If you watch Food Network Canada, then chances are that you know Greta & Janet Podleski of Eat, Shrink & Be Merry. They find creative ways to ‘healthify’ fabulous dishes while retaining (and usually augmenting) the YUM factor.
You can imagine that when I got an email from Greta asking if I’d like to review their latest cookbook “The Looneyspoons Collection”, I was all-in. I’ll admit that these sisters are a little on the wacky side but I love what they do, and for those of you who’ve checked out the recipes section on montrealmom.com, you already know that I’m also into ‘healthifying’. I was definitely interested. I was also curious about how the kids would react because moms are always asking me to recommend kid-approved recipes.
Now this was no business to take lightly, for when I check something out, I REALLY check it out. The first order of business was to pick a few recipes that I wanted to try out. I encountered my first challenge. Everything looked so delicious I couldn’t choose. I had post-it-tabbed 29 different recipes. If I tried one a day, it would still take me a month!
So I narrowed it to an ambitious list of 14 recipes to test over a 2-week period. I succeeded in testing 9 and will be testing 3 or 4 more this weekend.
I went through the recipes and made a shopping list. Although I keep many of the ingredients at home, I have to admit I don’t buy everything ‘low-sodium’ as they recommend. In order to stay true to the sisters, I went out & bought low-sodium chickpeas and vegetable broth and some other new ingredients to get started.
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