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Expires 3/13/14 Brass Pointe gw,/,6), 24234 Orchard Lake Rd., N.E. corner of 10 Mile • 476-1377 Open 7 Days a week for lunch & dinner 42 February 13 • 2014 Che 30-Minute Solution In a new cookbook, Ellie Krieger offers fast, easy and healthy recipes for quick meals. I Suzanne Chessler Contributing Writer E llie Krieger recalls a recent aha moment in planning dinner for her family of three. It happened shortly after turning in the manuscript for her latest cook- book, Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; $29.99). In the midst of a busy day that would include getting her daughter to an early evening meet-up, she had to decide on a meal that would be quick to prepare. "I said to myself, 'Wait a second; I have 150 recipes I know for sure will not take me more than a half-hour and will be delicious and healthy:" Krieger explains in a phone conversation from her New York home. "The book is full of solutions for me personally and can make life easier [for others]:' When recommending fast fixes for dinner (including side dishes and des- serts) — with recipes ranging from "Steak Fajitas" and "Provencal Chicken and White Bean Stew" to "Ravioli with Savory Pumpkin Sauce" and "Amaretti- Peach Parfait" — Krieger has factored in prep time, from cutting to preheat- ing ingredients, so that each final dish meets the established time constraint. "In general, I'm a nutritionist and a chef, and I feel people perceive deli- cious and healthy as two separate worlds:' Krieger says. "I want to find the sweet spot where delicious and healthy meet. "Throughout my books, I'm saying taste comes first — the sensual, won- derful factor of food that gets us on that gut level — but tasty food also can be healthy. Each book gets there in a different way, and this one is all about the time:' Earlier books include Comfort Food Fix: Feel Good Favorites Made Healthy; So Easy: Luscious Healthy Recipes for Every Meal of the Week; The Food You weeknight wonders Delicious, Healthy Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less ELLIE KRIEGER Each recipe includes complete nutritional data. Crave: Luscious Recipes for a Healthy Life; and Small Changes, Big Results: A Wellness Plan for 65 Recipes for a Healthy Balanced Life Full of Flavor. In Krieger's own life, taste consider- ations came way before fitness plan- ning. "I was an overweight child:' says Krieger, 48, wife of environmental educator Thom Schuchaskie and mother of Isabella, 11. "I wound up shedding weight in my teens by eating better and focusing on nutrition. "That inspired me to study nutrition as an undergraduate student at Cornell University, and I went on to get my master's in nutrition education with a minor in journalism at Columbia University. "I realized I wanted to write and communicate this all through the media, and that's what I'm doing with my TV show, books and magazine articles:' Krieger, who put herself through school doing modeling and TV com- mercials, completed internships at CNN and CBS, pitched herself to producers as a guest and was invited to launch the syndicated show Living Better with Ellie Krieger. Her Food Network show, Healthy Appetite, came next, and that has moved to the Cooking Channel. The books developed as she was gaining attention on television. With time as the overall theme for Weeknight Wonders, Krieger explains how she changed the standard recipe format for her latest text. Instead of saying "one onion, chopped" as part of an ingredients list, for example, a recipe list might simply