Chef Daniel
All Recipes and Posts by Daniel
Spicy Turkey Chili Recipe
If you love chili but are concerned about using high saturated fat beef you can easily substitute ground turkey for all or part of the beef. Chili powder and other spices gives chili it unique flavor. Most beef eaters will not notice the difference. I use 93% lean ground turkey that ...
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Italian Style Vegetables
Southern Italian cooking is rustic, home cooking using simple, high quality ingredients. At it’s simplest this recipe has 5 ingredients; vegetable, salt, olive oil, garlic, and black pepper. When make with green beans, it is a low calorie alternate to green bean casserole. This simple Italian Style Vegetable recipe can ...
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Chocolate Brownies
Americans love chocolate brownies. Brownies are classified as a bar cookie. The trick to making good brownies is not overcooking or undercooking the batter. There is a fine line between perfectly cooked brownies, overcooked dry brownies, and gooey undercooked brownies. Since oven temperatures very use the cooking time range provided ...
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Steel Cut Oatmeal
The popularity of steel cut oatmeal has increased in the United States over the past few years as more and more Americans demand and buy minimally processed foods. Unless cross-contaminated in the field or during processing, oats are a gluten-free whole grain. Several brands of certified gluten-free oats are available ...
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Pasta with Cauliflower and Asparagus
Pasta with fresh vegetables is as common in southern Italy as pasta with tomato sauce. More often than not in the United States, a large plate of pasta and frozen pasta meals are drenched in tomato or white sauce. Unlike low fiber Italian-American pasta dishes, one serving of Pasta with Cauliflower ...
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Simple Homemade Tomato and Olive Pizza
Americans love pizza. They love it so much, many diet gurus advocate eliminating pizza from the diet of Americans overweight and obese. The reasons are simple. Too much dough made using white flour and too much high calorie, high sodium cheese and meat. Usually, the meat, like pepperoni, is highly ...
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Simple Chicken Enchiladas
Mexican food, or what Americans believe is Mexican food, has taken the United States by storm. Some say it is the number 1 ethnic cuisine followed by Italian food. But most ethnic cuisines are nothing like their true origins. The simply, inexpensive Sonoran and Tex-Mex foods popular in the U.S. ...
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Gluten Free Gumbo
Gumbos are usually thickened and flavored with an oil and wheat flour rue. The oil adds calories unless you skim it off prior to serving and flour is off limits for people with celiac disease. This recipe cuts calories by limiting the amount of oil to 1 tablespoon (15 ml) ...
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Brandy Alexander Pie
Brandy Alexander Pie has a creamy mousse-like filling with a hint of brandy and Creme de Cacao. This deluxe pie has a lighter filling than chocolate cream pie and is perfect for special occasions. Brandy Alexander Pie is a special recipe you won’t find at your locale restaurant or bakery. One ...
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Baked Stuffed Fish Fillets
Fish is a regular source of protein for millions of Italians living along the coast of the Italian peninsula. Baked Stuffed Fish Fillets is an elegant recipe takes only minutes to prepare an you won’t find on the menu at most Italian-American restaurants. Nutrition Information Nutrition value is based on ...
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