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Cook Yourself Thin Chocolate Cranberry Biscotti

Cook Yourself Thin – Chocolate and Cranberry Biscotti

The word “biscotti”  applies to any type of biscuit, and originates from the Latin word biscoctum, meaning “twice-baked”: it defined biscuits baked twice in the oven, so they could be stored for long periods of time, which was particularly useful during journeys and wars.

Biscotti were a staple of the diet of the Roman Legions. The word was eventually imported into English as “biscuit”. Biscotti is derived from the word “bis” which in Italian means twice and “cotto” meaning cooked.

Now, you have the background of this delicious morning coffee accompaniment, but how about making some healthy biscotti, Cook Yourself Thin style?

Cook Yourself Thin Recipes – Chocolate and Cranberry Biscotti

Makes about 1 1/2 dozen
Calories per biscotti: 76

3/4 cup all-purpose flour
1/4 cup finely ground almonds
3 tablespoons Dutch-process cocoa powder
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 large egg
1/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
1/2 teaspoon almond extract
1/3 cup dried cranberries
Melted chocolate for drizzling

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1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees and arrange a rack in the center of the oven. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.

2. Whisk together flour, ground almonds, cocoa powder, baking powder and salt in a medium bowl.

3. Beat egg and sugar with a handheld or standing mixer on medium-high speed until pale and thick, about 5 minutes.

Beat in vanilla and almond extracts. Reduce speed to low, and gradually add flour mixture. Beat until no traces of flour remain. Stir in cranberries.

The dough will be very wet and sticky.

4. Scrape the dough onto the prepared baking sheet, forming a thick line in the center.

Wet your hands and pat dough into a 9-x-3-inch rectangle. Bake until puffed and dry to the touch, about 25 minutes.

Cool on pan for 15 minutes; keep oven on.

Peel off parchment and carefully transfer rectangle to a cutting board. Cut crosswise into 1/3-inch-thick slices.

5. Lay slices flat on unlined baking sheet, and bake until dry, about 10 minutes.

Flip slices and bake for 10 minutes more. Let cool completely. Cookies will crisp as they cool.

6. Drizzle with melted chocolate if desired.

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Cook Yourself Thin Biscotti Pan – Get the Right Tools For the Job

Bake your Cook Yourself Thin Chocolate and Cranberry Biscotti in this perfectly-shaped, specially-designed biscotti pan by Chicago Metallic. Designed to meet the exacting standards of commercial bakers and gourmet bakers who prefer traditional baking on uncoated pans.

The uncoated surface offers good reflectivity for even dispersion of heat which means more consistent, even baking and gradual browning. After repeated use, darkening of the metal will actually enhance baking performance.

Crafted from heavy-weight aluminized steel which combines the durability, strength, and superior heat conduction of steel with the corrosion-resistance of an aluminum alloy.

Dishwasher safe.

This is the perfect pan for ensuring that your biscotti come out cooked perfectly every time.

Biscotti are a delicious and tasty treat, and if prepared the healthy Cook Yourself Thin way, they can be a perfect accompaniment to your morning coffee or tea.

Proper preparation with the proper pan is guaranteed every time with this piece of cookware.

