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| The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellie Krieger
Publisher: Taunton
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  123 reviews
Sales Rank: 465
Format: Illustrated
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.1
Dimensions (in): 9 x 8 x 1.1
ISBN: 1600850219
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9781600850219
ASIN: 1600850219
Publication Date: January 15, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 Wonderful February 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really like Ellie Krieger's recipes. There are 1 or 2 we have tried that have not been suberb, but most are. She generally uses easy to find ingredients. The only think I do not like about this cookbook are that she does not include any form of prep time, cook time or total time estimates, which is standard in any other cookbook I have.
Very Nice Healthy Cooking Cookbook February 5, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
I'm a bit of a cookbook nut. I collect them and enjoy just reading them from cover to cover. Since I'd seen Ellie's show on Food Network a few times and lately I've been on a mission to cook healthy things, I decided to give this book a try. It really is a beautiful book and met my needs for a cookbook to just look at. It's well laid out and has some nice photographs. Ellie gives us a little anecdote about each recipe which I think is really the best part about cookbooks since it gives you an idea of what the recipe will be like beyond the ingredients and the picture and makes you feel like you're making something really special even if it's very easy. As soon as this arrived, I flipped through the whole thing and there were very few recipes in here that I didn't want to try. I've made 4 now and all have been delicious and easy and made with everyday ingredients that are easy to find. I can't wait to try all the others that caught my eye as I was flipping through the book.
Note that this book is not about weight loss at all. It's about healthy eating. Ellie focuses alot on the nutrients that you get from certain foods and even lists for each recipe which nutrients are abundant in the dish. She talks too about the nutritional bang you get for your buck (i.e. How many nutrients you get compared to how many calories/fat it has). She states that she tries to base her recipes on foods that are nutrient dense and basically complements them with all the others. I agree completely with her philosophy that healthy food should taste great and that is the cooking style that I am trying to develop. This book is definitely helping me in that endeavor.
 WARNING! February 2, 2008
42 out of 133 found this review helpful
This book should come with a HUGE warning to anyone who needs to or is trying to lose weight. Yes, Ellie cooks the food we crave (some of it's okay, but definitley not even close to great) and it is a bit healthier, BUT she sets you up to have ingredients galore in your house that anyone who, unlike Ellie, who wasn't a model in her youth, couldn't handle having in her house. It's easy for a woman who was model thin her whole life then gained to be a more normal woman to eat a few bites of whipped cream and say that that's enough. She's not wired like those of us who have ever been overweight. What exactly are we supposed to do with the rest of the ingredients after we've consumed the tiny piece she call a portion? Do you really think that anyone who's struggled can have the rest of the real whipped cream in the refrigerator? How long does that last before "just a spoonful won't hurt" seeps in and next thing you know you've eaten the whole darn thing. And forget this book if you're single! I mean, heck, check out the tiny plate on the cover. If it was on a plate with a salad and veggies, that's one thing, a real meal, but if you look closely, you'd never stop there if there was more left in the pan and clearly there is.
I got this book as a gift much to my chagrin. I've lost a ton of weight and kept it off and have watched every cooking show their is. And I've found one thing across the board when it comes to healthy ones: any host who's lost weight and is wired the way all of the struggling and/or obese people in this country are, gets it and cooks accordingly. Those who haven't, their so called, "healthy cooking shows" are a joke. Now granted, some of the ones who have lost weight have gross food. That's because, for the most part, they're not chefs. If you're looking for a great healthy cookbook, find an author or tv personality who 1. has lost weight and 2. who is actually a chef. that's when the stuff makes you go, "wow", I can eat healthy...and enjoy it. Ellie's not a weight loss success story AND she's not a trained chef.
If, on the other hand, you're that rare breed that can actually eat 2 french fries and feel satisfied, this book might be okay. Still very vanilla, but okay.
Healthy, Delicious Recipes with REAL food January 29, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
This is my current favorite cookbook! I love the Barefoot Contessa books, but Ina's recipes are just not very healthy! This is a book that you can use every day.
I have loved Elie on the Food network since she started. This book is even better than I hoped it would be. I do not care for recipes that include a lot of fake ingredients -- like fat free cheese. Elie's recipes call for whole, nutritious foods. I have made lots of delicious recipes from this book: sweet and sour brisket, the best jambalaya ever, thai halibut, tuscan chicken and vegetables, fish tacos... Most of the recipes are fairly simple and help me get dinner on the table in about 30 minutes. The recipes that take longer mostly have long periods of unattended cooking. The nutrition information is very complete. As a Weight Watcher, I appreciate being able to easily calculate points. This is a must have for every home cook!
Finally!! Ellie Has a Cookbook! January 28, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I am just so excited this book is finally here!! I printed off every one of Ellie's recipes I could get my hands on from the internet and have been cooking from that sad pile of print outs for about a year now. And now all our faves are in this beautiful book! My first, and still my favorite Ellie recipe, is her Pasta Salad with Spinach, Walnuts and Feta Cheese. That one alone is worth the price of the book! Her Caesar Salad with Grilled Shrimp is a very close second - that salad dressing is absolutely the best! The other night I made her Roast Salmon with Grapefruit Shallot Sauce and it was positively fantastic. Her Chile Rubbed Steak Tacos with Avocado Salsa are a fabulous solution for my Mexican food obsession!
I love her approach to food because I too prefer real food to lightened up diet foods with lots of chemicals. I'd rather have no mayonnaise than light mayo. It's so refreshing to find recipes that don't require a lot of packaged diet foods to make dishes that are lower in calories. I love to cook and eating healthfully used to mean lots of steaming and baking things bare...boring to make and to eat! But I get to cook and eat to my to my heart's quite literal content with her recipes! I am really looking forward to cooking and eating my way through the rest of this book!
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