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The greatest gift you can give to your children is the gift to know how to eat well. Maria Menounos-journalist, Star TV Reality and the most sold author - is proof of this. The star fell 40 pounds to enter its renowned bikini shape and she thanks her mother, litsa, to teach her to cook healthy and simply. The most recent entrance in its best-selling healthy lifestya series isThe recipe book of all girlsAnd his mission is to share the wisdom of the health and weight loss of Menounos with the world.

"My goal is to teach you to cook unique and delicious recipes that, for the most part, are fast, healthy, simple and simple," says Maria. Most of the recipes of his new book are particularly aware of health inspired by his father, Costas, who eats a strict diet in order to manage his type I diabetes. "[My mother] refused to leave her food needs and time And its budget limits prevent it from cooking amazing meals. "

That said, you have to live, and so we asked the TV to share some of its most deliciousDessert recipes and ideas.

Find more superb desserts - as well as healthy, simple and delicious catches on everyday mealsThe cooking guide of all girls (Zinc ink, 2016).

I tend to eat desserts only when I entertain, and even in this case, I usually do so many aperitifs and dinner items that there is not much room for dessert. But who can say no to a chocolate chocolate cookie? Especially when I pulled them perfectly to get out of the oven so that people can eat them while they are hot. There are other great desserts inThe guide of all girls of life as good asThe food guide of all girls of food and fitness... including alternatives without lower calorie culpon.

You might think that banana bread like a breakfast treat, but it also hits the place at the end of the evening meal, so do not throw these black bananas! Transform them into the wettestBanana bread You will never meet. The ripping bananas, the better the flavor.

2 cups of all-purpose flour, more extra for the pan
1 1/2 c. Soda
Pinch of salt
8 c. TBSP (1 stick) Non-salty butter, at room temperature, more for the pan
1 cup of granulated sugar
2 big eggs
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
6 mature bananas, mashed
1 cup of chopped walnuts

1. Preheat the oven to 325ºF. Butter and flour slightly a 9-inch drinking.
2. In a bowl, whip the flour, baking soda and salt to the combination.
3. In a large bowl (using an electric mixer, if desired), beat the butter and sugar until the combination. Beat in the eggs and vanilla, then the mashed bananas, leaving pieces of Chunky banana.
4. Fold in the flour mixture just to the combination. Fold in the nuts.
5. Scoop the dough in the prepared pan. Cook for 50 minutes at 1 hour, until a tooth cure inserted into the bread comes out with a few wet crumbs.
6. Transfer to a wire holder to cool for 10 minutes. Run a knife around the bread in the pan; Carefully remove the pan. Let cool completely on a wire rack.

All advice:

1. To facilitate the mix, make sure your butter is at room temperature. After dropping the sticks into the mixing bowl, use
   Butter stick packaging to grease the bread stove.
2. The cooking time will vary with the type of fruit used. Apples and pears take longer cook than fisheries.
3. Add the ice cream with vanilla or cool whip on top. Yum!

Guests love it when you serve these cookies outside the oven - Hot and Melty! If you do it yourself, make sure you eat one in this way (then keep the rest for later).

1 cup of pecanes
1 3/4 cups of all-purpose flour
1 C. Soda bicarbonate tea
1 C. TSP salt
1/2 c. Cooking powder
1 cup (2 sticks) Non salty butter, cool, but not cold
1 cup of brown sugar
1/2 cup of granulated sugar
1 whole egg and 1 egg yolk
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
2 cups of old oats or fast oats
1 1 / 2CUPS SEMISWEET CHIPS or CHUNKS
1/2 cup of unsweetened or sweet coconut

1. Preheat the oven to 350 ° F.
2. Spread the pecans into a single layer on a rim cooking sheet. Toast for 8 minutes, or until slightly brunned around the edges. Let cool; Cut roughly.
3. In a large bowl, mix the flour, baking soda, salt and cooking powder.
4. In a large bowl with an electric mixer, cream butter and both sugars until they are fluffy. Reduce the speed and add the egg and yellow, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Beat in vanilla. Gradually add the flour mixture, beat until you just be incorporated.
5. Using a spatula, fold in theOats, chocolate, coconut and grilled cans until just be combined.
6. Cooking line with parchment paper or anti-stick lining, or slightly layer with cooking spray. Remove the dough in rounded soup spoons on the leaves prepared about 3 inches apart. Cook a leaf at a time, for 12 to 14 minutes, until gold around the edges, but always a little moist in the middle.
7. Transfer the sheet to a wire holder and let cool for 5 minutes. Using a spatula, transfer cookies to a rack to completely cool.

All advice:

1. You can make dough a few days in advance - it will stay in the refrigerator until you are ready to cook.
2. If you want cookies that are crisp on the outside and
   Chewy inside, be sure to subclects a little.
3. If you have a culinary robot, make the dough in which; This will make cookies more "soft".

You can buy strawberries soaked with perfect chocolate and pretty at the store, or you can have fun with and do them yourself. I think the imperfect house version is more special! Have fun with the designs; This is the point to do them yourself. I like trying to make them look like my guests so they can try to guess what is theirs. (Psst! Strawberries are # 8 on eating this, not that! Guide to15 The fruits and vegetables of most antioxidants are classified!

