Norene's Healthy Kitchen: Eat Your Way to Good Health

by Norene Gilletz

Norene Gilletz has a passion for recipes that are simple, healthy and delicious for the kosher (or not) cook. High in flavor and low in calories, they focus on good carbs, good proteins and good fats, and are made with readily available ingredients. Norene's Healthy Kitchen is packed with chef's secrets, including easy preparation ideas, freezing tips and nutrition notes. The recipes are heart-healthy, weight-loss-friendly, smart-carb-friendly and glycemic index- friendly. The selections are good choices for anyone on almost any diet. Recipes are suitable for the kosher kitchen, with lots of dairy-free and vegetarian options that the whole family will enjoy. Norene's Healthy Kitchen bursts with tried-and-true chef's secrets nutrition tips, and deliciously easy non-dairy,meat-free options fit for kosher and vegetarian diets. The recipes are great choices for heart-smart cooking, for those looking to lose weight and for diabetic diets. They are also compatible with the Weight Watchers and South Beach diets.   Favorite dishes -Confetti Vegetable Strudel -Cool as Cucumber Soup -Lox and Bagel Cheese Strata -Spanakopita roll-ups- Chimichurri Chicken -Luscious Lemon Berry Mousse -Lentil Barley Soup

Genres: Cookbooks

511 pages, Paperback

First published August 13, 2007

About the author

Norene Gilletz was one of Canada’s leading kosher cookbook authors. She was a culinary consultant, cooking teacher/lecturer, culinary spokesperson, cookbook author, and freelance food writer, focusing on healthy cooking.

A certified Culinary Profession with the IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), her culinary career began at the age of three helping prepare meals in her mother’s kitchen and where at age nine she invented her first recipe; she never looked back.

Her other books include Healthy Helpings, Second Helping Please,
The Food Processor Bible, and The Low Iodine Diet Cookbook. Norene lives in Toronto, Canada. To learn more about Norene Gilletz, visit her web site, http://www.Gourmania.com.

“I have found that making just a few small changes in your diet can add up to significant health benefits,” Norene said.

“I strongly believe that the simple choices we make each day have the greatest impact on our health and well-being.”

Reviews

[Rivkah · Rating 5 out of 5]

I purchased this cookbook as a gift for myself. I needed a pick-me up, and this was a wonderful choice! Listen, it was either this or chocolate. I may have purchased both, but the chocolate is long gone!

"Norene's Healthy Kitchen" is permanently occupying a prime corner on my counter-top, a position that no other cookbook has ever occupied (and I have at least 30 cookbooks). This is my go-to cookbook. Recipes are organized into sections by type (poultry, fish, vegetables, etc), with convenient dictionary style tabs (hard to explain - the tabs aren't cut out, but the categories are printed on the extreme edge on each page, so you can easily thumb through the book to find the section you want to reach, without having to go to the index). Many recipes include a little story or explanation, and many have variations, which is useful if you don't particularly like an ingredient she mentioned, or don't have it on hand. Norene gives you a good overview of nutritional information, and explains how to make good food choices. The good thing is that you don't feel like you're cooking special diet foods. These are good everyday and special occasion recipes that you should be eating all the time.

I've made wonderful fish, poultry, salad and vegetable dishes, and plan to keep on using this for a long, long time. My next planned purchase is the "PCOS Diet Cookbook", which Norene Gilletz co-wrote with another author.

Thanks, Norene!

[Orit · Rating 3 out of 5]

There were a couple of interesting things, but not something I feel the need to own.