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Easy Christmas Pecan Balls (Snowballs)
This recipe is so easy, anyone can make homemade snowball cookies. Everything in one bowl, mix, refrigerate, shape, and bake. Everyone will ask for the recipe! 🎄
Best Meatloaf Ever!
This may be the best meatloaf you’ve ever had and the healthiest, made with extra-lean beef and added vegetables – and baking on foil means no cleanup.
Faster No Knead Bread
You’ll be amazed how easy it is to make this fabulous bakery-style bread. It’s soft inside with a golden crispy crust. Even amateur bakers can make this.
No Knead Crusty Rolls
Make crusty bakery-style rolls at home – it’s surprisingly easy. There’s no kneading and almost no work at all. These crusty rolls freeze beautifully and re-crisp in minutes.
2-HOUR Fastest No Knead Bread
I found an even faster way to make this amazing bread. Using more yeast and hot water, it’s ready in TWO HOURS! (There is no video for this recipe.)
Simple Whole Wheat Bread
(with egg) It takes just 90 minutes to make this easy, one-rise soft wheat bread… perfect for sandwiches and it makes great French toast.
Cabbage Rolls
I’m sharing my Polish heritage with a simple recipe for cabbage rolls stuffed with ground beef and rice – it’s one of my most treasured recipes. 🇵🇱 They freeze well.
20-Minute Pizza Dough
Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).
Fall-Off-The-Bone Ribs
It’s my never-fail recipe for easy baby back pork ribs. The tender, sweet meat falls right off the bone and they are just as good finished on the grill or in the oven.
Polish Chrusciki – Angel Wings
My mother, Zosia, taught me to make these delicate Polish Christmas cookies. They simply melt in your mouth and make a stunning presentation.
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and gooey homemade cinnamon rolls will be on your table pronto with my easy one-rise recipe. You can even start them the night before and bake in the morning. ⏰
Fresh Cranberries
With a simple, easy recipe like this, there’s no reason to ever use canned cranberries. And cranberries are loaded with antioxidants – five times as much a broccoli!
No Knead Breads
Faster No Knead Bread
You’ll be amazed how easy it is to make this fabulous bakery-style bread. It’s soft inside with a golden crispy crust. Even amateur bakers can make this.
No Knead Crusty Rolls
Make crusty bakery-style rolls at home – it’s surprisingly easy. There’s no kneading and almost no work at all. These crusty rolls freeze beautifully and re-crisp in minutes.
2-HOUR Fastest No Knead Bread
I found an even faster way to make this amazing bread. Using more yeast and hot water, it’s ready in TWO HOURS! (There is no video for this recipe.)
Whole Wheat No Knead Bread
It takes just over 4 hours of doing nothing to make this hearty, Dutch oven whole wheat bread. No Kneading. No overnight wait.
No Knead Fruit & Nut Bread
My whole wheat fruit & nut bread, slightly sweet from a little added sugar and lots of raisins, makes a fabulous breakfast bread. It’s my faster no-knead easy recipe.
Cracked Wheat No Knead Bread
This whole wheat loaf has crunch on the outside and inside from the added cracked wheat, which adds fiber, protein, nutrients, and a delicious nutty flavor.
Easy Crispy Focaccia
It takes 90 minutes (and no kneading) to make this puffy, crispy Italian bread using a baking stone and pizza peel. Make it with rosemary or Italian herbs.
10 Grain No Knead Bread
Make this high fiber bread with 10 grain cereal for a chewy, healthy farm bread. It’s an easy overnight Dutch oven bread.
No Knead (NO DUTCH OVEN) Bread
No Dutch oven? No problem. Make this easy no knead artisan loaf on a baking sheet for a golden, crispy crust and soft interior.
Multigrain No Knead Bread
Anyone with a Dutch oven can bake this foolproof artisan loaf made with oats and whole wheat flour using the overnight method. It takes no work, just time.
No Knead Rye Bread
Make your own rustic rye bread at home with no kneading at all. Use my faster method or start your dough overnight.
2-HOUR Crusty No Knead Rolls
It’s the FASTEST ever way to make my No Knead Crusty Rolls. With more yeast and hot water, make them in just 2 hours. Make ahead and freeze – they re-crisp in minutes.
No Knead Ciabatta Bread
You won’t need a Dutch oven to make this amazing no knead ciabatta bread with a beautiful golden crispy crust.
No Knead Greek Olive Bread
This whole wheat crusty loaf uses Greek kalamata olives for a hearty, healthy, delicious artisan bread with no kneading. It’s great for grilled cheese sandwiches.
No Knead 100% Whole Wheat Bread
UPDATED FASTER RECIPE: There’s no white flour in this crusty 100% whole wheat no knead bread. Expect a heavier and more dense, European style loaf.
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Easy Apple Bread
Two cups of fresh apples make a delicious, lightly sweet bread with a crispy top, perfect for afternoon tea. It’s really easy to make.
Faster No Knead Bread
You’ll be amazed how easy it is to make this fabulous bakery-style bread. It’s soft inside with a golden crispy crust. Even amateur bakers can make this.
No Knead Crusty Rolls
Make crusty bakery-style rolls at home – it’s surprisingly easy. There’s no kneading and almost no work at all. These crusty rolls freeze beautifully and re-crisp in minutes.
2-HOUR Fastest No Knead Bread
I found an even faster way to make this amazing bread. Using more yeast and hot water, it’s ready in TWO HOURS! (There is no video for this recipe.)
Whole Wheat No Knead Bread
It takes just over 4 hours of doing nothing to make this hearty, Dutch oven whole wheat bread. No Kneading. No overnight wait.
Simple Whole Wheat Bread
(with egg) It takes just 90 minutes to make this easy, one-rise soft wheat bread… perfect for sandwiches and it makes great French toast.
Simple White Bread (with egg)
(with egg) This is a white bread version of my popular “simple whole wheat bread.” It’s also quick and easy with just one rise.
Easter Bunny Buns
Too cute! My bunny buns will make any meal a special event. They’re soft, fragrant, and delicious. Make them white or whole wheat. 🐇🐇🐇
Soft Whole Wheat Sandwich Buns
Make healthier sandwiches (or burgers) with these soft, whole wheat buns. They are the exact same recipe as my simple whole wheat bread, shaped into easy buns, takes 1 hour.
No Knead Fruit & Nut Bread
My whole wheat fruit & nut bread, slightly sweet from a little added sugar and lots of raisins, makes a fabulous breakfast bread. It’s my faster no-knead easy recipe.
Cracked Wheat No Knead Bread
This whole wheat loaf has crunch on the outside and inside from the added cracked wheat, which adds fiber, protein, nutrients, and a delicious nutty flavor.
Sesame Seed Hamburger Buns
You’ll never want store-bought buns after you make these easy sesame seed hamburger buns. With my fast one-rise recipe, these soft buns will be ready in one hour. 🍔
Quick & Easy NO YEAST Bread
Can’t find yeast? You can still make this fast and easy bread in 35 minutes, made with buttermilk and baking soda. It’s not like yeast bread, more like Irish soda bread.
Easy Crispy Focaccia
It takes 90 minutes (and no kneading) to make this puffy, crispy Italian bread using a baking stone and pizza peel. Make it with rosemary or Italian herbs.
10 Grain No Knead Bread
Make this high fiber bread with 10 grain cereal for a chewy, healthy farm bread. It’s an easy overnight Dutch oven bread.
Easy Dinner Rolls
My easy recipe uses instant yeast, which eliminates the first rise so you’ll have fresh, soft and fragrant rolls in about an hour and a half. Make them plain or whole wheat.
No Knead (NO DUTCH OVEN) Bread
No Dutch oven? No problem. Make this easy no knead artisan loaf on a baking sheet for a golden, crispy crust and soft interior.
Multigrain No Knead Bread
Anyone with a Dutch oven can bake this foolproof artisan loaf made with oats and whole wheat flour using the overnight method. It takes no work, just time.
No Knead Rye Bread
Make your own rustic rye bread at home with no kneading at all. Use my faster method or start your dough overnight.
Whole Wheat Dinner Rolls
This is my Simple Whole Wheat Bread dough made into rolls. It’s an easy one-rise recipe and makes soft, delicious dinner rolls.
Quick & Easy Sprouted Wheat Bread
Make this easy, healthy loaf in 90 minutes, great for sandwiches or toast. Sprouted whole wheat flour is high in protein, fiber, vitamins and minerals.
2-HOUR Crusty No Knead Rolls
It’s the FASTEST ever way to make my No Knead Crusty Rolls. With more yeast and hot water, make them in just 2 hours. Make ahead and freeze – they re-crisp in minutes.
No Knead Ciabatta Bread
You won’t need a Dutch oven to make this amazing no knead ciabatta bread with a beautiful golden crispy crust.
Quick & Easy Flatbread
Make this soft & puffy flatbread in 30 minutes. It’s more like pita bread or naan and it smells and tastes amazing. There’s a whole wheat version too.
Easy Honey Wheat Bread
(no egg) Making healthy bread doesn’t get any simpler. This easy, soft, whole wheat loaf needs only one rise so it’s ready to eat in less than two hours.
Easy White Bread (no egg)
You won’t find a faster, or easier, recipe for an old fashioned soft white sandwich loaf, made with just one rise.
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and gooey homemade cinnamon rolls will be on your table pronto with my easy one-rise recipe. You can even start them the night before and bake in the morning. ⏰
Braided Cinnamon Raisin Bread
I make this every Easter. I call it “Tunnels of Cinnamon” bread because the braids are filled with delicious tunnels of brown sugar & cinnamon. It’s a show stopper!
No Knead Greek Olive Bread
This whole wheat crusty loaf uses Greek kalamata olives for a hearty, healthy, delicious artisan bread with no kneading. It’s great for grilled cheese sandwiches.
1-Hour Hot Dog Buns
Make fresh, soft, quick and easy hot dog buns in one hour with my simple one-rise recipe. Say goodbye to store-bought buns forever! 🌭😋🌭
Whole Wheat Hot Dog Buns
My easy whole wheat hot dog buns are soft and so easy to make from scratch in just one hour. It’s my simple whole wheat bread recipe made into “wiener holders.”
