Cooking Light Complete Cookbook

Most of us simply arent willing to sacrifice culinary excellence for meals that are good for us. Its no wonder, then, that Cooking Light is Americas leading epicurean magazine and the most trusted authority on healthy cooking. And this newest hardcover beauty is the most comprehensive collection of 1,000 top-rated, double-tested, healthy, yet rich and tasty recipes ever combined in one cookbook.

The Cooking Light Complete Cookbook serves up a whopping 1,200 health-conscious, tasty recipes along with a free interactive DVD with 100 menu ideas, recipes, shopping lists, and how-to video clips.

It is an exciting time to be in the kitchen with so many incredible, flavorful ingredients from around the globe in our local supermakets. We can thank globalization for stimulating our taste buds--and for making it easier to eat healthy. David Joachim, Author

Cooking Light Global Kitchen brings a world of flavor, texture, and enticing aromas to your everyday meals. In this book, the sometimes intimidating topic of preparing your favorite ethnic-inspired dishes is made easy, approachable, and, most importantly, doable for home cooks of any skill level, by using ethnic ingredients easy-to-find in your local grocery store!

New York Times Bestselling author David Joachim, shares fascinating stories behind the world's most loved dishes as well as tips and techniques from 15 notable chefs and experts such as Rick Bayless, Marc Vetri, Michael Solomonov, Lidia Bastianich, Marcus Samuelsson, Jose Garces, Mark Bittman, and many more.

We'll show you how to create Mexican chile rellenos, homemade
pasta in the Italian tradition, Thai sticky rice, Egyptian koshari, and
many other dishes without venturing further than the supermarket.
You'll get a taste of the world without ever leaving home.

• More than 150 recipes from around the world provide adventurous eaters with plenty of options to keep their palates pleased
• Features melting pot recipes blending the flavors of multiple cuisines, appealing to America's love of fusion dishes
• All the recipes are prepared with easy-to-find ingredients, making each deliciously doable
• Full-color images of each recipe brings each dish to life
• A complete nutrition analysis shows readers they can makeonce-in-awhile favorites into everyday options
• Ingredients: Detailed information about the easy-to-find ingredients that are the basis of many of these international favorites, where to find them (mostly at the regular grocery store these days), and how to know you're picking the best.
  
  

Offers a variety of low-calories recipes such as "Australian lobster tails," "Caribbean style rice," and "oriental flank steak" and includes nutritional information and preparation time for each recipe.

Cooking Light The Complete Quick Cook is the most comprehensive quick cookbook delivering everything consumers need in one place for cooking flavorful and satisfying timesaving meals. But Cooking Light The Complete Quick Cook is more than just a recipe collection of quick and easy recipes--it also gives home cooks all the tips and strategies on how to shop, organize their kitchen, and cook in a smart, efficient, and fun way at home. From shopping tips to menu planning and pantry, freezer, and refrigerator stocking guides to all the gotta-have tools and gadgets, authors Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein share with readers their expertise, insights, and tips. Cooking Light The Complete Quick Cook is the ultimate fast grocery, kitchen, and cooking resource. Created with the time-pressed cook in mind, Cooking Light The Complete Quick Cook is about tasty, good-for-you food, made quickly and easily. With this cookbook in hand, readers will be armed with strategic ways to cook smarter, make the most of their precious time, and--best of all--ensure readers' efforts deliver incredibly delightful dishes day after day. Readers will find simple procedures, realistic quick prep times, and useful kitchen tips. Unlike the competition, every recipe has a short ingredient list and straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions along with ingredient information and tips on preparation, cooking, and storage. Features Include: The Top Ten Secrets of a Quick Cook Over 200 recipes that can be prepared in under 30 minutes Even Faster: easy tips within the recipes for making that particular recipe even faster! On the Side: short sentence recipes for super-quick side dish ideas Savvy in a Snap: ingredient spotlights of where to find certain ingredients and how to use them

In 288 pages, Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook will share the secrets to buying, growing, and cooking your favorite fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Bursting with beautiful color photographs, this book is an invaluable resource for home cooks, novice gardeners, and food lovers alike. Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook includes: Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook features: Fruits, Veggies, Herbs: Dedicated chapters guide you through choosing, storing, growing and preparing flavorful recipes using the freshest ingredients Expert Tips: Teaches you how to grow your own produce virtually anywhere Season-to-Season Garden Plans: Provides the basics on starting your garden, plus easy-to-follow instructions for maintaining and caring for your garden 200 Full-Color Photos and 150 Delicious Recipes For Food Lovers: Utilize the fresh taste of the seasons' best produce in your dishes from delicious appetizers and sides, to supremely fresh salads and main dishes, and delectable desserts Complete Nutritional Analysis: Each recipe includes a list of the key nutrients, vitamins and minerals FoodCorps' Guide to Connecting Kids with Fresh Produce: Cooking Light's media partner FoodCorps shares the three pillars for teaching gardening to children and shares inspiring stories from FoodCorps service members Garden Editor and Pick Fresh Cookbook Spokesperson, Mary Beth Burner Shaddix leads the Cooking Light garden, bringing basket-bursting harvests of fruits, vegetables and herbs to the pages of Cooking Light magazine and Pick Fresh Cookbook. After 10 years working in the marketing and research department at Cooking Light, Mary Beth traded in her business suits for rubber boots to get back to her roots-literally. Digging in spade first, she began learning the breadth of gardening at a local retail nursery and eventually working and being certified with Master Gardeners. Little did she know, the manager who curiously eyed her resume at the nursery would soon be her husband. They now grow together at their wholesale nursery and farm, Maple Valley Nursery, near Birmingham, Alabama. She is also the founder/owner of A New Leaf Consulting and manages social media at Bonnie Plants, Inc., a grower specializing in herbs and vegetables

Home cooks count on the Fresh Food Fast books to give them fresh food around the clock and this book does not disappoint. It fits a busy lifestyle perfectly with short ingredient lists, straightforward procedures, fresh ingredients, and delicious results. The recipes and meals in this cookbook will be the most requested, often-repeated solutions in your daily repertoire. This book includes: Market to Meal Planners to make shopping and meal planning a breeze 750 quick and easy recipes with beautiful full-color photographs Ingredient spotlights that explain unusual ingredients Feed Four for $10 or Less: Budget-friendly recipes that help you feed your family and save A Seasonal Produce Guide that leads you to the best fresh food in the market all year long Essential Tools and Gear Guide that shows readers essential kitchen equipment that makes cooking fast and easy

The more than 800 recipes found in this book showcase the latest trends in healthy cooking, highlight the ingredients and flavors of world cuisines, and provide readers with an array of menus for every occasion. Full-color photos throughout.