Entertaining - Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson

Cooking for parties or special occasions can be difficult when trying to eat healthily. Cook Smart Entertaining provides almost 100 specially selected recipes that are tasty and fun enough for a special occasion but still enable you to follow a balanced diet. Provide great finger food for parties, celebration dinners that will impress friends or go al fresco with a picnic with one of these easy recipe ideas.

Enjoy a lunchtime Deluxe Prawn Cocktail or take a fragrant Herb Loaf for versatile picnic food. There are recipes for a sophisticated evening meal; Asian Tuna Parcels or Braised Pheasant with Port and Mushrooms are impressive but healthy when done the Weight Watchers way. Round the evening off with a light take on a seriously indulgent Chocolate Roulade.

There are also suggestions for seasonal celebration food: a Garlic and Rosemary Leg of Lamb is perfect for an Easter Sunday lunch, and Cream Hearts with Passion Fruit are the perfect pudding for a romantic Valentine's meal. A whole chapter is dedicated to delicious finger food and nibbles for bigger parties and casual entertaining. Enjoy light bites such as Tomato, Thyme and Goat's Cheese Tartlets or introduce some Asian flavours with Thai Fishcakes with Sweet Chilli Dip or Simple Sushi.

With this book, healthy entertaining has never been so easy.