Simple Easter Bread
With only one rise, my soft and sweet Easter bread is full of golden raisins and you can make it in just over 2 hours. It’s a show stopper.
Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread
With my simple one-rise recipe, make this sweet cinnamon raisin loaf with swirls of brown sugar & cinnamon in 90 minutes.
How To Make Croutons
Simple recipe for fresh homemade croutons made with chunks of ciabatta bread, olive oil, salt & pepper. Start-to-finish: 25 minutes. So easy!
No Knead 100% Whole Wheat Bread
UPDATED FASTER RECIPE: There’s no white flour in this crusty 100% whole wheat no knead bread. Expect a heavier and more dense, European style loaf.
Marble Loaf Cake
There’s no butter in this lightly sweet marble loaf with a chocolate swirl, great for a light dessert or something sweet with tea. I sometimes add fresh orange zest… yum.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Spiced pumpkin muffins with toasted walnuts and dark chocolate chips are bursting with flavor and nutrients, like lots of vitamin A for beautiful skin. No mixer needed.
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Light & lemony muffins with the antioxidant benefits of blueberries, made without butter and lots & lots of fresh blueberries. No mixer is needed.
Simple Garlic Bread
It’s easy to make fresh garlic bread at home in less than 10 minutes. Bake under a broiler or in a toaster oven for a delicious golden top and crispy edges.
Christmas Wreath Bread
My show-stopping Christmas bread is a soft, slightly sweet egg bread filled with golden raisins and decorated with a light glaze and sprinkles. And it’s all made without butter!
Flaxseed Muffins
A super healthy muffin made without butter, lots of fiber, heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and the breast & prostate cancer protection of flaxseeds.
Poppy Seed Roll (Polish Makowiec)
A traditional sweet Polish holiday bread filled with poppy seeds, citrus peel, and almonds. The recipe is easier than you think. Make it once and you’ll be addicted!
Lemon Blueberry Loaf Cake
Fresh blueberries and fresh lemon are the key to this moist and delicious lightly sweet loaf made without butter. You don’t even need a mixer.
Homemade Bread Crumbs
They’re healthier, they taste better, and they’re 100% whole wheat. See how to make your own bread crumbs, both dry and fresh, and seasoned ones, too. It’s quick and easy.
Chocolate Cinnamon Christmas Bread
This is fabulous! It’s an easy one rise recipe. Inside are two kinds of dark chocolate, golden raisins, brown sugar & cinnamon, and outside… a light sweet glaze.
Crunchy Oatmeal Banana Muffins
Soft on the inside, crunchy on top and full of healthy goodness. These whole grain muffins have lots of fiber and protein for a healthy snack or breakfast.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
This easy banana bread comes together quickly with fragrant toasted nuts, dark chocolate chips, and no butter. Make it will all purpose flour or part whole wheat.
Apple Muffins
These muffins are bursting with apples and have a sweet, crispy top. Make them with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.
Buttermilk Biscuits
It takes longer for the oven to heat up than it does to put together this simple, easy recipe for delicious, flaky, homemade biscuits.
Braided Egg Bread with Poppy Seeds
Your house will smell fantastic while this fragrant bread bakes. And it’s an easy one-rise recipe for a fabulous loaf that’s ready in two hours. I use it for my bread pudding.
Homemade Tortillas
From the first time I made these, I’ve never eaten store-bought tortillas since. You’ll need a rolling pin… and will power so you don’t eat them all at once.
Sesame Seed Breadsticks
If you like crunchy food like I do, you will love these crispy breadsticks coated with sesame seeds. Make with all purpose or bread flour or add whole wheat flour for fiber.
English Muffins
Homemade nooks & crannies! The packaged ones will never compare to fresh, homemade English muffins. No oven – you make them on the stove top!
Bran Muffins
These old school muffins get that unique “bran muffin” flavor from molasses and all that fiber will do you a world of good.
Main Dishes - All
Plain Chicken Jambalaya
This is not spicy at all because I make my own homemade creole spice mix. My recipe is plain with just chicken but I also have a version with shrimp. (45 MINUTES)
Vegetable Bean Chili
This healthy meatless chili has 2 kinds of beans and SIX vegetables! Carrots, celery, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and spinach. 🍅🥕 Make it in (30 MINUTES).
Chicken Pot Pie
This easy, healthy chicken pot pie from scratch only takes one hour start-to-finish. Rich & creamy filling, flaky crust, and no cream or butter anywhere!
Best Meatloaf Ever!
This may be the best meatloaf you’ve ever had and the healthiest, made with extra-lean beef and added vegetables – and baking on foil means no cleanup.
Beef Stew
Imagine tender meat you can cut with a spoon and potatoes full of flavor… it’s one of the ultimate comfort foods. This beef stew takes time but it’s easy to make.
Quick & Easy Spaghetti & Meatballs
For the leanest, softest meatballs I use ground sirloin and cook them right in the sauce. Make this family favorite Italian dinner, all from scratch, in (32 MINUTES).
Salmon Patties
Canned salmon makes a quick and healthy dinner. I make patties with red pepper, parsley, onion, and fresh whole wheat bread crumbs. (15 MINUTES)
Cabbage Rolls
I’m sharing my Polish heritage with a simple recipe for cabbage rolls stuffed with ground beef and rice – it’s one of my most treasured recipes. 🇵🇱 They freeze well.
20-Minute Pizza Dough
Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).
Easy Baked Ziti
This easy casserole is my “lazy lasagne” made lean and healthy with ground sirloin and part skim cheeses. I promise you that everyone will ask for seconds.
Mexican Black Bean Casserole
Fresh tomatoes and fresh peppers add lots of nutrition to this easy casserole made with plenty of fiber from black beans & corn tortillas.
Lemon Chicken, Potatoes & Beans
This simple Greek marinade with fresh lemon juice and garlic is soaked up by lean chunks of chicken breast and red potatoes, with healthy green beans. Easy!
Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes
It takes less than 20 minutes to make this simple vegetarian dinner with fresh tomatoes 🍅 & broccoli 🥦 and it all (including the spaghetti) cooks in one pan. (18 MINUTES)
Pan Fried Turkey Meatballs
Lean white ground turkey with just a few simple ingredients make these soft and tasty meatballs – ready in less than 30 min. for your favorite sauce or to freeze.
Oven Chicken Veggie Kabobs
Lean chicken breast and lots of veggies with a quick & simple marinade make a fun and healthy meal you can bake in the oven. Start to finish: 45 minutes.
Sheet Pan Chicken & Vegetables
So healthy and so easy, this one pan dinner is full of health-building veggies with marinated chicken breast, all ready in less than an hour.
Quick & Easy Taco Casserole
GF – With soft corn tortillas, lean beef, pinto beans, and cheese, this easy casserole will quickly become a family favorite. And it’s gluten-free. (4O MINUTES)
One Pot Chicken Veggie Pasta
There are more vegetables than pasta in this creamy, comfort food chicken dish and it all cooks in one pot… start-to-finish including your prep: (30 MINUTES)
Fall Off The Bone Beef Ribs
Just like my pork ribs, these beef ribs fall off the bone too. Make them entirely in the oven or finish them on the grill.
Haluski Cabbage & Noodles
This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)
Spaghetti Frittata with Spinach
Quick and easy vegetarian meal using angel hair pasta, eggs, baby spinach, and Parmesan cheese. Cooks on the stove top – ready in (30 MINUTES).
Spaghetti With Chicken
Lean chicken breast cooked in spaghetti sauce becomes super soft and tender in this easy, low-cal recipe.
Fall-Off-The-Bone Ribs
It’s my never-fail recipe for easy baby back pork ribs. The tender, sweet meat falls right off the bone and they are just as good finished on the grill or in the oven.
Dry Rub for BBQ Ribs
Making your own homemade dry rub is easy and takes five minutes. It’s what I use on my baby back ribs that everyone is making… and loving!
Homemade Barbeque Sauce
Recipes don’t get much easier than this. This is my own creation for a sweet and sticky barbeque sauce. I’ve never found a bottled sauce this good!
Plain & Simple Roast Chicken
They call it Blasted Chicken because you roast it at very high heat for a short time and the result is foolproof – tender and moist chicken every time.
Greek Lemon Chicken & Potatoes
It’s an easy one-pan meal using lean chicken breast and potatoes all roasted in a simple marinade, a perfect example of the healthy Mediterranean diet.
Spicy Mexican Casserole
Lots of fresh tomatoes, whole wheat tortillas, pinto beans, spicy jalapeño peppers, and shredded cheese make a delicious vegetarian meal.
Vegetable Fried Rice
There are lots of healthy veggies (broccoli, spinach, peppers, peas) in this quick vegetarian meal. Add some leftover chicken for a great chicken fried rice. (20 MINUTES)
Angel Hair Casserole
So simple. You’ll need only seven ingredients to make this easy casserole with lean ground beef, mushrooms, and cheddar cheese. It’s the perfect family dinner.
Chicken Veggie Rice
This quick and easy, light, healthy dinner has a bunch of vegetables (your choice), lean chicken, and it all cooks in one pan. Start-to-finish: (35 MINUTES).
Chicken Meatballs
Ground chicken breast makes delicious meatballs with just a few simple ingredients. For the softest meatballs, cook them right in the sauce.
Easy Chicken & Mushrooms
Lean chicken in creamy mushroom sauce cooks in 15 minutes and will disappear even faster. No butter – and probably no leftovers. Serve over rice or noodles. (25 MINUTES)
5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo
There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).
Easy Pan Pizza
Foolproof, easy no-knead pan pizza with a golden crispy crust bakes in a cast iron skillet. It’s the best deep-dish pizza you will ever have!
Skinless Chicken Thighs & Fries
I love this moist chicken with seasoned potato wedges because it all cooks on one pan with no fuss. The chicken cooks on a broiler pan so the fat just rolls away.
