Recipe Skill Level: Easy
Lasagna For Four
Lasagna For Four uses no boil lasagna noodles available at most supermarkets. Briefly soaking the noodles in hot water cuts baking time in half and the noodles do not absorb as much sauce resulting in a moister lasagna. One box of Barilla® no cook lasagna contains about 15 sheets; enough ...
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Tomato Meat Sauce (Ragu)
Tomato sauce is a relatively recent addition to the Italian culinary scene. Hundreds of years after the tomato was introduced to Europeans it was still considered poisonous. Today, some organizations classify the tomato as a super food. How times have changed. Although this recipe is for Tomato Meat Sauce you can ...
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Apple, Pear or Banana Fritters
Fruit Fritters are a quick, easy alternative to pancakes and waffles, and simpler than make than donuts. You could call them fruit flavored doughnut holes. Fruit Fritters can be made in advance, and refrigerate and reheat them in a microwave or toaster oven. Reheating Fritters in a toaster oven retains ...
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Microwave Oven Quick Cooking Oatmeal
Microwave Oven Quick Cooking Oatmeal is an inexpensive healthier alternative to instant oatmeal. Oats are a high fiber, gluten-free, whole grain that can keep you feeling full longer, lower blood cholesterol and maintain normal bowel function. If you have celiac disease, buy oats that are verified gluten free to reduce the ...
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Ricotta with Fresh Fruit
Enjoy Ricotta with Fresh Fruit for breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, or dessert. It is a low calorie alternative to cheesecake. An equivalent weight slice of cheesecake can have over 3 times as many calories (about 700 calories). You do not need 700 calories from a dessert if your goal is ...
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Red Potato Salad Recipe
Fresh, flavorful, Red Potato Salad Recipe with no artificial ingredients or preservatives and made from red potatoes only. You can substitute or combine white or Yukon gold potatoes in this recipe. Some prepared red potato salads reduce manufacturing costs by using a combination of red potatoes and russet potatoes. The ...
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Baked Fish and Potatoes Recipe
Baked Fish and Potatoes is a simple, low calorie and sodium recipe that serves 4 to 5 people. It uses frozen fish fillets that allows you to make this recipe any time in just about 90 minutes without having to first thaw the fish. The 60 minute cooking time thaws and cooks ...
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Continental Breakfast
This simple continental breakfast provides about 455 calories. Substituting two biscotti for the chocolate chip cookies for a 400 calorie breakfast. That’s equivalent to two toaster pastries with out coffee or tea. This recipe has 36 percent less carbohydrates from refined wheat flour in toaster pastries and other prepared toaster and microwave oven ...
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Simple Candied Yams Recipe
Are they yams or sweet potatoes? The bright orange tubers sold in many parts of the United States are actually sweet potatoes and can be used for pies and other desserts. The color comes from beta carotene also found in carrots, pumpkin and butternut squash. A true yam is white ...
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French Toast Recipe
French Toast has been around for hundreds of years. Prior to preservatives and store-bought sliced breads, most home baked and bakery breads would become stale in a day or two. Europeans and other peoples bought freshly baked bread daily. Since there were no freezers, preserving breads for weeks or months ...
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