Recipes and Posts Tagged lemon

Lemon Spice Cookies

Lemon Spice Cookies

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Lemon Spice Cookies are a rolled, thinly sliced cookie recipe you can make days or even weeks in advance and bake fresh when ready to serve. Dough is wrapped in wax paper and plastic wrap or aluminum foil and refrigerated at least 12 hours to stiffen the dough for slicing. Lemon ...

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Lemon Chicken Soup

Lemon Chicken Soup

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Lemon chicken soup is a refreshing, simple recipe that takes less than 1 hour to prepare and cook. If you have lemons coming out of your ears and you’re ready to shoot the next person who suggests you make lemonade, try this soup with only 170 calories per 1-cup serving ...

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Fried Fish with Lemon Caper Sauce

Quick Pan-Fried Fish With Lemon Caper Sauce


This variation of my pan-fried fish recipe you can make in 15 minutes or less. It is low in fat and sodium compared to frozen and restaurant fish fillets. Use any filleted fish for this recipe. Fillets up to 3/4″ (18 mm) should be fully cooked in 6 minutes (3 minutes per ...

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Homemade Lemon Cookies

Lemon Cookies

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Lemon Cookies are easy, chewy, cookies bursting with real lemon flavor not lemon extract. You can adding lemony, hard royal icing or omit the icing and save about 16 calories 1 teaspoon of  added sugar per cookie. Add more or less lemon zest depending on your taste.

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Lemon Tea Bread

Lemon Tea Bread

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If you like lemons or limes, this simple Lemon Tea Bread is bursting with lemon flavor and perfect with tea or coffee. Lemon Tea Bread is an easy sweet bread using grated lemon zest. The glaze is made using lemon juice adding more lemon flavor but glazing the bread is ...

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Lime Meringue Pie

Lemon Meringue Pie Recipe

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Lemon meringue pie is an American favorite. While tart lemons are generally used you can substitute Meyer lemons in this recipe for a milder lemon flavor. This Lemon meringue pie recipe is cool and refreshing with a hint of tartness, a light airy meringue, firm lemony filling, and flakey crust. ...

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Homemade Ginger Tea

Ginger Tea

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Fresh ginger root has been used for 1000’s of years to relieve nausea and indigestion. Fresh ginger tea takes just minutes to make and you can enjoy it plain or with lemon and orange juice. Citrus juices add 5 to 10 calories per serving. Omit honey and juice for a ...

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Homemade Zuppa Inglese (English Trifle)

Zuppa Inglese (Italian Trifle)


Zuppa Inglese (Italian Trifle) literally translated means English soup. It is an Italian desert similar to Tiramisu that is neither a soup nor English. Zuppa Inglese is based on the English Trifle and predates Tiramisu. It is an easier, lower calorie alternative to Tiramisu. Custard replaces high calorie mascarpone cheese. ...

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Homemade Creamy Guacamole

Basic Guacamole


Guacamole is Aztec for avocado sauce. This basic guacamole recipe produces a creamy version similar to prepared guacamole available from most grocers. Whether creamy or chunky (hearty), guacamole takes only minutes to prepare. This recipe requires only four ingredients: Ripe avoados Prepared salsa Lime juice Salt (optional) Although avocados are ...

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Homemade Shrimp Cocktail

Seafood Cocktail Sauce

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Homemade Seafood Cocktail Sauce has as little as 4 ingredients and takes less than 5 minutes to make. You can use the sauce immediately. For more intense flavor, refrigerate overnight. The amount of sodium in your sauce depends on the brand of ketchup you use. Use a reduced sodium ketchup ...

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