Interesting Health Food

Cookbooks tout such recipes and on a subtle level, they communicate "you must suffer for your fat sins" or even more dangerously, "you can lose weight while not having to think or substantially change your life and how it looks." I've yet to meet an maintainer who subscribed to either philosophy. It's one subtle example...
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When you think of food in macro-nutrients, you have a foundation upon which to get creative with. The health/weight aspect's addressed -- then cooking just becomes a process of wedding the nutrients you need with flavors that fascinate you. Somewhere in there you build a newfound confidence from knowing that you’re not what you...
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Pan sauces are boon for livening up otherwise tepid healthy eating and provide a skill to focus while navigating all the "Now whats?" of weight maintenance. You're still eating healthfully -- just now, hopefully, with a deeper sense of fun.
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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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Now, now, don't say "Well, duh!" In attempts to stay contemporary, many fast food chains are marketing or creating "lite" menus and more healthful dishes. While they're a great last resort, the point is you can diet and still easily rely on the same restaurants that contributed to your weight. Again, flip sides of...
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When I have both diehard food snobs and traditional dieters scoff at me, I know an angel got his or her wings today. That’s because I advocate playing both sides against the middle –  the blind adoration of butter and refined sugar is as offensive as the righteous damnation of any fun in healthful...
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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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Lord knows we Southerners haven't met a vegetable we can't throw a ham hock in. Well, both from a foodie and a weight loss perspective, that's a problem. A standard cooking concept is "if it doesn't benefit the dish's flavor or texture, it shouldn't be in there" -- in which case, you don't even...
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Today's recipe demonstrates two beautiful interesting health food tricks -- using traditional "problem foods" as a garnish and using leftover vegetables to add and guide flavor. Lest we forget these polenta cakes are nothing short of amazing?
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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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