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Not Just Cheesecake! The Low-Fat, Low-Cholesterol, Low-Calorie Great Dessert Cookbook

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This is a wonderful cookbook featuring delicious & nutritious recipes. Most recipes are easy-to-make & use common ingredients. All are low in fat with no recipe containing more than 4 grams per serving.

The author starts out by explaining the miracle of yogurt cheese & how to make it. She also discusses other ingredients & how to make the recipes even healthier. Nutrition information is provided along with dietetic exchanges.

Recipes include dips, spreads, appetizers, salads, dressings, snacks, chilled soups, & breads. Many varieties of cheesecake, cookies, cakes, pies, puddings, frostings, & fondues are also included.

There are even recipes for many flavors of frozen yogurt that only require a blender. Some of my favorites are the crescents, soft pretzels, & no-cook cucumber soup. I also enjoyed the scrumptious oatmeal kiss cookies.

I just finished making the Banana Cheesecake, and it's possibly the best dessert I've ever eaten - and only 130 calories! This book has some really great recipes, from wonderful spinach dips to salad dressings to various desserts; yogurt cheese is truly an amazing food - I've never eaten better and I'm losing all kinds of weight! Draining the whey reduces the tartness of the yogurt a great deal - the cheesecakes do not taste like gobs of yogurt (not that there's anything wrong with that) but taste like a lighter version of regular cheesecake. Not to mention the very high calcium and protein content - everyone who loves to cook (and eat!) needs to explore yogurt cheese, and I highly suggest this book along with the Goldbeck's "Eat Well the YoChee Way."

I've tried a few of the recipes so far and they are all great! Especially the cheesecake. I made the basic cheesecake and topped it with a little sugar-free orange marmalade. It was delicious!

I love this book! It is written by a professional cook who trained with Julia Child's partner Simone Beck in France as well as many other food professional experiences. She is also a receptionist at Weight Watchers meetings, which means that she maintains her weight within her range and is a Lifetime member. I myself am a Lifetime member of Weight Watchers and appreciate good cookbooks like this that have lowfat, low calorie, low cholesterol, low sodium recipes that are delicious. I love Greek Yogurt(yogurt cheese) which I found to be expensive, so I began on a journey to make my own. In that process, I found this book at Amazon.com and am very pleased with it. Who knew there were so many delicious ways of using yogurt cheese. Bravo to Shelly Melvin for creating such a delicious low calorie cookbook.

Not Just Cheesecake ended up on my kitchen table next to a copy of The Magic of Jello. Jello is an incomplete protein, but mixing it with eggs and yogurt fixes that problem. It wasn't long before my daughter asked why she couldn't substitute sugar-free brownies for the leftover meat she was served. If you like desserts and you care about nutrition, this book offers lots of good ideas.

Not Just Cheesecake provides a lengthy list of recipes for yogurt-based desserts. Careful thought allows the same approach to be adapted to savory dishes like moussaka and spanakopita, among many others. In the hands of a determined creative cook, this book can convert many forbidden favorites from junk foods into main courses.

the recepis are good but lack of photos which unable for us to really sure that the presentation is good

To be fair, I have only tried making one of the recipes in this cookbook, so my comments are mostly based on that. Twice I made the Herb Cheese Spread, using different yogurt cheeses in case that was the problem, and both times it was inedible. The only thing that could be tasted was the very sour cheese; even adding a bit more of the herbs didn't help. I was also disappointed to find that the cheesecakes in the book are all crustless, which, to me, keeps them from being actual cheesecakes. However, there are many other interesting recipes, including some using vanilla yogurt as a base and I plan to try those eventually.