Cooking Light Complete Cookbook: A Fresh New Way to Cook

by Cooking Light

Complemented by hundreds of cooking tips from the experts at Cooking Light, a lavishly illustrated, comprehensive guide to healthy cookery features 1,200 kitchen-tested, tasty, and nutritional recipes, along with menu suggestions, shopping lists, nutritional analyses, and cooking and preparation times, now in a ring-bound format with an interactive DVD. 500,000 first printing.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

632 pages, Ring-bound

First published April 1, 2008

About the author

Cooking Light is an American food and lifestyle magazine founded in 1987. Each month, the magazine includes approximately 100 original recipes as well as editorial content covering food trends, fitness tips, and other culinary and health-related news.

Reviews

[Anne · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not a fan of using lowfat ingredients to reduce calories, but there were several recipes that are naturally lowfat that I'll be trying.

[Ethical Cannibal · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this from the library to look through. It's a big book, and is easy to find subjects in. I found each section started with good tips on basic techniques.

I found a lot of great recipes. The book covers a lot of basic favorites, and branches out into some more interesting recipes from there. I found the dips to be especially handy because lighter versions of dips are harder for me to find.

Cooking light is a new style of cooking for me, and I was a bit skeptical. I'm the kind of cook that you'd have to pry the heavy cream out of my cold dead hands. That said, these recipes are good. Although heavy on low-fat yogurt, 1/3 less fat cream cheese, and low fat milks, they were seasoned well enough to be very rich on flavor. I highly recommend this book for those looking for this kind of cooking.

[Richard · Rating 3 out of 5]

I received this as a Christmas gift and have enjoyed it very much. I especially like how each chapter starts with what's called the Kitchen Companion. It gives lots of good tips and techniques that are quite useful. I also love the ringed binder, which allows you to take out the recipe pages for less clutter in the kitchen.

Personally, I prefer cookbooks that have a picture of every recipe, but in this case there are so many recipes, it's understandable not having pics for each.

The pages are really thin for being a three ring binder, unfortunately.

[Pirate Nurse · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the little tips and hints at the beginning of each chapter. Didn't like how the book was organized, but the recipes stay true to the magazine. And of course, there were the handful of recipes that are ridiculous and I wouldn't even think of ever trying. I have many pages tagged for "to-try" nights.

[RF · Rating 5 out of 5]

This cookbook is much more kitchen-friendly than the other CL cookbook I have - still beautifully photographed, but spiral bound for easy recipe reading. This cookbook also has tabs and tips and lots of menus AND a bonus CD that has MORE menus and cooking videos!! Check it out...

[Breeana Wright · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've used this a lot. It's packed with information and lots of yummy recipes!

Not the simplest cookbook though... I prefer meals that require as few ingredients as possible (while trying to stay healthy) and these often have 8-20 ingredients per recipe!

[J]

I need to figure out this cooking thing. Like, how to do it.

[Jennifer]

Haven't found a recipe to try yet but I always love Cooking Light recipes. Flavor is never compromised while cutting back calories among other healthy tweaks to each classic and modern recipe.

[Evonne · Rating 4 out of 5]

I never knew how useful this cookbook was until I was confronted with dietary restrictions. The recipes are easy and flavorful. The nutrition analyses are extremely useful.

[Michael Perez · Rating 4 out of 5]

I've had this cookbook forever. It's a great book for general recipes about, well, everything. Highly recommended.

[Jennifer Spiliakos · Rating 4 out of 5]

Currently where all my dinners are coming from!!!