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If you’ve ever secretly thought about publishing your recipes in a cookbook, you will want to read the following.
The popularity of cookbooks as a product that’s easy to sell has continued to go up, along with the sheer quality of the recipes, the design of the book and the downright creativity of self-publishers.
Cookbooks have proven throughout the past 50 years or so to be much more than a collection of recipes. Cookbooks are a great public relations tool. They add to local history.
Cookbooks are an important documentation of a nation’s heritage. They are a collector’s item, a family’s memoir and a way to maintain our sense of identity. Passing down recipes from generation to generation has long been a tradition whether published in a cookbook or not.
The cookbook market will never be saturated because the public is always looking for new recipes and for the best possible way to make food taste great.
With more and more cookbooks featuring color photography with their recipes and interesting sidebar information, cookbooks are even leaving the kitchen and finding a home on the coffee table.
Actually most cookbook buyers are referred to as armchair cooks. They really don’t have time to cook but love to read recipes, read about cooking and food, and collect useful and beautiful cookbooks.
I know this is true because I have spent many a bedtime poring over the recipes in my cookbooks — avidly marking recipes that I intend to try — some day!
Food and cooking are a part of everyday life, making cookbooks a staple in every American and European home. Even in a weak or down economy, cookbook sales always remain strong.
Whether people buy cookbooks for casual reading or to fix meals, they continue to sell year after year. We live in a cookbook crazy culture. Actually 80% of cookbooks are sold by word of mouth.
And cookbook sales continue to climb every year. Some years it has been as much as 76%.
The third best-selling book in the world is the Better Homes & Gardens Cookbook. It ranks behind the Bible and the dictionary in sales. And many community and regional cookbooks have been published continually for more than 50 years.
The average American woman owns about 15 cookbooks and three out of ten women collect cookbooks.
Ninety-seven million people gave or have received a book as a gift and the most popular category is cookbooks.
A fast and cheap way would be to publish your recipes is in a simple ebook, which you could do and still work from home. Another option which requires more capital would be in a self-published trade book. It wouldn’t require color photographs to publish a great book with your recipes.
If you have a lot of money to invest in your own self-publishing business then consider publishing a cookbook with color photographs. The choice is up to you.
Promoting, marketing and selling self-published cookbooks can be a lot of fun. You can do public demonstrations of your recipes and give away free soup samples.
You can give away free recipes. You can print up free recipes on bookmarks with your cookbook information. You can print free sample recipes on your fliers.
As you can see, the cookbook market has always been a fantastic market. If you’ve always wanted to publish your recipes, this is a good reason to think about publishing your collection of recipes in a cookbook.

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Cook Yourself Thin Lasagna Recipes from the Cook Yourself Thin Book

Cook Yourself Thin Lasagne, a light, healthful and delicious recipe from the Cook Yourself Thin Book

Lasagne is a firm favourite with everyone. Unfortunately, with all that pasta, creamy sauce and fatty beef, it can be a huge meal. My version replaces some of the pasta and meat with vegetables, and compared to an additive-filled, processed version, this is much better for the waistline. All the Italian purists that I know will be up in arms, but for me this is a great dish that leaves me feeling full of energy.

This Lasagna Recipe – Serves 6

Ready in 1 hour 35 minutes
Ingredients
The lasagne

* 1 teaspoon olive oil
* 1 onion, finely chopped
* 2 sticks of celery, finely chopped
* 1 carrot, finely chopped
* 4 cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
* 400g lean beef mince (must be the best quality, or you could try and get a butcher to mince it for you)
* Salt and freshly ground black pepper
* 315ml red wine
* 400g tin plum tomatoes
* 1 tablespoon tomato purée
* 1 bay leaf
* 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
* 2 courgettes, thinly sliced lengthways
* 1 jar of roasted red peppers in brine
* 4 sheets of lasagne

The cheese sauce

* 500ml semi-skimmed milk
* A good grating of whole nutmeg
* Salt and pepper
* 3 tablespoons cornflour
* 1 teaspoon English mustard
* 80g mature cheddar cheese

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Method: How to cook light but luxurious lasagne

1. Heat up a big saucepan and add the olive oil. Sweat the onion, celery, carrot and garlic for around five minutes over a medium heat.

2. Heat a frying pan up until very hot and cook the seasoned beef, without any oil, in batches. Then add the beef to the saucepan.

The point of cooking the beef in batches is to get a good colour on it because this adds more flavour.

3. When all the beef is in the saucepan, turn up the heat and add the wine.

4. Cook until the wine has all been absorbed and then add the tinned tomatoes, tomato purée, bay leaf and oregano. Season and simmer for 30 minutes or until rich and tasty.

5. Preheat a conventional oven to 180ºC, or a fan-assisted one to 160ºC.

6. Heat a griddle pan. Season the courgettes and lightly chargrill or sear on each side, then leave on a plate until assembling time. Drain the peppers and also add to the plate.

