southerncooker's Reviews
Cookbook Reviews
Weight watchers take out tonight
By
Weight Watchers Publishing Group - 2002
I love this book! Out of 150 recipes there are 111 I'd love to try. Several
more really but there are a few items in those that are harder to find here such
as miso, wakame, fresh tuna (can sometimes but the price is outrageous), mirin
and a few others. Most recipes use ingredients that are readily available in our
area or they offer substitutions that are.
This book includes lots of favorite take out items made healthier. Each of the
recipes includes easy how to tips and nutritional information as well as weight
watcher point values for each serving. Each recipe has a fraction of the fat and
calories of it's restaurant counterpart but in my opinion all the flavor. At
least that's true for the three recipes we've tried so far.
Mom picked this one up for me not too long ago at a yard sale. I'm sure glad
she did as I'm gong to be using this one quiet a bit since there are so many of
our favorite dishes included. Things like Hot and Sour Soup, Shrimp & Pork Won
tons, Shrimp Fried Rice, General Tso's Chicken, Chicken Empanadas, Spinach Rice
& Black Bean Burritos, Nachos Supreme, California Vegetable Rolls, Pizza
Margherita, Vegetable Calzones, Scampi, Shrimp Pad Thai, Tandoori Chicken, and
too many more to mention. Am I making you hungry yet?
To start off I made out a list of 25 recipes I thought our family would enjoy.
I then listed all the ingredients I don't normally have on hand beside the
recipe to take with me to the grocery store. That way I can check my list
against sale items and pick a dish or two to try each week.
Most of the recipes include a clever cook's tip. In the back are a dry and
liquid measurement equivalent charts, and three lined pages for notes. There is
also a section in each chapter for the perfect pantry for that particular
cuisine.
A few days ago I made two recipes from the Indian section, Dal with Spiced
Tomatoes and Potatoes and Chapati (an Indian Bread). Sarita and I loved them
both. Harold and Dexter don't care much for India food but Harold did taste of
it. When Sarita was in college we occasionally had lunch together at an Indian
Buffet place near her college either when I took her back or picked her up. Now
we can make some of these items when ever we're in the mood.