Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007: EVERY RECIPE...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine [Hardcover]

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Book Description

Publication Date: November 1, 2006 | Series: Annual Recipes

Get a whole year’s worth of the most flavorful, healthy, good-for-you recipes from Cooking Light in Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007! Dig into some of our bestdesserts, soups, salads, stews, one-dish meals, sandwiches, breads, rolls, muffins, biscuits, sides, and international dishes, bursting with unforgettable flavors.

Try elegant Roast Chicken with Mint-Cilantro Pesto…crunchy Crab Cakes with Red Pepper Mayonnaise…chic Oven-Roasted Tomatoes with Goat Cheese…comforting, down-home Pork Chops with Country Gravy…and creamy Café au Lait Chiffon Pie.

And you’ll also get: • More than 1,000 healthy Cooking Light recipes • Secrets, tips, and how-tos from the magazine • Luscious, full-color recipe photos that look good enough to eat• Three recipe indexes, so you can find what you need…fast! • Recipes judged best-of-the-best by the editors at Cooking Light • Detailed nutritional analysis for every recipe

PLUS The Holiday Cookbook! Celebrate the season with The Holiday Cookbook, our annual section in Cooking Light Annual Recipes dedicated to offering you ideas on what to serve, when to serve it, and how best to serve it. We provide a generous helping of make-ahead tips and menu suggestions to take the hustle and bustle out of the holidays. Our festive dinners and creative ideas ensure that the time you spend in the kitchen is, indeed, time well-spent.

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From the Publisher

Cooking Light is the world’s largest food and healthy lifestyle magazine with 11 million readers monthly (1.7 million circulation)

About the Author

Launched in 1987, Cooking Light is America’s favorite food magazine. Every month, more than 11 million readers turn to it for the freshest ideas in food and fitness to help them eat smart, be fit, and live well.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 496 pages
• Publisher: Oxmoor House; 1 edition (November 1, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0848730712
• ISBN-13: 978-0848730710
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 1.2 x 11.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #101,599 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Frustratingly organized, January 14, 2007

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alpha_grrl (Olympia, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007: EVERY RECIPE...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)

The pictures are gorgeous, that makes the book worth buying. However, I have a few problems with it. Firstly, when I turn to a cookbook, I'm often looking for inspiration for a specific category of recipe, be it a main dish or dessert or side. All of Cooking Light's Annuals are organized in the oddest manner (I assume by their original theme grouping in the magazine articles?). So if you're looking for a recipe for "soups" for example, you have to look in the index and endlessly flip pages back and forth to see soup recipes. I'd find it easier to have the book organized by category. Secondly, many of the recipes use unusual ingredients in wee tiny quantities. If you're making an effort to add variety to your cooking or you've got a gourmet pantry that's fine but sometimes it gets annoying to have to make a trip to the store and spend a ton of money for ingredients you use by the teaspoon (though I do appreciate that the recipes don't rely on "diet" ingredients heavily and rather try to make things lighter by other modifications to the recipes). Five stars for being a gorgeous book and interesting read. 1 star for organization. 3 stars for practicality of recipes.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A mixed blessing, March 8, 2007

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Born To Cook (Warrenville, IL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007: EVERY RECIPE...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)

Been a subscriber to the magazine for years and look forward to each new issue. When I'm looking for inspiration for the week's menus, the first book I turn to is my "Complete Cooking Light Cookbook." The recipes, whether I'm getting them from the book or the magazine, have always led to a good result and many have become family favorites.

Having said that, I have to agree with alphagirl about the weird organization of this book. Organized by the *month in which the recipe was published*? Jumpin' jiminy. Most people can't remember which month they last took their car in for an oil change, let alone which month's issue of a magazine had a fabulous recipe for 'Uber Tubers'. It's driving me nuts that I can browse through one section that contains all the fish dishes, for example. Like alphagirl, I find it obnoxious to have to keep flipping back and forth between 'fish' in the general the index and the recipes.

Huge ding on overall star rating: there is no way to tell from any of the indexes (and there are several, to help overcome the problems caused by organizing the book according to magazine issue) which recipes are vegetarian friendly, which is a mandatory feature for any multi-purpose cookbook in our 2-omnivore/1 vegetarian household.

I understand the point of keeping related recipes together, such as presenting together every recipe from a cooking lesson article, regardless of the dish type. However, because people don't march into the kitchen and cook their way from start to finish through any one of the 'cooking lessons', wouldn't it make more sense to organize the book traditionally, then have smaller chapters/sections for each cooking lesson, which can reference the recipes already provided in the 'beef' or 'soups' sections? That way I can go bone-up on my beef cooking skills by reading the advice and technique information, then tackle any of the beef recipes in the rest of the book with absolute confidence.

I will continue to buy each edition of the fabulous 'Complete Cooking Light Cookbook' while the ink is still wet from printing, but I have purchased my first and last of the annual recipe collections unless they do something about the book's organization.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Healthy cooking resource, January 4, 2007

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Beth Harris (Oakland, CA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2007: EVERY RECIPE...A Year's Worth of Cooking Light Magazine (Hardcover)

I love the Cooking Light Magazine for healthy recipes and for every day cooking. It is much easier to find recipes using the Cooking Light Annual Recipes than flipping thru various magazines. Even if you don't take the magazine, I recommend getting the cookbook as a good resource for cooking variety and recipes without a lot of additional fat, sodium etc.