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A New York Times’ bestselling author’s guide to quick and healthy everyday meals As weekly host of the Food Network’s Healthy Appetite, Ellie Krieger is known for creating light and healthy dishes that taste great and are easy enough for the busiest people to prepare. Now, Ellie has put together a collection of meal solutions for those of us who love food and want to eat well but struggle to make it happen given life’s hectic pace. With 150 delicious, easy-to-prep…
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I just received this book and read through it. It is even better the first one!
When I got Ellie’s first book, I was thrilled to know that healthy food could still taste good.
However, there were still some recipes that I wished I had in Ellie’s version.
This book definitely fills that hole. Ellie recreated many dishes in her healthy versions, and some of them are the ones people usually think to be impossible to be healthy. I can’t wait until try every one of them.
Another thing that I like about this book is, the recipes were divided into breakfast, lunch, and dinner and each of them were again divided into slow and fast. So, you could pick the recipe that fits your schedule.
Fast lunch has recipes for lunch boxes, so as a working girl who tries to eat healthy, I couldn’t be happier. Thanks Ellie for another great book. You are the best!!
Ellie Krieger’s “The Food You Crave” is a terrific cookbook. I enjoyed a number of menus therein. This is a worthy addition to her body of work. One of the pluses of a Krieger book is her dual skill set–her ability to create tasty recipes coupled with her knowledge of nutrition.
Some quotations from her Introduction indicate her approach (Pages 10-12): “If you love food and want to eat well but struggle making it happen with life’s hectic pace, keep reading. . .Every recipe here hits the delicious healthy easy trifecta. Deliciousness is first and foremost. . .My golden rule: no food is ever off limits. . .The third part of the trifecta is the easy factor.”
One useful touch at the front of the book: what should be in one’s pantry. The book, then, is divided into several chapters–two for breakfast, two for lunch, two for dinner, and two for dessert.
“Breakfast is the meal of fresh starts” (Page 19). There are some very nice recipes for breakfast that capture one’s attention. A Spicy Egg and Avocado Wrap features eggs, lettuce, whole-wheat wrap breads, an avocado, a tomato, cucumber, Thai chili sauce or hot sauce, salt, and pepper. Accessible ingredients and a pretty straightforward recipe. Yummy! Another: Egg Muffin Sandwich (her take on an Egg McMuffin; her recipe is more enticing!).
“Now that the lunch hour is more like the twenty minute lunch, it is harder than ever to eat right at midday” (Page 65). Some interesting recipes to show how one might have a good meal with little preparation time. Lemon-Cumin Grilled Chicken Breast. Boneless chicken breasts, cumin, salt, pepper, olive oil/cooking spray, and lemon juice. Takes only about 15 minutes to cook this. Other samples: Ham and Cheese Panini; Chicken Paillard with Watercress and Tomato Salad; Open Face Chicken Parmesan Sandwich.
Dinner: As a side dish, Garlic Mashed Potatoes are terrific! Krieger’s recipe is simple and delicious. Double dipping–she also has a cool recipe for Herbed Mashed Potatoes. Want a fish dish for dinner? Flounder with Almond Topping, Saffron Rice, and Lemon Broccolini.
All in all, a fine cookbook. Healthy, fairly simple to make. The couple items I have tried have been fine tasting. A good addition to a kitchen library!
I got this cookbook last week and I have made two new recipes-Cherry Vanilla Smoothie and Mocha Java Smoothie. Both were wonderful.
I have already made the Salmon Florentine and Chicken Mushroom Quesadillas on previous occassions. Also the pesto potato salad. All of these recipes were featured on her show and I got them off Food Network. Its nice to have them all in one place though.
The one thing I do not like is for the section of lunches, all of them involve wraps/bread. I try not to eat very much wheat so lunches it would be nice to see options that don’t involve it. But I love Ellie’s recipes anyways and ALL of the recipes look delicious.
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