Recipe Skill Level: Easy
Lemon Cookies
Lemon Cookies are easy, chewy, cookies bursting with real lemon flavor not lemon extract. You can adding lemony, hard royal icing or omit the icing and save about 16 calories 1 teaspoon of added sugar per cookie. Add more or less lemon zest depending on your taste.
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Spicy Chicken Kabobs (kebobs)
Whether you spell it kabob or kebob, these easy, nutritious, low calorie, reduced sodium, quick cooking, colorful, recipe is a special treat you can serve anytime and for any occasion. Spicy chicken kabobs have a bit of heat, about 350 calories and 54 grams of protein per kabob. Make the marinade mild, medium, or spicy ...
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Easy Pan-Fried Catfish
Fried catfish is a southeastern favorite. Tradition recipes dip the fish fillets in milk or buttermilk, dredge in self-rising cornmeal, and fry the fillets in several inches of oil. This simple variation, based on my pan-fried fish recipe, takes only minutes to prepare and uses only enough oil to brown the ...
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Oven Blackened Fish
Oven Blackened Fish is for people who like Cajun-style blackened fish but don’t like the smoke or mess of pan blackening the fish. Some method for cooking blackened fish are dangerous for the novice cook, and who wants to thrown out a good piece of fish? You can use your ...
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Madras Lentils
Madras Lentils is a spicy Indian recipe packed with healthy, high fiber tomatoes, lentils, and beans. Prepared versions like the one pictured below have about 500 mg of sodium per 5 oz. serving. For rich flavor without adding more salt, increase the amount of spices. Prepared Madras Lentils, as shown ...
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Lemon Tea Bread
If you like lemons or limes, this simple Lemon Tea Bread is bursting with lemon flavor and perfect with tea or coffee. Lemon Tea Bread is an easy sweet bread using grated lemon zest. The glaze is made using lemon juice adding more lemon flavor but glazing the bread is ...
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Fried Vegetables
Fried vegetables are popular in Italian and other cuisines like Japanese and Thai. The biggest differences is the types of vegetables used by Italians, the batter ingredients, and frying in olive oil. Frying any food dramatically increases calories, but the fat calories come from healthy fats like olive, avocado, or canola ...
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Black Bean and Corn Salsa
This colorful, hearty Black Bean and Corn Salsa can be be eaten with corn tortilla chips, as a condiment for seafood tacos, eggs, and breakfast burritos or for taco salads and nachos. One-quarter cup (4 tbps. 60 g) has about 80 calories, and 4 grams each of dietary fiber and ...
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Creamy, Cheesy, Pasta and Cheese
Americans love macaroni and cheese. There are two versions—baked and not baked. Baked versions with lots of sauce and breadcrumb topping requires more time to make and is higher in calories. Many Americans opt for the simple, inexpensive boxed versions that do not require baking. Simply cook the pasta and ...
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Batter Fried Seafood
Batter Fried Seafood has been around for over a hundred years. Fish and chips is a popular English pub and American restaurant meals. Even decades after the Roman Catholic Church lifted the ban on eating meat (beef and pork) on Fridays, Friday Fish Fries are still popular throughout the United States. ...
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