Orange Sesame Chicken
This quick & easy stir fry cooks in less than 10 minutes. With fresh orange juice and fragrant sesame oil, it smells and tastes amazing. I love this dish! (20 MINUTES)
Polish Pierogi
My family recipe for Polish pierogi uses a delicious potato-cheese filling. Serve freshly boiled or lightly pan fried. (with sour cream and bacon bits – yes I said it!) 🇵🇱
Quick Mac & Cheese
Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)
Simple Meat Sauce
You’ll barely have time to cook some spaghetti and make a salad with this quick and easy meat sauce using lean ground beef and canned tomatoes. (30 MINUTES)
Fast Rice & Beans
All you need is two cans and a box of rice, some onions and garlic, and you have a quick and healthy dinner with rice, beans and fire-roasted chiles. (25 MINUTES)
Manicotti
Tender melt-in-your-mouth manicotti are made with soft whole wheat crepes filled with three cheeses and topped with my quick & easy spaghetti sauce.
Lemon Chicken Cutlets
Start your side dish first because these cutlets take just a few minutes. Lean chicken breast with parsley & fresh lemon zest is cooked in a bit of olive oil. (20 MINUTES)
Simple Broiled Salmon
All you need is a lemon, some oil, and salt & pepper to make this delicious salmon – and there’s no cleanup! It’s the easiest, healthiest dinner you can make. (15 MINUTES)
Lemon Herb Chicken Breast
This is the easiest and tastiest way I know to cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I baste them with a sauce of fresh lemon juice, olive oil, garlic & herbs. (35 MINUTES)
Grown Up Mac & Cheese
My low fat mac & cheese has vegetables built in but it doesn’t have to be for grownups. Call it rainbow mac & cheese for kids. Make it in (30 MINUTES).
Oven-Baked Chicken Parmesan
You don’t have to fry to get crispy and tender chicken parmesan. Oven baking keeps it light and low fat and my recipe means almost no cleanup.
Creamy Chicken Asparagus Bow Ties
Rich and creamy but light and low fat, this is my version of alfredo sauce over lean chicken and healthy asparagus. It also works with broccoli. (25 MINUTES)
Easy Tortilla Pie
Whole wheat tortillas become soft as butter in this easy casserole loaded with 2 kinds of beans and multi-colored peppers. Customize it either spicy or mild.
Chicken & Peppers
This easy family dinner all cooks in one pan for easy cleanup. Lean chunks of chicken breast with antioxidant-rich multi-colored peppers – cooks in 30 minutes.
15 Minute Veggie Pasta
Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)
Vegetable Lo Mein
Eat your veggies in this easy lo mein recipe and you may never order takeout again. Add leftover chicken, shrimp, or pork and it’s all you need for dinner. (25 MINUTES)
Sardine Cakes
You’ll hardly notice the sardines in this potato patty flavored with green onions and parsley. Sardines are full of minerals and healthy fats. (30 MINUTES)
Barbeque Chicken Pizza
Start-to-finish: 45 minutes! Sweet & spicy bbq sauce on a crispy pizza with shredded chicken & onions – Yum! Make on a pizza stone or in a pan.
Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce
Only 5 ingredients make a fast & delicious sauce for your spaghetti & meatballs or chicken parm. Super easy with canned tomatoes and fresh basil. (20 MINUTES)
Red Beans & Brown Rice
A simple, heart-healthy meal full of cholesterol-lowering fiber and antioxidant-rich peppers. Using canned beans make this an easy one-pan supper.
Easy Turkey Chili
Need a super healthy, super fast dinner? My turkey chili is low fat, high fiber, and full of antioxidants. Everything in the pot. Cook. Eat. (30 MINUTES)
Polish Hunter’s Stew (Bigos)
This is Polish peasant food at its best. Sauerkraut, cabbage, mushrooms, beef, and pork are slow cooked for 2 hours for a hearty pot of comfort food.
Easy Pot Roast
Classic pot roast will bring everyone to the table for a family Sunday supper. This easy recipe produces richly browned meat that’s fork-tender and perfect vegetables.
Black Bean Quesadilla
This healthy quesadilla takes just minutes to make, uses reduced fat cheese, calcium-rich black beans, and healthier, whole wheat tortillas. (15 MINUTES)
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Fresh pineapple makes a huge difference in this quick & easy, healthy stir fry. Different colored peppers mean a bigger variety of anti-aging benefits. (25 MINUTES)
Potato Gnocchi – Polish Kopytka (Kluski)
There’s no place you can buy gnocchi as good as homemade. It only takes three ingredients to make the most tender dumplings, great with any sauce.
One Pan Broccoli Bean Pasta
Make this creamy pasta dinner all in ONE PAN!. It’s made with cancer-fighting broccoli 🥦 and cannellini beans for fiber and protein. (20 MINUTES)
Pepperoni Pizza
If you like your pizza thin and crispy, this is the one to try. My healthier, low fat pizza has a crispy crust, and I’ll show you a trick for de-greasing the pepperoni.
Pork Tenderloin Dinner
Lean & inexpensive pork loin is marinated in lemon, garlic, mustard, and honey, browned and oven-roasted along with a huge pile of healthy colorful vegetables.
Skinless Chicken Drumsticks
You’ll forget these are skinless after marinating them in olive oil, citrus juices, garlic & spices. They’re oven roasted and make good weekend snacks, even cold.
Nachos from Scratch
Nachos can be healthy… if you make them with the right ingredients. My recipe uses lots of fresh veggies, homemade refried beans, and seasoned ground sirloin.
Sweets
Easy Apple Bread
Two cups of fresh apples make a delicious, lightly sweet bread with a crispy top, perfect for afternoon tea. It’s really easy to make.
Easy Christmas Pecan Balls (Snowballs)
This recipe is so easy, anyone can make homemade snowball cookies. Everything in one bowl, mix, refrigerate, shape, and bake. Everyone will ask for the recipe! 🎄
Quick & Easy Chocolate Cake
👍 This is the easiest cake recipe ever! 👍 One bowl. No mixer. No eggs, and only butter in the frosting. For a butter-free glaze, see Baking Without Butter.
One Bowl Lemon Brownies
Everyone is loving this easy recipe. One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Use all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour – it’s a super easy recipe with minimal cleanup. 🍋🍋
Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies
Here’s a simple recipe for soft and chewy oatmeal cookies you can make with raisins or wait for it… chocolate chips! 👍 🍪
Easy One Bowl Yellow Cake
With this simple recipe everything goes in one bowl for a faster, healthier cake. It’s low in sugar and made without butter. Try it with my 2-minute frosting.
Polish Doughnuts – Pączki
Traditional Polish pączki are fried but with my healthy recipe they are oven-baked, then filled with jam. Try my other recipe with homemade custard filling. Both are smaczny! 😋
Simple Apple Cake
One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Super Easy. Anyone can make this easy light cake, made with 3 cups of apples! 🍏🍏🍏 It’s not too sweet, perfect as an apple coffee cake.
Crispy Top Oatmeal Bars
These oatmeal bars have dark chocolate chunks inside with a crispy broiled coconut pecan topping. Make it with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.
Custard Filled Pączki
I love these! This is the same paczki dough as the jelly-filled “Polish Doughnuts.” The only difference is the filling. This version includes my recipe for homemade custard.
Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
Simple recipe. Easy prep. Minimal cleanup. This super easy lightly sweet cake uses chocolate chips (or chunks of a dark chocolate bar) and toasted nuts.
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Choc. Chunk Cookies
These healthier 100% whole grain cookies are soft & chewy and use no white flour or butter. I make them with oats, whole wheat pastry flour and lots of dark choc. chunks.
Quick & Easy Vanilla Cake
This simple one bowl cake uses no eggs and takes just 5 minute to put together. It’s moist & light and so easy, anyone can make it. It’s super easy. 😋
2-Minute Vanilla Frosting
NEW: Make the easiest and fastest vanilla frosting ever with this easy recipe. I only use 2 tablespoons of butter for the fastest possible delicious homemade frosting.
Healthier Apple Crisp
My apple crisp has a 100% whole grain topping of oats and whole wheat pastry flour and it’s made entirely without butter. (Butter option is available)
Chocolate Loaf Cake
My double chocolate loaf cake is full of dark chocolate chips and toasted nuts. Works just as well using all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour. And oh… no butter!
Almond Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies
GF – These gluten-free, low carb cookies are surprisingly good – made with less sugar and full of dark chocolate chunks and toasted pecans. Easy recipe.
Chewy Oatmeal Choc. Chunk Cookies
There is no butter in these wholesome chewy oatmeal cookies made with big chunks of dark chocolate. 🍫 They’re not too sweet and easy to make.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
These chewy bars are full of dark chocolate, toasted pecans, oats and whole wheat pastry flour – no white flour, no butter. Gotta love that!
Gluten Free Lemon Brownies
GF – This is the exact same recipe as my regular lemon brownies but with gluten free flour. It was hard to tell the difference in taste and texture.
Strawberry Cake
This is a special occasion cake best made when strawberries are in season. It’s my healthier white cake with fresh berries and real whipped cream. OMG! 🍓🍓🍓
Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
This is intense. You start with a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar and add even more cocoa for a moist & fudgy brownie made without butter. It’s a really easy recipe.
Kitchen Sink Cookies
There’s something for everyone in this healthy cookie, made with oats, peanut butter, nuts, chocolate chips and coconut but no butter.
Buttermilk Spice Cake
This easy one-bowl cake is made without butter and has a reduced fat cream cheese frosting but I have also made it with my 2-minute chocolate frosting.
Easy Pumpkin Bars
These quick bars are low in sugar and so light you’ll want to eat three! I use less sugar in the batter, and less butter and cream cheese in the frosting.
Zucchini Chocolate Cake
No one will guess there’s a vegetable in this moist, healthier chocolate cake made with vegetable oil and fresh grated zucchini. Works great with whole wheat pastry flour.
Easy One Bowl Coconut Cake
This variation on my easy yellow cake is just as simple. It’s a coconut lover’s dream, topped with a coconut cream cheese frosting and it’s all made without butter.
Tapioca Pudding
Light and fluffy tapioca pudding will take you back to your childhood. This old fashioned comfort food is easy to make from scratch.
