Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish: 150 Easy, Low-Fat, High-Flavor Recipes (Paperback)

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Renowned cardiac researcher and bestselling author Dean Ornish, M.D., has inspired millions of people to choose a healthier lifestyle and a low-fat diet. But low-fat cooking can be time-consuming and hard to fit into a busy schedule, so Dr. Ornish has found 150 wonderful ways to make it fast, delicious and fun.

Everyday Cooking with Dean Ornish includes 150 easy and extraordinary recipes that are extremely low in fat and cholesterol -- and high in flavor. You'll find slimmed-down versions of comfort foods that are delicious and nutritious, from French Toast and Hashed Browns to enchiladas and lasagna, from Creamy Corn Soup and Spicy Arkansas Chili to Southwest Pizza and Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting. The recipes are quick to prepare, the ingredients are familiar and inexpensive and there are hundreds of smart time-saving tips on cooking, shopping and serving. Now you no longer have to choose between good food and good health.

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Do you think you have to choose between good food and good health? Between foods that might help you live longer -- or just make it seem longer? Between fast, high-fat foods and time-consuming, low-fat meals?

Now you don't. In Everyday Cooking with Dr. Dean Ornish, Dr. Ornish teaches you that you don't have to make compromises in your diet. You can enjoy fast, easy-to-prepare meals that are delicious and nutritious, made with familiar, inexpensive and easy-to-find ingredients.

Dr. Ornish and his colleagues present 150 simple yet extraordinary recipes for making fresh, delicious, everyday meals. These time-saving recipes are organized into 45 seasonal menus to take advantage of the freshest ingredients.

The recipes for everyday meals reflect good, homestyle cooking. You'll find slimmed-down versions of familiar foods like Old-Fashioned Potato Salad, Creamy Coleslaw, enchiladas and lasagna. And here are recipes for quick dishes that you may not have in your repertoire, such as Creamy Mushroom Stroganoff, Chickpea Stew with Couscous, Creamy Corn Soup and Pizza with Roasted Eggplant and Peppers. These are the kind of dishes you will want to make again and again, comfort foods that make it even more pleasurable to eat at home than to dine out.

In addition to offering an exhaustive and tempting selection of recipes, Dr. Ornish gives clear, detailed instructions that interweave techniques, charts and helpful sidebars; advice on using leftovers, suggestions for alternative ways to season or serve a dish, how to keep a plentiful pantry, a shop-smart guide with supermarket tips and traps, how to equip your low-fat kitchen, how to cook legumes and grains, how to pack a better lunch box, how to choose better bread and scores of other helpful tips. Each recipe is also accompanied by a nutrient analysis designed to give you a useful nutritional profile of the food you eat.

For the millions who were inspired by Dr. Ornish's previous books, this companion cookbook makes his way of eating fast and fun, easy and extraordinary. Drawing on his work training others to adapt his program, Dr. Ornish presents recipes that are extremely low in fat and cholesterol and high in flavor. These simple choices may result in powerful changes in your health and well-being. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Harper Perennial; 1 edition (December 6, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060928115
• ISBN-13: 978-0060928117
• Product Dimensions: 7.6 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #8,140 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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130 of 133 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Inspiration for Healthier Cooking, June 30, 2000

By	K. B. Loss "emeraldbaybooks" (Laguna Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

A combination of scientific research into healthier living (primarily reversing heart disease but principles apply to any of us folks who want to feel energetic and live healthy lives) and easy to follow no added fat vegetarian recipes that are arranged by menu. This book is a vast improvement over his prior book Eat More, Weigh Less because the recipes are easy to make. In his prior book Ornish was trying to prove that no-added fat vegetarian cooking can be tasty too--so all the recipes are by renowned chefs given these specific parameters--thus they tend to be too complex for those of us who are not gourmet chefs but rather everyday basic cook types.

105 of 107 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful Recipes & Worthwhile Program, December 18, 1999

By	Theresa Jenkins (Wisconsin, USA) - See all my reviews

I have this cookbook well stained with use! The soups, salads, entrees and yes the Carrotcake with cream cheese frosting, are wonderful! I would recommend this book to all no matter if they are vegan, not a vegan or have health issues. I have even incorperated many of the recipes into the meals of my still meat eating family, and yes, they love them also!

I will state that after I started following Ornish's program, I have lost over 20 pounds!

This cookbook is easy to read, easy to use, and has been the most important investment in my life!

120 of 124 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Easy recipes that taste good too, eating without guilt, January 21, 2000

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I have a bookshelf full of cookbooks and this is one of the few that I go back to on a daily basis. I'm eating food that I like, as much of it as I feel like, and I'm still losing weight. But most important of all, I FEEL healthier. The recipes are not complicated, I usually have the ingredients I need on hand. I love the soups, it's so easy to make a batch and freeze single servings for later. I really like this book. It has completely changed how I think about food. Thank you Dr. Ornish.