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No saben exactamente qué te pasa… Este no saber lleva una eternidad y nunca termina. Por un lado, tienes un sarpullido morado desde el cuello hasta la muñeca y el tobillo que no se mueve bajo los ungüentos militares que te dicen que le apliques. Por otra razón, algunos de tus órganos no pasan las pruebas, tú fallas y fallas en general.
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Literatuur & Romans Uitgeverij Van Ditmar Boeken B.V. Imprint Transworld Publishers Ltd Uitgegeven als Hardcover • Paperback • Audioboek Eerste editie 28-10-2025 Laatste editie 30-07-2026 ISBN 9780063453913 • 9780063453920 • 9780063470873 • 9780063474499 • 9781529959697 • 9781529959703 • 9781804997505 • 9798228481831 Aantal pagina's 256 Taal Engels Populair in hetzelfde genre Boeken van dezelfde auteur Uitgelicht 0 Wat vind je van dit boek? Geef jouw beoordeling.
Low-Carb Vanilla Panna Cotta
Panna cotta is incredibly easy to prepare at home. Making this dessert yourself also means you’ll have complete control over its carb content. Panna cotta, which means “cooked cream” in Italian, is so easy to make yet so deliciously fancy that you’ll feel like you’ve performed a magic trick. It’s gently set with gelatin, and virtually any combination of dairy or nondairy will work here – plain yogurt, milk, cream, half and half, coconut milk, whatever you’ve got.
6 Plant-Based Recipes to Make You Fall in Love With Vegetables
These whole foods plant-based recipes for tomato soup, edamame and more are delicious and nutritious ways to bring more vegetables into your life. Full disclosure: I love vegetables. Love, love, love them. Would I rather eat a spoonful of melted cheese than a giant bowl of kale? Sure. But vegetables have so much to offer, with all their colors and flavors and textures: bright or soft; loud or quiet; tender or creamy or crunchy, depending on how, or whether, you cook them.
Hearty Low-Carb Pasta Salad
This quick and zippy pasta salad is outrageously versatile: use your favorite veggies, herbs, and extras to customize it (our other favorite additions to this salad include olives, artichoke hearts, and canned tuna) and feel free to double the recipe or otherwise adapt it, depending on the amount of noodles you’re starting with. The salad keeps and travels well, making it a great choice for potlucks and picnics.
Five Excellent Low-Carb Pasta Alternatives
If you like pasta but want low-carb recipes, these delicious options will allow you to hit your spaghetti spot without spiking your blood glucose. We may be living in the Golden Age of alternative noodles. If you can’t—or don’t want to—eat conventional carbohydrate-heavy grain-based pasta, there are now a number of excellent options that allow you hit your spaghetti spot without spiking your blood sugar.
Tomato and Peach Panzanella
This stunning salad features the freshest flavors of summer – ripe tomatoes, sweet peaches, and bright herbs – plus smoked mozzarella for an added depth. Peaches—check! Lots of herbs—check! Carbs—check! A good number of my favorite things are in this salad, including a well-balanced matchup of savory and sweet ingredients.
Picnic-Perfect Recipes
Let us take the work out of your picnic planning with this curated menu of picnic-friendly recipes. Sugar Snap Peas with High-Summer Tomatoes, Herbs, and Tahini from Tomato Love make for a sweet yet savory starter. Get the recipe. Then wrap your hands around an epic, picnic-friendly Tuscan Sirloin Sandwich from Beef it Up!. Get the recipe. Not a meat eater? Swap the Tuscan Sirloin Sandwich for a tasty Black Bean and Smoked Corn Vegetarian Sausage. Get the recipe.
DIY Beanbag Toss Game
Sew your own simple beanbags for a super fun game you can set up and play anytime, anywhere! This fun DIY project comes together quickly and makes for hours of summer fun. Make your beanbags as big or small as you like—or even vary the sizes for added interest (and game-play challenge!).
Sunny Lemon Squares
For a treat that’s both sweet and sour at the same time, try these sunny lemon squares. Here’s a favorite recipe for lemon squares that’s easy to make. Kids (and grown-ups!) will love mixing up this tasty treat from Baking Class. Makes 24 bars.
Strawberry Lemon-Limeade
Mix up a cool, refreshing beverage anytime with this easy concentrate from Strawberry Love. Make the most of fresh summer strawberries with this simple recipe for a sweet, tart, and delicious strawberry lemon-limeade. Once you make and chill the concentrate, it only takes minutes to stir up a pitcher of strawberry lemon-limeade for a picnic, barbecue, or day at the lake. Just use one part concentrate to three parts water and serve over ice. This recipe makes 3 cups concentrate.
