Yvonne Stephens - Amazing 7 Minute Meals: Over 100 Recipes Ready in Less Than 7 Minutes Cooking Time

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Chef and world-traveler Yvonne Stephens was born in the Netherlands, and as a true Dutch woman, she traveled all over the world, from Latin-America, Asia, Hawaii, the Caribbean, and to most countries in Europe. The love of cooking comes from both her grandmother and mother, who cooked traditional Dutch cuisine and made fresh meals every day. For hundreds of years, the Dutch ruled the spice trade from the Far East to Europe, and because Indonesia was part of the Dutch Royal Kingdom, the taste for Asian food, and creating dishes with a wide variety of herbs and spices, is characteristic of the Dutch.

The philosophy of Amazing 7 Minute Meals is to eat all six nutrients, educating the reader about herbs, spices, hard and soft vegetables, and about the benefits of fresh wholesome food. Using the ancient stir-fry technique, the recipes are cooked quickly, which results in slower digestion, thus resulting in fewer cravings and a greater balance of blood sugar levels. Due to the healthy ingredients, this book will help you fight cardiovascular diseases and lose weight. Yvonne understands that lack of time is the main reason people eat fast food or grab a frozen meal. Sadly, most of those meals are prepared with preservatives, enriched flour, and the worst enemy for our body, trans fats. Yvonne also knows that losing weight is a frustrating problem for peopleand keeping it off is even worse.

She conquered the eating disorder bulimia and has tried every diet possible, including the prison diet of bread and water. She has been yo-yoinglosing and gaining weightfor years. She has learned the real reason why diets do not work: You are starving your body of something it "needs." Most diets tell you to cut out nutrients your body needs, but this creates cravings. As a former spinning, step, and kick box instructor, she learned that an active lifestyle combined with healthy eating is the only way is to lose weight and keep it off. Healthy eating doesnt mean that you have to eat like a rabbit or eliminate bread, rice, and pasta for the rest of your life. Yvonne explains all this in her book Amazing 7 Minute Meals.

As a graduate of the Art Institute of Philadelphia, Yvonne has a vast knowledge of ingredients and cooking techniques. Combining this knowledge with a love of food and the eagerness to learn everything about flavors and infusions, Yvonne has created more than 120 recipes that are ready in less than seven minutes cooking time. In this book, Yvonne will also teach you a few time-saving pre-prep tips and will provide advice to make grocery shopping fulfilling. Amazing 7 Minute Meals brings you recipes from cuisines all over the world that are satisfying, but light. Now, your meals will be healthy, fast, and delicious, leaving more time for family and and other fun activities. This is not a diet! The secret of weight loss and weight management is proper metabolism.

The word metabolism comes from the Greek word for change. And that is what you can easily do change your metabolism by making changes to your life style! Yvonne wants to help you make small, healthy changes that are successful, satisfying, and permanent with Amazing 7 Minute Meals. Knowing whats in your food
is the key to healthy
weight loss and
weight management.
Make it yourself:
No trans fats, no enriched flours,
no hidden chemicals;
just delicious flavors! This is what I will teach
you in Amazing 7 Minute Meals. Yvonne Stephens And the faster you cook it, the slower you will digest it!

Learning and sharing is part of life, but without the love and guidance of my husband, John, who also took the great photos in this book, my son Michael, my parents Wil and Piet, my father-in-law John, Sr., and my dog Trigger, I would not have been able to write this book and survive my eating disorder. I also would like to thank my family in Portugal: Cindy, Paul, Coby, and my beloved brother-in-law Bill, who passed away, but looks down on me and keeps me going strong and proud of a days work, even if the days don't go the way I want them to. Special thanks to my friends Bob Bowersox of QVC, Bobbie Cappelli, my Thai friends Kanjana Overman and Aniwath Vadhanchai for supporting and encouraging me. Trigger, while escorting me on one of our trips through Europe. Trigger, while escorting me on one of our trips through Europe.

Special thanks also to: Math and Lon Barendse of the greenhouses of W. Barendse & Zn. in the Westland, HollandThe Greenery.com Bruce Cobb of ARC Greenhouses, Shiloh, New Jersey, The Chefs of the Art Institute of Philadelphia,
Breville Juicer
and everybody who I didnt mention by name but supported me and my family.

A Few Ingredients The Electric Wok Buddhas Hand Cherry Pepper Shiitake Mushroom Chinese or Garlic Chives Stir Your Way to Health! Our Goal for You in Your Kitchen! All recipes of the Get Real with Healthy Eating series are made with the freshest seasonal ingredients for the following reasons: 1) Optimum flavor and health benefits: Although dried spices and herbs are okay to use, fresh ones have more flavor and add more health benefits because they havent lost any of these advantages in the drying process. 2) Health: Veggies and herbs are loaded with disease-fighting powers: antioxidants, lipocene, pectin, and fiber, just to name a few. And when in-season, they are plentiful, full of flavor, and when prepared in a wok or other pan with stir-fry capability, the cook-time is so short that no valuable vitamins and minerals get lost.