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Just Tell Me What to Eat!
The Delicious 6-Week Weight Loss Plan for the Real World
Timothy S. Harlan, MD, FACP has counseled thousands of his patients on healthy, sustainable weight loss. Now he's compiled his best tips and recipes into a six-week plan for you to learn how to eat great food that just happens to be great for you.
Get the prescription for better health as well as healthy weight loss, including:
- What to eat
- How to cook it
- When to eat it
- What to eat at a restaurant
- What to eat if you're in a hurry
- and best of all....
- Why eating great food is the best health decision you'll ever make.
Cooking Techniques
Enhancing Flavors
My Orange French Toast recipe is a good example of using enhancing flavors. Many traditional recipes like French toast are lower in calories but have a high amount of fat and cholesterol. Cutting fat out of recipes is easy because most simply have more than they need. The extra fat doesn’t really add flavor or even very much in the way of richness.
In a recipe such as this one, the orange acts as a flavor enhancer, making it easier to reduce the amount of fat. While there’s only a slight reduction in total calories, the final recipe has much less fat but a richer, more complex flavor.