Everybody’s Favorite Salads
Looking for a tasty new salad to add to your repertoire? Here are three slightly mixed-up versions of the classics. As the season warms up, I crave salads: that cold, juicy crunch along with a handful of extra-delicious treat ingredients to get everybody excited. These are our versions of a trio of classics: made a little lighter, a little more nutrient-dense, and, in my not-so-humble opinion, a little more exciting too.
Celery Caesar Salad
Makes 6 servings Total Carbohydrates: 14 grams per serving Hands-on Time: 20 minutes Total Time: 35 minutes This salad is hugely popular around here, and for good reason: the celery is crunchy and flavorful; the chickpeas are crouton-ish but wholesome; the parmesan is perfection; and the dressing is absolutely lip-smacking. Can you omit the anchovies? Of course you can! But I’d encourage you not to.
Grab-and-Go Low-Carb Breakfast Dishes
Looking for a breakfast dish that you can grab on your way out the door? Catherine Newman shares three delicious morning recipes you can make ahead of time that taste just as good hot or cold. Here’s a trio of lovely, low-carb grab-and-go breakfasts. The kind you can make ahead of time because you’re a good friend to your future morning self – the one who needs to start the day with a nourishing meal.
Quick and Easy Low-Carb Breakfast Dishes
Looking for a breakfast dish that you can grab on your way out the door? Catherine Newman shares three delicious morning recipes you can make ahead of time that taste just as good hot or cold. Here’s a trio of lovely, low-carb grab-and-go breakfasts. The kind you can make ahead of time because you’re a good friend to your future morning self – the one who needs to start the day with a nourishing meal.
Tasty Southwest Chicken
These delicious chicken recipes will warm you up in the last days of winter, and they taste delicious. Whether you’re looking for a quick meal with few ingredients, or a more involved dish, Catherine Newman shares two recipes that can work for anyone. Did you need two Southwest-style chicken dishes to get you through the last of the cold days? I did, it turned out, and everyone here has been grateful for the delicious stretch of recipe-testing that resulted.
Oven-Roasted Goodness
Four delicious new recipes that take your oven-roasted sheet-pan dinners to the next level. Some years I forget, over the course of the long, hot summer, about the deep pleasure of turning on the oven. I love it – the oven, I mean. Come fall, it warms my kitchen, it cooks my meals without me needing to hover around over the stovetop with a spatula, and it sends out great plumes of fragrant enticement, beckoning everyone to the table.
Sheet-Pan Sausage and Peppers
Makes: 4 servings Total Carbohydrates: 10 grams per serving Hands-on Time: 15 minutes Total Time: 30 minutes Cooking sausages in the oven is such a surprising pleasure: they turn the exact shade of even, burnished brown you’re always hoping for when you panfry them, but there is no fussing or spattering. Plus, the peppers and onions are perfectly sweet and crisp-tender – and they achieve this at just the exact moment the sausages are done.
Long-Roasted Chicken with Celery, Mint, and Lemon
Makes: 4 servings Total Carbohydrates: 6 grams per serving Hands-on Time: 10 minutes Total Time: 2 ½ hours This dish is just so incredibly simple and good. It’s a slight riff on a classic Persian celery stew that an Iranian friend made for us (okay, her non-Iranian husband is who actually made it for us). It spotlights humble celery and also employs the Middle Eastern power-duo of mint and lemon.
Tofu, Broccoli, and Radishes with Curried Peanut Sauce
Makes: 4 servings Total Carbohydrates: 15 grams per serving Hands-on Time: 25 minutes Total Time: 45 minutes Full disclosure: because my daughter is a vegetarian, we can actually go for weeks without cooking any meat. In other words, we are no strangers to the blank-canvas charms of a package of tofu.
Roasted Lemon-Parmesan Asparagus
By Catherine Newman Hands-on time: 10 minutes Total time: 22 minutes Makes: 4 servings Total carbohydrates: 5 grams per serving At the beginning of asparagus season, when it’s so fresh and exciting that I can’t believe I get to live on the same planet as it, I like asparagus cooked as simply as possible. For me that means barely boiled in a shallow panful of salted water and dotted with a bit of butter before serving. Later, though, I like to expand my repertoire.
