The Lighten Up Cookbook

2016 James Beard Award winner and 2016 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) nominee for Best American Cookbook A collection of classic Southern comfort food recipes--including seven-layer dip, chicken and gravy, and strawberry shortcake--made lighter, healthier, and completely guilt-free. Virginia Willis is not only an authority on Southern cooking. She's also a French-trained chef, a veteran cookbook author, and a proud Southerner who adores eating and cooking for family and friends. So when she needed to drop a few pounds and generally lighten up her diet, the most important criterion for her new lifestyle was that all the food had to taste delicious. The result is Lighten Up, Y’all, a soul-satisfying and deeply personal collection of Virginia’s new favorite recipes. All the classics are covered—from a comforting Southern Style Shepherd’s Pie with Grits to warm, melting Broccoli Mac and Cheese to Old-Fashioned Buttermilk Pie. Each dish is packed with real Southern flavor, but made with healthier, more wholesome ingredients and techniques. Wherever you are on your health and wellness journey, Lighten Up, Y’all has the recipes, tools, and inspiration you need to make the nourishing, down-home Southern food you love.

Classic American dishes get a lighter makeover in The Lighten Up Cookbook by Cutthroat Kitchen star Addie Gundry, from nutrient-rich smoothies to easy family dinners to guilt-free desserts. Eating lighter doesn’t have to include charts or calorie counting. By incorporating easy healthy recipes into your diet, like substituting cauliflower for starchy breads or baking chicken instead of frying it, you can revitalize your eating habits without giving up the foods you love. From light breakfast recipes like the Kale Smoothie to potluck favorites like Mayo-Free Chicken Salad to family dinners like Zucchini Lasagna and even sweet treats like Pineapple Fluff, eating healthier can be simple and tasty! Each recipe is paired with a gorgeous full-color finished-dish photo.

Team up with Tiffiny and start winning at weightloss! In her brand new cookbook, Tiffiny Hall, trainer on The Biggest Loser, reveals the secret to long-lasting weightloss. You don’t have to give up food to lose weight – Tiffiny shows how eating often and eating the right foods will not only help you to lighten up but feel great too. Tiffiny’s tasty, easy recipes are filled with nutritious lean meats, whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, and healthy fats so you’ll stay fuller, longer. You’ll keep the weight off forever with these delicious meals and Tiffiny’s proven weightloss warrior code: • Eat from the fridge, not the pantry • Eat naked – choose natural, unprocessed foods • Love the good fats • Use nude food to adjust your hormones and boost your metabolism This cookbook will help you achieve the body you’ll love!

In 'Lighten Up', Jill Dupleix shares her passion for simple, delicious and healthy food. The book contains over 100 recipes. Throughout, there are features on key ingredients and techniques, whilst stunning recipe photographs make the food look irresistible.

Two divergent influences--Southern cooking and French cuisine--come together in Bon Appétit, Y'all, a modern Southern chef's passionate and utterly appealing homage to her culinary roots. Espousing a simple-is-best philosophy, classically trained French chef and daughter and granddaughter of consummate Southern cooks, Virginia Willis uses the finest ingredients, concentrates on sound French technique, and lets the food shine in a style she calls "refined Southern cuisine." More than 200 approachable and delicious recipes are arranged by chapter into starters and nibbles; salads and slaws; eggs and dairy; meat, fowl, and fish main dishes; sides; biscuits and breads; soups and stews; desserts; and sauces and preserves. Collected here are stylishly updated Southern and French classics (New Southern Chicken and Dumplings, Boeuf Bourgignonne), rib-sticking, old-timey favorites (Meme's Fried Okra, Angel Biscuits), and perfectly executed comfort food (Mama's Apple Pie, Fried Catfish Fingers with Country Rémoulade). Nearly 100 photographs bring to life both Virginia's food and the bounty of her native Georgia. You'll also find a wealth of tips and techniques from a skilled and innovative teacher, and the stories of a Southern girl steeped to her core in the food, kitchen lore, and unconditional hospitality of her culinary forebears on both sides of the Atlantic. Bon Appétit, Y'all is Virginia's way of saying, "Welcome to my Southern kitchen. Pull up a chair." Once you have tasted her food, you'll want to stay a good long while.

A follow-up to the author’s acclaimed Bon Appétit, Y’all, featuring 150 recipes that combine Southern flavors with time-honored French technique, and include a sophisticated variation that kicks each dish up a notch to make it brilliant. Virginia Willis has a knack for giving French recipes a downhome Southern feel. In Basic to Brilliant, Y’all, she builds on her signature style by offering 150 dual recipes: a soul-satisfying basic recipe accompanied by a technique, garnish, additional step, or short recipe that transforms a wonderful dish into a show stopper. A weeknight classic like Mama’s Chicken Pot Pie becomes sophisticated dinner party fare when it’s baked in a winter squash, and Old Fashioned Stove Top Low-Country Broth can be transformed into a Bouillabaisse-style broth with just a few simple changes. Throughout the book, Virginia paints a vivid picture of her Southern upbringing, drawing readers in with her vibrant tales of food and friends.

Weighed down by belly fat? Lighten Up! Say goodbye to implausible fad diets, and get the healthy, slim body you want for good! Make simple tweaks in the way you eat long term, and make it easy with your secret weapon, Trader Joe's. Registered dietitian Susan Greeley takes the convenient and delicious ingredients found at Trader Joe's and brings you a guide to good carbs and smarter eating to help: Curb cravings, Bust belly fat, Increase energy, Boost metabolism, End dieting deprivation, Cook and eat healthier despite a hectic lifestyle Start with Greeley's 2-Week Challenge jump-start regimen to shed pounds and overcome weight loss plateaus. Continue with satisfying recipes that will put you on the path to stay lightened up for life. Eat smart and cook healthier with recipes like: Chocolate Almond Smoothie, Corny Crab Chowder, Tex-Mex Lunch Bowl, Chicken Balsamico, Susan's Pseudo Spaghetti Carbonara, Loaded Black Bean Salad, Sizzling Spuds with Sage, Sesame Roasted Broccoli, Strawberry Shortcake, Peach Crisp, and more. Book jacket.