High Fiber Cookies
There’s lots of fiber and no butter in this crispy oatmeal cookie made with oats, bran cereal, 100% whole grains, figs, and dark chocolate chips.
Chewy Chocolate Clusters
Dark chocolate, toasted almonds, dried cherries, and raisins make a heart-healthy, chewy chocolate treat. Make it in minutes.
Homemade Butterscotch Pudding
Homemade pudding is surprisingly easy to make, and quick. My easy butterscotch pudding takes just ten minutes to make and tastes a lot richer than you think.
Polish Chrusciki – Angel Wings
My mother, Zosia, taught me to make these delicate Polish Christmas cookies. They simply melt in your mouth and make a stunning presentation.
Oatmeal Fig Bars
These yummy & soft high fiber bars have no white flour or butter, are low in added sugar, and figs are full of vitamins & essential minerals. Lots to love! Great for vegans.
Easy Pecan Pie Bars
With my easy oil crust and no pre-baking, you can make these delicious gooey bars in 45 minutes, start to finish.
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and gooey homemade cinnamon rolls will be on your table pronto with my easy one-rise recipe. You can even start them the night before and bake in the morning. ⏰
2-Minute Chocolate Frosting
It only takes two tablespoons of butter and two minutes to make this impossibly easy and delicious chocolate frosting. Try it on my easy yellow cake.
Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
GF – Here’s why you will LOVE this easy recipe: One bowl. No flour. No butter. No mixer. No shaping. It’s the easiest cookies you will ever make. And they’re gluten free.
Homemade Apple Pie
There is no butter anywhere in my healthier homemade deep dish apple pie. It uses an easy oil crust and THREE pounds of apples. 🍏🍏🍏
Whole Wheat Brownies
These healthier chocolate brownies have no butter! My quick & easy recipe uses olive oil, yogurt, whole wheat flour, toasted nuts & dark chocolate chunks.
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
GF – What an easy recipe! Only four ingredients into a bowl, mix, and bake. Then dip into melted dark chocolate. I make them for parties and we always run out.
Crispy Oatmeal Choc. Chip Cookies
Big crispy crunchy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with no butter, made even crunchier with toasted nuts. They make a great ice cream sandwich.
Chocolate Almond Clusters
Two ingredients. Fifteen minutes. And you’ll never want a candy bar again. Heart-healthy dark chocolate with protein-rich almonds makes a healthy, crunchy, sweet treat.
Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Brownies
GF – They are chewy and fudgy and gluten free. The toasted nuts and added chocolate chips are optional, but why? 🙂 I make them with avocado oil but you can use butter.
Canadian Butter Tarts 🇨🇦
Canadians (like me) love these! My tarts have a healthier and easier oil crust and a sweet, gooey filling. Make them in a tart pan or muffin pan. 🇨🇦
Dark Chocolate Chunk Blondies
You don’t need 2 sticks of butter to make moist & chewy blondies – I use just 3 tablespoons for these easy bars full of dark chocolate chunks and nuts.
Crispy Apple Tart
It looks impressive but it’s easy to make this lightly sweet, crispy apple tart with an apricot glaze and an easy oil crust. Make it for kids and call it an apple pizza!
Healthier Christmas Sugar Cookies
My sugar cookies have half the saturated fat, less sugar and you can make them whole wheat. Cut into holiday shapes or use a cookie press.
Chocolate Pudding
People are loving my easy homemade chocolate pudding recipe, especially the video. My secret is stirring in some healthy dark chocolate pieces while it cooks.
Healthier Easier Pumpkin Pie
You can make a delicious pumpkin pie with low fat ingredients and no cream or butter anywhere. Mine has an easy oil crust and the filling is a breeze.
Lemon Coconut Cake
It’s a fresh lemon cake with a lemon curd filling and a fluffy 7-minute frosting sprinkled with coconut – and it’s all made without butter.
Blueberry Coffee Cake
This buttermilk streusel coffee cake is moist and light and has tons of antioxidant-filled blueberries, which are known to support brain health.
Light as a Cloud Ricotta Cheesecake
My Italian style ricotta cheesecake has less fat and less calories but lots of flavor from fresh orange & lemon peel. It will melt in your mouth.
My Everyday Cookies
These are my go-to cookies because they’re 100% whole grain, made with whole wheat flour, oats, and no butter. They keep really well.
Whole Wheat Chocolate Chip Cookies
My healthier chocolate chip cookies use less butter, less sugar, and dark chocolate chips. Don’t want whole wheat? You can also make them using only all purpose flour.
Marble Loaf Cake
There’s no butter in this lightly sweet marble loaf with a chocolate swirl, great for a light dessert or something sweet with tea. I sometimes add fresh orange zest… yum.
Citrus Chiffon Cake
Old-fashioned chiffon cake is like angel cake only more moist because it contains oil. This light, airy cake is beautifully fragrant with orange & lemon zest.
Fruit Pizza
It’s a show-stopping dessert and so much fun to make. Decorate this giant (healthier) sugar cookie with cream cheese, fresh fruit and an easy marmalade glaze. Wow!
Lemon Meringue Pie
Billows of heavenly meringue piled on a luscious lemon curd. It’s the easiest and healthiest lemon pie with an oil crust and foolproof filling.
Black Forest Brownies
These are some seriously fudgy brownies. Canned dark sweet cherries send these moist and yummy bars into brownie heaven… without butter. Easy recipe.
Custard Pudding
This simple 4-ingredient recipe makes creamy, delicious custard – it’s one of my favorite desserts. Make this easy pudding from scratch in 15 minutes.
Easy Coconut Macaroons
GF – With only 4 ingredients, anyone can make these easy, chewy cookies. You don’t need a mixer – just 2 forks. (It’s my choc-dipped macaroons without the chocolate.)
Sweet Potato Chocolate Cake
It’s my favorite chocolate cake. This moist, delicious cake uses anitoxidant-rich sweet potato and it’s also good using whole wheat pastry flour. The only butter is in the frosting.
Greek Walnut Cake
Greek karithopita is a sweet, moist walnut cake spiced with citrus peels, cinnamon, and cloves and infused with a sweet syrup.
Lightened Up Pumpkin Cheesecake
Light as a cloud, my ricotta and cream cheese pumpkin cheesecake uses all reduced fat ingredients for a healthier but rich tasting holiday dessert.
Lemon Blueberry Loaf Cake
Fresh blueberries and fresh lemon are the key to this moist and delicious lightly sweet loaf made without butter. You don’t even need a mixer.
Chocolate Cinnamon Christmas Bread
This is fabulous! It’s an easy one rise recipe. Inside are two kinds of dark chocolate, golden raisins, brown sugar & cinnamon, and outside… a light sweet glaze.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
This easy banana bread comes together quickly with fragrant toasted nuts, dark chocolate chips, and no butter. Make it will all purpose flour or part whole wheat.
Easy Healthier Chocolate Cupcakes
Easy healthier one-bowl recipe uses no eggs and no butter, except for the frosting. The frosting has only 2 Tablespoons of butter. Moist, rich tasting, and easy to make.
Lemon Blueberry Bundt Cake
It’s the perfect combination: fresh lemon and fresh blueberries for a moist and light cake made with minimal butter and maximum anti-aging blueberries.
Easy Red Velvet Cupcakes
If you love red velvet cupcakes, then have them… with my healthy recipe: No eggs – one bowl – easy cleanup – and only one tablespoon of butter. Super easy!
Double Chocolate Chip Cookies
I bake a lot of cookies but these are the first to disappear. They have less sugar & butter than most and I use dark chocolate chips and toasted nuts.
Meringues
They’re fat-free – basically egg whites and sugar but they taste like cotton candy! Homemade meringues are incredibly easy (and cheap) to make.
Double Chocolate Almond Biscotti
Homemade biscotti takes a little work but it’s really worth it. They’re made with heart-healthy dark chocolate and fragrant toasted almonds. I like to dunk mine in milk.
Easy Pecan Pie
No fancy ingredients needed. My simple pecan pie is made with an easy, healthier, oil crust and the filling all goes into one bowl for a quick stir.
Apple Pie Bars
You’ll need 2 pounds of apples for this simpler alternative to apple pie. It takes less work to put together and the easy oil crust uses no butter or shortening.
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
No mixer needed for this light as a feather coffee cake topped with toasted nuts and cinnamon streusel with dark chocolate chips, and can be made without butter. Serve warm.
Baked Doughnuts
Doughnuts are back! Doughnuts don’t have to be fried to taste good. Mine have no butter, no grease, and are so light they might just float away.
Anti-Aging Jelly
Some juices have enormous health benefits like blueberry, pomegranate, acai berry, even cranberry. Now you can have them for dessert.
Cinnamon Puffs
Is it a muffin? A doughnut? A cupcake? I don’t know! But it’s really good! The buttermilk batter makes these easy treats puffy and fluffy. They’re best served warm.
Bread Pudding
This old fashioned bread pudding is low fat and easy to make using 1% milk and just a pinch of nutmeg. It’s spectacular when made with my poppy seed egg bread.
Chocolate Chip Pizza
It’s my less-butter, less-sugar, giant chocolate chip cookie made pizza-style. And you can make it whole wheat.
Oatmeal Snacking Cake
If you ever wanted to have cake for breakfast, this is the one. It’s not too sweet, has whole grains, eggs, and a beautiful crispy broiled coconut-pecan topping.
Rice Pudding
My homemade rice pudding recipe uses just 5 ingredients and cooks in 30 minutes. Make it with short or long grain rice.
5-Star Carrot Cake
Here’s my delicious, moist carrot cake made with crushed pineapple and toasted pecans and a smooth cream cheese frosting. I make the cake and frosting without butter.
Baking Without Butter
Easy Apple Bread
Two cups of fresh apples make a delicious, lightly sweet bread with a crispy top, perfect for afternoon tea. It’s really easy to make.
