2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Delicious, healthy recipes, Dec 27 2011
By Tracy K - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2012: Every Recipe... A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)
This edition of the Cooking Light annual contains all the recipes that were published in the magazine in 2011. As the name implies, the recipes are all heathy, and include lightened versions of favorites. As usual, the editors focus on seasonal produce and fresh ingedients. The book contains a lot of seafood recipes, and if you live in an area where fresh seafood is not readily available it is somewhat frustrating, but overall, there are a variety of recipes with something that should appeal to everyone. This edition also contains a variety of helpful cooking hints for the cooking challenged as well as menu and wine recommendations. If you are interested in learning how to eat health and well, buy this book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
They'll never know, Dec 8 2011
By wogan "the book reader" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2012: Every Recipe... A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)
This book contains many recipes that, unless you tell those you feed them to, they will never know they are eating light cooking. There are over 700 recipes - all of the past year's recipes from Cooking Light. The book is divided into each month, and many within each month have a similar theme. There are two sections of colour pictures, but none with the recipes, which I would much prefer, rather than paging back and forth.
There are various full dinner menus with a shopping list. Recipes are appropriate for the month they are included, even a holiday open house in December.
The recipes are not that hard to prepare. Our family can recommend: creamy light macoroni and cheese, Argentinean pork and Greek yogurt with warm black and blueberry sauce
The recipes themselves are in 3 columns on each page and sometimes, it is hard not to continue reading left to right, rather than all the way down and then back up the next column. Recipes have hands on time and total time, some suggestions and calorie and nutrition information, if it can be made ahead or frozen. Loads of tips and help are included throughout the book; where to put food when broiling it, slow cooker show down, fixing bacon, etc.
There is a lot of helpful information in the back of the book: seasonal produce guide, time saving tools and gadgets, metric equivalents, menu index, recipe title index, month by month index and a general index.
This is a book that would be wonderful for beginning cooks and even more experienced ones who would like some help in organizing their cooking and of course especially in producing good light food to eat.
2.0 out of 5 stars
Black and white? Really?, May 25 2012
By freelancer and mom - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2012: Every Recipe... A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)
I have enjoyed Cooking Light magazine for years and have torn many pages out of the magazine to keep. I was excited to order the book with a gift certificate this year. However, I really wasn't prepared for the text heavy, colorless pages. Where are the photos?