Cook Yourself Thin Book

Did you know that for the first time obesity statistics show that there are now more obese people than those who are overweight?

I know that our economy crisis prevents us to be a stay at home mom or dad.  We all have to work two and sometimes three jobs to make ends meet. Fast food, they say, is the culprit for so much weight gain.  Don’t you think it’s time to take the bull by the horns and do something about it?  Wouldn’t it make sense to cook, using a new concept?  What is this new concept?  It is merely cooking the food and baking the way you always did, but, using different products.  These products are simply substitutes for the High Fat and High Sugar products used for years. 

I have dedicated myself to creating recipes that are identical, in every way to the ones we consume now.  With the proper use of, sugar free honey, for instance,you can eliminate any brown sugar from your recipe.  No taste change.  No aftertaste.  Cookies flatten properly during the baking process.  They smell delicious and taste even better.  There was a time, you had to refrigerate all sugar free baked goods, immediately.  If you did not, the goodies were stale within twenty four hours.  No longer is this necessary, except for food and cheesecake, for instance, which must be refrigerated anyway.

Along with my two cookbooks, “Theresa’s Solution to Smart Cooking” and Theresa’s Solution to Smart Baking” I have added a New cookbook, “Little Chef, Series #One, on my website  In my cooking school, I had the privilege to teach children from ages nine and up to teenage, the simple art of cooking.  This was when I realized how much help children could be to their hard working parents.  I also realized,  while  observing some of the kids, they were amazed at how much math, reading and comprension went into cooking. What a marvelous and exciting observation this was.  We all must eat, three meals a day to stay healthy. Why not gather up some trust, and allow your children to help with meals.  You and dad have too much to do and cooking is like doing an exciting craft for the kids.  If you could imagine the pride in their faces, when they cook something, and it tasts great and looks wonderful,  Some of the recipes in the Little Chef’s book, are planned around simplicity and no cleanup.  They simply prepare meals, using aluminum foil sheets, folded into a large bag ready for the oven when you get home.

Best of all, even these recipes are Low in Fat and Low in Sugar calories.  The snacks and candy recipes are perfect for you and the children to eat, without weight gain.  We must do something about the Obesitity crisis, not only for you, but your children are in for a world of medical disasters if you don’t help yourself and them to reverse obesity. 

If you, or your children want to talk to me, go to my Forum at www.theresasolution.net.  Ask me anything regarding food or your diet.  I will be happy to answer your questions.  This crisis is too serious to ignore. 

Rabbit food. That’s what my dad calls vegetarian cooking and cuisine. Salads and vegetables – can’t be anything more to it, can there? Oh, but there is. Vegetarian cooking is at least as varied as ‘regular’ cooking – and in some cases, far more imaginative. Nearly thirty years ago, Diet for a Small Planet, and the follow-up cookbook, Recipes for a Small Planet hit the bookstore shelves with a resounding thud that still echoes. While many of the theories of protein complementarily that Frances Moore Lappe presented have been proven to be naïve by further research, the basic theories of eating and the wonderful meatless – and truly vegetarian – recipes endure. The Moosewood Cookbook and The Enchanted Broccoli Forest followed, and then an avalanche of cookbooks devoted to the vegetarian gourmet. Vegetarian cooking is more than just ‘meatless’. There’s an art to mixing flavors and textures in just the right combinations to create masterpieces that are as appealing to carnivores as to those who’ve eschewed meat. For Hindi chefs who practice Ayurvedic cooking, food is more than nutrition – it is a meditation, a gateway to the higher consciousness. There are three major components and six tastes (sweet, salty, sour, bitter, pungent and astringent) to be considered in the preparation of every dish, and a meal prepared according to the Ayurveda is a feast for the eyes, the nose, the mouth and the mind. The very best vegetarian meals are not ‘meatless’ versions of dish that usually has meat in it. ‘Meatless’ lasagna suggests that something is missing from the recipe. Anyone who has dined on spinach lasagna knows that there’s nothing missing – the blend of creamy cheese and spinach and spices is perfect in and of itself. Polenta with spicy black bean sauce has no need of meat to make it more complete – made right it melts on the tongue AND sticks to the ribs at the same time. Even within the overall umbrella of ‘vegetarian cuisine’ there are variations. Outside Western culture, most meals have little or not meat at all – so it is not surprising to find vegetarian main dishes in Indian and Chinese cuisine, nor in Russian cooking and African regional cuisines. Many base main dish meals on legumes and nuts. Peanut and cashew soups, humus with spices and lemon, fermented black bean sauces ladled over bread and pasta and rice and couscous – Middle Eastern and African cooking offers all of those and more. If one approaches vegetarian cuisine as a ‘substitute’ for cooking with meat, one is sure to be disappointed. It is a way of eating and cooking, of spices and combinations that can be as light and fluffy as a meringue or as dense and chewy as the best seven grain bread. If you’ve never tried a real vegetarian meal – as opposed to a ‘meatless’ or ‘meat substitute’ – the very best place to start is at your nearest Indian or Middle Eastern restaurant. You’ll be amazed at the flavors and textures – and you won’t even notice that there’s no meat.

