Chef Daniel
All Recipes and Posts by Daniel
Lemon Tea Bread
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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Fried Vegetables
Fried vegetables are popular in Italian and other cuisines like Japanese and Thai. The biggest differences is the types of vegetables used by Italians, the batter ingredients, and frying in olive oil. Frying any food dramatically increases calories, but the fat calories come from healthy fats like olive, avocado, or canola ...
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Black Bean and Corn Salsa
This colorful, hearty Black Bean and Corn Salsa can be be eaten with corn tortilla chips, as a condiment for seafood tacos, eggs, and breakfast burritos or for taco salads and nachos. One-quarter cup (4 tbps. 60 g) has about 80 calories, and 4 grams each of dietary fiber and ...
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Creamy, Cheesy, Pasta and Cheese
Americans love macaroni and cheese. There are two versions—baked and not baked. Baked versions with lots of sauce and breadcrumb topping requires more time to make and is higher in calories. Many Americans opt for the simple, inexpensive boxed versions that do not require baking. Simply cook the pasta and ...
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Batter Fried Seafood
Batter Fried Seafood has been around for over a hundred years. Fish and chips is a popular English pub and American restaurant meals. Even decades after the Roman Catholic Church lifted the ban on eating meat (beef and pork) on Fridays, Friday Fish Fries are still popular throughout the United States. ...
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Taco Seasoning
Make your own taco seasoning is simple and economical. This homemade taco seasoning has up to 75 percent less sodium compared to packaging taco seasoning. Unless you like your taco filling super spicy, 2 tablespoons of this mix seasons 1 pound (450 g) of meat compared to almost 6 tablespoons of packaged ...
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Extra Lean Italian Turkey Sausage Stuffing
Italians have been stuffing poultry since ancient Rome. This extra lean turkey sausage stuffing recipe replaces pork sausage with turkey sausage made with 93 percent lean ground turkey and 88% lean or leaner ground beef to reduce saturated fat and calories. You can further reduce saturated fat and calories by ...
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Puff Pastry Apple Turnover
Are you tired of apple turnovers that are more turner than apple? With typical supermarket bakery turnovers you get about 1 tablespoon of apple filling per turnover. A teaspoon holds the filling in one-half of this turnover. The ratio of pastry to filling is 3:1 by weight or 1 ...
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Carrot and Pineapple Cake
Carrot and Pineapple Cake adds crushed pineapple for a cake or cupcakes that are moister than regular carrot cake. Like carrot cake, it is a rich, high calorie cake even without cream cheese frosting, Like most cakes, Carrot and Pineapple Cake can be frozen allowing you to enjoy a slice or cupcake ...
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Citrus-Herb Grilled Chicken
Citrus-Herb grilled chicken is marinated in lemon or orange juice flavored with herbs instead of salt reducing sodium to 350 mg per serving or less depending on the type of chicken used (broth injected chicken adds sodium). You can use boneless skinless chicken breast and broil rather than grill the chicken. ...
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