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Norene's
latest cookbook,
Norene's Healthy Kitchen
is available
now! And its been blogged!
With
600 healthy recipes the cookbook provides "a buffet of
exciting international flavors" with ingredients found in
your local supermarket.
Norene combines her renowned culinary skills with the latest food
science (and a large dose of folksy common sense) to produce a wonderful
cookbook packed with delicious, healthy recipes for the whole family.
Rick Gallop, author, The
G.I.Diet series; former president, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario
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There's
a new
review of
Norene's Healthy Kitchen
in Keren
Brown's blog on Seattlepi.com
Sweet
Potato Shepherd’s Pie is so incredibly outstanding!
We couldn’t get enough of it! I had to take the bowl off of the table
and into the freezer or my daughter and I would have finished two pounds of
ground turkey and four sweet potatoes. Many thanks once again for your recipes
that are so tasty, healthy and easy to prepare.
Arna Cappe,
a
long time fan
If
you want this recipe, you'll have to buy
Norene's Healthy Kitchen -
sorry,
but we can't give all our secrets away free!
Norene's Healthy Kitchen has
gone to Bratislava, Slovakia. More...
Passover
begins at sunset on Saturday, April 19.
Here
are some money and
time-saving tips on using
Kosher-for-Passover Chefs Select parchment paper.
Norene will be appearing in
Ottawa in May and in Richmond, BC, and Montreal this summer. CLICK
HERE
for more information.
Dear
Norene,
I
am hoping that you will remember who I am, out of all the
hundreds of women who attended the fabulous food demo at Associated Hebrew School last Tuesday night... I gave you my card.
First
and foremost THANK YOU!! For such an enjoyable evening! This was
the first time I have attended an event of yours....and honestly
it surely will NOT be that last!! You are an absolute delight!!!
Your techniques are great, your little cooking tips wonderful,
but really your sense of humor and presentation are
incredible!!! You were truly a joy to watch and listen
to!!!!
Thank
you so much.
Sherry
Dieks, Toronto
Food
and Health professionals note:
Three sample healthy recipes (Lentil Barley Soup,
Eggplant Mock Pizzas and Chocolate Pudding for One) from
Norene's Healthy Kitchen
are available
in this pdf three-fold
brochure. Print on both sides of 8 1/2 x 11-inch paper.
The brochure reproduces well in colour and in black & white.
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Norene
Gilletz is
the leading author of Kosher cookbooks in Canada.
She is a food consultant,
freelance food writer,
cookbook editor and indexer,
and
teacher/lecturer
on food and nutrition.
Her
company, Gourmania Inc., does nutritional analysis of recipes for cookbooks, menus and the food industry, and does
cookbook publishing and distribution.
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 Norene's
motto is "Food that's good for you should
taste good!" Because of her love
"a-fare" with food, she can usually be
found within close range of a kitchen.
Norene
is a Certified Culinary Professional with the International Association of
Culinary Professionals. More
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 Culinary Talents!
It's all in the family! Douglas Gilletz is now working together with
Norene to provide RECIPE DEVELOPMENT, FOOD STYLING AND FOOD PHOTOGRAPHY for the food
 service industry,
cookbooks, magazines, menus and all things culinary. Doug is a PERSONAL CHEF, CATERER and COOKING TEACHER based in Montreal.
More about Doug
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you need a culinary expert? Gourmania
is your connection to a wide variety of food professionals.
Do you need a cookbook editor, indexer, recipe tester, recipe
developer, media escort, food stylist, photographer, cooking teacher, dietitian or food consultant? Do you
need nutrient analysis for food labels, cookbooks or foodservice? Do
you need culinary homestay options? Let our culinary network work for you!
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This
year Mother's Day is 11 May and Father's Day is 15 June.
Norene has some great tips
and recipes to make these celebrations tasty and
easy. And how about Overnight
French Toast with Blueberries for breakfast for
those special people in your life (or for you?)
LIGHT MARGARINE
This makes a great pareve spread for matzos during
Passover - it's lower in calories, fat and saturated fat.
However, don't use it for baking.
1 cup soft pareve tub margarine
1/2 cup cold water
Process margarine in a food processor until smooth. Add cold water through
the feed tube while the machine is running. Process 2 to 3 minutes, until
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With Victoria Day (19
May) and Memorial Day (26 May) just around the corner, it's time to dust
of the grills and get out into the garden. Read Norene's tips on safe
and healthy grilling or, if
you want to be a grilling guru, check out Weber's
Big Book of Grilling.
FAT
FACTS
* 1 lb margarine (454 to 500 grams/16 ounces) is equivalent to 2 cups (4
sticks)
* 1/2 lb margarine (227 to 250 grams/8 ounces) is equivalent to 1 cup (2
sticks).
* 1/4 lb margarine (115 to 125 grams/4 ounces) is equivalent to 1/2 cup (1
stick).
* Oil can be substituted in many recipes and is a healthier choice because
hard or stick margarines are high in saturated fat.
* You can usually substitute vegetable oil for baking and olive or vegetable
oil for cooking. There might be a difference in texture in baked goods, but
oil produces a decent and pareve (dairy-free) product that is low in
saturated fat. Safflower oil has a decent taste and is available for Passover use.
Enjoy your red wine without fretting over spills! This trick removes red
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Who’s Cooking?
Norene’s
recipes are being used in Bratislava
Gourmania's web mistress,
Jean Morris, has moved to Bratislava, Slovakia, to teach English to adult
speakers of others languages. Norene's
Healthy Kitchen
has gone with her, so all she needs now is the Slovak word for matzo meal!
Bratislava is a great city about 60 km east of Vienna.
HELP
FOR NEW ORLEANS
My staff and I collected cookbooks (mostly Jewish or Kosher, but not all) from friends and customers, plus some “hurt” copies of cookbooks that I’ve written.
The books were sent to New Orleans recently to help replenish cookbooks lost in Hurricane Katrina.
A small group of Jewish teens from Toronto from BBYO (Bnai Brith Youth Organization) went down from Toronto to help with the
clean-up and when I read that they were going, I contacted one of the chaperones. They were so excited and took the cookbooks with them in their luggage, where they presented them to Betty Lazarus, a librarian, who is in charge of collecting cookbooks for Jewish families in
New Orleans.
The books were greatly appreciated and so was the wonderful emotional and physical support. The lives of these young teenagers were touched in a wonderful way.
As a result of connecting with BBYO through our little project, I
did a fundraising cooking demonstration for them
on Tuesday, November 13, in Toronto, so one good deed often leads to other good opportunities.
Hopefully, this story will inspire others to help in some small way.
All the best,
Norene Gilletz, CCP
 Gourmania
Inc. is proud to
be
the distributor of
GATHERINGS: Creative Kosher Cooking from
Our Families to Yours. Gatherings contains over 300
recipes, wonderful Passover dishes, magnificent photos, lots of sidebars
and tips. All the recipes were triple-tested. Read Norene's review
and try a recipe.
Read more about Gatherings
in Norene's Article Gathering
Round the Holiday Table.
Gatherings is available both wholesale and retail.
To place your
order, either call us toll-free at 1-888-811-9866 or E-mail
Norene. |
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