Monday 9 March 2009

Celebrity Cooking

We now have a real culture of celebrity chefs and they appear on our TV screens the whole time. It's absolutely amazes me that nearly every dish that they make consists of frying for. Just about every single time they start to cook very immediately reach for a frying pan, throw in some oil, onions, and lots of other ingredients. They very often use butter and full fat cream in their recipes. The end result may be very delicious but is nearly always high fat and high in cholesterol. Perhaps, one of the main reasons for doing this, is that putting food on the grill does not make for good TV viewing. You can see what's going on and also a lot easier when it's in a frying pan. All is not lost, though. Nearly all of these recipes can be modified and made very much healthier very easily. All you need to do is reduce the fat content. For instance, spray some olive oil on to frying pan on adding it straight from the bottle. Reduce the amount of cream in recipes by using half fat or low-fat versions. Other ideas include using no facts or zero fat yogurt or Greek yogurt instead of cream. Although you would not use these in a frying pan. Buy yourself a good quality healthy eating cookbook and you will find many, many more ideas.

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