Cookbooks with easy healthy recipes

Some cookbooks with easy healthy recipes writen by a fellow dietitian. Subsequently, I recommended it repeatedly to people who came to see me in private consultation. The reaction was instantaneous.

This strong positive reaction made me think about the reasons for this craze for cookbooks. The popularity of these books surprises me all the time, because what I see, most of the time, is that people accumulate them, but do not use them much.

These books were reference Bibles to learn how to cook and cook basic recipes: pies, stews, patties, sauces, etc. The women of the day used it a lot. As a result of serving, these basic cookbooks became very faded over the years. Nowadays, many of our recipe books – glossy paper with attractive colors – remain intact because they serve as decorative objects in our modern kitchens. This does not prevent us from continuing to buy others to make a real collection.

The cookbooks for health serve to inspire us, to give us ideas, to make us salivate and to introduce us to new flavors. On the other hand, their negative side is that they can harm our culinary creativity. Indeed, just as a good nutritionist does not give a ready-made menu to his customers, I think having too many cookbooks can prevent us from making our own culinary creations from what we already know and food that we have in the refrigerator and the pantry.

I was in this situation myself, not so long ago. Indeed, without a recipe from a book, I did not dare to try something new. I was just cooking from a known recipe, following the directions for use. But, taking the example of my spouse who, in contrast, uses very little cookbooks, I started to cook too without consulting a recipe ready in advance. I admit that this experience was very satisfying, even when the dish was not quite successful. We then say that next time, we’ll add this, we’ll remove that, and so on.

Without telling you to buy more cookbooks, I invite you to trust yourself. The cookbook can be used as a basis, but there is no need to follow the guidelines in full or blindly. For example, if in the ingredients of a recipe we suggest tarragon and a little garlic, and you do not have one at home, this is an opportunity to innovate instead of losing money. time to run to the grocery store. Look in your pantry or fridge and imagine what herbs and vegetables could replace tarragon and garlic (basil, thyme, shallots, perhaps). Let the best blend come to your taste buds.

You may be surprised at the result. By the way, how do you think the recipes that lead to successful books are created? By the trial and error of people who dare to think outside the box.

Learning to create in the kitchen, according to your tastes, goes in the same direction as learning to listen to his signals of hunger and satiety to determine when and how much to eat. The time is ripe to be dictated day by day (with strict menus, hard recipes and binding diets), what to eat, what to cook and in what quantities. Do you trust, let yourself go and who knows if one day you will not become an outstanding chef!

And you, are you of the creative type in cooking or rather big consumer of cookbooks?

Here are some cookbooks with easy healthy recipes we recommand

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