Laura demonstrates a delicious vegetable lasagna. This recipe is vegetarian because it includes dairy products and eggs. What do you think? Would it be a good makeover candidate if we replace the dairy and egg ingredients with vegan substitutes and whole wheat lasagna noodles instead of the white flour processed noodles? Regardless of how you make it, this is a special recipe and will definitely please your family and friends. Continue reading
Category Archives: Makeover Possibilities
Gnocchi with Mushrooms, Squash, & Sauce by Thomas Keller
Famous Chef Thomas Keller prepares a delicious vegetarian pasta dish. This is a good makeover candidate to lower the fat content and replace some ingredients to make it a vegan recipe with easily obtained and delicious vegetables. Continue reading
Tofu Omelette by Bhavna
Bhavna demonstrates how to make an eggless omelette using tofu. Her batter recipe and preparation technique yields a very nice omelette. It’s simple and delicious. Try it. Continue reading
Celebrity Chef Recipes
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Rigatoni with Squash and Prawns
Recipe Makeover
This is a delicious AND elegant dinner recipe that is inspired by Giada De Laurentiis who showed the original recipe as a main course for her husband and guests before they enjoyed an evening at the symphony. (You can find more of Giada De Laurentiis‘ delicious recipes in her cookbooks available on Amazon.) The original recipe is made with processed foods, dairy protein, and has a fat content typical of American diets. The Modified Recipe is closer to the guidelines in our Nutrition Strategy by using whole foods and eliminating or replacing the fatty foods and dairy products. Continue reading
Adapting Recipes – Dean Ornish MD
Simple techniques can be used to modify recipes that follow the typical American or Western nutrition strategy into much healthier Asian, Mediterranean or Vegetarian nutrition strategies that are the basis of the Nutrition Strategy used for recipes presented in this blog. These modified recipes are much healthier and still taste wonderful. Continue reading
Low Fat Cooking Tips and Techniques – Dean Ornish MD
Simple techniques can be used to convert typically high fat recipes into healthy low fat recipes without sacrificing good taste. The techniques in this post are from the healthy nutrition and lifestyle books by Dean Ornish MD, one of the nutrition and medical experts who have influenced the Nutrition Strategy used for recipe analysis and makeovers in this blog. (Buy his books here.)
Some of Dean Ornish’s Low Fat Cooking Tips and Techniques are listed after the jump: Continue reading