Over 120 recipes for good health & vitality
Rediscover your zest for life with healthy recipes full of fresh ingredients and nutrient-dense super foods.
Great advice from TWO top experts
Catherine Saxelby, nutritionist and dietitian, has teamed up with Jennene Plummer, Food Director of Woman's Day magazine, to bring you Zest, the companion to the bestselling Nutrition for Life.
Fully illustrated with beautiful food photography, Zest offers you:
- Over 120 tested recipes that work!
- Nutritious ingredients that emphasise superfoods
- Recipes flagged for low-fat, high-fibre, low-salt, low GI and gluten-free.
- Summer and winter meal plans
- Cook's tips for that extra reassurance when trying a new recipe
- Fresh ideas using vegetables, legumes, whole grains and herbs
- Ethnic flavours from Mediterranean, Asian and Middle Eastern healthy cuisines
List of Contents
- Nourish your whole self
- Healthy eating guidelines
- What's to drink?
- Portion sizes - downsize, don't supersize
- Nutrition for Life superfoods
- Cooking guide
- Nutrition for Life in the Kitchen
- Making the most of your freezer
- Modifying your recipes for health and wellbeing
- 7-day meal plans
- Summer meal plan
- Winter meal plan
- Recipes with Zest
- Breakfast and brunch
- Light meals and snacks
- Main meals
- Accompaniments
- Desserts and sweet treats
- Basics
- Shopping guide and pantry list
- Conversion tables (Metric and Imperial)
- Index
Hardie Grant Books
Soft cover, full colour 248 pages
ISBN 978-174066-479-0
Bonus gift
 When you purchase your copy of Zest from Foodwatch, you'll receive free of charge a laminated 7-day Meal Plan based on recipes from the book. Two meal plans - one for Summer, one for Winter. 14 days of healthy meals for breakfast, lunch, dinner and in-between. Handy in the kitchen, easy wipe to keep clean. Helps you stay organised and eat healthily.
What others have said about Zest:
"Easy, delicious and good-for you! Catherine and Jennene have got everything down on paper for you." Diabetic Living magazine (review)
"All in all, Zest is bursting with good, simple ideas for eating well. In addition to the recipes, the book is packed with practical information designed to help keep energy levels high and weight well under control." Tania Cammarano, Taste.com.au (review)
"Love the mango chicken salad and the Mediterranean veal and all the salads! A must-have for your kitchen." Anne O'Malley (reader)
Here are the recipes you'll get:
BREAKFASTS
Home-made muesli
Dried fruit compote
Cinnamon, pear and date porridge
Banana and berry breakfast smoothie
Buckwheat pancakes with mixed berries
Rhubarb muffins
Banana and nut bread
Baked eggs with tomato and spinach
Big healthy breakfast with baked beans
Celeriac rosti
Corn fritters
Mushrooms and tomatoes on toast
Cheese and herb omelette
LIGHT MEALS
Spicy salmon pate
Cucumber dip
Beef and bean burritos
Steak sandwiches
Our favourite wrap
Emma's sandwich
Tuna salad nicoise
Prawn laksa light
Pumpkin and red lentil soup
Chicken and sweetcorn soup
Roasted tomato and capsicum soup with pesto
Mango and chicken salad
Chickpea salad with roasted vegetables
Spanish omelette with spinach and pancetta
Fish cakes
Light salmon quiche
Smoked trout pizza
Salmon and chive risotto
MAINS
Mexican rice stuffed capsicums
Polenta wedges with mushroom sauce
Tofu and cannellini bean patties
Spiced barbecued prawns
Broad bean and prawn pilau
Curried mussels
Seafood stew
Fish, vegetable and peanut stir-fry
Fish, leek and potato pies
Fish parcels
Chicken chilli con carne
Country chicken and vegetables
Glazed pork fillet
Pork and Asian greens stir-fry
Honey-rosemary rack of lamb
Easy biriyani
Dead-simple Mediterranean veal
Osso bucco
Fillet steak with chilli jam
Beef in red wine
Sweet soy beef with cabbage
Tagliatelle with chilli meatballs
Pasta with tuna and capers
Pad Thai
VEGETABLES AND SIDES
Vietnamese salad
Bean and spinach salad
Carrot salad
Fattoush
Couscous and chickpea salad
Tabbouleh
Fennel and lima bean salad
Brown rice salad
Mixed vegetable couscous
Barley risotto with chickpeas
Spinach and split pea dahl
Warm lentil salad
Sauteed red cabbage
Roasted fennel, tomato and garlic
Celeriac gratin
Cherry tomato and zucchini bake
DESSERTS AND SWEET TREATS
Pears poached in red wine
Chunky apple bake
Baked fruit medley
Fruit salad with cinnamon yoghurt
Berry and ricotta strudels
Vanilla pannacotta with strawberry salsa
Never-fail berry fool
Fruity ricotta cakes
Watermelon sorbet
Banana brulee
Rice custard
Easy mango crumble
Mixed berry friands
Date, prune and craisin brownie slice
Carrot and zucchini cake
BASICS
Basil and pine nut pesto
Spinach and cashew pesto
Semi-dried tomatoes, basil and pecan pesto
Fetta, garlic, basil and lemon pesto
Asia-style pesto
Char-grilled capsicum and ricotta pesto
Celeriac remoulade
Rouille
No-oil creamy dressing
No-oil vinaigrette
Low-fat white sauce
Salsa verde
Healthy home-made vegetable stock
Healthy home-made chicken stock
Healthy home-made beef stock
Pizza dough
Wholemeal pastry
SUMMER MEAL PLAN
Fillet steak with pawpaw salsa
Sag choy bow
Fusilli pasta with salmon and baby spinach
Stir-fry prawn salad
Spinach and cheese filo pie
Barbecued Greek lamb with minted couscous
Homeburger with the lot
WINTER MEAL PLAN
Veal goulash with fettucine
Potato, cauliflower and chickpea curry
Slow-roasted salmon with teriyaki sauce
Tofu with mixed vegetables
Hearty chowder
Chicken tagine with olives and couscous
Slow-cooked lamb shanks
Prefer to buy an ebook?
Zest is now available for electronic download from Amazon and the Apple ibookstore for ipad or iphone or ipod touch.Full colour, same text, easy-to-read format, searchable. Around half the price of the hard copy.
 From Amazon for their Kindle reader.
You can download the Kindle software for free to your PC, Mac, ipad or iphone which will enable you to purchase Kindle books in Australia and New Zealand as well as North America. It is excellent, seamless and very readable. Here's how to find out how to download the free Kindle software for your PC for Windows XP, Vista or 2010.
 From the Apple ibookstore for your iPad or iPhone.
Go to iTunes and download the free app called iBooks which includes the iBookstore, where you can purchase and download ebooks. Simply search for "Catherine Saxelby".
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