One Bowl Lemon Brownies
Everyone is loving this easy recipe. One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Use all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour – it’s a super easy recipe with minimal cleanup. 🍋🍋
Easy One Bowl Yellow Cake
With this simple recipe everything goes in one bowl for a faster, healthier cake. It’s low in sugar and made without butter. Try it with my 2-minute frosting.
Simple Apple Cake
One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Super Easy. Anyone can make this easy light cake, made with 3 cups of apples! 🍏🍏🍏 It’s not too sweet, perfect as an apple coffee cake.
Crispy Top Oatmeal Bars
These oatmeal bars have dark chocolate chunks inside with a crispy broiled coconut pecan topping. Make it with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.
Soft Oatmeal Raisin Cookies No Butter
This is the same recipe as my Soft & Chewy Oatmeal Raisin Cookies but made without butter, using only oil. Don’t like raisins? Use chocolate chips.
Chocolate Chip Loaf Cake
Simple recipe. Easy prep. Minimal cleanup. This super easy lightly sweet cake uses chocolate chips (or chunks of a dark chocolate bar) and toasted nuts.
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Choc. Chunk Cookies
These healthier 100% whole grain cookies are soft & chewy and use no white flour or butter. I make them with oats, whole wheat pastry flour and lots of dark choc. chunks.
Healthier Apple Crisp
My apple crisp has a 100% whole grain topping of oats and whole wheat pastry flour and it’s made entirely without butter. (Butter option is available)
Chocolate Loaf Cake
My double chocolate loaf cake is full of dark chocolate chips and toasted nuts. Works just as well using all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour. And oh… no butter!
Simple Vegan Vanilla Cake
Made without eggs or butter, this “wacky” cake could not be any easier. You don’t even need a mixer – just stir it all by hand and bake. 👍
Chewy Oatmeal Choc. Chunk Cookies
There is no butter in these wholesome chewy oatmeal cookies made with big chunks of dark chocolate. 🍫 They’re not too sweet and easy to make.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
These chewy bars are full of dark chocolate, toasted pecans, oats and whole wheat pastry flour – no white flour, no butter. Gotta love that!
Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
This is intense. You start with a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar and add even more cocoa for a moist & fudgy brownie made without butter. It’s a really easy recipe.
Kitchen Sink Cookies
There’s something for everyone in this healthy cookie, made with oats, peanut butter, nuts, chocolate chips and coconut but no butter.
Buttermilk Spice Cake
This easy one-bowl cake is made without butter and has a reduced fat cream cheese frosting but I have also made it with my 2-minute chocolate frosting.
Zucchini Chocolate Cake – No Butter
This moist chocolate cake gets its lovely texture from grated fresh zucchini. Dust with powdered sugar or try the butter-free glaze from my Simple Chocolate Cake.
Easy One Bowl Coconut Cake
This variation on my easy yellow cake is just as simple. It’s a coconut lover’s dream, topped with a coconut cream cheese frosting and it’s all made without butter.
High Fiber Cookies
There’s lots of fiber and no butter in this crispy oatmeal cookie made with oats, bran cereal, 100% whole grains, figs, and dark chocolate chips.
Oatmeal Fig Bars
These yummy & soft high fiber bars have no white flour or butter, are low in added sugar, and figs are full of vitamins & essential minerals. Lots to love! Great for vegans.
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and gooey homemade cinnamon rolls will be on your table pronto with my easy one-rise recipe. You can even start them the night before and bake in the morning. ⏰
Simple Chocolate Cake Without Butter
This is the exact same recipe as my one bowl chocolate cake made without butter but I show how you can make a beautiful chocolate glaze without butter. Super easy.
Braided Cinnamon Raisin Bread
I make this every Easter. I call it “Tunnels of Cinnamon” bread because the braids are filled with delicious tunnels of brown sugar & cinnamon. It’s a show stopper!
Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
GF – Here’s why you will LOVE this easy recipe: One bowl. No flour. No butter. No mixer. No shaping. It’s the easiest cookies you will ever make. And they’re gluten free.
Homemade Apple Pie
There is no butter anywhere in my healthier homemade deep dish apple pie. It uses an easy oil crust and THREE pounds of apples. 🍏🍏🍏
Giant Breakfast Cookies
Skip the bagel. With more than 4 grams of fiber per cookie, this is a cookie with a mission. It’s made with lots of prunes and dark chocolate!
Whole Wheat Brownies
These healthier chocolate brownies have no butter! My quick & easy recipe uses olive oil, yogurt, whole wheat flour, toasted nuts & dark chocolate chunks.
Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
GF – What an easy recipe! Only four ingredients into a bowl, mix, and bake. Then dip into melted dark chocolate. I make them for parties and we always run out.
Crispy Oatmeal Choc. Chip Cookies
Big crispy crunchy oatmeal chocolate chip cookies made with no butter, made even crunchier with toasted nuts. They make a great ice cream sandwich.
Gluten Free Dark Chocolate Brownies
GF – They are chewy and fudgy and gluten free. The toasted nuts and added chocolate chips are optional, but why? 🙂 I make them with avocado oil but you can use butter.
Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Bars
It’s all the stuff you want for breakfast: whole grains, oats, bananas, walnuts, okay… a few chocolate chips! It’s a quick & easy recipe and uses no butter.
Crispy Apple Tart
It looks impressive but it’s easy to make this lightly sweet, crispy apple tart with an apricot glaze and an easy oil crust. Make it for kids and call it an apple pizza!
Healthier Easier Pumpkin Pie
You can make a delicious pumpkin pie with low fat ingredients and no cream or butter anywhere. Mine has an easy oil crust and the filling is a breeze.
Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread
With my simple one-rise recipe, make this sweet cinnamon raisin loaf with swirls of brown sugar & cinnamon in 90 minutes.
Lemon Coconut Cake
It’s a fresh lemon cake with a lemon curd filling and a fluffy 7-minute frosting sprinkled with coconut – and it’s all made without butter.
Blueberry Coffee Cake
This buttermilk streusel coffee cake is moist and light and has tons of antioxidant-filled blueberries, which are known to support brain health.
Light as a Cloud Ricotta Cheesecake
My Italian style ricotta cheesecake has less fat and less calories but lots of flavor from fresh orange & lemon peel. It will melt in your mouth.
My Everyday Cookies
These are my go-to cookies because they’re 100% whole grain, made with whole wheat flour, oats, and no butter. They keep really well.
Marble Loaf Cake
There’s no butter in this lightly sweet marble loaf with a chocolate swirl, great for a light dessert or something sweet with tea. I sometimes add fresh orange zest… yum.
Citrus Chiffon Cake
Old-fashioned chiffon cake is like angel cake only more moist because it contains oil. This light, airy cake is beautifully fragrant with orange & lemon zest.
Lemon Meringue Pie
Billows of heavenly meringue piled on a luscious lemon curd. It’s the easiest and healthiest lemon pie with an oil crust and foolproof filling.
Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins
Spiced pumpkin muffins with toasted walnuts and dark chocolate chips are bursting with flavor and nutrients, like lots of vitamin A for beautiful skin. No mixer needed.
Black Forest Brownies
These are some seriously fudgy brownies. Canned dark sweet cherries send these moist and yummy bars into brownie heaven… without butter. Easy recipe.
Lemon Blueberry Muffins
Light & lemony muffins with the antioxidant benefits of blueberries, made without butter and lots & lots of fresh blueberries. No mixer is needed.
Christmas Wreath Bread
My show-stopping Christmas bread is a soft, slightly sweet egg bread filled with golden raisins and decorated with a light glaze and sprinkles. And it’s all made without butter!
Flaxseed Muffins
A super healthy muffin made without butter, lots of fiber, heart-healthy omega-3 fatty acids and the breast & prostate cancer protection of flaxseeds.
Greek Walnut Cake
Greek karithopita is a sweet, moist walnut cake spiced with citrus peels, cinnamon, and cloves and infused with a sweet syrup.
Poppy Seed Roll (Polish Makowiec)
A traditional sweet Polish holiday bread filled with poppy seeds, citrus peel, and almonds. The recipe is easier than you think. Make it once and you’ll be addicted!
Lightened Up Pumpkin Cheesecake
Light as a cloud, my ricotta and cream cheese pumpkin cheesecake uses all reduced fat ingredients for a healthier but rich tasting holiday dessert.
Lemon Blueberry Loaf Cake
Fresh blueberries and fresh lemon are the key to this moist and delicious lightly sweet loaf made without butter. You don’t even need a mixer.
Crunchy Oatmeal Banana Muffins
Soft on the inside, crunchy on top and full of healthy goodness. These whole grain muffins have lots of fiber and protein for a healthy snack or breakfast.
Chocolate Chip Banana Bread
This easy banana bread comes together quickly with fragrant toasted nuts, dark chocolate chips, and no butter. Make it will all purpose flour or part whole wheat.
Breakfast Apple Crisp
Skip the bagel and make this 100% whole grain apple crisp for breakfast with almost 2 pounds of apples and plenty of fiber.
Apple Muffins
These muffins are bursting with apples and have a sweet, crispy top. Make them with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.
Meringues
They’re fat-free – basically egg whites and sugar but they taste like cotton candy! Homemade meringues are incredibly easy (and cheap) to make.
Double Chocolate Almond Biscotti
Homemade biscotti takes a little work but it’s really worth it. They’re made with heart-healthy dark chocolate and fragrant toasted almonds. I like to dunk mine in milk.
Apple Pie Bars
You’ll need 2 pounds of apples for this simpler alternative to apple pie. It takes less work to put together and the easy oil crust uses no butter or shortening.
Chocolate Chip Coffee Cake
No mixer needed for this light as a feather coffee cake topped with toasted nuts and cinnamon streusel with dark chocolate chips, and can be made without butter. Serve warm.
Baked Doughnuts
Doughnuts are back! Doughnuts don’t have to be fried to taste good. Mine have no butter, no grease, and are so light they might just float away.
Oatmeal Snacking Cake
If you ever wanted to have cake for breakfast, this is the one. It’s not too sweet, has whole grains, eggs, and a beautiful crispy broiled coconut-pecan topping.
Bran Muffins
These old school muffins get that unique “bran muffin” flavor from molasses and all that fiber will do you a world of good.
