Cookbooks

My favorite cookbooks are both labelled 'Farmer's Market', though both are by different author's and publishing companies. But both are set up by season and focus on using whole fresh ingredients.

Neither are 'low calorie' recipe books, but many recipes are low calorie and all look pretty healthy. And, most importantly, all of the recipes I've tried have been delicious.

This is my favorite cookbook of all time, it's called The America's Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook. Really easy and healthy meals. I use it at least once a week.

http://www.amazon.com/Americas-Kitchen-Healthy-Family-Cookbook/dp/1933615567/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1433359530&sr=8-5&keywords=americas+test+kitchen

I've found "Isa Does It" to be very informative as well as having amazingly delicious (from scratch) recipes.

I have to second the skinnytaste.com website. She has fabulous recipes that are healthy and are easy to make from scratch.

Blessed_luv wrote: »

my name is Stephanie I am new to MFP. Actually I started a long time ago but I only did it for one day I've been doing it for 15 days straight now and I'm enjoying it and losing weight. My question is about healthy cookbooks. I am finding it very hard to find healthy cookbooks for whole foods eating most books require that you put in a can of soup instead of teaching you how to make it anybody have any suggestions out there? If your looking for friends feel free to add me.

Seriously? I love cookbooks and have hundreds of them, and all involve whole foods. I honestly wouldn't expect anything else unless I really sought out some Sandra Lee kind of cookbook (which I would not do, of course).

A nice starter one is Mark Bittman's How to Cook Everything. His book on Fish is also good. There are many just on vegetables, and the starter ones often are organized by veggie and have more information on the veggie, as well as recipes. A classic is Greene on Greens (it's not just greens). Barbara Kafka's Vegetable Love is also good. And speaking of Barbara Kafka, she wrote a great book called Roasting that really changed how I approach cooking meat (although it deals with all kinds of dishes).

I would just go to a book store and browse too. There are millions of good cookbooks that have good recipes based on whole foods. You don't need a specific "healthy" cookbook--just look at the ingredients.

On the web I'd recommend 101cookbooks and epicurious as nice basic sites with lots of ideas.

Cooking Lite is a decent magazine.

I also love Cook's Illustrated stuff, but that gets more into the weeds.

Oh, and a book I seriously love is Harold McGee's On Food and Cooking.

I like the reference above to farmer's market cookbooks--I have a few of those too and they are also good, and several focused around eating seasonally.

I'm a big Jamie Oliver fan...I have all of his books.

cwolfman13 wrote: »

I'm a big Jamie Oliver fan...I have all of his books.

Love Jamie Oliver too!