"Comfort Food Fix" is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to the "New York Times" best-selling "So Easy." This time Ellie Krieger, host of the long-running, popular Food Network cooking show "Healthy Appetite" (now airing in re-runs every weekday morning on Cooking Channel), offers 150 recipes for American favorites -- meatloaf, lasagna, New England Clam Chowder, chicken pot pie, shrimp and grits, crab cakes, garlic bread sticks, mashed potatoes, and more. But because Ellie is all about eating right, for every recipes she reduces the calories, saturated fat, and cholesterol, without sacrificing any of the flavor. All of the recipes includes a before-and-after chart at the bottom, so you can see just how much healthier Ellie's recipes are than the originals. Imagine a sweet potato casserole with 150 calories per serving instead of 420 calories. Or buttermilk waffles with 1.5 grams of saturated fat instead of 11.
Bringing sensibility to sensory pleasures, this accessible, health-minded cookbook is a welcome resource in a burger and bacon-obsessed moment. Recognizing that there are good biological and emotional reasons why we seek out starchy, hearty, creamy dishes to sate ourselves, dietician and Food Network star Krieger (The Food You Crave), sees no reason why anyone should have to give them up wholesale. The goal, then, is to reduce fat, sodium and sugar without sacrificing flavor. Krieger avoids using artificial sweeteners and egg replacers--instead, she relies on what she terms the 15 Fix Factors to make her recipes healthier. These include substituting low-fat milk, evaporated milk and Greek yogurt for cream; baking breaded dishes instead of frying; adding smaller quantities of real, extra-flavorful cheeses and employing trimmed lean cuts of meat. Mango Stuffed Challah French Toast is lightened up with light ricotta, low-fat milk and nonstick cooking spray for a calorie savings of 150, wh
Title: Comfort food fix
Subtitle:
Contributors:
By (author)
Ellie Krieger
ISBN 13: 9780470603093
ISBN 10: 0470603097
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Publication Date: 29/11/2011
Place of Publication:
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United States
Edition:
BIC Subjects:
Cookery / food & drink etc
NBS Classification: Food & Drink: General
Dewey Classification:
641.5
(DC22)
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641.3
(DC21)
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
Height: 237mm
Width: 207mm
Thickness: 27mm
Weight: 1197g