Cooking Light Way to Cook: The Complete Visual Guide to Everyday Cooking

by Cooking Light

The Cooking Light Way to Cook celebrates the philosophy that all foods have a place in a healthful diet. The keys are moderation and balance, and this highly visual book shows you how to prepare those foods and enjoy them judiciously. It's filled with over 850 photos that show you how to prepare the more than 200 recipes that appear in these pages, as well as hundreds of cooking tips that give an insider's peekinto our way to cook great food.

Look and learn your way through our healthy eating principles. One of these is utilizing the flavors of the world's cuisines to enhance recipes. These concentrated sauces and robust herbs and spices offer ways to add flavor with little or no fat. Another is embellishing convenience products by adding fresh herbs or a sprinkling of freshly grated cheese. You reap the benefits of time-saving ingredients but can still enjoy the spark of flavor that fresh ingredients bring to a dish.

These are just some of the hundreds of tips and techniques that you can use to get started cooking healthfully right now. From making the best marinara sauce to scrambling the perfect egg-it's all here in one stunning collection. In the Cooking Light Way to Cook, learning to cook healthfully is as simple as turning the page.eek into our way to cook great food.

Genres: Cookbooks, Food, Reference, Nonfiction, Cooking

496 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2009

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

[Carolyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a terrific book for beginner cooks and more experienced cooks. Teaches basic skills about food and food prep. Includes recipes.

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've never considered cookbooks "good reading" but I am devouring this (ugh, no pun intended, I promise) page by page. Though I can throw together a basic meal, I am still very much a novice in the kitchen, and I love the clear cut and unpretentious instructions I've found here. The opening pages detail the must-know about each food group (types of cheese and what to use them for, which foods can be successfully frozen and for how long, how to stock your pantry if you are a beginner/intermediate/or expert chef, etc.). Then they break down bunches of cooking techniques, from sautéing to braising (and beyond) with related recipes, step by step instructions, photos, and helpful kitchen tips. I thought I knew how to make an omelette, but the one I made this morning was the fluffiest, most lovely one I've ever done! I love that the food is attainable but different, and healthy but still flavorful. I am a serious fan of the magazine, and I adore this book. It has been my breakfast and lunchtime reading for the past week, and I'm hooked. :)

[Heidy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cooking have never been my forte, so having a cooking book that shows me with pictures step by step what to do in the kitchen, is always welcome. At the beginning is like a cooking course, showing the different types of fish, different types of pots, sauces, salts, cuts, meats, etc… Then it proceeds to show you some recipes it cover drinks, deserts, slow cooking meals, broiled, etc… what I like about this part is that the instruction not only came with words but with pictures on how it supposed to look at every step. In addition it will tell you which equipment is needed for the recipe at hand, what a marvelous book. The recipes, the pictures, the tips, what a awesome concept for a cooking book. I wish other cooking books presents more visual after all, I eat with my eyes first and only if my eyes approved I will proceed. This book is awesome, but some recipes were too fancy, like the oysters one, now I will eat that in a restaurant but in my heart, I know I will never cook it, so 4 stars 🌟

[Alisa · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are a lot of things about foods in general that I did not know before. I am just a few pages into this book and am excited to what else I will find out. There are few recipes in this book, but just more for general knowledge about foods and of what ingredient choices are better for cooking certain meals.

[Stephanie · Rating 3 out of 5]

The recipes look good, the photos are great, but really, I don't feel like learning how to cook anything new. The cool thing about Cooking Light recipes is it tells you the nutritional information (calories, fat, etc.) with the recipe.

[Liz De Coster · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fantastically helpful and visually rich (lots of photos), but a little light on the recipes. I'd really recommend this for somebody pretty new to cooking, since the recipes are all relatively straightforward.

[Dona · Rating 2 out of 5]

This might be a good cookbook for someone new to cooking. However, the different fonts and arrangement of pictures made the book feel cluttered which was very distracting.

[Marianna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good and basic, but too cluttered for me.

[Jenny Takenaka · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoy this cookbook. Give great tips and techniques that are easy to follow.

[Kate · Rating 5 out of 5]

so thorough! love the breakfast recipes and the sections detailing foods like honey and capers. I learned a lot about food I cook all the time.

[Elizabeth Coble · Rating 3 out of 5]

The pesto chicken salad has been really popular every time I've made it.