America's Test Kitchen proves that you don't have to sacrifice flavor when you're looking to cook lighter and healthier meals, with nearly 200 light and healthy recipes.

Most low-fat recipes offer tiny portions, require fussy techniques, or turn to ingredient substitutions that lower calories and fat, but often times sacrifice flavor in the process. Who wants to eat a meal that tastes like diet food? Light & Healthy 2010 features a variety of recipes- from soups, salads and entrees to side dishes, baked goods and desserts, all of which maximize flavor to give you healthy recipes you'll actually want to eat.

In addition to dozens of completely new recipes, Light & Healthy 2010 takes the year's most popular recipes from across the spectrum of our magazines, cookbooks, and television shows and reworks them to create full-flavored dishes that also happen to be lighter in calories and fat. the nutritional information accompanying each recipe shows the before and after results of our tweaking. Helpful "Notes from the Test Kitchen" throughout the book offer step-by-step photographs for recipes and ingredient preparation.

An appealing mix of makeovers and naturally light recipes.

Sometimes you want a refreshing dinner salad, and other times nothing but pizza or spaghetti and meatballs will do. Light & Healthy recipes include Wilted Spinach Salad with Pan-Seared Scallops and Oranges, Tortellini and Vegetable SoupSautéed Pork Chops with Port Wine Cherry Sauce, Beef and Vegetable Shepherd's Pie, Eggplant Parmesan, Buttermilk Biscuits, Cheese Bread, Peach Shortcakes and Fudgy Brownies.

You'll also find our always objective money-saving equipment reviews and ingredient ratings to help you cook smart. Featured reviews include baking sprays,canned diced tomatoes, juicers, garlic presses, carving knives, and Dutch ovens.

Light & Healthy (2010)