the new mayo clinic cookbook

I was at Five Below the other day and spotted The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook's Second Edition for sale and snatched it up, since I'm always looking for healthier recipes to pique my Dad's appetite.  He has heart issues and is supposed to be on a restricted fat and sodium diet, but he's also rail-thin and can be somewhat finicky.  But essentially this is a great cookbook to focus on healthier eating for anyone, restricted diet or not, with a wide range of offerings from vegetable side dishes, fruits, salads, soups, pasta, beans and legumes, fish/shellfish, poultry and meat, as well as desserts and beverages. The book combines creative cuisine with nutrition, keeping true to its intro text statement of how "[f]lavor comes first" and the "new approach to eating well is full of enjoyment and satisfaction."

If you enjoy trying international recipes like Moroccan Butternut Soup, Seared Salmon with Cilantro-Cucumber Salsa, Yucatecan Rice Salad, Thai Crab Cakes, Salade Nicoise with Tapenade, Fattoush, West African Peanut Stew and Tropical Fruits with Mint and Spices -- go to.  In the case of more conservative appetites, there's a more conventional range of fare like Greek-Style Shrimp Saute, Split Pea Soup, Turkey-Cranberry Salad, Grilled Flank Steak Salad with Roasted Corn Vinaigrette, Yogurt Almond Ice Cream or Warm Chocolate Souffles.  And the Sweet Ginger Tisane is a delicious and wise thing to be drinking this winter to help fight off any cold or flu.

The New Mayo Clinic Cookbook also suggests healthier eating habits and each recipe page has an easy-to-read breakdown of calories, sodium, fat (saturated and monounsatured) and cholesterol on the sidelines, plus info on how this particular dish works into the daily pyramid of nutrition (vegetables, fruit, carbs, protein and fat).   I do love it and it's a particularly ideal new year/new diet cookbook, although my edition was published in 2012 so it's not exactly new (which is why it was at Five Below).  But it's definitely still relevant, with plenty of glossy color food photos and presently available on Amazon.