We just got Best Light Recipes. Now, we need light recipes, because the spouse has very high cholesterol, so I've been happy with it. If you don't need to cook light, I don't know.
Here are the things I've made so far:
Reduced-fat vinaigrette: Very good, but way more trouble than the original, on account of all the mincing of shallots involved.
Reduced-fat blueberry muffins: Noticeably not as good as the full-fat kind, but still pretty good.
Soy-glazed salmon over rice: fabulous, totally wonderful, an immediate addition to our regular dinner rotation.
Vegetarian stir-fry recipes: These are complicated and kind of hard to use, because of their method -- pick some vegetables from List A, and some from List B, and some from List C, and a sauce from List D ... I made one with the lemon sauce and didn't like it at all. But other sauces may be fine.
Oh, Evanston -- it's been so many years since I've been there! I used to love cheddar-broccoli soup at Yesterdays, which is long gone; I used to love the old movies at the short-run theater, which is long gone. There was a Middle Eastern restaurant way up north on Dempster, which I could only get to if someone else drove, since I didn't have a car and it was too far to walk; don't remember the name, but the Baba Ghanoush was to die for. Platypus Books was lovely. The Mexican Shop was lovely; I got a purple dress with a square collar which got lost somewhere along the way, but for a while I wore it every single week.
There was a little offshoot of the lake on campus which was generally called the Lagoon, lots of fun to walk around. Honestly, I don't remember campus well at all, which is odd considering how much time I used to spend walking around it.
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Date: 5/3/06 04:39 pm (UTC)Here are the things I've made so far:
Reduced-fat vinaigrette: Very good, but way more trouble than the original, on account of all the mincing of shallots involved.
Reduced-fat blueberry muffins: Noticeably not as good as the full-fat kind, but still pretty good.
Soy-glazed salmon over rice: fabulous, totally wonderful, an immediate addition to our regular dinner rotation.
Vegetarian stir-fry recipes: These are complicated and kind of hard to use, because of their method -- pick some vegetables from List A, and some from List B, and some from List C, and a sauce from List D ... I made one with the lemon sauce and didn't like it at all. But other sauces may be fine.
Oh, Evanston -- it's been so many years since I've been there! I used to love cheddar-broccoli soup at Yesterdays, which is long gone; I used to love the old movies at the short-run theater, which is long gone. There was a Middle Eastern restaurant way up north on Dempster, which I could only get to if someone else drove, since I didn't have a car and it was too far to walk; don't remember the name, but the Baba Ghanoush was to die for. Platypus Books was lovely. The Mexican Shop was lovely; I got a purple dress with a square collar which got lost somewhere along the way, but for a while I wore it every single week.
There was a little offshoot of the lake on campus which was generally called the Lagoon, lots of fun to walk around. Honestly, I don't remember campus well at all, which is odd considering how much time I used to spend walking around it.