Easy Cooking Recipes

Review by Amalfi Coast Girl:

To put my review in perspective for you I have been focused on food and cooking for the last 25 years. I have been reading anything about nutrition and health for the last 10 years. Additionally, I was a hospital administrator for just under 2 decades. So I know the effect that unhealthy lifestyle decisions can make on the human body. If you are a new student of health or nutrition this is an excellent place to begin your research.

I enjoyed the predecessor to this book “The Real Age Makeover”. I appreciated the doctor’s unique approach to healthy food and lifestyle and the way that he tried to quantify specific changes on your health by using age. This book is a great tie in to the original book.

The author does cover the basic information from “The Real Age Makeover” in this book. If your don’t want to read about the science of how the specific changes work, you can simply purchase this book “Cooking the Real Age Way” and skip the prior book. The author outlines the 27 practices for food choices that can bring about at Real Age reduction of 14 years. Many of these practices are common sense, like eat food that isn’t processed. But some of the practices are less obvious, like eat 10 tablespoons of tomato sauce every week.

This book is geared to those that are kitchen beginners. The doctors explain many cooking techniques that experienced cooks think are second nature. But for those that are accustomed to relying on carry out these sections are critical to their success. The doctors also discuss how to effectively use the freezer so that ingredients are readily available for quick weeknight meals.

The authors do a nice job of detailing what should be included in a healthy pantry. If you are new to healthy cooking a healthy pantry is key to being able to make fast healthy meals for your family. Without healthy quick options at the ready it is so much easier to call for pizza or Chinese, and neither of these delivery options are particularly healthy.

The doctors also created tables of vegetables by season and detail what to look for in the specific fresh vegetable, how to use them, and why they are good for your health.

The recipe section of the book begins on page 155. The doctors also provide an exhaustive nutritional analysis. Every possible item is detailed included milligrams of specific vitamins and minerals. The recipes themselves are good, but not too exotic for the standard American palate. The directions are clearly written. The ingredients are available in your standard mega mart (Wegman’s or Whole Foods) anywhere in the US.

If you need a go-to cookbook that is healthy this is a good choice. There are many other options available that you might also consider, my personal favorites are “The Professional Chef’s Techniques of Healthy Cooking” by the Culinary Institute of America, and “Conscious Cuisine” by Cary Neff.

If you are new to cooking, and more specifically healthy cooking this is great book to get you started. If you have been cooking for a while, but want to cook more healthy meals for your family you should consider the two books I referenced in the last paragraph.

Review by :

I love this book! Leftover smoked salmon? Shiitake Mushroom and Asparagus Frittata with Smoked Salmon. Bottled red peppers? Roasted Red Pepper and Kalamata Olive Sicilian Salad. All that winter squash in the supermarket? Pistachio Pilaf with Butternut Squash and Gingered Cranberry Sauce. It’s amazing to find a cookbook where flavor is treated as important as health. There are no trans fats. There is little saturated fat. And there is little sugar, and lots of Omega-3 oils, flavonoids, and antioxidants, and creative ways to use fruits and vegetables and fish and soy and nuts. Even chocolate desserts!I have tons of cookbooks–Ornish, South Beach, Atkins, Weil on the diet side, and Trotter, Keller, Boulud, Julia, Joy of on the cooking side. And this one combines the best of healthiness with great flavor. Plus the lists of what is in season when—makes it easy to choose.Each recipe also gives what is in each recipe that is good for you—I never knew that lycopene was beneath the skin of the tomato! Golden Banana Pancakes with Fresh Raspberries are awesome for breakfast; my kids love Chocolate Strawberry Sundaes. La Puma is a practicing physician and a professionally trained chef—he worked at Topolobampo in Chicago with Rick Bayless for 4 years while practicing as a doctor! The meals he created will change how you think about the flavor of food that’s good for you. He and Dr. Roizen examine the food-related factors that can cause us to age faster than we should, and demonstrate how even small changes in food choices can slow aging. La Puma’s web page has some of these recipes for free. Plus, he’s cute!

Review by Amanda Ewing:

I was so happy to find this helpful video! I have of course eaten Thai food in restaurants for many years and love the varied food options Thai cuisine offers, but I always felt that mastering the techniques in my own kitchen would be too difficult. I was wrong! The presenter is a native of Thailand and I was cooking like a pro after only a few lessons from the video. The spring rolls are by far my favorite! They are not nearly as hard to make as I thought. And the curry recipe is fantastic! Anyone can learn to cook delicious, healthy meals from this video. I highly recommend it for anyone aspiring to cook up some Asian specialties!

Review by S. Wells:

I had no idea how easy it is to cook Thai food! This DVD has given me all the help I’ve needed in the kitchen preparing some of my favorite Thai dishes! From finding the courage to select the right ingredients to step by step instructions, this DVD has it all. A beautifully made visual cookbook and I’ll treasure this forever! Give a girl some Thai food, feed her for a day…teach a girl to cook Thai food and you’ll feed her family, friends and best of all herself for a lifetime. You MUST try the Thai Basil Chicken and Fresh Spring Rolls! Oh, and the Green Curry is absolutely delicious! My Fresh Spring Rolls were a HUGE hit at my family reunion! And now, I’m off to try Aunchalee’s Papaya Salad! Happy Thai cooking!

Review by BeagleGrin:

I would have given this five out of five stars, it is just this soup (like ALL packaged soups) is a bit on the salty side. BUT, not as salty as an average cup of “cup of noodles.”
This soup has a much better flavor than instant soups, and, even though I’m not sure what miso is, I’m sure it is far healthier than the salted preservative loaded dehydrated chicken bits one finds in instant soups.
I liked it so much, I’ve even given it in a care package to my sister in law who is in college. A great fast soup, and a healthier alternative to other instant soups.

Review by Angerrific:

Kikkoman Instant Shiro Miso (White) Soup Value Pack (9 Pockets in 3 Packs) – 3.15 Oz Awesome!