Recipe Skill Level: Easy to Moderate

Homemade Ham and Cheese Omelet

Easy 2-Egg Omelette Recipe


Whether you spell it omelette or omelet, versatile omelettes are another way of cooking beaten eggs, and you can prepare this easy 2-egg omelette recipe dozens of ways. Omelette cooking times take about twice as long as making scrambled eggs, but it is worth the extra effort to enjoy a delicious ...

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Homemade Fig Preserves

No Pectin Fig Jam-Preserves

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No Pectin Fig Jam-Preserves is a simple recipe for homemade fig jam or preserves with up to 30 percent less sugar and calories compared to national and store brands. The difference between jams and preserves is whether the fruit is whole or sliced. Both terms are used interchangeably. Using ripe, ...

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Buttermilk Pound Cake with Ice Cream

Buttermilk Pound Cake


If you like buttermilk cakes but do not usually buy or drink buttermilk try buttermilk powder. You can store a carton of buttermilk power for over a year in your refrigerator. Buttermilk powder is available at many supermarkets in the baking section along with flour, sugar and other ingredients. Pound ...

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Homemade Buttermilk Biscuits with Strawberry Preserves

Easy Buttermilk Biscuit

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An Easy Buttermilk Biscuit recipe you can make in about 5 minutes using a food processor or you can mix and knead the dough by hand. If your biscuits made with all-purpose flour are too dense, use pastry flour for a lighter texture. Due to the high fat content, one biscuit ...

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Microwave Oven Pouched Eggs

Microwave Oven Poached Eggs

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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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Homemade Chocolate Mousse

Chocolate Mousse

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This easy homemade chocolate mousse recipe uses cooked egg yolks and meringue powder to reduce  the risk of bacterial contamination from eating raw eggs. Mousse is high in saturated fat due to the chocolate, butter, egg yolks, and heavy cream. One seeing has 19 grams. Enjoy Chocolate Mousse in moderation ...

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Homemade Pesto Chicken Pizza

Pesto Poultry Pizza

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Basil pesto replaces tomato sauce for this pizza. You can use leftover chicken, turkey or other poultry. Nutrition Information Nutrition information is based on home cooked, low sodium poultry (no added sodium solution). When using prepared poultry the amount of sodium can double. Related Recipes Basil Pesto Basic Bread Dough ...

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Homemade Chocolate Candies

Chocolate Candy

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Using this recipe and semi-sweet chocolate you can make a variety of chocolate covered nuts, cherries, coconut, peanut butter, and more. Almonds are an excellent source of healthy fat and protein. This recipe can be doubled or tripled. Nutrition Information Nutrition information ranges are lowest for chocolate covered coconut to ...

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Homemade Sugar Cookies

Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing

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Sugar Cookies with Royal Icing are crisp, thin cookies average about 75 calories per cookies without icing and have virtually sodium free when made with unsalted butter. Salted butter adds about 6 mg per cookie. Most cookie recipes call for 1/2 tsp. (2.5 ml) of salt. I normally omit added ...

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Pasta with Sausage and Winter Squash

Pasta with Winter Squash & Sausage


Eating pasta with vegetables is as common in Southern Italy and Sicily as eating spaghetti and meatballs in the United States. Pasta with Winter Squash & Sausage is made with lean Italian sausage and low sodium chicken stock sounds rich, but an 11 oz. serving has 520 calories, 300mg of sodium ...

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