Comfort Food Fix: Feel-Good Favorites Made Healthy [Hardcover]

Ellie Krieger (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 11, 2011

Comfort food made healthy, from New York Times bestselling author Ellie Krieger

In Comfort Food Fix, Ellie Krieger presents a healthier take on classic American comfort food—without sacrificing the comfort part. These 150 soul-satisfying recipes include such hearty favorites as meatloaf, lasagna, chicken potpie, crab cakes, and mashed potatoes, but without all the calories and saturated fat.

With simple tricks and tips, Ellie serves up healthy delights like delicious sweet potato casserole with just a third of the calories and amazing buttermilk waffles with just a fraction of the fat. With full nutrition information for every recipe and gorgeous full-color photos that are sure to whet any appetite, Comfort Food Fix is the perfect cookbook for healthy eaters with healthy appetites.

• Ellie Krieger is the host of the popular show Healthy Appetite, which airs on the Cooking Channel, and the author of the New York Times bestsellers So Easy and The Food You Crave
• The book features 150 delicious comfort food recipes that are lower in calories and fat than you would ever guess based on how great they taste
• 50 lavish full-color photographs beautifully illustrate finished dishes

When it comes to healthy cooking, Ellie Krieger is the chef you can trust. In Comfort Food Fix, she takes the guilt out of guilty pleasures.

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

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Recipe Excerpts

Double Chocolate and Banana Milkshake (Click for recipe)

Spicy Chicken Fried Rice with Peanuts (Click for recipe)

Oven-Fried Shrimp (Click for recipe

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Review

Bringing sensibility to sensory pleasures, this accessible, health-minded cookbook is a welcome resource in a burger and bacon-obsessed moment. Recognizing that there are good biological and emotional reasons why we seek out starchy, hearty, creamy dishes to sate ourselves, dietician and Food Network star Krieger (The Food You Crave), sees no reason why anyone should have to give them up wholesale. The goal, then, is to reduce fat, sodium and sugar without sacrificing flavor. Krieger avoids using artificial sweeteners and egg replacers—instead, she relies on what she terms the 15 Fix Factors to make her recipes healthier. These include substituting low-fat milk, evaporated milk and Greek yogurt for cream; baking breaded dishes instead of frying; adding smaller quantities of real, extra-flavorful cheeses and employing trimmed lean cuts of meat. Mango Stuffed Challah French Toast is lightened up with light ricotta, low-fat milk and nonstick cooking spray for a calorie savings of 150, while chicken parmesan loses 210 calories with light bread crumbs, egg whites, nonfat milk and part-skim mozzarella. With a nod to the cultural relativism of "comfort food," Krieger's repertoire runs the international gamut, from Easy Cassoulet to Kasha Varnishkas to Banana Pudding with Vanilla Wafers. Krieger's simple, time-conscious recipes with easy-to-find ingredients will satisfy sophisticated eaters and down-home palates alike. Photos. (Oct.) (PublishersWeekly.com)

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 1 edition (October 11, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0470603097
• ISBN-13: 978-0470603093
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 1.1 x 9.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.7 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (55 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #41,387 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Ellie Krieger, a born food lover and registered dietitian believes that the words "delicious" and "healthy" can (and should!) be used in the same sentence. She is the host of Food Network's popular Healthy Appetite, now on Cooking Channel, and author of the New York Times bestselling So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week and IACP and James Beard award-winning The Food You Crave. She has a master's degree in nutrition from Columbia University and completed her undergraduate work at Cornell University. Ellie was an adjunct professor at New York University in the Department of Nutrition, Food Studies, and Public Health. She speaks regularly at events around the country and has appeared as a guest expert on dozens of programs, including Today, Good Morning America, CNN, The Early Show,. She is a regular columnist for Fine Cooking, Food Network and Women's Health magazines and lives in New York City.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Another Hit! October 15, 2011

By CharlotteM

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase

I have all of EK's cookbooks, and she doesn't disappoint. The thing I find so appealing about her approach is that she totally gets people and food. She never says "I know you love it, but it isn't good for you so just don't eat it." She knows that people love to eat good food. She doesn't preach and she doesn't make you feel horrible about yourself because you really, really like cheese. She figures out a way to make "off-limits" foods accessible to those of us that love food AND want to be healthy. Her philosophy is all about balance (usually, sometimes, rarely foods) and her cookbooks give tons of examples for how to incorporate this balance into you diet. Comfort Food Fix is a great addition to my EK collection. I've only had it a few days, but have made several of the recipes (the pumpkin-cranberry bread is delicious and will be perfect for the holidays) and bought ingredients today to make several more. I feel good about preparing her recipes for my family. And they feel good eating them!

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Home cookin' means good cookin' when Ellie's in the kitchen October 26, 2011

By Penmouse TOP 500 REVIEWER

Format:Hardcover|Amazon Vine™ Review (What's this?)

Home cookin' means good cookin' when Ellie's cooking in the kitchen as proven by her newest cookbook filled with homestyle, healthy, yes healthy, recipes found in her newest cookbook Comfort Food Fix.

Inside her newest cookbook you will find recipes such as these:

*Corned Beef Hash and Eggs
*Quiche Lorraine with Spinach
*Apple Coffeecake
*Breakfast Cookies
*Smoked Paprika Potato Chips
*Triple Onion Dip
*Quick Marinara Sauce
*Swedish Meatballs
*Shrimp Spring Rolls
*Simply Perfect Split Pea Soup
*Pumpernickel Croutons
*Braised Brisket with Carolina-Style BBQ Sauce
*Horseradish, Cheddar, and Caramelized Onion-Stuffed Burgers
*Chicken Parmesan
*Chicken Marsala
*Honey-Crisp Oven-Fried Chicken
*Favorite Fish Fingers
*Sole Almondine
*Country Fried Steak
*Shepherds Pie
*Smoky Black Bean Chili
*Autumn Vegetable Curry
*Green Bean Casserole with Crispy Shallots
*Chocolate Chunk Cookies
*Kitchen Sink Cookies
*Dark Chocolate Brownies
*Mini Cheesecakes with Strawberries
*Double Chocolate Bread Pudding
*Rum Raisin Rice Pudding
*Pumpkin Pie
*Creamy Vanilla and Orange Popsicles
*Little Devil's Food Cupcakes

The recipes are reduced in calories and include before and after calorie counts. They also include a nutritional break down of excellent and good sources of major nutrients found in each recipe.

Highly recommend.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Ellie Hits It Out of The Ball Park! October 8, 2011

By francie

Format:Hardcover

Ellie, you really hit it out of the Ball Park with your New Book "Comfort Food Fix:Feel- Good Favorites Made Healthy".The thing that was a real eye opener for me was the before and after data showing how many calories one could save by making a few simple changes.
Your meatloaf receipe and mashed potatoes were mouthwatering.I couldn't tell any difference between my old receipes,nor could my family!
Please,please,keep your beautifully photographed cookbooks comming!