Recipes

Light & Tasty Salad

This is an easy salad that presents beautifully and great as your salad course for company. When used with my recipe for lemon garlic vinaigrette, each salad is only 150 calories. MISE EN PLACE INGREDIENTS: 4 Cups spring mix salad 4 Plum tomatoes, quartered and seeded 2 Yellow pepper, roasted, peeled, seeded and cut into […]

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Mexican Huevos Benedictos

After having a version of these at the Enchantment Resort in Sedona, Arizona, I had to come home and do what I could to duplicate the dish. This is a delicious twist on Eggs Benedict. Mexican Huevos Benedictos (Mexican Eggs Benedict) incorporate the wonderful flavors of Mexican cuisine and Southwestern flavors that have become so

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Prosecco Margarita

For Father’s Day, Instead of Mimosas, treat your dads to a Prosecco Margarita. This recipe is courtesy of Chef Marcella Vallodolid. INGREDIENTS: 1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed lime juice (from about 15 limes), plus slices for garnish 1 cup tequila blanco, or to taste 1/2 cup Cointreau 1/2 cup simple syrup, or to taste (see

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Lettuce Wraps

This is another recipe I developed for my daughter’s fitness group that offers great taste with minimal calories and fat grams. I presented it to her group as a bite size appetizer. You may use whatever type of lettuce you prefer. The calories and fat grams listed at the end of this recipe reflects this

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Middle Eastern Kabobs

  After visiting Kuwait and enjoying their food, I was especially enamored of their kabobs. I was determined to come home and replicate it. I tried several recipes that I found and ended up pulling from different recipes to come up with my own. The Kuwaiti’s use lamb for their kabobs so I use the

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A Meal-In-One Salad

My mother would make this salad often, especially during the summer. No need to fix anything else as this salad has vegetable, starch and protein. She always made it with sardines and used canned green beans. I kicked it up a notch with fresh green beans and shrimp. If you love sardines, by all means

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Italian Meatballs

I first learned how to make meatballs from my Aunt Margaret. As you have read in other posts, her mother-in-law immigrated to the United States from Sicily and my aunt learned many spectacularly delicious Italian dishes from her. In all the years that I have been making them, they have evolved into a recipe that

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Mixed Berry Dessert

Looking for a refreshing summer dessert that is healthy and satisfying? Look no further. A few years back, when my daughter owned a physical fitness boot camp, she asked me to come up with some healthy recipes for her clients. This is one of them. MISE EN PLACE INGREDIENTS: FRUIT: 1 Cup fresh or frozen

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