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For delicious make-ahead meals, nothing beats a crock-pot. Cooking Light® Slow Cooker Tonight! is your perfect source for recipes that transform simple ingredients into filling, flavorful dishes. Inside you'll find: 140 delicious dishes ranging from appetizers and beverages to meats, poultry, sides, and desserts. Dozens of ingredient and technique tips throughout to ensure superior slow-cooker recipes every time you cook. A nutritional analysis with each recipe to help you make smart, healthful choices that fit your lifestyle. A special Cooking Class chapter focusing on how to make the most of your slow cooker-including how to shop for the best equipment, keep your foods safe, and quickly clean your pot.

More than 70 great recipes for make-ahead mealsYour slow cooker is almost magical. You prepare your fresh ingredients, add them to your slow cooker, step away, and return later to find a delicious meal waiting. And now those easy make-ahead meals can be healthy, too-with recipes from Cooking Light. This classic Special Edition - All-New Slow Cooker Recipes offers dozens of easy, delicious dishes that are lower in saturated fat, lower in sodium, and lower in calories-perfect for anyone who is trying to eat right while still eating well. All-New Slow Cooker Recipes lets you use the power of this convenient appliance to make a wide variety of soups and stews, meat and poultry main dishes, vegetarian entrées, sides, dips, and sauces, including Hearty Chicken Soup, Zinfandel-Braised Lamb Shoulder, Pork Loin with Ginger, Fennel, and Apples, or a savory Mushroom Ragout. Full-color photography, plus step-by-step directions and full nutritional info, make this a one-stop guide to getting the best from your slow cooker!

For fast times and a hectic schedule, nothing makes an easier or more memorable meal than one from a slow cooker. After a long, busy day, who wants to spend more hours in the kitchen? Instead, turn to Cooking Light Slow Cooker Tonight! for savory, nutritious, ready-when-you-are meals. The fourth book in the celebrated Cooking Light Tonight! series, Slow Cooker Tonight! delivers the best healthy slow-cooker recipes. From appetizers and beverages to main dishes, sides, and desserts, the 140 recipes in Slow Cooker Tonight! offer healthful, delicious choices for any occasion. You'll find (somewhat unexpectedly) recipes that can all be made with a slow cooker, including Beef Pot Roast, Red Beans and Rice, Overnight Apple Butter, Zinfandel-Braised Leg of Lamb, Enchilada Casserole, and Hot Chocolate. Readers will also find the "Top 6 Tips for Slow-Cooker Success," with abundant information on what to look for in a slow cooker, as well as tips for making the most of your time and ingredients, such as "spice judiciously," "use less liquid," and "account for variables." So break out the slow cooker and a copy of Slow Cooker Tonight! for your memorable, easy dinner tonight.

Healthy eating just got easier with Cooking Light's 400-Calorie Main Dishes. If you’re trying to lose a few pounds or maintain your current weight, counting calories is one of the most common ways to be mindful about your day-to-day food choices. This special edition should help make it easier for you to stay on track with your healthy eating goals.

Women are juggling more roles and more responsibilities than ever before. But somehow, some way, dinner's still got to get on the table. Cooking LightDinnertime Survival Guide will help women navigate mealtime armed with strategies, tips, and recipes that are targeted to the specific issue they have with dinner — whether that's an insane schedule, a tight budget, or extra-finicky kids. This book highlights the Top 10 Challenges women face with getting a home-cooked meal on the table and offers empathy and encouragement in the form of doable steps to take and strategies to try, plus more than 150 recipes to make mealtime a breeze. Feeding kids healthy, home-cooked meals is at the top of every mom's daily to-do list, but hectic schedules and a host of other dilemmas can sometimes keep it from being a reality. Cooking Light'sDinnertime Survival helps moms find a way to make it happen — no matter what the challenge may be. Smart Strategies offer fresh advice for a range of topics-from appeasing your kids' requests for a snack right before dinner because they're starving to money-saving meal planning solutions.Crazy Tricks that Actually Work! Sometimes it takes some out-of-the-box thinking.Real Moms, Real Smart — tips offer kid-tested strategies and advice from moms around the country.More than 200 full-color photosincluding a beautiful image with every recipe.

