Synopsis
Learn all about hundreds of natural ingredients and enjoy healthy cooking with this essential kitchen handbook! This guide introduces new foods and healthy ingredients in a practical, easy-to-read format which cuts through the confusion surrounding healthy cooking.
"I'm going to eat better and lose weight!" Does this sound familiar? Or, "My doctor says I have to change my diet" because in either case, this book can help you find and use healthy, new ingredients to add to your diet.
The Companion Guide to Healthy Cooking is the most comprehensive guide to natural ingredients anywhere. This down-to-earth book cuts through the confusion surrounding healthy cooking and provides the read with lots of valuable food preparation instruction. This indispensible guide also includes easy to read tables, comparison charts, and pronunciation guides. A wonderful book for anyone interested in eating healthier. We got into healthy eating over 10 years ago. Through those years, we often searched for information about ingredients. We found the best way to learn about them was to buy two books -- an excellent general healthy-eating cookbook and a companion ingredient guide that explains what ingredients are, their flavors and textures, their pronunciation, their general uses, issues regarding freshness and quality, how to store and cook them, where to buy them, and where to go for more information about them. We wrote this book because there really isn't anything that fills the role of the companion ingredient guide and we needed one. they changed from a typical American, junk-food, meat-eating, high-fat diet to a healthful, low-fat, wholesome vegan diet.
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This book is intended to be a companion volume to low-fat, cholesterol-free, vegan, vegetarian, macrobiotic, allergy, whole-foods, natural-foods, ecological, self-healing, and healthy cooking recipe books that are available on the shelves and on-line bookstores today. Natalie and Shirley Nigro are a daughter and mother team who didn't know beans about healthy cooking until 10 years ago. Through the years, worked hard to change It involved massive amounts of research and thousands of hours of experimentation. However, they are ordinary people -- sorta. Shirley is an ex-graphic designer and Natalie is an Artifical Intelligence Senior Software Engineer whose work impacts the Hubble Space Telescope. Because they did it, they understand the process of how to permanently change a way of eating. They are convinced that a good fundamental understanding of ingredients is the key.
The Essential Handbook for Every Kitchen
This indispensable guide introduces new foods and healthy ingredients in a practical easy-to-read format. Inside you'll find:
1) Hundreds of natural ingredients -- low in fat, sodium, and cholerterol,
2) Ways to add new flavors and textures to your recipes,
3) How to eat well on a limited budget,
4) Easy to read tables, comparison charts, and pronunciation guides, and
5) How to successfully buy, store, and prepare natural foods such as
beans, rice, pasta, tofu, nut milks, miso, and mushrooms.
This down-to-earth book cuts through the confusion surrounding healthy cooking.
Natalie and Shirley Nigro, a daughter and mother team, have spent over 7 years studying and practicing healthful eating. After thousands of hours of experimentation and research, the Nigros have compiled this excellent reference. Shirley and Natalie attended college together in the 1980s and have been working together ever since. It is also perfectly suited to serve as a text for healthy cooking, macrobiotic, etc. classes.
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The type of rice used can make quite a difference. Make a simple but tasty rice to accompany any entree by combining cooked rice, garlic, parsely, and a little oil, margarine, or soy butter in a baking dish, covering and baking in a moderate oven until the rice is tender. If brown rice is used for this dish, it will have an earthy and hearty feel and is nice served with meat loaf, roast, tempeh steaks, etc. On the other hand, if white rice is used, the dish is transformed into a delicate, mild, almost gourmet dish that can be served with fish, poultry, tofu, etc.
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