Cooking Light: Annual Recipes

by Cooking Light

Nearly 900 light and healthy recipes from Cooking Light, the nation's largest epicurean magazine, can be found in this edition. Taken from a whole year's worth of recipes, this cookbook features a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0848718011
• ISBN13: 9780848718015
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Oxmoor House
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 11.2"

Customer Reviews

Never blah!

Do you hate spending the time searching for a new recipe, buying the ingredients, and then executing exactly as written only to get totally blah food? You won't have that problem with this book! I'm not an experienced or talented cook, but I've always been able to follow the directions in this cookbook for excellent results. My favorite features: - Variety and flavor! - Recommended menus, especially helpful for parties - The book is fairly slim given how jam-packed the content is. - Seasonal nature; If I'm looking for something new, I just go to the current month. - Cooking tips are always helpful to an inexperienced cook, and this book often focuses on unusual foods and how to make them tasty - Doesn't need pictures. You can tell from the ingredients that the dish will taste good, and I find that this food has much more flavor than a lot of the "picture per recipe" cookbooks I have Agree with other negative comments: - Sometimes hard to find a recipe even if I know it's in the book - I've never noticed anything to be particularly "light"

Yummy and healthy!

I've been a subscriber of Cooking Light for several years now, and I always try to buy the annual cook book at the end of each year. These recipes produce dishes that are delicious, adventurous, and satisfying. I've not only learned alot about eating healthy foods by using these cookbooks, I've become a much better cook! Also, since the magazine has features on different ethnic cuisines, I've tried foods that I never would have made previously, with great success. Some of the recipes are more time-consuming than others, so make those on the weekend rather than during the week. Unlike other reviewers, I enjoy the recipes organized by month, because it helps me eat seasonally. That way, I buy produce that's in season, so it tastes better, and it's usually cheaper than buying products out of season. However, if one is looking for a specific recipe, consulting the index at the back of the cookbook provides a solution.

Full of good, practical recipies

I own a lot of cookbooks... but I've never had one quite like this. This is the first cookbook where I look through the recipies, and think "Hey - I should make that some time" for most of the recipies. Other cookbooks seem to be literally filled with recipies that either don't look any good, or require exotic ingredients only availble to people in major metropolitan centers.With this cookbook, however, I flip through the pages wishing i had time to make almost all of the 900 recipies. I've made about 20 things out of this book now, and have enjoyed almost all of them a lot. Pros:- Contains a good, detailed introduction for the novice cook, including information on herbs, cooking methods, etc.- Contains almost 900 recipies that you can actually make and enjoy.- Has recipies from almost every category - breads, meats, desserts, soups, etc.- I totally disagree with the person who said the layout is lousy . I've never had trouble finding anything in this book.- The recipies, while not being extremely low fat, *are* from cooking light, and hence are healthier in general than most other cookbooks. Plus, the recipies don't ever seem to sacrifice flavor for a *light* rating.Cons:- You'll spend longer in the kitchen trying to make more of theseSorry - I don't really have a good con for this book :)If you love too cook - you'll love this book!

An essential book in my kitchen

I buy the Cooking Light Annual Recipe collections religiously and each volume since 1997 occupies an easily accessible shelf in my kitchen. I still enjoy the magazine but these books are great for those nights when you want to do something different with the chicken (or whatever). After four months, I doubt this will be my most used volume. CL has gotten a bit fancier each year and I still turn to earlier volumes when I want a light version of everyday fare. What's really missing from this book (or their internet site) is a five star index. The book includes indexes for name, main ingredients and order of appearance. My wish -- an index by cuisine since I love Asian food.Bottom line: Not necessarily a book for dieters but a good resource for people seeking to eat and live in a healthy manner.

Excellent, easy recipes - most are fabulous

I've tried several of the recipes. The Angel Food Tira Misou Torte is divine. All low in fat and high in taste. I served several recipes at potlucks and I got raves, no one knew they were light recipes. The index is not very good and it could use more photographs.