Microwave Gourmet Healthstyle Cookbook

Description for MICROWAVE GOURMET HEALTHSTYLE COOKBOOK by Barbara Kafka:

MICROWAVE GOURMET HEALTHSTYLE COOKBOOK provides an eye-opening minicourse in nutrition---plus a painless way to get slim and stay slim---that will change the way we eat forever. As always, Barbara Kafka breaks new ground with recipes that are simple yet incomparably good, recipes that will entice us in abandoning old eating habits, not just for the short term but for life.

Here are luscious thick and creamy soups; colorful and elegant dishes for entertaining; inventive way to prepare chicken; pasta dishes without guilt; voluptuous puddings, custards, ice cream, sorbets---all wonderfully and remarkably low in calories, salt, fat, and cholesterol. The diet salad dressings alone make the book indispensable.

Four hundred superb recipes are supplemented with instructions for various portion sizes and for ovens of different wattages. Charts compare the nutritional value of different meats, fruits, vegetables, and dairy products. There are dozens of weight-loss menus; recipes for healthful party foods and brown-bag lunches, and invaluable tips for negotiating the minefields of frozen, take-out, and restaurant foods, as well as a wealth of new data on basic cooking times and techniques.

Barbara Kafka never fails to astonish with her encyclopedic knowledge and her inventiveness in the kitchen. Expoect to come away from this book smarter, healthier, slimmer, and a better cook.