When we think of Medieval food we tend to think of bland foods such as porridge and gruel and turnips, lots of turnips, all washed down with plenty of ale or mead. And whilst this image is, to an extent, correct a lot of what we envisage is influenced by the movies. What must be remembered is that the Medieval age extends from the 5th to the 16th centuries. Essentially from the fall of Rome to the Tudor age and foods along with cooking methods developed dramatically during this time.

Certainly, if you were a peasant at the beginning of the Medieval period your diet would have been limited. For most of the time you would have been working the fields for your lord and the remainder of the time you would have been working your own plot of land to feed your family. However, after the black death the population crashed and new land became available to everyone so the lot of the poorest improved considerably.

As a result later Medieval fare became more varied and much better in quality. The crusades also brought new spices to Europe and, reading through Medieval cookbooks it’s amazing just how highly spiced the dishes were.

The Medieval age is also the age of the beginnings of the true cookbook. We have several examples across the great houses of Europe. It’s also the age of the first ’super chefs’ where chefs came to prominence in the royal kitchens and scribes were set to write down what the chefs did and how the dishes were created.

It should also be noted that much of what was eaten was dictated by the church and over half the days in the year were meat-less or ‘fish’ days. As a result almost everyone was fed-up of eating fish and new and interesting methods were always being devised to serve these fish dishes. Another thing to remember is that a lot of the carbohydrate staples we are used to today (potatoes etc) hadn’t been discovered yet. As a result wheat, barley, for more details visit to www.chicken-wing-cookbook.com oats and rice were the staples and these were often made into gruels or pottages with almond milk. Bread was also very important and often the bread was used as a plate substitute. Though, for the poor they ate with a spoon off a wooden plank.

Pies also rose to importance as a source of both meat and carbohydrate and very elaborate pies were designed for formal meals.

The recipe below is for a classic sweet and sour fish dish of the period:

Medieval Sweet and Sour Fish

6 firm white fish steaksolive oil for frying500ml dry red wine vinegar4 tbsp honey1 onion, finely chopped1/2 tsp ground mace1/2 tsp ground cloves1 tsp ground cubeb pepper

Gently poach the fish in water or milk until it just flakes with a fork then drain well and set aside. Meanwhile, combine the red wine vinegar, honey, for more details visit to www.300-dip-recipes.com onion and spices in a large pan. Bring to a simmer and taste for sweetness (add more honey if needed). Continue cooking for about 12 minutes or until the onions is completely soft.

