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Healthy Desserts
 Recipe for Good Health -Eating Right $29.95 I was hoping for a more inspirational CD. The presentation is long and tedioius and the recipes are very dated.  Williams-Sonoma New Healthy Kitchen: Desserts: Colorful Recipes for Health and Well-Being $19.95 I purchased two copies of this item for gifts for my son/wife and daughter/fiance. They were all thrilled with the wonderful looking recipes and delighted with the healthier direction for such great looking desserts. They are anxious to try out most of the recipes. There are not so many individual recipes that you are overwhelmed with the choices and are all illustrated beautifully enough to make your mouth water... healthy YUM!  Healthy Homestyle Desserts: 150 Fabulous Treats with a Fraction of the Fat and Calories $24.95 I love the original Healthy Homestyle Cooking and use it constantly -- however, I've always thought the sweets and baked goods were the weakest part of the cookbook. And unfortunately that problem is magnified in this book. She cuts too much fat and salt out of everything, and the flavor and texture of the final products really suffer. Most of her muffins and quick breads are either rubbery and tough, or dense and soggy, because she replaces every last drop of oil or butter with applesauce. Also, H.H. Desserts has many repeats within itself as well as repeats from her first book. The same cheesecake and muffin recipes are repeated again and again, with just a tiny change in flavorings, fruit, name, etc. AND -- rather importantly -- sometimes the calorie savings from her "makeovers" are so small that it's not worth the huge compromise in taste and texture. I mean, sometimes her cookie "makeovers" only shave about 20 calories per cookie -- but they definitely don't taste as good as the original. And did anyone notice that many of the muffins are jumbo-sized? That's to make the calorie and fat savings look more dramatic. For best results with Tribole's muffin and quick bread recipes, always add about 1/2 teaspoon salt, a few tablespoons of oil (in addition to the applesauce she calls for), and when she calls for two egg whites, use a whole egg instead. You'll get far better results and you'll still have a healthy, low-fat product. And you won't waste mountains of egg yolks, which I think is criminal! |
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