Recipes From Cuisine: American

Oven Fried Chicken Breast Tenders

Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken

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You can make this simple Crispy Oven-Fried Chicken recipe using chicken pieces or boneless, skinless chicken (breast, tenders, thighs). American chicken weights have doubled over the past 20 years.Today, it is rare finding a 3 to 3.5 pound chicken. Super-sized chicken provide super-sized breasts.  One chicken breast half (photo below) can weight ...

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Banana Chocolate Chip Muffins

Easy Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Muffins

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Easy Banana Nut Chocolate Chip Muffin recipe is perfect for using bananas too ripe to eat. It makes moist, slightly sweet muffins with a hint of chocolate. Unlike store bought muffins or muffin mixes, you control the amount of sugar there are no artificial ingredients or preservatives unless you use ...

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Whole Wheat Potato Bread

Whole Wheat & Potato Bread

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This Whole Wheat & Potato Bread recipe uses whole wheat and white flour and instant potato to produce soft loaf bread, buns, and rolls superior to store bought breads and with no preservatives or chemical additives. Instructions are provided to make and kneed this bread dough using a stand mixer ...

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Yellow Cake With Strawberries

Basic Yellow Cake

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A simple butter based yellow cake recipe for single and multiple layer cakes, Boston Cream Cale/Pie, and cupcakes that takes only minutes to make. Margarine can be substituted to reduce saturated fat content. Flavorings You can use any pure extract can be used for this recipe; vanilla, lemon, almond, orange. ...

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Pan Fried Summar Squash

Pan Fried Summer Squash

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Zucchini, a summer squash, is a very low calorie vegetable due to it’s low fat high water content. Four ounces (113 g) of zucchini or yellow squash has less than 20 calories. An appetizer made popular during the 1980s is fried zucchini. Breaded slices of zucchini, breaded, and deep fried. Breading ...

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Herb Crusted Roasted Cod

Easy Herb and Garlic Roasted Fish Fillets

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asy Garlic and Herb Roasted Fish Fillets is bursting with flavor, simple to prepare, and cook, and has less than 200 calories per serving. You can use any white fish fillet in this recipe with a thickness of 1-inch or less. Pictured are cod and tilapia. Roasting time is for ...

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mango peach smoothie

Mango Peach Smoothie


Recipes do not get much simpler than smoothies. You just place all ingredients in a blender and process until smooth and creamy. Smoothies can be thick or thin. A smoothies sweetness usually comes from natural sugars instead of added sugars. You can make dozens of variations of this mango peach ...

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Easier Than Apple Pie


Americans love pie. Pies are part of America’s British roots. But instead of kidney pies, Americans crave sweet fruit pies made with apples, strawberries, cherries, and blueberries, and for the holidays pumpkin and mincemeat pies. Pies take healthy, low calorie fruit, add lots of sugar to make the filling, and then ...

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Puff Pastry Chicken Pie

Easy Puff Pastry Chicken Pot Pie


Puff pastry chicken pot pie has large pieces of white meat chicken and lots of vegetables in a creamy white sauce without the high calorie pie crust. A light, tender puff pastry top replaces the usually double crust pie. You get: More chicken and vegetables Less calories, fat, and sodium ...

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Salad with homemade 1000 Island Dressing

25 Calorie Thousand Island Dressing


One memory I have growing up in central Phoenix was an occasional visit to Bob’s Big Boy restaurant for their double decker cheese burger with Thousand Island dressing. The meal was superior to McDonald’s Big Mac™ and fries. Their was no secret to Bob’s sauce. Thousand Island dressing has been ...

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