Weight watchers take out tonight

I love this book! Out of 150 recipes there are 111 I'd love to try. Several more really but there are a few items in those that are harder to find here such as miso, wakame, fresh tuna (can sometimes but the price is outrageous), mirin and a few others. Most recipes use ingredients that are readily available in our area or they offer substitutions that are.

This book includes lots of favorite take out items made healthier. Each of the recipes includes easy how to tips and nutritional information as well as weight watcher point values for each serving. Each recipe has a fraction of the fat and calories of it's restaurant counterpart but in my opinion all the flavor. At least that's true for the three recipes we've tried so far.

Mom picked this one up for me not too long ago at a yard sale. I'm sure glad she did as I'm gong to be using this one quiet a bit since there are so many of our favorite dishes included. Things like Hot and Sour Soup, Shrimp & Pork Won tons, Shrimp Fried Rice, General Tso's Chicken, Chicken Empanadas, Spinach Rice & Black Bean Burritos, Nachos Supreme, California Vegetable Rolls, Pizza Margherita, Vegetable Calzones, Scampi, Shrimp Pad Thai, Tandoori Chicken, and too many more to mention. Am I making you hungry yet?

To start off I made out a list of 25 recipes I thought our family would enjoy. I then listed all the ingredients I don't normally have on hand beside the recipe to take with me to the grocery store. That way I can check my list against sale items and pick a dish or two to try each week.

Most of the recipes include a clever cook's tip. In the back are a dry and liquid measurement equivalent charts, and three lined pages for notes. There is also a section in each chapter for the perfect pantry for that particular cuisine.

A few days ago I made two recipes from the Indian section, Dal with Spiced Tomatoes and Potatoes and Chapati (an Indian Bread). Sarita and I loved them both. Harold and Dexter don't care much for India food but Harold did taste of it. When Sarita was in college we occasionally had lunch together at an Indian Buffet place near her college either when I took her back or picked her up. Now we can make some of these items when ever we're in the mood.