Customer Reviews

Cook It Light: Pasta, Rice, and Beans

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I am a retired Registered Dietitian and a person who likes "healthy eating" and interesting recipes. I just purchased this book. As my first foray into making a recipe, I prepared "Burgundy Beef in Pasta Shells with Tomato Sauce", p.194. I carefully followed the recipe and ended up with twice as much filling and 1/2 as much sauce as needed for 16 shells. Plus, I needed a much larger casserolle, 9x9", than recommended. Either the author has not prepared the recipe, or, more likely, the errors slipped by in the proof-reading stage of publication. My revised version (with canned spaghetti sauce) tasted great. I look forward to trying several other recipes, but I will be careful to ask myself if the ingredient proportions seem right.

This pasta and grains recipe cookbook is your doorway to good eating, excellent health and longevity. All the way from Northern Italy and Sicily and throughout the world, it brings you an alternative diet that has proven to be creative, delicious, and exciting awakening for people around the world.

I bought this book a number of years ago, before I went on the low carb thing. When I went lo-carb, I eschewed most anything that said low fat or light.

Since then, I've seen the light and gone more with the glycemic index, rather than rely on purely carbohydrate counts.

What I DO find myself doing an awful lot lately is referring to this book, mainly because I find the recipes so easy to use and the ingredients are usually in the house. That's what I find so frustrating about most cookbooks; I find myself needing to make a trip to the market if I can't think of a decent substitution for one or more items.

I don't care so much that the book says it's "Light". I just love using legumes, pasta, and rice in my everyday cooking. Besides, if it was really that light, it wouldn't include a recipe for "Southern Seasoning", which is really only a kind of pork stock made from smoked ham hocks (and it is so, so, gooooood; yum!).

I use this cookbook all the time because the recipes are always tasty and the ingredients are usually on-hand! It is a very practical, cookbook that doesn't oversimplify at the expense of taste.