Cooking Light Good Mood Food features 352 pages of feel good foods that simply make you happier & healthier: Breakfasts to start a great day; warm soups and great sandwiches; dinners that set the stage for good times with the family; wow-factor desserts. Enjoy ooey, gooey sticky buns and tomato soup with grilled cheese, pot roast and potatoes, cheesy one-dish dinners, and homemade ice cream. There are 200 recipes to tempt your taste buds, boost your mood, and give you the immediate gratification you want. This book includes: More than 250 full color photos 200 recipes that taste good and make you feel even better Chapters organized by mood: Happy, Romantic, Excited, Calm, Nostalgic A Mood Menu makes it easy to find salads, soups, side dishes, main dishes, desserts, and more Good Mood Food memories, nostalgic personal stories written by Cooking Light readers, reminiscing of their own food memories. A complete nutritional analysis for each recipe

Name your cookie! Shaped, drop, bar, roll and bake, or slice and bake, they all get professional treatment and triple testing from Fine Cooking magazine, the most trusted name in cooking. This fresh batch of more than 200 amazing recipes will inspire great baking. From classic favorites like snickerdoodles and chocolate chunk to more sophisticated treats like biscotti and fruit bars, there's something for every occasion. Bakers will roll out these sweets for the holidays, for dessert, or just to fill up the cookie jar. Fine Cooking Cookies includes their signature style of tips and secrets from the pros, step-by-step photos to help master techniques, ingredient profiles, and shortcuts. For anyone who wants to bake like the best, Fine Cooking Cookies has all the right ingredients. Contributors include Deborah Madison, Abby Dodge, Molly Stevens, Susie Middleton, Alice Medrich, Rose Levy Beranbaum, Nicole Rees, and Flo Braker.

The recipes included here have been carefully chosen from more than 10,000 that have appeared in the magazine since 1987. To make the final cut for The Best of Cooking Light, each recipe had to meet one or more of the following criteria: • Earned a high rating in the Cooking Light Test Kitchens • Has a surprising and satisfying “no-way-this-can-be-light” flavor • Named a “reader favorite recipe” based on calls, letters, e-mails, and comments on cookinglight.com • Voted “most popular” among the Cooking Light Foods staff—these are the recipes they cook for their families and friends You’re guaranteed success with every recipe! Each recipe has been tested at least twice, often three or four times, in the Cooking Light Test Kitchens to ensure that not only are they supremely healthy, tasty, and easy to prepare, but that they also have the all-important “yum factor.” “Our Test Kitchens’ staff does the hard work every day so the rest of us can take Cooking Light accuracy for granted.” Mary Kay Culpepper Editor, Cooking Light Over 250 color photographs make this all-star collection come alive. A virtual feast for the eyes, this book is as beautiful to read and display, as it is practical to use. Look for serving suggestions and artful food presentations throughout to show you how to turn an ordinary dish into an extraordinary meal. This healthy cookbook is for all cooks and for all occasions. While some recipes take very little time, others require a bit more commitment. Either way, you’ll have your choice of great food that adjusts to your schedule, your grocery list, and your mood. Plus, • Step-by-step instructions and complete nutritional analysis with each recipe • Preparation and make-ahead tips • Menu suggestions• Ingredient substitutions and purchasing information Whatever your definition of “best” is, there are recipes here for you. Just step into your kitchen and make them your own.

For busy home cooks, getting a meal on the table in 15 minutes or less, and with few ingredients, means more time with their family and less cost on their grocery bills. The Cooking Light 5-Ingredient 15-Minute Cookbook meets those needs and delivers-with big flavor and nutritious dishes. And instead of just giving you recipes, we're giving you meals-94 in all! Each meal features a main-dish recipe and either a short recipe to go with it or suggestions for commercial side items. Plus there's a photograph of every meal! Grocery Shopping SolutionsWith each meal plan, you get a grocery list of everything you need to complete the meal. Stock up on the ingredients from the Stress-Free Grocery List, and you can make one-third of the recipes in this book. No WorriesThe nutrient analysis with every recipe gives you values for calories, fat, protein, carbohydrate, fiber, cholesterol, and sodium. You can use the exchange values to fit the recipes into your meal plan.All This with Only 5 Ingredients?You'll be surprised at all the recipes you can make using only 5 ingredients: Chicken Alfredo Pasta, Deep-Dish Pizza Casserole, Speedy Chicken Cacciatore, Teriyaki Roast Chicken, Barbecue Pork Chops ...just to name a few.Avoid the Rush HourWhen you have only 15 minutes to get dinner on the table, try these recipes: Cajun-Style Swordfish, Fresh Tomato Pizza, Ground Beef Stroganoff, Chili Bacon Burgers, Teriyaki-Ginger Pork Tenderloin, Zesty Fettuccine and Shrimp.Added ValueCreate 5 different desserts or salads from different combinations of the same 5 ingredients. Start with easy-to-make recipes in the Mix & Match chapter like Three-Bean Salad, Tex-Mex Salad, Strawberry Shortcakes, and Brownie Sundaes.Slow Down to Speed UpLearn how to let a slow cooker do the work for you. All with 5 ingredients or less, these recipes are worth coming home to: Chili Grande, Chicken Pepper Pot, Italian Pot Roast, Glazed Turkey.