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Welcome to Andrea’s Fitness and Art blog! I started this blog to share with you three of my passions - Fitness, art and dress making. I'm a personal trainer by day and artist and seamstress by night and I'm one of the few people that gets to work on what they are passionate about everyday.

In this blog I'll be sharing with you delicious healthy recipes, workout tips to help you get the most out of your workouts and healthy living ideas to make sure you are as healthy as you can be in all areas of your life. I will also be sharing pictures of my art and dress making for those of you interested in that.

Thank you for visiting my blog and if you have any questions, comments, ideas or recipes please post or drop me a line!

Andrea :)

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

My Favourite Cookbooks!

Good Evening!

Today I'm going to tell you about my favourite cookbooks! I love flipping through cookbooks and find great recipes to try out and I always find myself going back to the same cookbooks over and over again. So today I'm going to share with you my favourites though not in any particular order.

Favourites Home Cooking: Chef Michael Smith 'Chef at Home'



You may recognise Chef Michael here from one of his many TV shows on the Food Network including Chef at Home, Chef At Large and Chef Abroad. His recipes are simple, delicious and healthy and encourage you to make substitutions to make each dish your own. They also don't have too many ingredients or take too long to make. One of my favourite recipes is the creamy chicken stew!

Favourite New & Fun Recipes: Janet & Greta: 'Looneyspoons' and 'Eat, Shrink & Be Merry'



These cookbooks are great! The recipes are delicious, healthy and have hilarious names. For example there is a potato side dish named 'Darth Tater'. I find that some of these recipes have a lot of ingredients, for example their Pad Thai ingredients take up almost an entire page. But for the most part they are very easy, nutritious and delicious! The Scalloped Potato recipe is a family favourite and so is the Cajun Rice & Beans.

The One I Want for Christmas: Oxygen Magazine's 'The Best of Clean Eating'



This book is full of all of the great recipes from Oxygen Magazine's and for their sister magazine 'Clean Eating'. These are the healthiest recipes you can get and taste great! The downside to this cookbook is that most of the time there are a lot of ingredients and sometimes ingredients that aren't easy to find in Canada (although when in doubt check Bulk Barn). If your thinking this might be the cookbook for you grab one of the magazine's first and give the recipes a try!



I hope my post will help you in your search for new and delicious recipes that satisfy the whole family and the tastebuds while being nutritious and fuelling your bodies!

Stay Healthy!
Andrea :)

PS Just a thought but Cookbooks make great Christmas gifts (it is October you know)! 

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