Taste Of Home Recipe Makeovers

Cutting back on fat,calories and carbs doesn't mean sacrificing flavor! Lose weight, get healthy and eat great! It’s a snap with the light but hearty family-favorites found in this all-new cookbook. Cutting back on fat, calories and carbs doesn’t mean sacrificing flavor! Now it’s easier than ever to enjoy piping-hot lasagnas, juicy burgers, lip-smacking mac & cheese, hearty stews, finger-licking fried chicken and even mom’s meatloaf…all while keeping healthy-eating goals in check. The pros at the Taste of Home Test Kitchen trimmed down all-time classic comfort foods, turning them into heart-smart choices you’ll be excited to serve. They also cut back the sugar and butter from cakes, pies, brownies and other crowd-pleasing desserts. They even created Bonus Chapters of satisfying and simply delicious gluten-free and vegan dishes. You’ll also find tips for lightening up your own recipes and step-by-step photos demonstrating insider cooking techniques sure to lead you to success. Lose weight, get healthy and eat great! It’s a snap with the light but hearty family-favorites found in this all-new cookbook. CHAPTERS Down-Home Breakfast Staples Savory Snacks & Appetizers Comforting Soups & Sandwiches Hearty Beef & Poultry Entrees Pork, Ham & More Fish & Seafood Dinners Meatless Meals Lightened-Up Sides Breads, Biscuits & More Trimmed-Down Sweets Bonus: Gluten-Free Comfort Foods Bonus: Vegan Specialties RECIPES Chocolate Chip Pancakes Peanut Butter-Banana Waffles Breakfast Pizza Ooey-Gooey Cinnamon Rolls Low-Fat Milk Shakes No-Fuss Bruschetta Hawaiian Sausage Kabobs Crab Phyllo Cups Oven-Fried Chicken Just-Like-Mom’s Meatloaf Beef Fajitas Creamy Ravioli 3-Cheese Lasagna Italian Sausage Orzo Baked Mac & Cheese Tex-Mex Pork Chops Feta Mushroom Burgers Cheesy Broccoli Side Parmesan French Fries Air-Fried Onion Rings Peanut Buter Cookies Pumpkin-Maple Pie Must-Try Tiramisu Grandma’s Chocolate Cake Berry-Topped Cheesecake

The pros at Taste of Home received hundreds of requests to lighten up family-favorite recipes—and they did! Whether cutting calories from a bubbling casserole, trimming fat from a cheesy pizza or skimming sugar from a heavenly dessert, these experts revamped classic dishes while keeping all the mouthwatering flavor in tact. Now they’re sharing their secrets in Taste of Home Best-Loved Makeovers. Inside this brand-new cookbook you’ll find Nutrition Facts with every recipe as well as Diabetic Exchanges, hints and tips for making over your own favorites and more. Best of all, this must-have collection helps you dish out all the comfort you enjoy without an ounce of guilt! Golden potpies, cheesy lasagna, piping hot mac and cheese, decadent chocolate cake…these are just some the favorite foods that home cooks from coast to coast asked Taste of Home to lighten up for them. After all, today’s family cooks want to serve hearty specialties but they also want to keep sugar, fat, carbs, sodium and calories at bay. Now, readers of American’s No. 1 food and entertaining magazine can lean how to trim the fat from classic dishes without cutting back on flavor. The Taste of Home Test Kitchen experts share their secrets for pairing down calories, fat and more with Taste of Home Best-Loved Makeovers. The brand-new title offers more than 340 revamped recipes, each putting a light spin on all-time classics. Complete Nutrition Information with every recipe helps buyers calculate weight-loss points and adhere to particular diet restrictions. In addition, hundreds of color photos and tips on trimming down family favorites make this cookbook a rewarding purchase for anyone hoping to serve best-loved foods without skimping on flavor.

Based on the success of “Taste of Home Most Requested Recipes,” our Test Kitchen team knew it was time to create another stellar collection of 5-star dishes. Since thousands of home cooks share their all-time best with Taste of Home, it was easy to put together a brand-new cookbook. With All-New Most Requested Recipes, readers can indulge in 268 additional specialties (not found in the first book), sure to garner great reviews and requests for the recipes. These are the staples our favorite contributors go to when they’re creating a menu, planning a buffet or serving a jaw-dropping dessert. Need a dish to pass? Try any of these mouthwatering party contributions our readers rely on. They’re sure to steal the show. Inside, buyers will discover top-rated favorites from TasteofHome.com, contest winners and the most-requested recipes from our top contributors. Best of all, these family cooks share their kitchen secrets and heartwarming memories via interviews featured throughout the book, making this a book today’s home cooks will reach for time and again. • 260+ of our most-sought-after recipes • Top-rated dishes from TasteofHome.com, recipe contests and valued contributors • At-a-Glance icons that spotlight contest winning, slow cooker, air-fryer and Instant Pot recipes • Inspiring stories from today’s home cooks as well as how-to photos and timeless kitchen tips • Bonus chapter of menus perfect for entertaining all year long CHAPTERS Favorite Breakfasts Snacks & Appetizers Best-Shared Breads Soups & Sammies Popular Sides & Salads Beef & Poultry Dinners Pork & Other Entrees Seafood & Meatless Mains Cookies, Brownies & Bars Tasty Cakes & Pies Must-Try Desserts Bonus: Easy Entertaining

