Showstopping main dishes using healthful ingredients
If you think of food in terms of cuisines and standard recipes, it's much more difficult to eat healthfully because, on a cuisine-by-cuisine basis, the available dishes are more limited.
So to make interesting health food, I simply stopped thinking that way. Gastronomic purity -- a fancy term for "eating Italian exactly like an first-generation...
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Lamb seems like a luxurious meat to work with, and there can be the whole fear-of-the-unknown complex with it. This gets interesting from a healthy cooking standpoint: there's not only the uncertainty with cooking with a new ingredient, there's also the fear of "oh God, will this new ingredient make me fat again?"
Don't fall...
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Things like nutrient density and fat/carb/calorie statistics are important; but it's also the same old things everyone discusses in the same old way. There's another consideration: literally finding a a new frame of reference for food. Cooking food that bears no resemblance to the emotional eating favorites of yesteryear helps accomplish that, elegantly and...
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How many times have you heard someone exclaim, with a sigh, "one person making it bad for everyone else?" Logically, it makes no sense that the exception becomes the rule. It's even more absurd when you realize it applies just as much to cooking methods like adding a crust to protein.
One of the...
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Though Paella is normally the go-to dish when folks imagine Spanish cooking, Romesco Sauce deserves consideration, too.
Serious consideration, actually. This crimson puree of peppers, nuts and spices packs and earthy depth and number of subtleties – a bit of sherry, a sweet heat, the richness of nuts sufficient to make you not miss butter...
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Why settle for mayonnaise -- full fat, low far or otherwise? Even better -- why settle for food that tastes flat?
Vinaigrettes are usually reserved for salads, but think about it -- how many grilled chicken marinade recipes call for a bottle of store-bought vinaigrette? The uses of them are limitless.
So our tropical chicken salad...
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How many times have you decided to had a “cheat day” holiday weekend only to discover the foods you ate pre-diet tasted horrible, greasy and unappetizing? It turns out it’s cheat, in a sense – but less a “I’m going to treat myself, waistline be damned!” cheat and more “I just got suckered into...
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Supermarket convenience foods, used wisely, can take existing dishes and give them new dimensions. Kevin discovered this when he found hickory-flavored rotisserie chicken at his market. The low-fat, smokey meat was a revelation in a number of his dishes. We posted two today, as well as tips on making the most of time-saving products....
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This is the finale in a five-part series breaking one dish into its components, and showing how each element of this dish can contribute to your cooking. Together, they form a layered, complex dish: Whole-wheat panko-dusted grouper, drizzled with roasted zucchini pistou and tomato relish, served on a bed of roasted Cauliflower with toasted...
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This is fourth in a five-part series breaking one dish into its components, and showing how each element of this dish can contribute to your cooking. Together, they form a layered, complex dish: Whole-wheat panko-dusted grouper, drizzled with roasted zucchini pistou and tomato relish, served on a bed of roasted Cauliflower with toasted almonds...
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