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| The Food You Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life | 
 enlarge | Author: Ellie Krieger
Publisher: Taunton
Category: Book
List Price: $28.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  130 reviews
Sales Rank: 341
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:
 Healthy, Delicious Recipes with REAL food January 29, 2008
12 out of 12 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
16 out of 16 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!
The best cookbook I own!!!! January 27, 2008
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Ladies and Gentlemen this cookbook rocks! Everything I've made (lots) is delicious! My husband, and our children love her recipes too. They are easy to follow and YUMMY!!! Plus you feel good about what you are eating. PLUS, Ellie has these "mini" articles throughtout that help you learn QUICKLY why certain foods are better for you. Love that! Bless you Ellie!
Finally, a book on how it's not about the dieting, but about the D-I-E-T! January 26, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I LOVE THIS BOOK! Ellie Krieger has the best approach towards food than any other "food or diet" person out there. I should know, I've read them all and tried them all. Jenny Craig, Weight Watchers, Atkins, South Beach, you name it, I've done it. The problem? It's not about being on a diet where you limit your food intake, or about depriving yourself of food. It's about your DIET. The food that you put into your body, how it's prepared and how much food you eat at a meal. Ellie shows you how to prepare dishes in a healthy manner, gives you recipes to prepare foods you love! Pasta, burgers, dessert dishes! Finally we can eat and enjoy our food while doing something great for our bodies! Thank you Ellie! MIP
The Book You Crave January 26, 2008
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
Ellie Krieger's new cookbook is so much better than I had expected. This is a big cookbook and I am enjoying all the recipes. Her vita is quite impressive and I knew her recipes would reflect her great knowledge of nutrition but I was not prepared for how delicious all the recipes are. She has outdone herself with this marvelous new book! I am so glad to have it and it is the number one book I use in my very large cookbook library!
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