Cook Smart, Eat Well

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Mayo Clinic recipes and strategies for healthy living

By Jennifer A. Welper

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Cook Smart, Eat Well by Jennifer A. Welper, Mayo Clinic's Wellness Executive Chef, offers expert tips and over 100 recipes designed to help you cook healthy meals more efficiently and flavourfully at home. The book goes beyond quick recipes to establish smart kitchen habits, focusing on simple ingredients, bold flavours, and easy meal prepping to keep your family nourished throughout the week. It features a variety of dishes including salads, soups, breakfasts, comfort foods, lean meats, kid-friendly meals, desserts, and a week's worth of vegetarian options. Each recipe includes Chef Jen's notes on variations, flavour enhancements, and substitutions, making home cooking both healthy and gourmet. More than just recipes, this photo-illustrated guide covers essential cooking skills, time-saving shortcuts, equipment advice, ingredient selection, spice familiarity, and meal planning strategies suitable for singles and families alike.
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This book is ideal for home cooks of all levels who want to improve their health through better meal preparation without spending excessive time in the kitchen. It suits those seeking practical, nutritious, and flavourful recipes with flexible meal planning advice, including families, busy professionals, and anyone interested in adopting smarter, healthier cooking habits.

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Mayo Clinic's Wellness Executive Chef brings you her expert tips, strategies, and more than 100 recipes to make healthy cooking at home more flavourful, less time-consuming, and a routine part of a healthy lifestyle.

To improve your health and well-being, go beyond the idea of quick and easy recipes to establish smarter, time-saving habits in the kitchen. With Cook Smart, Eat Well by Jennifer Welper, the Wellness Executive Chef at Mayo Clinic, learn how to take a fresh approach to healthy eating by cooking more efficiently, using simple ingredients with bold flavours, and meal prepping with ease, so you can keep your family eating healthy and nutritious meals all week long.

More than 100 original recipes offer something for every meal, including bright salads and soups, filling breakfasts, hearty comfort foods, savoury lean meats and burgers, kid-friendly meals, and delicious desserts, as well as a week's worth of vegetarian-friendly dishes that are completely meat-free. Alongside each recipe are notes from Chef Jen that give ideas for variations and substitutions, as well as tricks for maximizing flavours to make any homemade meal taste gourmet.

Cook Smart, Eat Well includes recipes for:

Broccoli and smoked gouda frittata
Tomato, basil, and mozzarella panini
Broccoli cheddar soup
Basil pesto stuffed mushrooms
Savory mashed sweet potatoes
Blackened fish tacos
Black bean burgers
Cranberry apple crisp

In addition, this photo-illustrated guide gives cooks of any level solid footing in the kitchen by helping you hone your cooking skills and learn time-saving shortcuts. You'll find Jen's best tips for investing in essential basic equipment, finding quality ingredients, mastering preparation methods, familiarizing yourself with a variety of spices and sauces, and safely storing and reheating leftovers. And whether you're cooking for one or for a large family, you'll get expert advice on incorporating meal planning into your routine in a way that streamlines your shopping and cooking, while allowing for flexibility and variety throughout the week.

With Cook Smart, Eat Well, learn how to plan meals, prep food efficiently, and minimize your cooking time to make eating satisfying, nutritious meals part of your healthy lifestyle.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781893005808

Publisher: Mayo Clinic Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 17 February 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Mayo Clinic Press

Illustration: 100 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 203.0mm

Height: 254.0mm

Weight: 600g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Wellness Executive Chef Jennifer Welper found her niche in the kitchen while growing

Spring 2022 Simon & Schuster Adult Distributed Publisher Catalog

up on her family's dairy farm, but her career and passion for healthy, flavorful cuisine

truly took shape after the sudden loss of her grandfather, who had struggled with

diabetes, heart disease, and controlling his weight. Jen now combines culinary arts

with nutrition education. Through delicious recipes and easy tips that incorporate

whole-food ingredients, loads of vegetables, lean proteins and lots of natural flavor, Jen

aims to transform the way people think about cooking healthfully and teach them how

to prepare simple, practical meals that are bold and flavorful.

Chef Jen received her culinary arts degree at Johnson & Wales University, Providence,

RI. She has held positions at the Hyatt Hotel in Newport Rhode Island and at Hilton

Head Health before joining the Dan Abraham Healthy Living Center at Mayo Clinic in

Rochester, MN. As Mayo Clinic's Wellness Executive Chef, Chef Jen creates recipes for

practical, healthy meals and teaches patients how to meal plan and prep for a healthy

lifestyle. She recently received the honor of Distinguished Chef of the Year by Johnson

& Wales University.