The Best Light Recipe
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Editor: Editors of Cook's Illustrated magazineEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-01
ISBN: 0936184973
Number of pages: 384
Publisher: America's Test Kitchen
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Book Review: A landmark cookbook, filled with scrumptious recipes you'll be proud to serve.
Summary: 5 Stars
Determined to create a lower fat cookbook which put taste first, America's Test Kitchen, associated with Cook's Illustrated magazine, assigned two dozen cooks, editors, food scientists, tasters, and cookware specialists to the task. Committing their time, energy, creativity, and resources, these cooks were determined to create low-fat recipes that were so tasty home cooks would use them again and again.
Creating a play-by-play diary for each recipe, the Test Kitchen describes the low-fat ingredients and combinations of ingredients they tried, their experiments with cooking methods, and their results, including the reasons for rejecting all but the final recipe. The results are sensational. Here you can indulge in lower-fat macaroni and cheese, cheesy chicken enchiladas, guacamole, eggplant parmesan, and fudgy brownies. In fact, if they hadn't shown the fat content and calories for a standard recipe beside the content of their improved, low-fat version, you would not be able to tell by taste that most of these recipes reduce the amount of fat by about 65%. The terrific macaroni and cheese reduces the fat by an amazing 78%.
The centerpiece of the cookbook is the cheesecake, which appears on the cover. It does require steps--easy ones--taken in advance, but none of these steps are time-consuming, and the end results are worth it. Since the Test Kitchen made 28 cheesecakes before developing the final recipe, I followed the instructions exactly when I made it this week for Easter. The directions said to bake for one and a half hours, "or until an instant read thermometer inserted into the center of the cheesecake reads 150 degrees," a useful, specific instruction that I've never seen for a cheesecake before. One of our guests declared the results to be the best cheesecake she's ever eaten (and I agree).
Though the book has sixteen pages of colored photos, it relies primarily on helpful drawings which illustrate cooking methods, along with thumbnail photos of brand-named ingredients and equipment. The Test Kitchen lists the "best" product, when appropriate--Ronzoni Oven Ready Lasagne Noodles and Sargento Reduced-fat Mozzarella Cheese, among the foods, and Farberware's (inexpensive) Millennium Soft Touch Stainless Nonstick Skillet, and Baker's Secret Nonstick Loaf Pan among the equipment. Throughout the book, the editors stress "Core Techniques," those techniques they have discovered to improve the taste of lower-fat recipes--how to increase the chocolate flavor of low-fat cakes, for example.
Revolutionary in its approach and rigorous in its testing, America's Test Kitchen has produced a cookbook that really will change lives for the better--by making lower fat recipes so delicious that you will never miss the fat. And even if you find yourself unexpectedly using yogurt cheese in your cheesecake or mashed lima beans in your guacamole, you can use those ingredients with the confidence that they work and that the end results will justify your efforts. n Mary Whipple
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