Cooking Light The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook


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Following on the heels of First Foods comes Cooking Light's first cookbook that gives moms fun, great-tasting, and healthy recipes they know their kids will love. Parents want their kids to be healthy, and this book, geared toward kids ages 3-12, shows them how. Cooking Light provides the facts about kids' nutrition-what kids need and what they don't need. But it's not just about "kid" foods and "adult" foods-it is about foods suitable for the entire family. More than 100 kid-tested recipes show parents (and kids) they don't have to become short-order cooks when mealtime rolls around. In this easy-to-use, spiral-bound book, parents will learn how to get their kids involved in healthy cooking-teaching those skills that will prepare them for a lifetime of healthy habits and healthful, delicious meals. Cooking Light The Ultimate Kid-Approved Cookbook is brimming with these fun features to enhance time spent in the kitchen: "Kitchen Classroom" and "Nutrition Notes" teach moms and kids about nutrition and interesting food facts. "Meals Made Easy" provides information about easy pairing of dishes to complete a meal. "Young Chefs Can" and "Older Chefs Can" boxes with each recipe list the tasks kids of all ages can help with, allowing the entire family to be involved in getting dinner on the table. Quotes from the Kids Tasting Panel throughout the book tell why they liked a particular dish, their serving suggestions, and ideas for extras.




The All-New Complete Cooking Light Cookboook


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Most of us simply arent willing to sacrifice culinary excellence for meals that are good for us. Its no wonder, then, that Cooking Light is Americas leading epicurean magazine and the most trusted authority on healthy cooking. And this newest hardcover beauty is the most comprehensive collection of 1,000 top-rated, double-tested, healthy, yet rich and tasty recipes ever combined in one cookbook.




Cooking Light We [Heart] Cooking!


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A People Magazine New Fall Cookbooks Pick Twelve-year-old Twin Chefs Lilly and Audrey are going to teach you and your kids how to make 85 taste bud-tingling recipes that are a blast to cook and eat! With an emphasis on creativity, tasty flavor combinations and ease in preparation,We {Heart} Cooking!is the perfect cookbook for kids and parents who want to prepare healthy food the whole family will love. Designed to inspire all levels of cooking, this delightful cookbook includes teachable moments about food and cooking including: Visual guides to basic cooking techniques Illustrated step-by-step recipe instructions Kitchen safety tips and recommendations Nutritional analysis with each recipe Entertaining food trivia and cooking tips sidebars From lunchbox faves to snack-time madness, The Twin Chefs' rockin' recipes are organized by mealtime — breakfast, lunch, supper, snacks, and desserts — and there is an entire chapter of fun party and holiday-themed menus to enjoy. Dishes like Dreamy Tropical Smoothies and Wok-a-licious Beef Stir Fry are sure to please kids of all ages. So tie on you aprons and learn all about healthy eating along the way. Lilly and Audrey Andrews, identical twins from Sonoma, California, are young expert chefs who attend adult classes at culinary school, have cooked side-by-side with famous chefs Wolfgang Puck, Michael Chiarello, Bob Blumer and have appeared on Good Morning America and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.




Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast Weeknight Meals


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Dinnertime stress is over! Enjoy over 280 all-new 5-ingredient, 5-minute recipes guaranteed to come together easily from start to finish-fast. With options for 2, 4, or 6 servings, households of all sizes can share a home-cooked meal.

These Test Kitchen approved recipes are tailor-made for hectic lifestyles and health-conscious families. More than recipes, this must-have collection offers over 160 full-color photographs, detailed nutritional analyses, ways to streamline prep so dinner is ready even faster, easy make-ahead options, assorted 10-minute side dishes, and suggestions for turning leftovers into tasty lunches-to-go. Helpful shortcut kitchen techniques show you how to shave minutes off your prep time, while simple ingredient pairing tips teach you to effortlessly craft a variety of mouthwatering meals from just a few flavor-boosting items. Serving wholesome, homecooked meals on busy evenings just got easier thanks to Cooking Light Fresh Food Fast Weeknight Meals. Family meals return with these ready-in-minutes recipes for healthy, delicious, satisfying dishes.




Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook


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In 288 pages, Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook will share the secrets to buying, growing, and cooking your favorite fresh fruits, vegetables, and herbs. Bursting with beautiful color photographs, this book is an invaluable resource for home cooks, novice gardeners, and food lovers alike. Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook includes: Cooking Light Pick Fresh Cookbook features: Fruits, Veggies, Herbs: Dedicated chapters guide you through choosing, storing, growing and preparing flavorful recipes using the freshest ingredients Expert Tips: Teaches you how to grow your own produce virtually anywhere Season-to-Season Garden Plans: Provides the basics on starting your garden, plus easy-to-follow instructions for maintaining and caring for your garden 200 Full-Color Photos and 150 Delicious Recipes For Food Lovers: Utilize the fresh taste of the seasons' best produce in your dishes from delicious appetizers and sides, to supremely fresh salads and main dishes, and delectable desserts Complete Nutritional Analysis: Each recipe includes a list of the key nutrients, vitamins and minerals FoodCorps' Guide to Connecting Kids with Fresh Produce: Cooking Light's media partner FoodCorps shares the three pillars for teaching gardening to children and shares inspiring stories from FoodCorps service members Garden Editor and Pick Fresh Cookbook Spokesperson, Mary Beth Burner Shaddix leads the Cooking Light garden, bringing basket-bursting harvests of fruits, vegetables and herbs to the pages of Cooking Light magazine and Pick Fresh Cookbook. After 10 years working in the marketing and research department at Cooking Light, Mary Beth traded in her business suits for rubber boots to get back to her roots-literally. Digging in spade first, she began learning the breadth of gardening at a local retail nursery and eventually working and being certified with Master Gardeners. Little did she know, the manager who curiously eyed her resume at the nursery would soon be her husband. They now grow together at their wholesale nursery and farm, Maple Valley Nursery, near Birmingham, Alabama. She is also the founder/owner of A New Leaf Consulting and manages social media at Bonnie Plants, Inc., a grower specializing in herbs and vegetables




The Ultimate Kids Cookbook


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Learn to Cook Awesome Meals the Way You Like! Kids, are you ready to make the best meal of your life? This cookbook is going to show you step by step how to cook the way grown-ups do, but with your favorite favors! And the best part is that your parents, siblings or sitters are only your helpers. YOU can take center stage chopping ingredients like a pro, stirring the pot and serving the final dish to your family or friends. These recipes are perfect for kids because they use simple ingredients, don’t take a lot of work and cook all in one pot or pan. Along the way, you’ll learn important skills, such as how to cut foods with or without a knife, how to brown ground meat for tacos, how to cook noodles for pasta dinners and how to use an oven safely. Your parents will be so impressed with what you can do! With so many tasty choices, you can enjoy a laid-back weekend morning by cooking up a wonderful breakfast treat for everyone, such as Cinnamon Sugar & Pecan Monkey Bread, Orange–Blueberry Pancakes or Tex-Mex Sweet Potato and Sausage Skillet. Or choose an amazing dinner such as School Night Chicken Fajitas, Better Than Buttered Noodles and Magic Crunchy Coated Fish. You can even make your own favorite restaurant foods like Chicken Finger Dunkers or Mix and Match Seasoned French Fries. So, get out your cooking tools, put on your apron and let’s make your next perfect meal!