5-Star Carrot Cake
Here’s my delicious, moist carrot cake made with crushed pineapple and toasted pecans and a smooth cream cheese frosting. I make the cake and frosting without butter.
Soups
Cancer Fighting Soup
So many cancer superfoods in one bowl: broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, kale and tomatoes. Make this easy vegetable soup in 30 minutes.
Easy Cabbage Soup
My cabbage soup is so easy to make, absolutely anyone can make this healthy, beneficial, cancer-protecting soup. Start-to-finish: less than 20 minutes!
French Canadian Pea Soup
Mine is a healthier and simpler way to make this hearty, satisfying soup that requires only a few ingredients. Make it from scratch in less than an hour.
Quick & Easy Pasta Fagioli
This hearty soup can be a meal all by itself, full of beans, pasta, and vegetables, all made in one pot in less than 30 minutes.
Simple Lentil Soup
Lentils are high in protein and fiber, low in fat, and provide health-building minerals and polyphenols. I have it as a main meal with one of my crusty rolls! 😋
Quick & Easy Tomato Soup
With just a few simple ingredients, make delicious & healthy tomato soup in 30 minutes. Adding a touch of cream = cream of tomato soup.
Simple Pea Soup
Here’s a fast and easy hearty soup you can make with just a few basic ingredients. Pea soup has lots of minerals, fiber and protein. And it’s fat free.
Quick & Easy Potato Soup
You don’t need cream or butter to make this simple creamy and satisfying potato soup. My easy recipe takes just 30 minutes
Wound Healing Soup
A simple soup full of wound healing properties for anyone recovering from injury or surgery. Make it in 30 minutes. If eating is difficult, just puree the finished soup.
Homemade Chicken Soup
Chicken, aromatic vegetables, and spices simmer on the stove for the most amazing chicken soup. I freeze it in ice cube trays to use in other recipes.
How To Make Beef Stock
Rich and flavorful beef stock is so easy to make and you can never buy one as good as homemade. It’s what I use to make that amazing beef stew.
Greek Avgolemono Soup
This foamy, creamy Greek style chicken soup is flavored with fresh lemon juice and thickened with an egg. Served with rice or orzo, it’s super easy to make.
Beet & Cabbage Borscht
Borscht may be better than chicken soup for recovering from a cold or dehydration. I always devour this complex and delicious soup full of health building minerals.
Quick & Easy Meals
Plain Chicken Jambalaya
This is not spicy at all because I make my own homemade creole spice mix. My recipe is plain with just chicken but I also have a version with shrimp. (45 MINUTES)
Vegetable Bean Chili
This healthy meatless chili has 2 kinds of beans and SIX vegetables! Carrots, celery, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and spinach. 🍅🥕 Make it in (30 MINUTES).
Quick & Easy Spaghetti & Meatballs
For the leanest, softest meatballs I use ground sirloin and cook them right in the sauce. Make this family favorite Italian dinner, all from scratch, in (32 MINUTES).
Salmon Patties
Canned salmon makes a quick and healthy dinner. I make patties with red pepper, parsley, onion, and fresh whole wheat bread crumbs. (15 MINUTES)
20-Minute Pizza Dough
Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).
Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes
It takes less than 20 minutes to make this simple vegetarian dinner with fresh tomatoes 🍅 & broccoli 🥦 and it all (including the spaghetti) cooks in one pan. (18 MINUTES)
Quick & Easy Taco Casserole
GF – With soft corn tortillas, lean beef, pinto beans, and cheese, this easy casserole will quickly become a family favorite. And it’s gluten-free. (4O MINUTES)
One Pot Chicken Veggie Pasta
There are more vegetables than pasta in this creamy, comfort food chicken dish and it all cooks in one pot… start-to-finish including your prep: (30 MINUTES)
Haluski Cabbage & Noodles
This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)
Spaghetti Frittata with Spinach
Quick and easy vegetarian meal using angel hair pasta, eggs, baby spinach, and Parmesan cheese. Cooks on the stove top – ready in (30 MINUTES).
Vegetable Fried Rice
There are lots of healthy veggies (broccoli, spinach, peppers, peas) in this quick vegetarian meal. Add some leftover chicken for a great chicken fried rice. (20 MINUTES)
Chicken Veggie Rice
This quick and easy, light, healthy dinner has a bunch of vegetables (your choice), lean chicken, and it all cooks in one pan. Start-to-finish: (35 MINUTES).
Easy Chicken & Mushrooms
Lean chicken in creamy mushroom sauce cooks in 15 minutes and will disappear even faster. No butter – and probably no leftovers. Serve over rice or noodles. (25 MINUTES)
5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo
There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).
Orange Sesame Chicken
This quick & easy stir fry cooks in less than 10 minutes. With fresh orange juice and fragrant sesame oil, it smells and tastes amazing. I love this dish! (20 MINUTES)
Quick Mac & Cheese
Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)
Simple Meat Sauce
You’ll barely have time to cook some spaghetti and make a salad with this quick and easy meat sauce using lean ground beef and canned tomatoes. (30 MINUTES)
Fast Rice & Beans
All you need is two cans and a box of rice, some onions and garlic, and you have a quick and healthy dinner with rice, beans and fire-roasted chiles. (25 MINUTES)
Lemon Chicken Cutlets
Start your side dish first because these cutlets take just a few minutes. Lean chicken breast with parsley & fresh lemon zest is cooked in a bit of olive oil. (20 MINUTES)
Simple Broiled Salmon
All you need is a lemon, some oil, and salt & pepper to make this delicious salmon – and there’s no cleanup! It’s the easiest, healthiest dinner you can make. (15 MINUTES)
Lemon Herb Chicken Breast
This is the easiest and tastiest way I know to cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I baste them with a sauce of fresh lemon juice, olive oil, garlic & herbs. (35 MINUTES)
Salmon Sandwich
This whole grain salmon sandwich is healthy enough to have for dinner, and may be the easiest one you’ll ever make. It’s just salmon & light mayo. (10 MINUTES)
Creamy Chicken Asparagus Bow Ties
Rich and creamy but light and low fat, this is my version of alfredo sauce over lean chicken and healthy asparagus. It also works with broccoli. (25 MINUTES)
15 Minute Veggie Pasta
Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)
Vegetable Lo Mein
Eat your veggies in this easy lo mein recipe and you may never order takeout again. Add leftover chicken, shrimp, or pork and it’s all you need for dinner. (25 MINUTES)
Sardine Cakes
You’ll hardly notice the sardines in this potato patty flavored with green onions and parsley. Sardines are full of minerals and healthy fats. (30 MINUTES)
Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce
Only 5 ingredients make a fast & delicious sauce for your spaghetti & meatballs or chicken parm. Super easy with canned tomatoes and fresh basil. (20 MINUTES)
Easy Turkey Chili
Need a super healthy, super fast dinner? My turkey chili is low fat, high fiber, and full of antioxidants. Everything in the pot. Cook. Eat. (30 MINUTES)
Black Bean Quesadilla
This healthy quesadilla takes just minutes to make, uses reduced fat cheese, calcium-rich black beans, and healthier, whole wheat tortillas. (15 MINUTES)
Sweet & Sour Chicken
Fresh pineapple makes a huge difference in this quick & easy, healthy stir fry. Different colored peppers mean a bigger variety of anti-aging benefits. (25 MINUTES)
One Pan Broccoli Bean Pasta
Make this creamy pasta dinner all in ONE PAN!. It’s made with cancer-fighting broccoli 🥦 and cannellini beans for fiber and protein. (20 MINUTES)
Polish Cooking
Polish Doughnuts – Pączki
Traditional Polish pączki are fried but with my healthy recipe they are oven-baked, then filled with jam. Try my other recipe with homemade custard filling. Both are smaczny! 😋
Cabbage Rolls
I’m sharing my Polish heritage with a simple recipe for cabbage rolls stuffed with ground beef and rice – it’s one of my most treasured recipes. 🇵🇱 They freeze well.
Custard Filled Pączki
I love these! This is the same paczki dough as the jelly-filled “Polish Doughnuts.” The only difference is the filling. This version includes my recipe for homemade custard.
Haluski Cabbage & Noodles
This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)
Polish Chrusciki – Angel Wings
My mother, Zosia, taught me to make these delicate Polish Christmas cookies. They simply melt in your mouth and make a stunning presentation.
Polish Pierogi
My family recipe for Polish pierogi uses a delicious potato-cheese filling. Serve freshly boiled or lightly pan fried. (with sour cream and bacon bits – yes I said it!) 🇵🇱
Polish Potato Pancakes
Potato pancakes don’t have to be greasy… or hard to make. My simple, easy recipe uses a food processor and there is a trick that I use that makes these the best ever.
Zupa Ziemniaczana / Potato Soup
It’s potato soup but my dad called it Zupa Kartoflana. Mine is a simple recipe that takes just 30 minutes. For the Polish experience, stir in some sour cream before serving.
Polish Hunter’s Stew (Bigos)
This is Polish peasant food at its best. Sauerkraut, cabbage, mushrooms, beef, and pork are slow cooked for 2 hours for a hearty pot of comfort food.
Beet & Cabbage Borscht
Borscht may be better than chicken soup for recovering from a cold or dehydration. I always devour this complex and delicious soup full of health building minerals.
Poppy Seed Roll (Polish Makowiec)
A traditional sweet Polish holiday bread filled with poppy seeds, citrus peel, and almonds. The recipe is easier than you think. Make it once and you’ll be addicted!
Potato Gnocchi – Polish Kopytka (Kluski)
There’s no place you can buy gnocchi as good as homemade. It only takes three ingredients to make the most tender dumplings, great with any sauce.
Breakfast
Homemade Cinnamon Rolls
Soft and gooey homemade cinnamon rolls will be on your table pronto with my easy one-rise recipe. You can even start them the night before and bake in the morning. ⏰
Giant Breakfast Cookies
Skip the bagel. With more than 4 grams of fiber per cookie, this is a cookie with a mission. It’s made with lots of prunes and dark chocolate!
