When I saw that Cooking Light was coming out with a comprehensive cookbook, I was super excited. Cooking Light The New Way to Cook Light: Fresh Food & Bold Flavors for Today’s Home Cook is a collection of more than 400 recipes (and over 200 photographs) that show you how to maintain a nutrition-first mentality while enjoying soul-satisfying, deeply flavorful food. It offers recipes for both weekend and weeknight cooks, and are guilt-free takes on many of your favorite recipes.

The first chapter covers everything about cooking light. This includes “The Nine Simple Principles of The New Way To Cook Light” and ” The Challenges of Everyday Healthy Cooking”. Chapters 2-13 take you straight through all the meals including appetizers, snacks, beverages, salads, seafood, vegetarian entrees, meats, pasta and pizza, sides, sandwiches, soups, breads, and desserts. The final chapter includes an expansive collection of tips, tools, and techniques that everyone can achieve. This covers flavor principles, equipment, time & temperature, stovetop cooking techniques, how to be a careful baker, strategies to cook fast & healthy, and portion control. Then the end of the cookbook consists of nutrition analysis, metric equivalents, a seasonal produce guide and finally the recipe index. Oh, and it’s pretty :-).