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From: Salt Lake City, UT USA

Joined: March 29th, 2010

About me: I enjoy cooking, and my favorite internet COOKING community is the one here at cookbooker. If you want to connect about my other non-academic passion, you can find me as QueezleWeaver on Ravelry, and mostly Warped Weavers. But I've miss you cookbooker, and so here I am again, and happy to contribute.

Favorite cookbook: Savory Way

Favorite recipe: roasted anything (most recently grapes)

Stuffed Zucchini with spiced beef or lamb from Zaitoun

When it is zucchini time, it can be difficult to find something interesting. But this was both different and a total delight! Zucchini are scraped out and roasted. The "meat" from within the zucchini... read more >

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The Very Best Of Recipes for Health: 250 Recipes and More from the Popular Feature on NYTimes.com

By Martha Rose Shulman
Rodale Books - 2010

This well crafted cookbook has one outstanding attribute that I've not seen in other cookbooks. Each recipe has a nutritional analysis. There are many nutritional concerns, e.g. vegan, low-calorie, low-fat, etc, and Shulman has carefully indexed each recipe to tell us whether it fits in the following categories:

vegetarian
vegan
low-calorie
low-fat
high-protein
gluten-free
high in omega-35

Not only is this information give on each recipe, there is a special index in the back of the book that allows you to look for, e.g. high-protein, and find the corresponding recipes from each chapter. In addition, there is also a standard index that works well.

Lest you think this book is only a nutritional guide, the recipes themselves appear generally well tested. I tried many of them (more than a dozen), and they were reliable. The best among the ones I tried was the Indonesian Style Chicken Salad.