Cooking Light's Favorite Recipes of 2008

It must be fun to work at Cooking Light magazine -- concocting all sorts of healthful recipes and taste-testing all of them. Wait a minute. Maybe that's not so great. Even healthful recipes can land heavily on your hips if you do too much taste testing.

So, in lieu of trying it all myself, I'm happy to accept Cooking Light staffers' picks of the best recipes from 2008. There are 46 recipes in their Greatest Hits of 2008 list -- here are some of the recipes that are tempting my taste buds:

• Seafood Risotto. The three S's in this dish make me a bit weak in the knees: Shrimp, scallops, and saffron. Yum.
  
• Golden Winter Soup. Soup is a favorite in my house, and this one sounds particularly comforting.
• Korean Spiced Beef and Cabbage Rolls. My mother used to make a meat and cabbage "pie" when I was a kid, and I loved it. The Korean spices in this recipe would put a unique twist on a familiar taste.