Review: Not just about cooking, it's about *how* you need to cook
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2013
This book is not just about cooking, it's about *how* you need to cook. Busy people lead busy lives and sometimes a ready meal is an easy option but not necessarily a healthy one. Nowadays, we all accept that healthy eating should be the rule rather than the exception. This book talks about healthy eating and how it can be accomplished with much less effort than imagined.  The author is a full time parent with a demanding job so she has the life experience to go with the theory she writes about.  The first chapter gives you this theory; how to cook, what to cook with and how to use the utensils to follow recipes and all about cooking. Chapter two gets you practicing the techniques.The smart, clever cooking techniques and tips. Once you've mastered these, you get to go to the actual recipes themselves. The object of this book is to get us all cooking a two course meal in about half an hour using good fresh ingredients prepared in a healthy way. It certainly opened my eyes a great deal. Some of the tips are actually just common sense applied to the kitchen, but others are less obvious.  I particularly loved the fifteen indispensable items for the kitchen. Once you've worked your way through the eleven exercises, you are ready to try out some of the fifteen mouth-watering recipes. The final chapter gives you some useful inks to articles about food and health, collected and curated by the author.This book is a great little reference work. You might want to keep it at work as a handy guide for shopping for food on the way home.  Otherwise, it's a great addition to any kitchen, particularly for those of us with such busy lives that we forget the need to take care of ourselves at times. This book gives us some helpful tips for TLC for ourselves, much needed in this nonstop world we live in.