That grill on your patio or deck is the healthiest cooking appliance in your home. Learn how to create the tastiest, most nutritious meals for your family using your gas or charcoal grill. Grilling is not just for summer weekend cookouts. It is the year round go-to cooking method for low calorie, low fat meals your family and friends will applaud. Forget about elaborate smoking rituals, complicated marinades, mops and rubs involving hours of advanced planning, shopping and preparation. The Smart Guide to Healthy Grilling will show you how to prepare delicious healthful meals, day in and day out, in a matter of minutes. This book will help busy, hard working moms and dads get fresh vegetables, fruits and low fat poultry, meat and fish on the dinner table with less work and more creative possibilities than any other cooking method. Like all the Smart Guide books, the Healthy Grilling guide offers carefully researched advice and instruction in a lively, easy to follow format. You’ll learn how to: * Reduce by up to 90% the formation of potentially carcinogenic HCA and PAB chemicals that high heat cooking of any kind produces in meat, poultry and fish. * Create the best burger you ever tasted-and the second best, with much less fat and many fewer calories * Grill low-cal, great tasting chicken (and chicken burgers) that your family will want to eat every week * Grill many kinds of fresh vegetables that everyone, including kids, will love * Cut down unhealthy fat in the meat you serve while boosting flavor and succulence * Grill a variety of fresh fruits, making dessert not only delicious but a source of added nutrition-with no sugar added * Convert friends and family who shun heart healthy fish into seafood lovers-including the easiest lobster fest, clambake and oyster roast * Calling all calamari lovers to a squid tube stuffing party, and the squid are grilled, not fried * Thrill shrimp lovers with quick and easy grilling recipes from around the world * And many other foolproof methods and recipes, from pizza on the grill to a Thanksgiving dinner (yes, grill-roasted turkey) that just might become a family tradition Grilling is the most social form of cooking because it takes place in the midst of your family and friends. Whether you’re planning a casual and relaxed dinner party or a solidly good-for-you family meal on weekdays, grilling expert Barry Fast guides you with his inspiring and creative techniques
