Chef Daniel
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Gingersnaps
Recipe Updated 12-12-2020 to add the option for ground cloves. Gingersnaps are a crispy cookie variation of gingerbread, and are ideal for dunking in coffee or liqueurs. One 2-inch (2.5 cm) cookie sprinkled with sugar has about 55 calories and less than 10mg of sodium. Gingersnaps are traditionally rolled in ...
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Creamy Red Lentil & Tomato Soup
Creamy Red Lentil & Tomato Soup combines high fiber and protein lentils with nutrient packed tomatoes. It is an easy, delicious, alternate to tomato soup. One cup (240 ml) of Creamy Red Lentil & Tomato Soup has about 105 calories, 300 mg of sodium, and 5 grams of fiber.
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Almond Butter Cookie Recipe
Almond butter cookies are an alternative to peanut butter cookies. This recipe can be used to make both. You can substitute creamy or chunky peanut butter for the almond butter. If you are allergic to peanuts, carefully check the almond butter label for processing in a plant that also processes peanuts. ...
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Cheese Crisp
Cheese crisps are crisp flour tortillas covered with melted cheese and tops, if desired, with salsa, sour cream or guacamole. Tortillas can be baked or browned on a griddle, topped with cheese melted in a hot oven. Cook’s Tip To easily break baked tortillas in half or quarters, light score ...
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Microwave Oven Poached Eggs
Poached eggs can be part of a low calorie breakfast or used in a variety of recipes. Traditional poaching using a skillet or pan of boiling water can be messy and up to 50 percent of the white can be lost during poaching. The white provides most of the eggs protein ...
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Fresh Strawberries with Ice Cream
Fresh Strawberries with Ice Cream is a refreshing dessert for about 300 calories per serving. Restaurant desserts can provide 1,000 calories or more; as many or more calories than their entrees. Many diets restrict or eliminate desserts claiming they are high in calories, sugar, and fat. Using sweet, ripe fresh fruit ...
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Charro Beans (cowboy beans)
Charro is Spanish and Mexican for horseman or cowboy. Charro Beans (frijoles charro, cowboy beans) are my favorite Mexican-style bean side dish. Charro Beans are made with pinto beans, also used for refried beans, that are left whole in a spicy, soupy broth. You can adjust the heat to your ...
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Bolognese Style Meat Sauce (ragu alle bolognese)
Bologna, Italy not only gave the world one of its most popular cold cuts, bologna (mortadella), but a meat based tomato sauce made with carrots and celery. Who said pasta isn’t healthy? The flavor and thickness of Bolognese sauce comes from simmering several hours to reduce the liquid content and ...
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Poultry Tomato Sauce
Poultry tomato sauce is lower in saturated fat and calories compared to beef and pork sauces. Not all pasta sauces require hours of cooking and stirring. Using any cooked poultry you have on hand, you can prepare this sauce in about 45 minutes. You can also use raw poultry. Sauté ...
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Homemade Pastry Flour
All-purpose flour is a common ingredient in the United States for most homemade cakes, cookies, pies, and pastries. The gluten content of all-purpose flour can vary from brand to brand and even from region to region. One bakers success story is an others failure. First, professional bakers measure ingredients by ...
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