Black chocolate chips 4 oz
White chip chips 2 oz
12 strawberries
Granulated sugar
Crystals of big grain sugar, all colors

1. Place the chocolate in two separate glass bowls and microwaves in intervals of 30 seconds until fusion, stirring between the two.
2. Holding a strawberry at the end of the stem, dip in the dark chocolate, leaving the excess chocolate to turn into the bowl.
3. Transfer each bay soaked on a cake plate bordered with wax or parchment paper and let the chocolate harden. When you set each BRACE down, drag half an inch on the side to prevent the chocolate from shaking under the bay.
4. Sprinkle the melted white chocolate on the berries. Repeat with the remaining bays. Before the chocolate goes to bed, sprinkle on one side or the pointed ends, with powder sugar or large sugar.

All advice:

1. Have these professional soft offices look like by adding a white chocolate drizzle or a pinch of spark sugar.
2. It works for any fruit or even pretzels!

Here's another dessert consisting of more traditionally used ingredients at breakfast. I say mix and match!

4 cups of sliced ​​peeled fruit, such as apples, pears or peaches
3 c. Granulated sugar
1/2 c. TSP Cinnamon Crumble
1 cup of all-purpose flour
1 cup of fast or old oats
1/2 cup of brown sugar
1/2 c. Cinnamon
1/4 c.
8 c. Soup (1 stick) Non-salted butter, melted

1. Preheat the oven to 350 ° F.
2. In a large bowl, mix the fruits sliced ​​with sugar and cinnamon. Pour the fruit into a pie pan.
3. For the crumble: in the same bowl (no need to wash), combine the flour,groats, brown sugar, cinnamon and salt. Fold in molten butter until the mixture forms wet tufts.
4. Sprinkle the crushing mixture on the fruit. Cook for 45 minutes or until the garnish is golden and the fruit bubbling.

Greek yogurt is thick and rich and just like ice if you serve ice.

1/2 cup of covers a DIYGreek yogurt
2 TSP Honey
3 strawberries, trenches
2 c. Soup with chopped almonds

In a server bowl, stir the yogurt and honey. Top with strawberries and almonds.

EVERGIRL TIP:

Substitute the agave for honey or a different fruit or nut; All you have by hand!

Like the bad boys, the good bread and the music of Katy Perry, the dessert is an empty promise that is bad for you, but so hard to resist. Just a breath and we are angry in the first time we heard "Dream Teenager." So forget the eating board to jump dessert. It would be great if it happened, but it will not happen. So, how do we turn on dessert in something that is just as much indulgence, but much less a diet? Here are seven simple strategies that you can use to make sin deliciously a little more nutritional. And speaking of hacks, do not miss these1 minute of hacks dinner that save tons of time!

To help control the calories you are taking a cheesecake slice, tell the server not to high with berries and a mint strand. According to a study published in theJournal of Consumer Research, people tend to subactiously subtract calories from a dessert when it is surmounted by something "healthy", then eating more! Beware of the health halo when considering the dessert, then remember that the addition of food on your plate - even if it is healthy, never subtracts calories.

Play Betty Crocker can enhance the pleasure you receive from the finished product leading you to absorb less calories. Pleasure, according to research published in the newspaperTrends in endocrinology and metabolism, catalyzes the relaxation response, promoting parasympathetic and digestive activities. In other words, you metabolize the dessert faster if you really are, really enjoy eating it. A study published in the Psychological Science journal found people who were preparing for a glass of lemonade reported the drink much more tasty than those who watched someone else whipping the same recipe. Get more metabolism tricks and advice with these55 best ways to stimulate your metabolism!

New research suggests that dessert with breakfast can help keep hormones from low hunger, delete desires and maintain weight loss. A recent study revealed obese participants who have eaten a big breakfast that included a lost dessert 15 pounds over 16 weeks; Participants who ate a non-dessert breakfast have earned an average of 24 pounds.

While the smell of a rich dessert can make your mouth hot apple pie, anyone? -Thearom can help you eat less. A study in the newspaperFlavor I found participants significantly less less than a dessert that felt strongly vanilla than a slightly scented variety. Keep your thin efforts with these20 ways of losing weight forever!

There is no bad way to eat Reese, as long as you have a way to see you. In a study, participants were asked to eat a chocolate bar. Half an hour has been attributed to a ritual to break and overflow, while the others have just eaten the bar informally. On average, ceremonial eaters have found that candy is more enjoyable and even tastier.

Eating in front of television is hardly a good idea, especially if what is air related to food, researchers say. A study in the newspaperAppetite Randomized dieters to watch a cooking television show or nature while presenting a range of treats. People who watched the cooking program have eaten 34% of candy more candy than nature observers.

Directly in the trash. The only thing worse for your size a big slice of cake is a big slice of cake with one side of guilt. A study in the newspaper Appetite found people with a weight loss goal that has associated a chocolate cake with a guilty feeling of not power Stop sugar cravings were less successful in losing weight compared to those who associated the indulgence with the celebration. So enjoy your cake; it's good for you.