Crazy Plates - Low Fat Food So Good You'll Swear It's Bad for You!
Janet and Greta Podleski, also known as The Looneyspoons Sisters, are the high-energy authors of the low-fat cookbookLooneyspoonsand its  follow-up,Crazy Plates. But to call these sisters cookbook authors may be  a misnomer: they're more like a wacky comedy team touring Hoboken doing the  low-fat-zealot routine for admiring audiences.No,Crazy Platesis not just about low-fat recipes. There's much, much more  here, including fat facts (a pound of body fat--representative of 3,500  calories--if shaped into a ball, would be the size of a softball and equal  four sticks of butter), "Trivial Tidbits" (baking soda used to be added to  the water for boiling vegetables until it was discovered that it destroyed  the veggies' vitamin C), "You Do the Math" (substituting Canadian bacon for  the regular high-fat stuff once a week for a year will cut your fat intake  by 1,196 grams), anda lotof corny humor ("Did you hear what  happened to the peanut when he walked through the park? He was a salted").   Then there are the recipes--accompanied, of course, by cartoons--like  Salmon Davis Jr., broiled salmon steaks in a spicy tomato sauce; Mercedes  Buns, cinnamon rolls with less than three grams of fat per serving; My  Yammi Spice, oven-baked fries with cumin, paprika, and oregano; and Berry  Maniloaf, a lemon and raspberry bread loaf with 161 calories per slice.The recipes are well laid out, not time-consuming, aimed at the home cook  with a family to feed, and will please the palate of those wanting gourmet  fare without the fat. But how do the Podleski sisters accomplish this rare  feat? Spices are an essential ingredient of many dishes: Name That Tuna  Salad, for example, gets its character from basil, mint, garlic, and Dijon  mustard--with no help from that scary sidekick, mayo! This is a book for  anyone who wants to cut back on fat without losing flavor, and for those  that like a little slapstick with their flapjacks (Peter Pancakes, with  bananas and strawberry sauce).--Stefanie Durbin--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.