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The Skinnytaste Cookbook: Light on Calories, Big on Flavor by Heather K. Jones, Gina Homolka
thecatwood's review
3.0
Very useful for people who are looking for recipes that lighten up popular meals or restaurant reals, but not a lot of standout unique recipes.
eling's review
3.0
I feel like this is a 3.5 for me. I do like the concept of slimming down recipes that are unnecessarily rich for every day eating, and I appreciate the quickness & flavor in Homolka's recipes, but I am personally hesitant about regularly using recipes that call for so many canned/packaged things (broth, beans, light cheese, etc.) and this book in particular seems to name brands an awful lot, which I do not like). And definitely not enough photos for me! (Many two page spreads of recipes with no photo for either, so it's like only 1/3 to 1/2 of the recipes have accompanying photos.)
pinoncoffee's review
5.0
She always has good ideas about what to cook. The recipe titles are kind of overly cutesy in this too—it must be a cookbook thing—but the contents are the kind of food I’d eat. I regularly use many of these spices and ingredients, which gives me confidence in them!
My general rule is that if it’s any kind of “healthy” cookbook, the food has to be actually delicious. This looks like the kind of book you could say, “I don’t know what to cook tonight” and open it and plausibly find food to fix. I plan to try several things.
My general rule is that if it’s any kind of “healthy” cookbook, the food has to be actually delicious. This looks like the kind of book you could say, “I don’t know what to cook tonight” and open it and plausibly find food to fix. I plan to try several things.
alyssajoy's review
5.0
This is a great cookbook! A lot of interesting ways to "healthify" recipes that are typically not very healthy. A lot of the things she does to lighten things up are things that I already do with my cooking, but there were some creative recipes in here that I appreciated. I've made 2 recipes from this book and will definitely make more.