Kim McCosker - 4 Ingredients. Fast, Fresh and Healthy

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DIGITAL ISBN: 978-1-4019-3371-5 14 13 12 11 10 6 5 4 3 2
1st printing, August 2010
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Since the release of our first book, we have been constantly asked to bring out a recipe book that focuses on a healthier lifestyle. As everyone knows, our forte is making meals simple and easy to prepare. So when the opportunity came up to work with the foremost authority on mind-body medicine in the world Deepak Chopra, we believed that this was perfect timing. Through our collaboration, we believe we have come up with the best of all worlds when it comes to delivering healthy and simple meals.

For those of you who have not been exposed to Ayurvedic principles, its a tried and true ancient system that is followed by millions of individuals around the world. Ayurveda, in Sanskrit, means "the science of life." It is a philosophy thats been around for at least 4,000 years, focusing on prevention, healing and wellbeing. Balance is very important in Ayurveda and strives to harmonise through the combination of diet, meditation, massage, essential oils and herbs. The pure Ayurvedic principles that Deepak and many others follow are much deeper and more precise than what we have presented in this book. It was Deepaks intention only to touch on the principles and offer some guidelines by way of an introduction to what is possible. The recipes may not follow the strictest Ayurvedic requirements, but that wasnt the purpose of this book.

Our intention is to introduce the concepts of what has worked so well in the East, in the hope that our readers can apply them to their very busy and demanding lifestyles. We wish to encourage everyone to explore all forms of a healthy and holistic lifestyle so that healthy, and simple choices become the obvious ones to make See you on the journey! We are continually amazed at how the journey of 4 Ingredients has grown from two mums who had a desire to write a cookbook, to help save time and money and put great food on the table for our families, to the global enterprise it has grown into in just a few years. Of course this did not happen without LOTS of time and energy and without some special people in our lives. We would like to thank Leon Nacson from Hay House for approaching us with the possibility of working with Deepak Chopra and then making this book happen. Thanks so much to our incredibly supportive husbands who are still happily taste testing all our delicious 4 ingredient recipes and minding our beautiful children. We could NEVER do what we do without both of you! To our gorgeous family and friends who have helped us research, compile, shop, cook, clean and taste-test hundreds of recipes for this book.

There are many of you but wed like to pay special thanks to Jennette McCosker, Spud Moore, Jules Boag, Wendy Beattie, Michelle Tuite, Jeff Thode, Angela Covino and Dan Primmer this book is what it has become because you all sprinkled your magic within its pages somewhere. To our beautiful team who help us keep the balance; Mel Davis, Leona Bowles, Melinda Dines and Danae McAulay for often going above and beyond the call of duty to help make our lives MUCH easierthanks girls! Thank you to all of you who have sent us recipes, we delight in receiving every single one of them. Food is the ultimate universal language; we all have to eat and its exciting receiving recipes from all over the world. So please, keep them coming, we will experiment with all of them. And finally, to all of you for buying our cookbooks to use yourselves or as gifts for others, we know youll absolutely LOOOOVE this book. Not only will it enable you to get delicious recipes on the table for you and your family, it will also help you save time and money in the kitchen and hopefully be your mind and bodys new best friend! Happy Cooking! 4 Ingredients offers a wide range of yummy recipes, cooked for our families and friends for many a BBQ, party, Sunday dinner, Friday drinks and so on.

In all our trials and errors there seemed to be a bunch of staple ingredients we always called upon. What we aim to do in this section is help you stock your kitchen pantry with those basic ingredients that will help flavour, make and save many a dish and event from peril. Please note: In this book we have not included salt, pepper and water as part of the 4 Ingredients. A complex conversion table is not required as all you need to make the recipes within each edition of 4 Ingredients are:

1 Teaspoon	=	1 tsp.
1 Tablespoon	=	1 tbs.
1 Cup

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