Roasted Lemon-Parmesan Asparagus
Hands-on time: 10 minutes Total time: 22 minutes Makes: 4 servings Total carbohydrates: 5 grams per serving At the beginning of asparagus season, when it’s so fresh and exciting that I can’t believe I get to live on the same planet as it, I like asparagus cooked as simply as possible. For me, that means barely boiled in a shallow panful of salted water and dotted with a bit of butter before serving. Later, though, I like to expand my repertoire.
Low-Carb Vanilla Panna Cotta
Panna cotta, which means “cooked cream” in Italian, is so easy to make yet so deliciously fancy that you’ll feel like you’ve performed a magic trick. It’s gently set with gelatin, and virtually any combination of dairy or nondairy will work here – plain yogurt, milk, cream, half and half, coconut milk, whatever you’ve got. However, if you reduce the fat to nothing you will definitely lose the velvety richness that makes this so wonderful.
Fan Favorite Low-Carb Chicken Recipes for (Pretty) Fast, (Pretty) Easy Dinners
Four recipes to transform that boring package of chicken breasts into a delicious low-carb meal It’s true that lots of food folks will turn their noses up at skinless, boneless chicken breasts. They’re not famously flavorful or famously juicy, and they’ll never have saucy bones to gnaw or crispy skin to snap off and devour. But, oh, they are so easy. And they make such a perfect blank canvas for mouth-watering sauces. Plus, if you have a package of chicken breasts, you’ve got dinner.
Herby Grilled Chicken
Catherine Newman offers an endlessly adaptable recipe for grilled chicken, and makes the case for why you don’t need to go through the trouble to marinate your chicken ahead of time. At some point, I stopped marinating chicken because, honestly? You get the most flavor from a marinade if you put it on the chicken after it’s cooked. I don’t know what you call an after-the-fact marinade, but you’ll love how vibrant and zesty the chicken turns out when you make it this way.
Summer Smash-and-Fry Burgers
As everyone who is avoiding carbs or gluten already knows, a burger wrapped in a single leaf of lettuce is a fine thing to eat, but it’s not like eating a burger on a bun. And this isn’t either, really, but oh, it is so much closer. Using crispy cuts of iceberg lettuce not only gives you a bun-like way to hold your burger and fixings, but it also adds a satisfying crunch. Plus, you’ll have plenty of lettuce leftover to make a salad.
Cauliflower “Mac and Cheese”
In Catherine Newman’s low-carb take on comforting mac and cheese, cauliflower stands in for pasta as a canvas for decadent cheese sauce. Cheesy and rich, this cauliflower “mac and cheese” will impress even the greatest of vegetable haters.
Perfectly Simple Guacamole
Makes: 4 servings Total carbohydrates: 7-10 grams per serving (depending on the vegetables you dip) Hands-on time: 5 minutes Total time: 5 minutes Probably you think your favorite part of chips and guac is the chips, but if you make really excellent guacamole and serve it with an exciting assortment of vegetables, you might not miss those chips as much as you imagine. Feel free to add whatever you like to this recipe: salsa, chopped tomatoes, even corn kernels.
Mini Spinach Ricotta Frittatas
These protein- and fiber-packed spinach, ricotta, and mozzarella egg muffins are a filling yet healthy weekday breakfast option. These individually portioned spinach and cheese egg bites are one of my go-to recipes. They're not only portable but also are so filling and satisfying, and while they're low-carb and a high source of protein, they don't taste like they're trying to be healthy.
Hops Speak: America’s Emerging Brewing Tradition
We’re witnessing something in the beer world as rare as the birth of a new indigenous language: the emergence of a new national brewing tradition. What is national tradition? It’s a cultural institution, invisible, yet strangely powerful. Like other cultural institutions, it is created and perpetuated by interaction and familiarity. If you cross the border between Bavaria and Bohemia on a train, the landscape doesn’t change; the climate and soil doesn’t change.
The Case for Encouraging Kids to Craft
It’s true that our kids’ fiber-craft book Stitch Camp is chock-full of boredom-busters and gifts kids can make, and those are great reasons to — sales pitch alert! — buy it for your children. But there’s also a bigger, deeper case for kids crafting, and it’s this: people who do meaningful things with their hands are happier than people who don’t.
14 Gentle Swears We Wish Would Make a Comeback
With a sweet cream cheese "frosting" and chopped milk chocolate, this take on red velvet cake will knock the socks off your guests.
Craft Project: Picnic-tastic Lunch Mats
Make four portable picnic-perfect place mats with just one yard of fabric! Prepare to enjoy a lovely outdoor meal on these very stylish picnic-ready place mats! They’re perfectly portable — just slip your utensils right into the pocket.
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