List of Recipes
Barbecue (BBQ) Sauce
Making homemade BBQ Sauce takes only minutes. While it does not have the shelf-life of prepared sauces with preservatives, it does have up to 40 percent less sugar and up to 80 percent less sodium. This BBQ Sauce is perfect on beef, chicken or pork, or can be used for ...
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Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta)
For many Americans Beans and Pasta (Fagioli e Pasta or Pasta Fagoli) is a bean and macaroni soup. For Southern Italians Beans and Pasta is a hearty mixture of cooked beans, elbow macaroni, and tomato sauce. The sauce can have meat or be meatless for a vegetarian version. Whether you ...
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Tuna Salad
Tuna salad can be used to create a variety of salads or a quick sandwich. For this Tuna Salad recipe, you can use canned tuna, salmon, or both. Salmon provides more anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids than tuna. A basic tuna salad is made using canned tuna and mayonnaise. Diced sweet ...
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Egg Salad
Egg Salad provides about 9 grams of protein per serving, but is also high in cholesterol. While currently U.S. dietary guidelines no longer restrict the number of eggs you should eat, if you have high cholesterol you may want to restrict the number of eggs in your diet. Egg Salad ...
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Hearty Slow Cooker Beef Stew
Hearty Slow Cooker Beef Stew is a simply 1-pan meal that needs no stirring or monitoring. What could be simpler than preparing your stew the night before or morning of your meal and then place it in your slow cooker, go to work or school, and return to a hot ...
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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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Sautéed Spinach
Leafy greens, like spinach, are often labeled superfoods due to the abundance of nutrients, and low calories. Sautéed Spinach is a simple recipe to prepare spinach or any left green in only minutes. You can doubled or tripled the amount of spinach or greens. The only limit is the size ...
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Shrimp Scampi
Shrimp Scampi takes only minutes to cook and is a popular Italian restaurant menu item you can easily make at home. With shrimp prices lower than they have been for years, shrimp is affordable on almost any budget. As always, the larger the shrimp, the higher the price. Shrimp Sizes ...
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Macaroni Salad
This is not the mushy, runny, macaroni salad available pre-packaged or at grocer delis. The pasta for this macaroni salad recipe maintains its firmness even after several days of refrigeration. Like most home made foods, this macaroni salad has little or no additives and preservatives. If you are concerned about ...
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Snickerdoodles
Updated 12-12-2020: Reduced flour weight from 390 to 350 grams. Snickerdoodles are easy, crisp cookies bursting with cinnamon flavor that you can store in a cool dry place for months or freeze for 6 months or more. Snickerdoodles are a refrigerated shaped cookie. The dough must be refrigerated from 2 ...
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