Easy Homemade Granola
My simple granola recipe is hugely popular, probably because it’s so easy. Combine everything right in the pan and bake. Done.
Crispy Hash Browns
If you like your hash browns crispy on the outside and moist on the inside, you will love this simple recipe. But there is a trick…
Blueberry Buttermilk Pancakes
Forget the pancake mix. Make these from scratch in 5 minutes & they’re great with whole wheat pastry flour. Blueberries are good for your brain and for glowing skin.
Oatmeal Banana Breakfast Bars
It’s all the stuff you want for breakfast: whole grains, oats, bananas, walnuts, okay… a few chocolate chips! It’s a quick & easy recipe and uses no butter.
Whole Wheat Waffles
My 100% whole wheat waffles are made with olive oil and lots of crunchy sliced almonds baked on top for a healthy, high fiber and high protein breakfast.
Turkey Breakfast Patties
It only takes four ingredients to make these easy turkey breakfast patties. My simple recipe uses ground turkey, apple, sage, and thyme and takes just minutes to make.
Whole Wheat Apple Pancakes
I put lots of diced Granny Smith apples in these healthy whole grain pancakes. They are soft and fluffy made with 100% whole wheat pastry flour.
Buckwheat Pancakes
These 100% whole grain, high fiber pancakes take just minutes to make from scratch. Buckwheat flour has more anti-aging benefits than some vegetables.
Simple Egg Salad
It’s my simple, low fat egg salad but you can start with mine add more stuff if you like. Try an egg salad sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce & tomato for breakfast. Yum!
Hard Boiled Eggs
See how easy it is to make foolproof, hard boiled eggs every time that are easy to peel with no green ring. Eggs will give you shiny hair, strong nails, and glowing skin.
Easy Stewed Prunes
Stewed, moist prunes are great for constipation, but they also have antioxidants to prevent premature aging, protect the heart, and reduce the risk of cancer & osteoporosis.
Oatmeal Pancakes
There’s lot of fiber in these 100% whole grain pancakes made with oats and whole wheat pastry flour. It takes 12 minutes to make them from scratch.
Cheese Blintzes
Easy, healthy, never greasy, cheese blintzes made with farmer’s cheese and a touch of vanilla, then lightly browned and served with fresh fruit – perfect for Sunday brunch.
Caramelized Apple Pancake
There’s more apple than pancake in this easy oven-baked breakfast. The apples are caramelized, then topped with a light batter and baked.
Breakfast Apple Crisp
Skip the bagel and make this 100% whole grain apple crisp for breakfast with almost 2 pounds of apples and plenty of fiber.
Green Eggs, No Ham
It’s the ultimate healthy breakfast with protein and 3 servings of vegetables. Prep and cooking takes less than 20 minutes.
Crepes
Crepes for breakfast are fun when everyone gets to make their own. Roll them with jam, fresh fruit, peanut butter, etc., or make blintzes. (crepes can be made ahead.)
Chocolate French Toast
It’s like having dessert for breakfast but this healthy recipe uses whole wheat bread and heart-healthy dark chocolate.
Dutch Baby
This eye-popping Dutch Baby is easier to make than you think and healthier, too. The only butter used is to grease the pan.
Simple Recipes for Beginners
Easy Christmas Pecan Balls (Snowballs)
This recipe is so easy, anyone can make homemade snowball cookies. Everything in one bowl, mix, refrigerate, shape, and bake. Everyone will ask for the recipe! 🎄
Easy Cabbage Soup
My cabbage soup is so easy to make, absolutely anyone can make this healthy, beneficial, cancer-protecting soup. Start-to-finish: less than 20 minutes!
Quick & Easy Chocolate Cake
👍 This is the easiest cake recipe ever! 👍 One bowl. No mixer. No eggs, and only butter in the frosting. For a butter-free glaze, see Baking Without Butter.
One Bowl Lemon Brownies
Everyone is loving this easy recipe. One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Use all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour – it’s a super easy recipe with minimal cleanup. 🍋🍋
Easy One Bowl Yellow Cake
With this simple recipe everything goes in one bowl for a faster, healthier cake. It’s low in sugar and made without butter. Try it with my 2-minute frosting.
Salmon Patties
Canned salmon makes a quick and healthy dinner. I make patties with red pepper, parsley, onion, and fresh whole wheat bread crumbs. (15 MINUTES)
20-Minute Pizza Dough
Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).
Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes
It takes less than 20 minutes to make this simple vegetarian dinner with fresh tomatoes 🍅 & broccoli 🥦 and it all (including the spaghetti) cooks in one pan. (18 MINUTES)
Quick & Easy Cucumber Salad
This cool, refreshing salad is as easy as it gets. It’s just cucumbers and onion, with vinegar, sugar, and salt. It’s best with unpeeled organic Persian cucumbers.
Simple Apple Cake
One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Super Easy. Anyone can make this easy light cake, made with 3 cups of apples! 🍏🍏🍏 It’s not too sweet, perfect as an apple coffee cake.
Crispy Top Oatmeal Bars
These oatmeal bars have dark chocolate chunks inside with a crispy broiled coconut pecan topping. Make it with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.
Quick & Easy Vanilla Cake
This simple one bowl cake uses no eggs and takes just 5 minute to put together. It’s moist & light and so easy, anyone can make it. It’s super easy. 😋
2-Minute Vanilla Frosting
NEW: Make the easiest and fastest vanilla frosting ever with this easy recipe. I only use 2 tablespoons of butter for the fastest possible delicious homemade frosting.
Haluski Cabbage & Noodles
This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)
Rice with Brussels Sprouts
Rice makes a good vehicle for adding healthy Brussels sprouts to your diet in this simple side dish that’s ready in 30 minutes.
Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars
These chewy bars are full of dark chocolate, toasted pecans, oats and whole wheat pastry flour – no white flour, no butter. Gotta love that!
Plain & Simple Roast Chicken
They call it Blasted Chicken because you roast it at very high heat for a short time and the result is foolproof – tender and moist chicken every time.
Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies
This is intense. You start with a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar and add even more cocoa for a moist & fudgy brownie made without butter. It’s a really easy recipe.
Angel Hair Casserole
So simple. You’ll need only seven ingredients to make this easy casserole with lean ground beef, mushrooms, and cheddar cheese. It’s the perfect family dinner.
Easy One Bowl Coconut Cake
This variation on my easy yellow cake is just as simple. It’s a coconut lover’s dream, topped with a coconut cream cheese frosting and it’s all made without butter.
5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo
There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).
2-Minute Chocolate Frosting
It only takes two tablespoons of butter and two minutes to make this impossibly easy and delicious chocolate frosting. Try it on my easy yellow cake.
Quick Mac & Cheese
Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)
Simple Meat Sauce
You’ll barely have time to cook some spaghetti and make a salad with this quick and easy meat sauce using lean ground beef and canned tomatoes. (30 MINUTES)
Fast Rice & Beans
All you need is two cans and a box of rice, some onions and garlic, and you have a quick and healthy dinner with rice, beans and fire-roasted chiles. (25 MINUTES)
Easy Peanut Butter Cookies
GF – Here’s why you will LOVE this easy recipe: One bowl. No flour. No butter. No mixer. No shaping. It’s the easiest cookies you will ever make. And they’re gluten free.
Whole Wheat Brownies
These healthier chocolate brownies have no butter! My quick & easy recipe uses olive oil, yogurt, whole wheat flour, toasted nuts & dark chocolate chunks.
Simple Broiled Salmon
All you need is a lemon, some oil, and salt & pepper to make this delicious salmon – and there’s no cleanup! It’s the easiest, healthiest dinner you can make. (15 MINUTES)
Lemon Herb Chicken Breast
This is the easiest and tastiest way I know to cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I baste them with a sauce of fresh lemon juice, olive oil, garlic & herbs. (35 MINUTES)
Easy Homemade Granola
My simple granola recipe is hugely popular, probably because it’s so easy. Combine everything right in the pan and bake. Done.
Fresh Tomato Salsa
You’ll never have enough of this authentic Mexican pico de gallo. It takes just ten minutes to make this fresh salsa and that’s about how long it’ll last!
Salmon Sandwich
This whole grain salmon sandwich is healthy enough to have for dinner, and may be the easiest one you’ll ever make. It’s just salmon & light mayo. (10 MINUTES)
Turkey Breakfast Patties
It only takes four ingredients to make these easy turkey breakfast patties. My simple recipe uses ground turkey, apple, sage, and thyme and takes just minutes to make.
How To Make Croutons
Simple recipe for fresh homemade croutons made with chunks of ciabatta bread, olive oil, salt & pepper. Start-to-finish: 25 minutes. So easy!
Simple Egg Salad
It’s my simple, low fat egg salad but you can start with mine add more stuff if you like. Try an egg salad sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce & tomato for breakfast. Yum!
15 Minute Veggie Pasta
Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)
Custard Pudding
This simple 4-ingredient recipe makes creamy, delicious custard – it’s one of my favorite desserts. Make this easy pudding from scratch in 15 minutes.
Easy Bread & Butter Pickles
Ready to eat in 3 hours! Crisp & tangy, sweet & salty, super easy refrigerator pickles. Everything in one pot, marinate, eat.
Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce
Only 5 ingredients make a fast & delicious sauce for your spaghetti & meatballs or chicken parm. Super easy with canned tomatoes and fresh basil. (20 MINUTES)
Easy Coconut Macaroons
GF – With only 4 ingredients, anyone can make these easy, chewy cookies. You don’t need a mixer – just 2 forks. (It’s my choc-dipped macaroons without the chocolate.)
Simple Garlic Bread
It’s easy to make fresh garlic bread at home in less than 10 minutes. Bake under a broiler or in a toaster oven for a delicious golden top and crispy edges.
Black Bean Quesadilla
This healthy quesadilla takes just minutes to make, uses reduced fat cheese, calcium-rich black beans, and healthier, whole wheat tortillas. (15 MINUTES)
Roasted Vegetables
Even amateur cooks can’t mess up this easy recipe. Step 1 – Put vegetables on pan. Step 2 – Add oil, salt & pepper. Step 3 – Put in oven. That’s it! Done… and Delicious!
