in the rest of the book with absolute confidence.
I will continue to buy each edition of the fabulous 'Complete Cooking Light Cookbook' while the ink is still wet from printing, but I have purchased my first and last of the annual recipe collections unless they do something about the book's organization.
A Year of Health and Nutrition.......2007-03-05
I don't believe that there's a legitimate food recommender out there who doesn't suggest that we would all be better off if we hade thing that are lighter than the normal American diet. One response to this was the start up of 'Cooking light' magazine. From now where, this magazine has grown with spactular success. The magazine has a collection of recipies centered around cooking light.
Now a year's supply of how to cook everything you can imagine in a lighter, healthier way but with recipies that have been 'kitchen tested' for accuracy and taste. It's straight from the pages of the magazine.
And that makes for one of the strengths causes one of the problems with the book. It's a strength because the issues of the magazine are organized around something such as: menus for a week for a family of two. It's a weakness because if you're trying to find all of the salads, they aren't found together.
All in all, here's a thousand recipies, with an emphasis on healthy, lighter eating.
Customer Reviews:
Update the software!.......2000-04-04
As an instructor I felt the book was very good, but the students could not use the software on excel 97 or above. It was really frustrating, and I will not use it next semester.
I think this is an excellent book for chefs to be........1999-01-21
This is an excellent book for chefs to be. It gives in detail how to design a decent menu. But the price I paid for it is way to much. I picked up the book in our school bookstore, Lambton College, in Sarnia, Ontario Canada. It cost me 102.95 plus GST Tax.
Book Description
Nearly 900 kitchen-tested recipes, about three times as many as most cookbooks, offer great taste, good nutrition, and simplicity.Complete, easy-to-read nutrient analysis with each recipe lets you know just how healthy your favorite Cooking Light recipes are.Hundreds of food preparation tips, step-by-step photos, food facts, and menu suggestions, plus three different cross-referenced indexes make finding every recipe a cinch.A companion web site will offer the reader interactive capabilities such as archival searches, rating recipes, and other enhanced features.
Customer Reviews:
Yummy and healthy!.......2004-06-05
I've been a subscriber of Cooking Light for several years now, and I always try to buy the annual cook book at the end of each year. These recipes produce dishes that are delicious, adventurous, and satisfying. I've not only learned alot about eating healthy foods by using these cookbooks, I've become a much better cook! Also, since the magazine has features on different ethnic cuisines, I've tried foods that I never would have made previously, with great success. Some of the recipes are more time-consuming than others, so make those on the weekend rather than during the week.
Unlike other reviewers, I enjoy the recipes organized by month, because it helps me eat seasonally. That way, I buy produce that's in season, so it tastes better, and it's usually cheaper than buying products out of season. However, if one is looking for a specific recipe, consulting the index at the back of the cookbook provides a solution.
Lots of wonderful recipes, long prep time.......2004-02-22
I've been a subscriber to Cooking Light magazine for a couple of years and I love it. I decided to get the 2003 book to save some space. The photographs in the book are beautiful and mouth-watering, but there are not enough (I like to see what the final product looks like when I am cooking). I do like that the nutritional information including calories, fat, protein, carb, fiber are listed for each recipe. I do find that many of the recipes have a long prep time and this a deterrent for me at this busy stage in my life. For the "true" chef, though, there will be no problem and the recipes will be wonderful to make. Generally, the ingredients are readily available, but for some of the recipes, there are ingredients that I have no idea where to buy them. The book is organzied by month--like the magazine. Really, overall, a beautiful book.
total confusion.......2004-01-19
While there is a whole years worth of recipes in one book it will probably take a year to find a particular recipe. The index is very confusing. Cooks will just end up frustrated.
Cooking Light needs help.......2003-10-08
This(and other Cooking Light books)definately need a better way to organize the recipes. The book doesn't even follow the order of the monthly magazines recipes. It is severely lacking in photographs. Most of the beautiful photos from the magazines are not used in the cookbook. The photos would be helpful in selecting recipes...especially because the book is not organized by food category. The recipes might be great, but who has 2 hours to search through a cookbook to find something to cook??
Full of good, practical recipies.......2003-03-01
I own a lot of cookbooks... but I've never had one quite like this. This is the first cookbook where I look through the recipies, and think "Hey - I should make that some time" for most of the recipies. Other cookbooks seem to be literally filled with recipies that either don't look any good, or require exotic ingredients only availble to people in major metropolitan centers.
With this cookbook, however, I flip through the pages wishing i had time to make almost all of the 900 recipies. I've made about 20 things out of this book now, and have enjoyed almost all of them a lot.
Pros:
- Contains a good, detailed introduction for the novice cook, including information on herbs, cooking methods, etc.
- Contains almost 900 recipies that you can actually make and enjoy.
- Has recipies from almost every category - breads, meats, desserts, soups, etc.
- I totally disagree with the person who said the layout is lousy . I've never had trouble finding anything in this book.
- The recipies, while not being extremely low fat, *are* from cooking light, and hence are healthier in general than most other cookbooks. Plus, the recipies don't ever seem to sacrifice flavor for a *light* rating.
Cons:
- You'll spend longer in the kitchen trying to make more of these
Sorry - I don't really have a good con for this book :)
If you love too cook - you'll love this book!
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