Weeknight Wonders - Delicious, Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less

Beloved Food Network and Cooking Channel star Ellie Krieger knows the secret to healthy eating: it has to be delicious. You won't eat right if you feel deprived. WEEKNIGHT WONDERS offers 150 recipes for your favorite foods, as delicious as ever, yet magically reworked without all the fat and cholesterol. Each recipe can be prepared with minimal fuss and simple ingredients, even after a long day at work, in 30 minutes or less. From Parmesan Chicken Breasts and Goat Cheese Frittata (plus no-guilt desserts), you can stay focused on eating well any day of the week.

About the author

New York Times best-selling author and registered dietitian ELLIE KRIEGER was the host of Food Network’s Healthy Appetite, which also aired on the Cooking Channel. She regularly contributes to CNN and USA Today, and appears often on national morning shows.

Summary

Beloved Food Network and Cooking Channel star Ellie Krieger knows the secret to healthy eating: it has to be delicious. You won't eat right if you feel deprived. WEEKNIGHT WONDERS offers 150 recipes for your favorite foods, as delicious as ever, yet magically reworked without all the fat and  cholesterol. Each recipe can be prepared with minimal fuss and simple ingredients, even after a long day at work, in 30 minutes or less. From Parmesan Chicken Breasts and Goat Cheese Frittata (plus no-guilt desserts), you can stay focused on eating well any day of the week.

Additional text

“We all need a break, but we also deserve good, nutritious food. This is what you get with the fast, diverse recipes in WEEKNIGHT WONDERS.”
—Jacques Pepin, cookbook author and PBS-TV cooking series host “Ellie proves over and over that healthy is delicious.  In WEEKNIGHT WONDERS, she proves it can be fast, too!”
—Melissa d’Arabian, Food Network star, author, and mom of 4
"Krieger, a registered dietician, and host of the Food Network’s Healthy Appetite, maintains that “there is no need to deprive yourself or go to extremes to be healthy… balance is the key.” She suggests time-saving shortcuts, like using prewashed greens or canned or frozen foods, but avoids highly processed ingredients and artificial additives, and focuses on common and easy-to-find ingredients…Krieger delivers on her promise—the recipes are fast and fresh."
 —Publishers Weekly

Product details

• Authors: Ellie Krieger
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2013
• EAN: 9781118409497
• ISBN: 978-1-118-40949-7
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 197 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 1120 g
• Subjects: Guides > Food & drink > Healthy cuisine, light cuisine; baking, COOKING / Methods / Quick & Easy, COOKING / Health & Healing / General, Cooking / Wine, Reference works, Comfort food and food nostalgia, Quick and easy cookery, Cookery for specific diets and conditions, Diets and dieting, nutrition, Cooking for parties and special occasions, Parties, etiquette and entertaining, General cookery and recipes, Holidays and celebrations, COOKING: Health & Healing / General, COOKING: Methods / Quick & Easy, COOKING: Holiday, COOKING: Methods / General, COOKING: Health & Healing / Weight Control, COOKING: Reference, COOKING: Methods / Microwave, COOKING: Health & Healing / Low Fat, COOKING: Health & Healing / Heart, Cookery / food and drink / food writing