Spa Cuisine Recipes
Spa Cuisine Recipes to Nourish Your Body and Soul
Spas provide food the way it’s meant to be: delicious and nutritious. Spa cuisine recipes nourish our bodies and our souls.
So how can we enjoy spa cuisine recipes in our everyday lives to enhance our optimum physical functioning and enjoyment of life? Here are some marvelous web site and book resources to infuse your kitchen with exquisite spa cuisine recipes.
Start with a visit to the Spa Index site. This comprehensive web site features sumptuous spa cuisine recipes from spas–and discerning spa enthusiasts–around the globe.
There are hundreds of spa cuisine recipes for breakfast, snacks, vegetables, beverages, sandwiches, wraps, soups, salads, breads and muffins, entrees, side dishes, and condiments and sauces. There are even bariatric-friendly recipes and entire spa cuisine recipe collections. Most recipes are accompanied by photos. Just the revitalizing fruit smoothies featuring fresh, healthy ingredients from papaya to pomegranate will have your mouth watering. And yes, there are recipes for herb-infused spa water.
Recipes from Rio Caliente Hot Springs at About.com
Carbs are good for you–whole grain, complex carbs, that is.
The Rio Caliente Hot Springs Health Spa nestled in the Sierra Madre mountains near Guadalajara, Mexico features grain-based, complex-carbohydrate, low-fat, no-salt cuisine. Their spa cuisine recipes are complemented with ample fresh fruits and vegetables and optional dairy products.
Rio Caliente spa cuisine recipes are based on the principle that this type of food such is so accessible to the metabolic process that there are no “leftovers” stored by the body. This makes for losing weight without effort. The spa cuisine recipes include a typical day’s menu at the spa. A few succulent offerings include orange beet with clove salad, hearty granola and pineapple-alfalfa juice. The Rio Caliente spa cuisine recipes underscore the importance of low-fat protein, complex carbs, little or no mass-produced dairy in our daily diets to maximize well-being.
Amazon offers scores of spa cuisine recipe books, but two are the best selling titles: Healthy Spa Cuisine: 400 Signature Recipes from the World’s Top Spas by Lynn Nicholson and Tracy A. Smith, and Canyon Ranch Cooks by Barry Correja and Scott Uehlein.
Healthy Spa Cuisine: 400 Signature Recipes from the World’s Top Spas features succulent and nourishing spa cuisine recipes from more than 60 of the world’s most renowned 
spas. The book includes low-calorie, high-taste recipes such as:
* Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa’s Maine Diver Scallops with Grilled White and Green Asparagus and Oven-Dried Apricots, and
* Mi Amo at Enchantment Resort’s Smoked Salmon on Blue Corn Cake with Melon and Avocado Relish
In 2000, Gourmet magazine named Canyon Ranch as the world’s best spa. In 2001, Travel & Leisure magazine readers voted Canyon Ranch as the country’s number one spa for spa cuisine recipes.
Canyon Ranch Cooks features more than 200 tantalizing spa cuisine recipes, all accompanied by nutritional analysis–and many accompanied by photographs. Few of the spa cuisine recipes are complicated, and many can be prepared in less than 30 minutes–yet they are exquisite. A sampling includes Potato-Crusted Salmon with Dijon Shallot Sauce and Chocolate Cake with Raspberry Filling. Canyon Ranch uses only fresh, seasonal ingredients and foods free from additives, preservatives, and chemicals as the centerpiece of taste and nutrition.
Many of the spa cuisine recipes in featured in these web sites and books are easy to prepare–so there’s no need to feel intimidated if you’re not a gourmet chef! Here’s to enjoying life and good health!
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