Cooking Light and cookinglight.com. I have other cookbooks, but lately most of my recipes come from here (I prefer low fat and they have a lot of low fat recipes).
One of my favorite cookbooks is Super Natural Cooking by Heidi Swanson. Really different, interesting, exotic recipes. Beautiful color photographs. Her sprouted garbanzo bean burgers are AMAZING. I make them all the time. If you're interested in whole foods/vegetarian foods, or anything kind of esoteric and different, you might really like this book.
Most of my recipes come from Cooking Light, the website, magazine, and their collection cookbooks. I also like the New American Plate cookbook by the american institute for cancer research, an old Healthy Home Cooking book from Prevention magazine I picked up at a used bookstore, "Small-Batch Baking" which is excellent for satisfying my dessert cravings, and the Low-Salt Cookbook from the american heart association.
Ooh, I love Super Natural Cooking! In fact, I'm making the curry noodle pot tonight.
I also like More with Less and Extending the World Table. They contain recipes sent in from Missionaries. They have a lot of great ethnic recipes and most (not all) of them are really healthy. They do have a bit of a religious bend to them, but it's not obnoxious and it's easily ignorable (if that type of thing bothers you.)
I should also admit that I have never met a Nigella Lawson recipe that I don't like. Of course, Nigella's recipes are not always healthy, so I pick and choose and eat the rich ones rarely. She has a great roast buttermilk chicken recipe in Nigella Express. And I've made her potato/mushroom gratin with non-fat milk instead of whole and it worked great.
i love to cook.
but now i'm learning to cook healthy foods....
some of my favorites cooking books and sites:
cooking light.com
cooking light
weight watchers
foodfit.com
mealtime.org
michellenew
I have been using these with adjustments according to lower fat, cals, sodium, etc.:
The Biggest Loser
Rachael Ray-Just in Time
No salt, Lowest Sodium Cookbook
Vegetarian for Dummies
Thin for Life
I really like the ones I find at HungryGirl .com, although some of her food-substitution items are only available to me over the internet, darn it! There is a bit of advertising to get through on that site as well, but the peanut-butter bread pudding was worth it- droooool! Also, Alton Brown of the Food Network and "Good Eats" fame has some really science-y, entertaining cookbooks for bio-chem-science geeks like me.
Nineteen - Small Batch Baking doesn't really have healthy recipes in it, it just makes small portions. For example, she has cookie recipes that make four cookies, banana bread that you make in a mini loaf pan so it only makes 2-3 servings, cakes that you cook in a soup can so it's just right for 1-2 people, etc. I find that when I am craving something like chocolate chip cookies, there is really nothing I can substitute that will satisfy me, and if I make a whole batch of them, I eat the whole batch! With her small recipes I can make a batch of just four chocolate chip cookies, split them with DH, and after two cookies my craving is satisfied and there is nothing left to binge on.
It is a little hard sometimes because recipes will call for stuff like half a banana, or 1 tsp of egg white. I've made 3-4 recipes from it so far though and I think they turned out pretty well.
That sounds right up my alley..I love sweets but I can only have them if they're portion-controlled. And I love having the "real thing." I may have to get that book...
paperclippy , 01-26-2008 08:37 AM
michellenew , 01-26-2008 03:13 PM
