Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes: Creating Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods: A Cookbook - Softcover

Wilbur, Todd

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0452281490 ISBN 13: 9780452281493

Publisher: Plume Books, 2000

Synopsis

#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold!

Todd Wilbur, the irrepressible restaurant recipe knockoff artist, is back. Thanks to Wilbur's latest Top Secret mission--to re-create some of America's most popular food products without the fat--readers can now feast guilt-free on their favorite snacks. The easy-to-follow recipes, along with Wilbur's patented blueprint illustrations, are guaranteed to produce healthier homemade treats that taste identical to the real thing--like Nabisco Reduced-Fat Oreo Cookies or Entenmann's Light Low-Fat Cinnamon Rolls. Wilbur also tackles some familiar restaurant delights, including Bennigan's Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, McDonald's Arch Deluxe and Egg McMuffin, and Wendy's Chicken Caesar Fresh Stuffed Pita--concocting them all at a fraction of the calories and at a fraction of the cost. Once again, the intrepid Todd Wilbur goes where no food writer has gone before--and proves that when it comes to providing recipes for food that diners really want to eat, he is the peoples' choice.

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Review

Praise for Todd Wilbur #1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series

"[Wilbur's] problem isn't that the recipes he's devised aren't good enough, it's that they're too good."--Entertainment Weekly

"There is something magically compelling about the idea of making such foods at home...The allure is undeniable, and [the books are] stuffed with tidbits and lore you're unlikely to find anywhere else. These probably come as close as you can get to the original recipes."--Boston Herald

"This is the cookbook to satisfy all your cravings."--Juli Huss, author of The Faux Gourmet

"The recipes are easy to follow and... by preparing your own versions of restaurant meals you will almost always save money."--Arizona Daily Star

"[Wilbur's] recipes use everyday supermarket ingredients to bring brand-name foods to the home kitchen. Perhaps not surprisingly, his recipes are not complex. If anything, they reflect how easy home cooking can be."--Star Tribune (Minneapolis--St. Paul)

"The assignment: Find out how to make the tasty Jack Daniels Grill Sauce used by T.G.I. Friday's restaurants. The client: Oprah Winfrey. The gumshoe: Todd Wilbur. Mission Impossible for even the most savvy food expert. But not so for Todd Wilbur, a crackerjack culinary sleuth."--Pocono Record

"Many of [Wilbur's] dishy imitations come, like a box of Cracker Jacks, with a surprise inside."--Mademoiselle

From the Back Cover

In this follow-up to Top Secret Recipes Lite! bestselling author Todd Wilbur shows you how to re-create your favorite brand-name foods and restaurant recipes at a fraction of the calories, and how to create popular low-fat dishes and treats -- in the privacy of your very own kitchen.

Discover the secrets behind Todd Wilbur's delicious lower-fat versions of:
-- McDonald's "RM" Egg McMuffin "RM"
-- Olive Garden "RM" Chicken Parmigiana Sandwich
-- TGI Friday's "RM" Potato Skins
-- Wendy's "RM" Classic Greek Fresh Stuffed Pita "RM"
-- Carl's Jr. "RM" Bacon Swiss Crispy Chicken Sandwich
-- Taco Bell "RM" Beef Burrito Supreme "RM"

Plus these delectable desserts and snack-time favorites:
-- Nabisco "RM" Reduced-Fat Oreo "RM" Cookies
-- Entenmann's Light "RM" Low-Fat Gourmet Cinnamon Rolls
-- Little Debbie "RM" Oatmeal Lights "RM"
-- Reduced-Fat Otis Spunkmeyer "RM" Chocolate Chip Muffins
-- Keebler "RM" Reduced-Fat Pecan Sandies "RM"
-- Planter's "RM" Fat-Free Fiddle Faddle "RM"

You'll also learn how to make Seven Seas "RM" Free "RM" Viva "RM" Italian Fat-Free Dressing, Fat-Free KFC "RM" Potato Salad, Reduced-Fat KFC "RM" Macaroni & Cheese, Low-Fat Screaming Yellow Zonkers "RM", and much more -- with no dyes, fillers, or preservatives, fewer calories, drastically reduced fat, and the same sinful taste. And you can customize all these scrumptious new recipes to suit your individual nutritional needs and dietary preferences -- without sacrificing the terrific flavor. With Low-Fat Top Secret Recipes, you'll never have to deny yourself any of your best-loved brand-name foods again!

About this edition

• Publisher: Plume Books
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0452281490
• ISBN 13: 9780452281493
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256