7. For the cheese sauce: heat the milk up gently with a good grating of nutmeg, some salt and pepper. Mix the cornflour with 50ml of the milk and whisk back into the milk, continuing to cook for two to three minutes until thickened.

8. Add the mustard and half the cheese. Check the seasoning and set aside.

9. Now for the fun part: Take a baking dish and start layering up the ingredients. Start with a layer of meat, then peppers, then meat, then courgettes, then meat, then pasta and finally cheese sauce.

10. Top with the rest of the cheese and bake for 20 to 30 minutes or until bubbling.

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Cook Yourself Thin Book – Weightloss advice from Sal.

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The Cook Yourself Thin TV Show producers gave the audience the chance to put their weight-loss dilemmas to the Cook Yourself Thin presenters. Here’s the advice that Sal gave to Laura.

Laura’s question

“Hi, I’m a carboholic. I can live without cakes, sweets etc but I love starchy carbs.

“Is there a diet plan I can follow that doesn’t compromise my carb intake too much?

“Thanks! Laura”

Sal’s advice and Cook Yourself Thin Recipes

“Forget diets – they are too depressing for words, as often you deprive yourself of foods you love and then you crave them and before you know it you fall of the wagon, so to speak.

“It’s about getting back in the kitchen and cooking again but cleverly… so if you love pasta dishes then think about making homemade tomato sauces rather than creamy ones and adding vegetables to it to balance the meal out.

“One of my favourites is a good homemade tomato sauce with chopped black olives, tabasco and chopped anchovies with say tuna.

“If you want a creamy pasta idea try my carbonara in the book… it doesn’t compromise on the flavour but is certainly less calories.

“With regards to cakes etc… try making your own because you then know what has gone into it.

“Try Harry’s chocolate and beetroot cake as it is so intense that I even struggled to eat more than one slice, and I love chocolate and cakes.

“Happy cooking!” Check out Cook Yourself Thin Lifetime TV Show and Cook Yourself Thin Channel 4 Show.

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Cook Yourself Thin Book – Harry Eastwood Pulls Back The Curtain On Cook Yourself Thin Recipes, Guilty Secrets and Cooking Disaster Stories!

Cook Yourself Thin Recipe Author Harry Eastwood

Harry is a fun and happy girl. She adores cooking and getting her hands dirty.

She loves understanding her ingredients which is why she is passionate about butchery, and tracing food back to its roots. But don’t be fooled, as well as helping out on farms and with butchers, she’s also really girly, loves bright colours (especially pink) and big pearl necklaces.

Harry lives for food- her great love of chocolate means that hardly a day passes where she doesn’t have some; she even keeps a stash in her car for emergencies… She believes that food should make you happy, and specialises in cooking with ingredients that are natural, full of colour and free range.

Guilty Secret:

Nutella

Desert Island Vegetable:

Rainbow chard… the colours are spectacular.

Meal When You’ve Been Dumped:

Only time I really can’t eat!

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Worst Cooking Disaster:

Every so often, egg based recipes give me a hard time… eggs aren’t always obedient!

Last Supper:

“6 snails with real baguette, then sirloin steak and proper french fries with bearnaise sauce (free range cow that I’ve butchered myself), followed by Vacherin cheese and single truffle. Washed down with some seriously wowee wines… what a great way to go!”

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The Cook Yourself Thin book is a cookbook filled with fun, facts and delicious cook yourself thin recipes. Join the three co-authors, Harry Eastwood, Allison Fishman and Candice Kumai on a culinary journey designed to help you discover healthful cooking at its best.

Food Swaps Rule!

One of the most helpful features of the Cook Yourself Slim book is the explanation of food swaps that can transform otherwise unhealthful meals that are tasty but full of fat and ultimately damaging to your waste into downright healthy meals that you can eat without the guilt you may have suffered from in the past.

It’s simply amazing how a few little changes to your diet, and swaps in your foods, can completely change your body and your life.

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