American, 500 or fewer calories Recetas

Ham, Peas & Pasta Salad

A nice choice for a summer cookout or picnic, this pasta salad can be made up to a day ahead for convenience. My pasta choice for this is ditalini,…

Chocolate Chip Zucchini Cookies

Zucchini cookies much like pumpkin cookies tend to have a cake-like texture rather than crisp or crunchy from the extra moisture of the vegetable.…

Avocado-Chocolate Muffins

After getting inspired to include the healthy mono-unsaturated fats, as well as many as 20 valuable nutrients in the avocado in baking, I found a…

Buttermilk Pear Cake with Rum Soaked Strawberries

Adapted from: Weight Watchers Annual Recipes for Success 2009. This is a heavenly, light dessert. Enjoy…

Easy Dinner Rolls for a Large Group

Classic recipe for yeast rolls from the Satellite Cafe in Missouri.

Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage rolls, cabbage burgers, bierocks, there are likely as many names as there are recipes for one of my childhood favorites. Alessa and I…

Halloween Spider Cupcakes

Healthy oatmeal berry muffins double up as cupcakes for Halloween!

Raspberry Topped Poppy Seed Cookies

A perfect dainty cookie for tea time, Valentine's Day, Christmas, or other special occasion. Buttery-rich,…

Fresh Corn Salad

A friend of mine here in Dallas made this side salad to go with sliders and it was fantastic.

Oven Baked Spicy Chicken Fingers

Summer is here and it is picnic time! Alessa and I will be featuring some wonderful picnic recipes this month…

Favorite Buttermilk Waffles (with Whole Grain option)

Buttermilk makes baked products divine, and this is the way I use it in waffles. White whole wheat flour or…

Perfect Bread and Butter Pickles

Not too sweet and not too sour, these old-fashioned pickles are crisp and crunchy. " Better than Grandma's" is…

Mexican Corn and Potatoes

In the Summer roast the fresh corn and while doing that roast those Serrano's. The additional smoky flavor will only enhance this. I like to…

Cowboy Soup 1

Butternut Soup easy party food and Quick appetizers

This year the Famers Almanac says that it will be a cold and early winter. Be sure you are prepared with…