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Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus–The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live
Product Description
The coauthor of the bestselling The New Basics Cookbook offers a lively, thoroughly contemporary cookbook packed with menus, recipes, tips, charts, quotes, and food lore, which succeeds in making healthful low-fat cooking simple, delicious, and easy enough to become a daily, lifelong commitment.Amazon.com Review
Julee Rosso, formerly half of the Silver Palate team that revolutionized American home cooking, shows you how to make incredible fresh gourmet mea… More >>
Fresh Start: Great Low-Fat Recipes, Day-by-Day Menus–The Savvy Way to Cook, Eat, and Live
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Tags: Cook, DaybyDay, Fresh, Great, Live, LowFat, MenusThe, Recipes, Savvy, Start
November 2nd, 2010 at 1:41 pm
The Silver Palate Cookbook is a favorite in my house, but Fresh Start has sat in my bookshelf for a year basically unused. Why? I cannot stand the way the book is organized (according to menu plans) and the index section does not compensate. This was a disappointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 2nd, 2010 at 3:32 pm
The Silver Palate Cookbook is a favorite in my house, but Fresh Start has sat in my bookshelf for a year basically unused. Why? I cannot stand the way the book is organized (according to menu plans) and the index section does not compensate. This was a disappointment.
Rating: 1 / 5
November 2nd, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Julee’s Book was full of new and intresting flavors! She has a good flair for spicing things up to take the hum drum out of cooking!
Rating: 5 / 5
November 2nd, 2010 at 6:45 pm
Good golly, Miss Molly, does this woman love garlic! She even puts a quarter of a cup of garlic (admittedly for 8 servings), eggplant and a jalapeno pepper (!) in her “classic” Bolognese sauce – which, in the traditional recipe, has no garlic, let alone no eggplant, and we’re not even going to address the jalapeno, but does have a carrot and celery. Carrot and celery seem adequately healthy to warrant their inclusion in Bolognese sauce – perhaps Ms. Rosso might have called her sauce something other than Bolognese, since it is so far from the real recipe and miles away from “classic.” Yes, okay, you can adjust the recipes to suit your taste. I just find so few recipes here that I feel like tackling – something about the recipes – perhaps it’s the long ingredients lists – just makes them feel so complicated I can’t imagine actually working your way through the book as a meal plan for a month.
Rating: 2 / 5
November 2nd, 2010 at 8:06 pm
…While it’s true that the recipes are organized by menu, it is not so difficult to pick and choose your way through the book to create alternative meals that suit your style.
What I can say about this book is that the recipes ROCK. My loving partner has a family history of heart-disease. We are both failed vegetarians who fell off the wagon because we LIKE meat. Neither of us are interested in going back to eating TVP and soy. What we do want is a book that will help us eat sensibly, reduce the risks of dropping dead from poor eating habits, and still allow us to eat food we like.
Recipe after recipe in my book has been marked Very Good! or Excellent! beside it. The Turkey Paillard Piccata and Brown Rice with Asparagus and Almonds is delicious, the Country-Roasted Chicken with Green Beans and Potatoes is savory and pleasing, the Roasted Chicken with Fresh Figs and Kalamata Olives is out of this world, and the Individual Eggplant Towers have become a family favorite.
Rating: 5 / 5