Norene's Healthy Kitchen: Eat Your Way to Good Health

Being healthy and staying that way is a perennial concern for us all. In addition to exercise and good sanitary practices, to ward off illness, to minimize the impact of illness when it occurs, and to recover as rapidly as possible from injuries of any kind, good nutrition cannot be overemphasized. "Norene's Healthy Kitchen: Eat Your Way To Good Health" by culinary consultant, cooking teacher, food lecturer, and freelance food writer Norene Gilletz (who is also one of Canada's leading kosher cookbook authors), is a compendium of more than six hundred recipes, each of which is guaranteed to be as kitchen cook friendly as it is nutritious and delicious. This is a 511-page volume of superbly presented recipes for everything from appetizers to dessert. Of special note is the first part 'Things You Want to Know' addressing such issues as the Glycemic Index, mail-planning tips for diabetics, the use of salt and salt substitutes, food storage tips, kitchen equipment, grilling, food safety, pan sizes and conversion, substitutions for both cooking and baking, and basic 'Nutritional Analysis' tips. From a Curried Carrot and Cashew Soup; to a Spicy Steakhouse Salmon; to Chicken Fajitas; to Sugar-Free Meringue Cookies, "Norene's Healthy Kitchen" is an ideal and highly recommended addition to the cookbook collections for anyone concerned with kosher dining, weight-loss management, diabetes, smart-carb diets, and glycemic indices.

I just got this book and have only made a few of the recipes but they have all been fantastic: user-friendly, quick, simple, and, most importantly, healthy without being tasteless or artificial. A great book with lots of useful info on health, nutrition, and cooking!

I have just added Norene's Gilletz's lastest book, Norene's healthy kitchen to my collection of cookbooks. Once again Norene has produced a book that is well researched and beautifully written. All her recipes are simple enough for everyday cooking and delectable enough for entertaining. I would recommend it to anyone who would like to eat healthy without compromising taste.

Norene's Healthy Ktichen: Eat Your Way to Good Health (Whitecap $29.95 US), by culinary expert Norene Gilletz, is a new Kosher cookbook on healthy cooking, released just in time for the High Holidays. Many of you are familiar with and fans of Norene's seven other cookbooks including The Food Processor Bible, Healthy Helpings (MeaLeaniYumm) and MicroWays. Healthier food choices don't always mean that we need to sacrifice flavor for nutrition and Norene proves that healthy cooking can be as nutritious as it is delicious in her latest cookbook. Packed with 600 fabulous recipes and color photographs throughout, the pages shine with her passion for healthy kosher meals from around the world. Norene has been careful to ensure that her recipes' ingredients can be found at local supermarkets. Her friendly voice and culinary expertise make it easy for home cooks to integrate diverse, healthy dishes in their busy lives. You don't have to be health or diet conscious to enjoy her recipes but they are all compatible with the Weight Watchers and South Beach diets. Favorite dishes include: Confetti Vegetable Strudel, Lox and Bagel Cheese Strata, Spanakopita roll-ups, Chimichurri Chicken, Luscious Lemon Berry Mousse and even one of my recipes, Vidalia Onion Salad.

I really loved this book. This is my kind of cooking. Easy to make, healthy and delicious. Since I liked her other books (especially Healthy Helpings) I pre ordered this book. I have already made some of the recipes and plan to use more soon. Each receipe has a cute short blurp about the recipe which is entertaining, and most have useful cooking tips. The ingredients are common stuff that I usually have on hand and makes good use of the food processor and microwave, but their use is not essential. This book also has great info on the glycemic index, glycemic load, heart healthy cooking and lots of useful kitchen infomation. Which makes it a great gift for a beginner or more experienced cook. You will use it for everyday and entertaining and no one will think of it as low fat and healthy.