IS THERE A HEALTHY COOK BOOK FOR SUPER PICKY HUSBANDS?
My father is the really picky beef as well as potatoes sort of man. Is there the full of health prepare book which will have taking even he will eat?
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Your best bet is foodnetwork.com in my opinion. I don’t like using cookbooks because you don’t know if they recipes in there are any good or not. Foodnetwork.com has user ratings so you can tell what kind of rating it has. Foodnetwork has a “healthy foods” section so you can have some healthy recipes, but they will still taste good (depending on the reviews). Good luck.
I didn’t like vegetables for the longest time…but I love them now. You have to learn how to cook them is the trick. For example, there’s a parmesan roasted broccoli by Ina Garten on the foodnetwork website, and you roast the broccoli in the oven and toss it with basil and parmesan later and it’s SOOOOOO AMAZING. I could eat that alone for dinner.
My DH is a meat and potatoes man too. Try this cookbook. You can’t beat the taste of Cajun food for flavor. This is a healthy verison.
Something Old, Something New: Louisiana Cooking with a Change of Heart by Chef John Folse
Check out htis website to try some of this recipes before you buy.
Why bother – - He must have no respect for your talent or skills..
If you get a copy (I’d look for used) of “The All New Joy of Cooking” it has lightened up a lot of the recipes, and gives further suggestions for further lightening.
It used to be that every recipe started with “…take 4 oz of salt pork. Fry in heavy skillet until meat is crisp and brown. Discard meat, and in hot fat cook…”
Thank God they stopped that! Not everyone wants to cook all of their food in bacon fat!
BTW, if hubby doesn’t like the recipes from this wonderful collection, it’s big enough that you can use it to hit him over the head with!
One of the “healthy” cookbooks I love, and have given as gifts to many others, is Cooking Light magazine’s first collection of “best recipes” called *The Complete Cooking Light Cookbook.*
It’s chock full of tips about cooking as well as their “best” recipes from the ten years before publication:
(…I originally paid over $35 for my copy but it’s available for way-way-way less now by “sellers” at amazon.com)
Here are a few other “healthy” cookbooks I have which seem to contain a large percentage of recipes that have appealed to me:
–The Best of Sunset Low-Fat Cookbook (Sunset, pub.)
–Around the World Cookbook (American Heart Association, pub.)
A lot of good “healthy” recipes focus on high-flavor rather than a lot of fat, etc., so usually appeal to everyone.
Also, “roasting” all kinds of vegetables gives them a deep, almost heavy, kind of flavor that most meat-and-potato eaters like, so check out all the ways you can use roasted veggies in meals:
HTH, and good luck!
Diane B.
Try using allrecipes.com. You can search their recipes based on what you have and would like to use and they have lots of great reviews.
NO, you’re wasting time trying that for him. Our two daughters have the same problem! Just make burgers, chops, steaks, hot dogs, grilled chicken… no fish or veggies! And, God forbid a fruit should appear on the table!