With the thick of winter months upon us – how many of you get into the Crockpot or big Soups?
For a new twist on both taste and creativity here are some ideas for ONE POT meals that will excite the pocketbook, help stave off the biting cold, salivate your taste-buds and even help with the age old new year’s resolution of the shrinking waistline…
Start the New Year in great shape!
From the 2011 James Beard Award-winning
authors of The Simple Art of EatingWell Cookbook
EatingWell ~ One-Pot Meals
by Jessie Price & the EatingWell Test Kitchen
Of all the New Year’s resolutions that we make, the most popular one is: “to lose weight”
Whether by exercise or a better diet or both, it’s not a bad idea. But why each year do more than two-thirds of us totally fail to accomplish what we resolve? Is it a flaw in how we approach the goal? Or is it doomed long before that? When it comes to improving your diet, popular logic says, “Eat more fresh fruits and vegetables!” And good recipes abound for ways to zest up what comes from your summer garden. The problem is, it’s January.
To say nothing of the quality of grocery-bought summer veggies in the middle of winter, when you’re wrapped in blankets and sweaters, given a choice between a refrigerated mixed salad and that impossibly delicious-smelling casserole finishing up in the oven, you know which one you’re having for dinner. Don’t even lie.
So why can’t you have your casserole and eat it, too? The good news: you can.
From Jessie Price and her fellow test kitchen wizards at EatingWell Magazine comes the latest health-saver of a recipe collection. EATINGWELL ONE-POT MEALS is practically tailor-made for cold-weather season, making it easy to whip up a feast in your slow cooker or Dutch oven. This food sticks to your bones, and you stick to your resolution!
Take, for example:
Middle Eastern Lamb Stew (p. 142), luxuriously seasoned and chock full of fiber, only 275 calories per serving
Southwestern Chile-Cheese Casserole (p. 114), cheesy and eggy, laced with green chiles, sounds too good to be good for you. But it totally is
Jamaican Curried Shrimp & Mango Soup (p. 151), to give your Dutch oven a Caribbean kick
Chinese Pork & Vegetable Hot Pot (p. 141), ginger-and-garlic-infused, slow-cooked-to-perfection, yes-you-can-have-seconds
Rounding out this indispensable cookbook are tips and tables on, for instance, roasting and steaming vegetables (plus 10 ways to season them!), a guide to cooking different grains and how to jazz them up in a dish. Jessie Price and the Test Kitchen have, once again, outdone themselves to give you a slew of new, quick, and easy dinner possibilities to help you keep your promise to yourself!
About the Author:
Jessie Price grew up in a family full of great cooks and food fanatics. After graduating from Williams College, she cooked in restaurants in California and Colorado, including the Relais and Chateaux Home Ranch near Steamboat Springs. She started out testing and developing recipes for EatingWell and joined the editorial team full-time in 2004 when she moved from San Francisco. Jessie directs the food content for EatingWell Magazine and has worked on several EatingWell books including EatingWell Comfort Foods Made Healthy, EatingWell Healthy in a Hurry, EatingWell Serves Two, EatingWell 500-Calorie Dinners, The EatingWell Diet, EatingWell for a Healthy Heart, EatingWell on a Budget, The Simple Art of EatingWell and EatingWell One-Pot Meals. She lives in Charlotte, Vermont.
EatingWell is the leading publisher of the award-winning magazine, whose tagline is “Where Good Taste Meets Good Health,” as well as a series of cookbooks through Countryman, and a vibrant website. EatingWell’s magazine and books have been recognized with numerous awards from the James Beard Foundation, the International Association of Culinary Professionals and Folio: Magazine. EatingWell is recognized by nutritionists, professional chefs and journalists alike as one of the most reliable sources of science-based nutrition information. The company’s headquarters and Test Kitchen are located in Charlotte, Vermont.
EATINGWELL ONE-POT MEALS
by Jessie Price & the EatingWell Test Kitchen
