Cooking Light 2000: Annual Recipes (Cooking Light Annual Recipes)

this is a great gift for anyone needing some feel good recipes, i have tried several and they are awesome, i love this cookbook!

Cooking Light is fantastic as always- this includes all the year's recipes as well as a few of the articles that appeared in the magazines.

The only potential complaint is that the index isn't very user friendly. There is a by-month index as well as a general recipe index, but if you don't know the name of the recipie I've found it to be a challenge to find what you are looking for!

This cookbook is wonderful! My friend recommended it to me and she was right! It's so great. Lots of pictures with recipes that use everyday ingredients (for the most part) and are so different, tasteful, and refreshing. Everything I've tried in it has been a hit. Honestly, I don't buy too many cookbooks because I tend not to use them.....but this one....I will!

Cooking Light is the top cooking magazine in this country and this cookbook is a shining example of the reason why. You could never guess that these recipes where light and healthy. I read the magazine and having all the recipes for the year in one good spot is great and space saving...particularly in the shoebox I live in:-). Highly recommend all the books!

I have several of the last Cooking Light Annual Recipes books, and I have cooked many delicious, successful recipes out of them. Don't let the idea of "light" cooking scare you... it has never been CL's methodology to present food with fewer calories and fat while sacrificing the flavor and appeal. If you want to experience the way America *should* eat-- healthily, but with great pleasure-- then these recipes are the real deal.

You may never cook all of the recipes in the book, but if you even complete a percentage, you will have gotten your money's worth out of it, rest assured. The recipes are well-rounded in terms of flavor, nutrient balance, fair portion size, appearance, and nutrition.

While I don't mind the lack of photos, it's true that others might find that a problem. All I can say is "Don't let it hold you back. Get annoyed, then get into the kitchen!"

I suspect that in order to present this great collection of recipes in any sort of economical way, the photographic content had to be cut down. I applaud this move myself... cost is a legitimate factor in deciding how badly I want the book.

You'd be better off keeping that money to spend on the wonderful ingredients that you'll find yourself buying... and learning about. That being said, there are also plenty of good-old traditional-ingredient recipes if you aren't into new things.

But the way I see it, the 'hunter-seeker' in you should delight in the adventure of the ingredient search, the assembling of the 'weapons' in the kitchen, and later... the wonderful aromas and the smiling faces as the dish is served. So... get into the kitchen!