Putting the foods you love back on the table We've revamped over 175 feel-good favorites (like creamy Macaroni and Cheese, Meat and Cheese Lasagna, and Fudgy Brownies) including 50 comfort-food restaurant favorites from the likes of The Cheesecake Factory (New York-Style Cheesecake), Olive Garden (Fettuccini Alfredo), Chili's (Nachos), and Au Bon Pain (Cinnamon Rolls) slashing thousands of calories and hundreds of grams of fat along the way. How did we do it? We put flavor first and used our test kitchen experience, smart ingredient substitutions (no fake fats or artificial sweeteners allowed), and innovative cooking techniques to make comfort food that you'll actually be comfortable eating. Comfort Food Makeovers isn't simply a collection of these tested and perfected recipes; it's an arsenal of fat and calorie-cutting strategies you can put to use. Use them to transform your own recipes into better tasting food that's better for you. We include a list of our key go-to ingredients that helped lighten or add flavor to the recipes in the book, as well as the essential equipment we found ourselves using again and again as we developed the recipes over time. Dramatic before and after counts for calories, grams of fat, and grams of saturated fat appear with each recipe, and full nutritional information for the recipes is provided at the back of the book.

Discover hundreds of satisfying main dishes, quick-fix sandwiches, comforting soups and family-favorite desserts…all of which come together with a handful of kitchen staples! You’ll even find five-ingredient side dishes, salads and breads that round out meals in a flash. These clever recipes come from savvy home cooks who know how to pump up flavor with just a few ingredients, and now we’re sharing those secrets in this brand-new collection. For many family cooks, it’s a challenge to set a hot and hearty meal on the table. After all, kitchen time usually competes with jobs, after-school activities, and other tasks and errands. Luckily, Taste of Home 5-Ingredient Cookbook is here to help! Inside, readers will find 400+ fast and fabulous recipes—each of which calls for five ingredients or fewer! It’s never been easier (or tastier) for home cooks to whip up a comforting dinner while saving time and cutting the grocery bill! Taste of Home’s trademark indexes get an update with an index organized by common kitchen staples, and numerous tip boxes offer shortcuts that other home cooks took when preparing the recipes. CHAPTERS Breakfast Appetizers & Beverages Soups & Sandwiches Beef Pork Poultry Fish & Seafood Meatless Salads & Salad Dressings Sides & Condiments Breads & Rolls Cakes, Pies & Desserts Cookies, Bars & Candies Recipes Nutty Waffle Sandwiches Easy Black Bean Salsa Italian Meatball Buns Simple Chicken Soup Brisket with Cranberry Gravy Ham with Ruby-Red Glaze Chicken Enchilada Bake Thai Shrimp Pasta Jazzy Mac 'n' Cheese Mediterranean Orange Salad Freezer Raspberry Sauce Fresh Herb Flatbread Golden Pound Cake Caramel Cashew Clusters

Indulge your fast food cravings without guilt—with recipes that deliver the same great taste without putting your health at risk or inches on your hips Americans all want to "eat healthy," but when they yearn for the fast foods they love, what they want most are the fabulous flavors that have made them favorites in the first place. That's what makes this collection of recipe makeovers so exceptional. Los Angeles food writer, chef, and caterer Devin Alexander specializes in low-fat, high-flavor, scrumptious cuisine. In Fast Food Fix, she shows the reader how to transform 75 fast food favorites into healthier versions that are even more flavorful than the originals. Fast Food Fix: • demystifies the special seasonings and secret sauces of choice fast foods—showing how to reproduce their flavors quickly and easily from common ingredients • teaches how to lighten many dishes with new cooking techniques, such as the oven-frying method that yields incredibly crunchy popcorn chicken with 35 fewer fat grams than the original version from KFC • reveals simplified cooking methods that save time in the kitchen, proving that "fast food" can still be fast even when prepared at home For Americans hooked on fast food flavors, these recipe makeovers by a chef with an impressive repertoire of culinary tricks will quickly become a kitchen staple.

The ideal reference cookbook for both beginner and seasoned cooks, The Taste of Home Cookbook, New 3rd Edition contains 1,100 recipes-500 classics and 600 all-new favorites. Of the new recipes, 100 are 30-minute light entrees featured in the bonus chapter, perfect for the healthy cook. As always, The Taste of Home Cookbook, New 3rd Edition continues to help readers make their cooking experience a breeze with: All-new design with 600 new recipes A total of more than 1,100+ fabulous recipes and variations, all made from easy-to-find, everyday ingredients, all shared by trusted home cooks just like you More than 1,100+ full-color photos to showcase finished dishes and illustrate techniques Nutrition facts for every recipe, so you can quickly identify the recipes that meet your family's dietary needs Prep and cook times for each recipe Hundreds of tips, techniques, and how-to's from Taste of Home readers and the experts on our Test Kitchen staff Storage charts, buying tips and cooking charts 23 Chapters with easy-to-follow references and indexes. In addition to the alphabetical listing on the back of each chapter divider tab, there is a master alphabetical index at the end of the book. Plus, a comprehensive index organized by major ingredients, cooking techniques, food categories and recipe tips. Other special features, including the handy five-ring binder, which lays flat on your counter; two splash guards to keep your book's pages clean and safe from splatters and tabbed dividers for quick reference. Our guarantee that absolutely every recipe will work! Taste of Home Test Kitchen home economists have tested each recipe so that it will turn out perfectly in your own kitchen-every single time you make it!

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