Synopsis
Martha Stewart presents more than 150 recipes for hearty, healthy dishes, with suggestions for menus that will turn each one into a balanced meal. Includes Martha's advice for making sensible eating and exercise part of an active life style, with the emphasis not on denial but on positive approaches and delicious alternatives.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1997-11-01 |
| Size | | Length: | 224 pages | | Height: | 10.8 in | | Width: | 8.3 in | | Thickness: | 1.0 in | | Weight: | 37.6 oz |
Publisher's Note
Martha Stewart's Healthy Quick Cook presents an all-new collection of 52 quick, easy menus - with more than 175 sensibly lightened recipes - for the kind of food we want to eat today. Instead of concentrating on calorie counts, fat grams, and sodium content, Martha teaches how to eat well intuitively: how to make a variety of grains, fruits, and vegetables a delicious part of everyday eating; how to create menus that are supremely satisfying and nutritionally sound; even how to indulge a sweet tooth properly by enjoying small portions of such classic desserts as whisper-thin lemon tarts, ginger cookies, and fruit crisps. And her recipes come from all over the world, making healthy meals as exciting as they are fulfilling.
No one epitomizes the pursuit of healthy pleasures more than Martha Stewart. And nowhere is this clearer than at home in her kitchen. Now, the millions of fans who seek her guidance can prepare the food that gives Martha her remarkable energy and vitality. Martha Stewarts Healthy Quick Cook presents an all-new collection of 52 quick, easy menus--with more than 175 sensibly lightened recipes--for the kind of food we want to eat today. Over the years, almost effortlessly, Martha has changed the way she cooks and eats. With unparalleled style and good sense, she has trimmed the fat and intensified the flavor of her favorite recipes to create meals that are unfailingly delicious, absolutely healthy, and strictly no-nonsense. A wonderfully filling frittata, flavored with sage, "enlightened" with egg whites, and paired with herb-infused garlicky stove-top potatoes, is a terrific low-fat, nutrient-rich meal to begin--or end--the day. Simple, yet no less special, sandwiches and incredible salads of brilliantly matched ingredients--seared tuna burgers splashed with soy sauce and swabbed with fiery wasabi mayonnaise, sugar snap peas mixed with whole mint leaves, and delicate shavings of baby golden beets tossed with fresh basil--reflect Marthas genius for casual yet sophisticated cooking. Instead of concentrating on calorie counts, fat grams, and sodium content, Martha teaches how to eat well intuitively: how to make a variety of grains, fruits, and vegetables a delicious part of everyday eating; how to create menus that are supremely satisfying and nutritionally sound; even how to indulge a sweet tooth properly by enjoying small portions of such classic desserts as whisper-thin lemon tarts, ginger cookies, and fruit crisps. And her recipes come from all over the world, making healthy meals as exciting as they are fulfilling.In her chapters of spring, summer, fall, and winter menus, Martha explains how to use simple low-fat cooking techniques to transform the freshest ingredients of each season into fabulous dishes. Youll find quick grills and sautés of such light delicacies as butterfish, softshell crabs, woodsy portobello mushrooms, and mangoes. There are high-heat roasts of winter root vegetables, succulent poussin, pomegranate-lacquered rack of venison, red snapper--even juicy plums. She uses flavor-raising steam for Brussels sprouts, baby spinach, and halibut packaged in grape leaves--and there's an easy stove-top smoked salmon, too.This is inspiring food, presented as only Martha Stewart can. This book will change the way you think about healthy cooking--and what you create in your kitchen every day. Martha Stewart presents a collection of brand-new recipes for the healthful foods that energize her every day. These 52 quick, easy menus represent the effortless style and practicality we have come to expect from Martha. The more than 175 sensibly lightened recipes--all exquisitely prepared and photographed--will change the way you think about healthy cooking and what you create in your kitchen every day.Japanese RisottoGrilled Scallops with Spring GreensRoasted Root Vegetable RagoutSeared Beef and Oranges with ArugulaSage Egg-White FrittataMussels and Baby Artichokes BarigouleWine-Poached Chicken with CharmoulaPoached Salmon Trout with Poppy Seed VinaigretteSeared Tuna Burger with Wasabi MayonnaiseFarmstand Salad with Grilled Turkey SausageVegetable Handrolls
Industry Reviews
"Healthy," "quick," and "Martha Stewart" what more is there to say? Here are 52 menus arranged by season, with dozens of artful color photographs of the food and its presentation. Martha's "quick" is not always the same as most people's (e.g., "an informal supper" calls for homemade tortillas, not quite the thing for a busy weeknight), and not everyone has "feather-edge creamware platters" and "two-color Depression-glass stemware" for serving, but to her fans, that's all part of her appeal. Most libraries will want at least one copy of her latest book. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 7/97; HomeStyle Books main selection.]
Moore
Quickness, clearly, is in the eye of the beholder. Often excessively creative, these 52 menus 13 per season fuse ethnic flavors and, to some extent, minimize rich ingredients. Enlightened Creme Fraiche, for example, is lighter and tangier by reducing the heavy cream/buttermilk ratio to half-and-half. But the book's claim that this is everyday fare easily prepared will be swallowed only by those kitchen phenoms who can trim a dozen artichokes and clean two pounds of mussels between the sports and weather segments of the local TV news. These labors are required when making Mussels and Baby Artichokes Barigoule, the centerpiece of a menu whose sidedish is Spaghetti Squash with Sage and Orange and whose dessert is Forelle Pears in Parchment. For a Latin-accented meal, Stewart champions homemade Corn Tortillas to go with Posole with Garnishes. A single meatball in Turkey Meatball Soup with Escarole and Pappardelle can support a satisfying dinner, opines Stewart. Horseradish Whipped Potatoes serves four with only two russets. Stewart mentions that freshly grated horseradish is a must for this dish, but the recipe specifies the prepared kind. Harder-to-find ingredients needed elsewhere include fresh lychees, cipolline onions and Kaiware sprouts. Stewart's fans will likely appreciate these additions to their repertoire; readers looking for quickly prepared weekday fare may be annoyed. 150 color photos not seen by PW. HomeStyle Books main selection. (Nov.)
Lopate
Stewart's low-fat cooking depends heavily for its success on the use of seasonally fresh produce, so she organizes recipes by the year's cycles to take advantage of markets. Acknowledging that not everyone has unlimited hours to spend in the kitchen, she focuses on foods that can be prepared with minimum fuss and concentration. But time saved in kitchen preparation may well be lost in shopping for the perfect ingredients that so many of these 'simple' recipes demand. . . . Stewart praises the benefits of fusion cuisine, where strong spices and assertive herbs from Asia and the tropics mask the absence of fats. Citrus abounds: lemon scents risotto, orange enlivens spaghetti squash, tangerine spruces arugula and endive. Stewart's most inventive ideas, such as her portobello mushroom 'pizzas,' showcase her real talents. The complete absence of any nutritional analyses forces readers to take the master's word for it that these dishes are indeed 'healthy.'
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