Every Day Fit Gourmet

By Ted Hunting

Overworked with little time but want to eat great food every day while staying fit and healthy?

Welcome to your source to learn how to cook great food from around the world every day. Most of my recipes use a single pan, a chef's knife, one cutting board, and a few other Every Day Fit Gourmet tools that you probably already have in your kitchen. Along with tips for healthy cooking and staying fit... every day. It's been a 25 year adventure to figure it out and it's a journey I would like to share with you!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Ted Hunting
• Release date: Aug 29, 2011
• ISBN: 9781466043183

Ted Hunting

A high tech marketing guy with no time who loves gourmet food from around the world, eats it every day, and cares about staying fit and healthy.

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Foreword: What You Will Walk Away with…

The Promise…

What if you could…LOVE Your Food. Eat Healthy. Stay Fit. Every day? And it was Easy! With one pan, a handful of tools, 30 minutes or so, and an optional glass of wine (on some nights!), you can cook a gourmet meal that is healthy - even after a crazy day of work. That’s what this book will teach you to do. My lifelong quest to figure it out is here. What if …Your soul and taste buds were nurtured… your body could look and feel great ….and your mind was energized? As a man who is passionate about cooking and loves different foods from around the world, passionate about staying fit and has far too many time commitments (as we all do), I still wanted to eat great gourmet food every day. What it took me years to learn, I’d like to share with you. Your itinerary to gourmet food from around the world that is healthy and easy, awaits…

The Philosophy…

This book is about Eating, Feeling, and Living Great. It’s central to my life and what I prioritize above all else. We all know people who are in great shape but eat like rabbits. And we know others who love and eat great food whose taste buds are in heaven but their bodies look like hell. My mission has been to bring it all together: great food every single day with a super-fit body, while living the life of an overworked Silicon Valley marketing executive. It took me years of testing, tasting, traveling, experimenting, listening, and learning. My lab was my own life: whether it was eating at my favorite restaurants – from curry houses while visiting my London-based boss for business meetings, unique restaurants with my wife like the Martini House, French Laundry, or Ad Hoc in nearby Napa, cooking for friends and family, traveling the globe on business and asking waiters and chefs for tips – and then always experimenting, modifying, and listening to how flavors and techniques go together to make incredible food. And while learning to cook gourmet food, I studied and read to learn about food science to reduce bad fats, increase good proteins and vegetables, and limit over the top less healthy gourmet meals to once a week. I needed to learn how to cook gourmet food but with an eye to health.

Although I have many more complex time-consuming recipes I’ve created over the years, I am not including those recipes here. I typically, once a week, make my own homemade pasta, pizza crust, or tomato sauce from my garden but you won’t find those time consuming passions here. I’ve selected the easier every day ones – items in my personal recipe database I always had categorized under fast/easy or weekly regulars. With these recipes and techniques, you will eat great food from around the world, every day, easily, and stay fit.

But the book also has tips on diet, exercise, and things I have learned as an avid runner, windsurfer, skier. Because a fit mind and body is a great combination. And to paraphrase workout revolutionary Jack LaLanne if exercise is king, then diet is queen. It’s a holistic balanced approach with tips that combine great food with a healthy body.

Great food to me is the ultimate natural possession and something everyone can and should have. Great food is different. Unlike other possessions that wear out, lose their luster, or you get bored with and acclimated too (think that new car), great food always tastes great. It doesn’t lose its appeal and every time you taste it, it is that good! Other possessions people always need more of to get the same joy – whether its money, bigger houses, or drugs – but great food doesn’t dull your senses nor does its impact wear off. Like a cool glass of ice cold water after a hike or day in a hot yard always tastes THAT good. Great food is the ultimate luxury and I like to think it’s one of the natural/right pleasures because it doesn’t lose its luster. And unlike possessions that require vast amounts of money, great gourmet food and great health (if done with the right techniques and ingredients, a good daily diet, and some exercise thrown in) is something we can all have, every day.

As a guy whose father died young from food and maybe enjoying life a bit too much, I took my father’s love of food and combined it with the healthy lifestyle I love. This is my how to manual for Every Day Fit Gourmet that I’d like to offer up to you and your friends and family. My father’s father and other relatives who ate healthy food lived into their 90’s. And work-out revolutionary Jack LaLanne also lived into his 90’s eating healthily yet he claimed his mother died young from poor diet/lifestyle that led to cancer. I’ve seen the apparent contradiction between great food and healthy diet/body and the quest to combine the two has driven me for over 25 years.

But enough reflecting. It’s time for us to get started. No more eating like a rabbit, lusting after real food while the body looks great but the soul and taste buds are starved! Each recipe comes with comments on preparation or tips to improve health. I hope the techniques I’ve presented to you as a fellow chef or lover of great food can apply to your own recipes for your own family and friends. This isn’t just a cookbook, it’s really a guidebook. So get ready to Love It, Learn It, – and most importantly – Live It! Your food and your life.

Ted Hunting

San Ramon, California 2011

Note on Servings: Most recipes here yield 4-5 servings. It’s how I developed them as I cooked for my family. But now with kids off to college, I’ve found the extras go into the fridge for another meal later in the week. So the time you spend cooking one meal can actually yield two. I purposely selected recipes that were not only easy to prepare but worked well for leftovers, with flavors that mingle and often get better in the refrigerator. So if you are cooking for a family of four, just for yourself, or you and another food lover, these portions will work perfectly.

Note on Time: Recipes are noted with Low, Medium, High in terms of effort/time needed. Some nights I am just too tired to cook and I pick a low effort recipe. Many of the higher effort recipes the first time you cook them you may want to hold for a weekend. But it should be noted that all recipes are ones I typically cook after a busy work day. And once you try a recipe, the next time you cook it you will spend even less time as you get familiar with the recipe and the techniques.

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Every Day Fit Gourmet - Chinese

Mongolian Beef

Chinese Chicken with Colored Peppers

Chop Suey

Every Day Fit Gourmet – Italian

Roman Chicken with White Wine, Garlic, Rosemary, Farfalle

Fettuccine Carbonara

Prosciutto, Tomato, and Vegetable Ragu with Penne

Farfalle with Prosciutto and Green Peas

Penne Arrabiata (with hint of bacon)

Light Veal Bolognese with Spaghetti

Every Day Fit Gourmet - American

Filet of Beef with Chipotle-Chili Rub with Mashed Potatoes

Chicken with Herbs and Wine with Mashed Potatoes

Garlic Chimichurri Flank Steak

Grilled Chicken Breasts Sandwiches with Rosemary, Lemon

Hatsy's Pork Steak

Herbed Wine-Glazed Pork Chops with Red Potatoes

Every Day Fit Gourmet – French

Pork Medallions in Mustard Green Peppercorn Sauce

Bistro Chicken with Garlic Sauce and Mashed Potatoes

French Veal Stew with Leeks, White Wine and Egg Noodles

Veal Scallops with Cognac and Fresh Herbs, Baguette

Every Day Fit Gourmet – Mexican

Filet Steaks and Chipotle Sauce, Roasted Sweet Corn, Mashed Potatoes

Grilled Torta Chicken Sandwiches with Avocado

Carne Asada Soft Tacos with Tomatillo Salsa

Every Day Fit Gourmet – Indian

Golden Chicken Curry

Kohlapuri-Style Chicken

CHINESE

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Mongolian Beef

Every Day Fit Gourmet Comments:

We’ve all had this one at restaurants but most versions are high in sodium, deep fried and