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Summary: The best healthy-eating book I have!
Review: ...While it's true that the recipes are organized by menu, it is not so difficult to pick and choose your way through the book to create alternative meals that suit your style.What I can say about this book is that the recipes ROCK. My loving partner has a family history of heart-disease. We are both failed vegetarians who fell off the wagon because we LIKE meat. Neither of us are interested in going back to eating TVP and soy. What we do want is a book that will help us eat sensibly, reduce the risks of dropping dead from poor eating habits, and still allow us to eat food we like. Recipe after recipe in my book has been marked Very Good! or Excellent! beside it. The Turkey Paillard Piccata and Brown Rice with Asparagus and Almonds is delicious, the Country-Roasted Chicken with Green Beans and Potatoes is savory and pleasing, the Roasted Chicken with Fresh Figs and Kalamata Olives is out of this world, and the Individual Eggplant Towers have become a family favorite.
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Summary: Quick, Delicious Recipies
Review: I completely disagree with the negative review given to this book. These are very simple and great tasting recipes for everyday cooking. I live in an area where exotic ingrediants are hard to come by and I have no problem finding everything for these dishes. Julee Rosso really knows how to bring out the best in food with little prep and few ingrediants. As far as "tinkering with the recipes" i guess it's all a matter of taste and all cooks automatically change recipies to suit their style (spicy, sweet, salty). I have many cookbooks and experiment often and i agree with the other reviewers that this IS one of my most used cookbooks. BRAVO!
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Summary: Very disappointing
Review: I like my Silver Palate cookbooks and use them often. But this book was a disappointment. The recipes don't work out well without experimentation and tinkering; I don't have time to test everything and revise the recipe before I have friends over for dinner! For lower fat cooking I recommend Cooking Light's Five Star Recipes and Alice Medrich's Chocolate and the Art of Low Fat Desserts. These have both proven foolproof and delicious!
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Summary: I thought the flavors were great!
Review: Julee's Book was full of new and intresting flavors! She has a good flair for spicing things up to take the hum drum out of cooking!
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Summary: More great recipes from a favor cookbook author
Review: Once again Julee Rosso delivers on her promise. These really
are great tasting meals with significantly lowered fat content. In my first week with the book I've tried three recipes with total success. Best of all, a favorite from the original Silver Palate
Cookbook (Chicken Marbella) is reborn in a guilt-free version (Roasted Chicken
with Fresh Figs). I predict this will be one of the most used cookbooks on
my shelves!
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Summary: Low-fat, Day by Day Menus of Great Food
Review: Rosso has turned out lots of great cookbooks, but this one is for us who want or need every now and then to cut back and eat more sensibly. The great thing is that this doesn't have to be boring,uninteresting food. Her zest and skills in putting together healthy food with attractive and luscious fare is evident in this collection. For example, one dinner entree I love is: Herbed brushetta, Broiled Honey Salmon, Hobo Potatoes, Asparagus Spears with Parmeasan Shards, Green Beans and Peaches in Wine. Having tried this more than once, it's good, you'll lose pounds and smile all the while you're tasting this great food. All the nutritional analysis is there as well as great sections on smoothies and treats/snacks, etc.
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Summary: Low-fat, Day by Day Menus of Great Food
Review: Rosso has turned out lots of great cookbooks, but this one is for us who want or need every now and then to cut back and eat more sensibly. The great thing is that this doesn't have to be boring,uninteresting food. Her zest and skills in putting together healthy food with attractive and luscious fare is evident in this collection. For example, one dinner entree I love is: Herbed brushetta, Broiled Honey Salmon, Hobo Potatoes, Asparagus Spears with Parmeasan Shards, Green Beans and Peaches in Wine. Having tried this more than once, it's good, you'll lose pounds and smile all the while you're tasting this great food. All the nutritional analysis is there as well as great sections on smoothies and treats/snacks, etc.
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Summary: Disappointment
Review: The Silver Palate Cookbook is a favorite in my house, but Fresh Start has sat in my bookshelf for a year basically unused. Why? I cannot stand the way the book is organized (according to menu plans) and the index section does not compensate. This was a disappointment.
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