About this item
This collection of 60 set-it and forget-it recipes aims to support a variety of wellness goals for optimal health. From Detox and Calm to Rebuild and Strengthen and more, each chapter's recipes utilize specific ingredients that help lower stress, decrease inflammation, and improve gut health. Combining the convenience of a slow cooker with accessible ingredients like ginger, mushrooms, chocolate, and turmeric, these dishes are simple enough for home cooks of any skill level. Each chapter comes with a detailed guide to the featured healing ingredients, making it easy to explore how they benefit the body. Start the journey to healthful eating with the flip of a switch!
About the Author
Jennifer Iserloh -- trained chef, certified health coach, and healthy cooking celebrity -- believes that life should be celebrated every day through healthy eating that is both delicious and incredibly nutritious.Her mission is to empower people to take on a bigger role in their own health, serving up delicious tasting power meals made with super foods, that are so much more than just a comfort food make-overs.As a healthy recipe developer, Jennifer has created thousands of delicious recipes, articles, and blogs posts for TV, print and web publications including The Today Show, Living Well With Montel, SELF, Prevention, In Style, People, First For Women, AOL KitchenDaily, The Huffington Post, Epicurious, and LiveStrong.In addition to her own bestselling books 50 Shades of Kale (2012) , Active Calorie Diet (2011) , Secrets of a Skinny Chef (2010) , and Yoga Body Diet (2010) , she was also the recipe developer for Elisabeth Hasselbeck's Deliciously Gluten Free (2012) , The Drop 10 Diet (2012) , Jessica Seinfeld's Double Delicious (2010) and Deceptively Delicious (2007) , as well as Joy Bauer's Food Cures (2007) .After graduating with honors from the Institute of Culinary Education in 2003, she worked in kitchens throughout Manhattan as well as interning with cookbook authors (like Tyler Florence of the Food Network) where she learned recipe development first hand. Shortly thereafter, she served as a private chef working in the homes of exclusive clientele such as Annie Leibovitz, Susan Sontag, and Jerry and Jessica Seinfeld. In 2012, she became a certified health coach through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition.Through her blog at skinnychef.com she attracted interest from NBC producers and began to spread her passion for healthy cooking through radio and television, making appearances on the Today Show, CBS, NBC and other local TV and radio programs. Currently she is the host of Livestrong Woman's Healthy Cheats and Food Courting, two internet TV shows. In late 2012, she will begin hosting her own broadcast TV show weekdays for the Health and Wellness Network.With Skinny Chef, Jennifer's mission is to show families that healthy cooking can be fresh, fun and flavorful - including techniques from professional kitchens to empower people to take on a bigger role in their own health while enjoying life more.