Cooking Light Lighten Up America


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Cooking Light Lighten Up, America! is a celebration and discovery of regional American cooking, and the permission to eat the foods you love-it's the soul of American cooking made light. This collection of America's favorite fare offers healthy versions of classics new and old, memory-making recipes from all walks of life and regions, and returns the most beloved American dishes to the table. Lighten Up, America! follows Allison Fishman Task as she embarks on a cross-country road trip in search of the country's favorite classic dishes. Allison shows the reader how to take these regional recipes and make them lighter and healthier with a few simple substitutions and smart cooking techniques. From caramel-pecan sticky buns to reuben sandwiches to fried green tomatoes, this book teaches how to turn what might have been once-in-awhile favorites into everyday classics. Highlights Include: Classic American Dishes Made Lighter: Readers will rediscover regional American cooking and eat the food they love through more than 150 delicious recipes from coast to coast. All with complete nutrition analysis. Regional Culinary Traditions: Join Allison as she tells delightful and tantalizing stories behind some of our most beloved regional dishes. Each story gives insight into regional flavor and color while celebrating iconic fare like Memphis barbecue, New Orleans gumbo, and Iowa pork tenderloin sandwiches. Insider's View of Festivals and Food Fairs: Allison also visits food fairs and festivals, so you'll get a behind- the-scenes look at some of the more unusual foods this great country has to offer such as wild boar nachos, bear meatloaf, and dandelion soup. Food Born In America: Allison will share inspiring stories about the many American entrepreneurs and home cooks who conceived and popularized recipes and ingredients. Take the Philly cheesesteak, cobb salad, and stove top stuffing-just to name a few-all crafted through the ingenuity of American food lovers.




COOKING LIGHT Mad Delicious


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2015 James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner for Focus on Health Discover the delicious science behind healthy cooking! Too often, home cooks with good intentions sacrifice flavor and texture in an attempt to make their favorite recipes healthier. Mad Delicious shows readers how to maximize flavor and texture through 120 new recipes, witty and funny narrative, insight on the nature of ingredients, and a fresh, innovative perspective on the science of cooking with illustrated explanations. The results are mad delicious! Mad Delicious takes the kitchen science genre to the next level: It's not just about chemistry and molecules. Schroeder teaches home cooks about the nature of ingredients, how to maximize texture and flavor with clever cooking techniques (try steaming beef-then soaking it in wine sauce for the most tender steak ever!), smooth moves in the kitchen for better work flow, and how all the sciences-geography, meteorology, chemistry, physics, botany, biology, even human sociology and anthropology-can help home cooks master the science of light cooking. Every recipe is a fun adventure in the kitchen resulting in mad delicious eats: Learn how to cook pasta like risotto for a silky sauce and enjoy Toasted Penne with Chicken Sausage. Other recipes include Lower East Side Brisket, Fish Sticks!, Cocoa-Crusted New York Strip, Georgia Peanut Fried Chicken, Red Sauce Joint Hero Sandwiches, Spicy Crab Fried Rice, Tandoori Chicken, and Bourbon Steamed Peaches.




Taste of Home Kid-Approved Cookbook


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For the first time, over 300 beloved kid-friendly recipes from the real home cooks at Taste of Home are gathered into one beautifully photographed volume. More than a cookbook for kids, and not just a collection of recipes that kids will love, Taste of Home Kid Approved Cookbook offers fun, achievable ways to bring families together and celebrate childhood fun! Recipes include: French Toast Sticks Berry Ba-nanza Smoothies Chicken Alphabet Soup Our Favorite Mac & Cheese Scooter Snacks Veggie Cheese People Pigs in a Blanket Cheeseburger Cups Chocolate Malt Crispy Bars Pink Velvet Cupcakes S’more Ice Cream Pie Icons throughout the book highlight recipe activities for all ages. And a special chapter is devoted to the youngest of cooks. Each recipe is perfect for the whole gang, making your little one a proud contributor to the family meals.




Cooking Light: 5 Ingredient 15 Minute Cookbook


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You'll be surprised at all the recipes you can make using only 5 ingredients: Chicken Alfredo Pasta, Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole, Speedy Chicken Cacciatore, Teriyaki Roast Chicken, Barbecue Pork Chops ...just to name a few.