Add a little olive oil to a frying pan and use to fry the poached fish on both sides, until crisp and lightly browned. Remove the fish from the oil and drain. Arrange in a shallow serving bowl and ladle the sauce over the top.About The Author

The phrase “health freaks” is well known. But a new phrase “cooking freaks” can be coined for those immensely in love with their kitchens! Their conversations center round cooking recipes and they are constantly awaiting opportunities to surprise everyone—family members, friends, relatives—with innovative dishes! The praise that follows the consumption of every mouth-watering dish is enough reward for them!
Cooking recipes are very easy to find and hoard. Just take a look around—book stores, stores supplying health food, grocery stores—all of them have recipes in stock. It comes as a boon when you find these recipes in unusual places like gift shops offering special items. But the best place to get cooking recipes is of course, the Internet. There are literally hundreds to be found on different web sites! The one who loves to cook is truly lost for words when being flooded with so many recipes!
If you dislike the idea of having so many loose pages around, just purchase a bound cookbook. Modern cookbooks give illustrations of what a dish will look like after it has been cooked. Generally, the recipes you collect come minus pictures. So there is a certain amount of apprehension when trying out something new, wondering if the dish will really turn out well or not. You need have no such doubts where recipes come with accompanying pictures. You are willing to try anything!
The possibilities of what you can do with all these cooking recipes is endless—
(1) Imagine a time when you want to make a special occasion even more special with a fabulous cooking creation of your own. Your recipes come in very handy then!
(2) You could throw a “Let’s exchange cooking recipes” party where each guest brings the recipe as well as the prepared dish.
(3) A recipe club could be started where members exchange recipes or even demonstrate the preparation of a new dish at a weekly get-together or a monthly get-together.
(4) If you have been collecting cooking recipes over the years, why not think about authoring your own cookbook?
(5) Collecting a favorite chef’s famous recipes can become a hobby, if nothing else. Not only do you possess recipes for all occasions, you improve your own culinary skills by trying out new dishes all the time.
All said and done, should your inexperience in cooking come in the way of trying out the cooking recipes you have collected so far, well, just turn on the television to watch cooking shows and learn. DVDs about cooking are also available. As a last resort, join cookery classes! The choice of wanting to learn alone or with others rests entirely with you!

The phrase “health freaks” is well known. But a new phrase “cooking freaks” can be coined for those immensely in love with their kitchens! Their conversations center round cooking recipes and they are constantly awaiting opportunities to surprise everyone — family members, friends, relatives — with innovative dishes! The praise that follows the consumption of every mouth-watering dish is enough reward for them!

Cooking recipes are very easy to find and hoard. Just take a look around — book stores, stores supplying health food, grocery stores — all of them have recipes in stock. For more details go to: www.classic-dessert-collection.com it comes as a boon when you find these recipes in unusual places like gift shops offering special items. But the best place to get cooking recipes is of course, the Internet. There are literally hundreds to be found on different web sites! The one who loves to cook is truly lost for words when being flooded with so many recipes!

If you dislike the idea of having so many loose pages around, just purchase a bound cookbook. Modern cookbooks give illustrations of what a dish will look like after it has been cooked. Generally, the recipes you collect come minus pictures. So there is a certain amount of apprehension when trying out something new, wondering if the dish will really turn out well or not. You need have no such doubts where recipes come with accompanying pictures. You are willing to try anything!

The possibilities of what you can do with all these cooking recipes are endless?

-Imagine a time when you want to make a special occasion even more special with a fabulous cooking creation of your own. Your recipes come in very handy then!-You could throw a “Let’s exchange cooking recipes” party where each guest brings the recipe as well as the prepared dish.-A recipe club could be started where members exchange recipes or even demonstrate the preparation of a new dish at a weekly get-together or a monthly get-together.If you have been collecting cooking recipes over the years, why not think about authoring your own cookbook?-For can visit to: www.cooking-chinese-style.com collecting a favorite chef’s famous recipes can become a hobby, if nothing else. Not only do you possess recipes for all occasions, you improve your own culinary skills by trying out new dishes all the time.

All said and done, should your inexperience in cooking come in the way of trying out the cooking recipes you have collected so far, well, just turn on the television to watch cooking shows and learn. DVDs about cooking are also available. As a last resort, join cookery classes! The choice of wanting to learn alone or with others rests entirely with you!