Healthy Heart Cooking

About the Book

Enjoy healthy eating with 15 grams of fat or less! Healthy Heart Cooking - Family Style, is a cookbook full of flavorful and easy to prepare menus featuring meat, poultry, fish and shellfish and vegetarian main dishes. It includes everything from lamb chops to a great potato frittata. Every menu is carefully designed to contain 15 grams of fat or less. There are also two spectacular holiday menus, one featuring a stuffed pork loin that makes a great Christmas dinner, complete with a fat free Cherry Trifle! The Thanksgiving menu includes turkey breast with traditional accompaniments including mashed potatoes, green beans and pumpkin pie.

There are also great low-fat accompaniments for the main entrees in this cookbook. The grilled lamb chops are paired with spiced potatoes and mango salsa. Other sides include savory corn pudding, herb macaroni and cheese, tomato rice and green beans with lemon sauce. The salads and desserts feature many different flavors and textures and offer techniques on how to cook and bake everyone's favorite foods with most of the fat removed.

This cookbook has many tips on how to effectively reduce the amount of fat in foods and techniques to cook very flavorful food without using extra fat in its preparation. It also encourages the use of all meats, vegetables and fruits and incorporating them in a daily diet. Created by a home cook, for home cooks everywhere, Healthy Heart Cooking - Family Style will help families enjoy great food and healthy eating!

About the Author

The author and her son, Preston, have enjoyed cooking together for many years. Ms. Harris has over 39 years experience as a home cook, half of that time as a working, home cook. She has spent the last nine years developing low fat recipes for her family in order to assist her husband with his dietary restrictions. Preston has over 6 years experience in the restaurant and food retail industry and is an avid home brewer and sushi chef. Ms. Harris and her husband have three sons and three grandchildren. Their son, Justin, supplied the artwork for this book.