Williams Sonoma’s new Everyday Healthy Cookbook absolutely comes through on its promise to help you cook healthy food every day. The Everyday Healthy Cookbook: 120+ Fresh, Flavorful Recipes for Every Meal by Dana Jacobi (Williams-Sonoma/Weldon Owen, July 2020) is a must-have if you want to prepare healthy, delicious meals, beverages, and treats on a daily basis.

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The book is packed with recipes for every meal and beyond, but it also provides the solid background information we need as we shift toward more healthful eating habits. The introductory section, Good Food for Good Health, states that “The goal of Everyday Healthy cooking is to offer super-powered meals with an abundance of macro- and micronutrients, helping you create your own daily menus and giving your healthy eating exciting and appealing variety.” Reading through this section, you’ll gain an understanding of the essential ingredients for healthy cooking—vegetables, fruits, grains, fermented foods, herbs, spices, and oils, as well as meats, poultry, seafood, dairy, and vegetarian protein sources.

The lessons in healthy eating continue with each featured recipe’s header, which highlights the benefits of certain ingredients or suggests variations to suit your personal tastes or dietary preferences. For example, the recipe for Penne with Walnut Pesto & Peas begins: “Walnuts contain twice as many immune-boosting antioxidants than any other nut. Replace the usual pine nuts in pesto with walnuts to take full advantage of their benefits in a delicious way!” Such a simple and helpful explanation definitely inspires me to break out my food processor and get busy.

The Everyday Healthy Cookbook makes it easy to employ this information about healthful foods by providing amazing recipes to get us cooking.

Here’s a sampling, broken down by chapter:

* Starters & Soups: Spinach & Feta Dip with Horseradish; Watermelon Gazpacho
* Salads: Cucumber Salad with Miso Dressing; White Bean, Tuna & Fennel Salad
* Pasta & Grains: Wild Rice & Mushroom Pilaf; Barley with Kale & Lemon
* Main Dishes: Roasted Salmon with Thyme Vinaigrette; Chicken Tostadas with Radish Slaw
* Sides: Smashed Potatoes with Paprika Salt; Edamame, Corn & Sweet Onion Succotash
* Breakfast & Brunch: Baked Avocado Eggs; Peaches & Cream Breakfast Parfait
* Dessert & Drinks: Apple-Cranberry Crumble; Double Rich Hot Chocolate

It was hard to choose just two recipes from each chapter to share! But there’s even more, with a whole chapter devoted to Basic Recipes that includes instructions for cooking different types of rice and grains, then continues with recipes for Pizza Dough, Hummus, Stove-Top Herbed Polenta, and many other staples. And the final chapter, The Healthy Ingredient Glossary, is a detailed listing of ingredients and why they’re part of a healthy diet.

If you’re interested in preparing a wide variety of healthy and delicious foods for yourself, your family, and your guests, the Everyday Healthy Cookbook will prove to be an indispensable guide.

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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win their own copy of the Everyday Healthy Cookbook, thanks to the publisher, Weldon Owen!

Giveaway Details: This giveaway is open to residents of the US ONLY age 18 and over. Please read our Terms of Service & Disclaimer Policy before entering. This giveaway will close on August 15th, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST time. No purchase necessary to enter or win.

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Have you joined the throngs of Instant Pot® devotees? Are you always looking for new ways to use your Instant Pot® to easily prepare healthful dishes for your family? If so, you’ll be interested in a brand-new book, The Everything® Mediterranean Instant Pot® Cookbook: 300 Recipes for Healthy Mediterranean Meals?Made in Minutes, by Kelly Jaggers (Adams Media, February 2020).

* Complimentary copy received for review.

This book is a new release in Adams Media’s famous “Everything®” series, which includes more than 600 titles on an amazing variety of topics. There are lots of cookbooks, as well as books on other subjects from investing, health, how-to, and DIY to education, games, puzzles, and more. The Everything® Mediterranean Instant Pot® Cookbook is a worthy addition to this series, with information and recipes blending the Mediterranean diet and the Instant Pot®. The concept is summed up perfectly in the name of the first chapter: The Number-One Diet Meets the Top Kitchen Appliance.

The Mediterranean diet has a long history, and rightly so—it’s both healthful and delicious. Teaming it with today’s most popular pressure cooker/multicooker is a great way to make the most of both. As Jaggers says, “The Instant Pot® is your express pass to delicious meals, often ready in less than an hour, with less work, more nutrition, and less cleanup, so you can relax and enjoy all the benefits the Mediterranean diet has to offer.” The book begins with a discussion of the modern Mediterranean diet, with a pyramid that “includes a variety of fruits, vegetables, and grains with limited amounts of fish and poultry.” Following that is a section covering the Instant Pot® and its functions, as well as tips for its use, care, and maintenance.

But let’s talk about the recipes! There are 13 chapters full of recipes that will have you pulling out your Instant Pot® to prepare meals for all times of day and all sorts of occasions, including breakfasts, soups, side dishes, entrees, salads, and more, both vegetarian and featuring meats, seafood, and fish.

There’s even a chapter full of fruit and dessert recipes! Each recipe is accompanied by a helpful per-serving nutritional listing, too. Here’s a sampling:

• Steel-Cut Oatmeal with Fruit
• Roasted Garlic Hummus
• Vegetable Risotto with Beet Greens
• Farro Salad with Tomatoes and Olives
• Pasta e Fagioli
• Creamy Lima Bean Soup
• Greek-Style Lentils
• Citrus Fish Tacos
• Chicken and Mushroom Marsala
• Bulgur and Beef-Stuffed Peppers
• Chocolate Rice Pudding
• Vanilla-Poached Apricots

In addition to the recipes, you’ll find sidebars scattered throughout the book with additional helpful information, ideas, tips, and variations.

The Everything® Mediterranean Instant Pot® Cookbook is definitely one you’ll turn to often. Jaggers sums it up nicely: “With the Mediterranean diet and the Instant Pot®, you are on the road to a long, nourished, and happy life.”

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Giveaway: One lucky winner is going to win a copy of The Everything Mediterranean Instant Pot Cookbook thanks to Adams Media (an imprint of Simon & Schuster publishing).

Giveaway Details: This giveaway is open to residents of the US ONLY age 18 and over. Please read our Terms of Service & Disclaimer Policy before entering. This giveaway will close on March 7th, 2020 at 11:59 pm EST time. No purchase necessary to enter or win.

Disclaimer: A. Bailey received a complimentary product for review purposes & feature on The Classy Chics blog. No monetary compensation was received. A. Bailey’s thoughts, opinions and words are 100% her own. Your thoughts may differ. Please read the blog’s terms of service policy before entering any giveaways. The Classy Chics are NOT responsible for prize fulfillment or shipping of any items won from this blog. This post contains affiliate links. If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may or may not make a small commission which helps to support this website. Thank you!!!