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Talking about cooking healthy food, let us consider cooking something healthy yet tasty which is the ultimate combination. We have a notion that healthy food is devoid of taste. Cooking Light magazine has come up with Apple application called Cooking Light Recipes: Quick and Healthy Menu maker, which helps people to attain the right cooking combination. Cooking Light has a great range of 300 healthy and tasty recipes.
The application users can choose from vegetarian and non vegetarian categories of healthy recipes, they provide proper guidance regarding the ingredients, cooking procedure along with amazing pictures of the recipe.
The cooking light application has a feature called nutrition calculator which helps the users to know the related calories, sodium and saturated fat content of their created menu.

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Now with just a touch, find tons of healthy recipes. Cooking has never been easier with the iPad now incorporating healthy recipes in it. The iPad's "Get Cooking With iPad" series has a new addition with "Cooking Light Recipes: Quick and Healthy Recipes". This app has more than 300 recipes which include healthy recipes of desserts, salads, main dishes etc.
These healthy recipes are very easy to execute and follow with minimum preparation time. The best part about this app is that the nutritional information is included with the recipes and that actually helps the cook. Once can switch screens while looking for healthy recipes and jump from the main view to dish view. The only problem with this app is that it does not have a search engine function and that makes it a little difficult for the cook to actually search for healthy recipes.
This app is available at the App Store for $3.99.

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Gone are the days when salad meant just a few leaves of lettuce with a fatty-creamy dressing. Today, there are several varieties of salads available in the markets. Try different varieties of salads in your dish. You can make use of mesclun which contains a variety of greens which can be blended with bitter chicory varieties such as endive or radicchio, peppery arugula, or even mild baby spinach. The difficult element of salad greens is that they should also be dried out before being making salad out of it as they will water down the dressing if any water is left.
You can make use of a salad spinner which is a handy kitchen tool. After shaking off most of the water, you can roll the washed lettuce in paper towels to facilitate soak up the remaining moisture and dampness.