Rice Pudding
My homemade rice pudding recipe uses just 5 ingredients and cooks in 30 minutes. Make it with short or long grain rice.
Vegetarian
Vegetable Bean Chili
This healthy meatless chili has 2 kinds of beans and SIX vegetables! Carrots, celery, zucchini, tomatoes, peppers, and spinach. 🍅🥕 Make it in (30 MINUTES).
Mexican Black Bean Casserole
Fresh tomatoes and fresh peppers add lots of nutrition to this easy casserole made with plenty of fiber from black beans & corn tortillas.
Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes
It takes less than 20 minutes to make this simple vegetarian dinner with fresh tomatoes 🍅 & broccoli 🥦 and it all (including the spaghetti) cooks in one pan. (18 MINUTES)
Simple Lentil Soup
Lentils are high in protein and fiber, low in fat, and provide health-building minerals and polyphenols. I have it as a main meal with one of my crusty rolls! 😋
Haluski Cabbage & Noodles
This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)
Spaghetti Frittata with Spinach
Quick and easy vegetarian meal using angel hair pasta, eggs, baby spinach, and Parmesan cheese. Cooks on the stove top – ready in (30 MINUTES).
Spicy Mexican Casserole
Lots of fresh tomatoes, whole wheat tortillas, pinto beans, spicy jalapeño peppers, and shredded cheese make a delicious vegetarian meal.
Vegetable Fried Rice
There are lots of healthy veggies (broccoli, spinach, peppers, peas) in this quick vegetarian meal. Add some leftover chicken for a great chicken fried rice. (20 MINUTES)
5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo
There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).
Polish Pierogi
My family recipe for Polish pierogi uses a delicious potato-cheese filling. Serve freshly boiled or lightly pan fried. (with sour cream and bacon bits – yes I said it!) 🇵🇱
Quick Mac & Cheese
Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)
Fast Rice & Beans
All you need is two cans and a box of rice, some onions and garlic, and you have a quick and healthy dinner with rice, beans and fire-roasted chiles. (25 MINUTES)
Manicotti
Tender melt-in-your-mouth manicotti are made with soft whole wheat crepes filled with three cheeses and topped with my quick & easy spaghetti sauce.
Grown Up Mac & Cheese
My low fat mac & cheese has vegetables built in but it doesn’t have to be for grownups. Call it rainbow mac & cheese for kids. Make it in (30 MINUTES).
Easy Tortilla Pie
Whole wheat tortillas become soft as butter in this easy casserole loaded with 2 kinds of beans and multi-colored peppers. Customize it either spicy or mild.
15 Minute Veggie Pasta
Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)
Vegetable Lo Mein
Eat your veggies in this easy lo mein recipe and you may never order takeout again. Add leftover chicken, shrimp, or pork and it’s all you need for dinner. (25 MINUTES)
Red Beans & Brown Rice
A simple, heart-healthy meal full of cholesterol-lowering fiber and antioxidant-rich peppers. Using canned beans make this an easy one-pan supper.
Black Bean Quesadilla
This healthy quesadilla takes just minutes to make, uses reduced fat cheese, calcium-rich black beans, and healthier, whole wheat tortillas. (15 MINUTES)
One Pan Broccoli Bean Pasta
Make this creamy pasta dinner all in ONE PAN!. It’s made with cancer-fighting broccoli 🥦 and cannellini beans for fiber and protein. (20 MINUTES)
Side Dishes / Salads
Quick & Easy Cucumber Salad
This cool, refreshing salad is as easy as it gets. It’s just cucumbers and onion, with vinegar, sugar, and salt. It’s best with unpeeled organic Persian cucumbers.
Rice with Brussels Sprouts
Rice makes a good vehicle for adding healthy Brussels sprouts to your diet in this simple side dish that’s ready in 30 minutes.
My Dinner Salad
This salad is my “Health Insurance Policy” and a part of every meal I prepare at home. It’s full of high antioxidant vegetables and a simple olive oil vinaigrette.
5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo
There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).
One Pan Spaghetti With Beets
This simple one pan side dish takes less then 20 minutes to make. The pasta, garlic, and shredded beets all cook together, add a little parmesan and done.
Simple Bread Stuffing
My easy turkey dressing is soft and moist and the best part is you can make it in advance and just reheat before serving.
Quick Mac & Cheese
Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)
Greek Salad
Authentic Greek salad with crisp romaine lettuce, Persian cucumbers, colorful tomatoes, and sweet red onions, topped with kalamata olives and feta cheese.
Lightened Up Potato Salad
Old fashioned potato salad just got a Jenny Jones makeover. See how to make a light & tasty low-fat dressing and my trick for infusing the potatoes with even extra flavor.
Marinated Superfoods
Antioxidants galore! This simple side dish is quick to make and has enormous health benefits, especially protection against cancer. And it’s delicious hot or cold.
Polish Potato Pancakes
Potato pancakes don’t have to be greasy… or hard to make. My simple, easy recipe uses a food processor and there is a trick that I use that makes these the best ever.
Greek Spinach Pie (Spanakopita)
There’s an easier way to make traditional Greek spanakopita with just a few ingredients. I use fresh baby spinach & feta cheese inside layers of flaky phyllo pastry.
Greek Spinach Rice
Spinach is a must-eat for its numerous health benefits. This tasty rice dish is made with spinach, green onions & fresh dill. Throw it all in a pot & it cooks in 20 minutes.
Simple Egg Salad
It’s my simple, low fat egg salad but you can start with mine add more stuff if you like. Try an egg salad sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce & tomato for breakfast. Yum!
15 Minute Veggie Pasta
Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)
Vegetable Lo Mein
Eat your veggies in this easy lo mein recipe and you may never order takeout again. Add leftover chicken, shrimp, or pork and it’s all you need for dinner. (25 MINUTES)
Spicy Cabbage Salad
My mouth waters when I think about making this awesome salad. My recipe uses spicy jalapenos and fresh-squeezed lime juice dressing. Add Tabasco if you dare.
Homemade Caesar Salad
Anyone can make restaurant style Caesar salad at home with my easy recipe for this classic anchovy-garlic dressing.
Roasted Vegetables
Even amateur cooks can’t mess up this easy recipe. Step 1 – Put vegetables on pan. Step 2 – Add oil, salt & pepper. Step 3 – Put in oven. That’s it! Done… and Delicious!
Spinach-Walnut Pesto
This may be the healthiest pesto in the world with lots of baby spinach, basil, and heart healthy olive oil and walnuts. And it takes five minutes to make.
Rainbow Bean Salad
So much goodness in this bean salad. The rainbow of peppers adds antioxidants galore and beans add protein, fiber, and calcium. Easy to make – yummy to eat.
Quick Balsamic Peppers
So many health benefits – so little time. It only takes ten minutes to cook this stunning, multi-colored side dish with antioxidants galore!
Greek Lemon Potatoes
This classic Greek recipe is so easy. Tender potatoes are oven roasted with fresh lemon juice, onion, garlic, and oregano until the edges are crispy and golden.
Rice with Kale
Skip the plain rice and add kale. The “Queen of Greens” has tons of antoxidants. You’ll also get fiber, iron, calcium, and vitamin K for bones. Use brown or white rice.
Potato Gnocchi – Polish Kopytka (Kluski)
There’s no place you can buy gnocchi as good as homemade. It only takes three ingredients to make the most tender dumplings, great with any sauce.
Sweet Creamy Carrots
Kids will like these vegetables. This easy recipe takes less than 15 minutes. Carrots are full of vitamin A but you’ll get more of it when the carrots are cooked.
Fresh Cranberries
With a simple, easy recipe like this, there’s no reason to ever use canned cranberries. And cranberries are loaded with antioxidants – five times as much a broccoli!
Spaghetti with Olive Oil & Garlic
It takes just minutes to prepare this delicious, easy side dish with heart-healthy olive oil infused with lots of fragrant garlic.
Roasted Brussels Sprouts & Potatoes
This simple side dish is full of nutrients as well as flavor. I use olive oil, fresh garlic, lemon juice, and Parmesan cheese. Brussels sprouts promote bone & brain health.
Marinated Beets
Beets have too many health benefits to name. My easy recipe uses a marinade of fresh orange juice, olive oil, and balsamic vinegar. Serve hot or cold.
Oven-Roasted Sweet Potato Fries
Wait ‘til you see how easy it is to make these healthy, oven-roasted fries. Roasting vegetables brings out their natural sugars so they are even sweeter than the fried ones.
One Pan Spaghetti With Chard
Eat greens for calcium & disease prevention. This Swiss chard, olive oil, and garlic combo fits with a heart-healthy Mediterranean diet and takes minutes to make.
Snacks/Misc
Creole Spice Mix (Not Spicy)
My Creole seasoning mix is not spicy at all. If you don’t like the heat, it’s easy to make your own spices. I use it for my Plain Chicken Jambalaya.
Homemade Italian Seasoning Mix
I made my own mixture once when I ran out of the store-bought seasoning and have never used the store-bought mix again.
20-Minute Pizza Dough
Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).
Homemade Chili Powder (Not Spicy)
I don’t care for spicy food so I make my own mild chili powder that’s not spicy at all, but you can add a pinch of cayenne pepper if you like.
Caramel Corn
Don’t make this if you have no will power – it’s that good! This is an easy recipe to make & may be the best caramel corn on the planet! Everyone who makes it LOVES it.
Dry Rub for BBQ Ribs
Making your own homemade dry rub is easy and takes five minutes. It’s what I use on my baby back ribs that everyone is making… and loving!
Homemade Barbeque Sauce
Recipes don’t get much easier than this. This is my own creation for a sweet and sticky barbeque sauce. I’ve never found a bottled sauce this good!
Chewy Chocolate Clusters
Dark chocolate, toasted almonds, dried cherries, and raisins make a heart-healthy, chewy chocolate treat. Make it in minutes.
My Butter Mix
Enjoy the taste of butter with only half the saturated fat by making your own easy mixture of butter & oil. It’s always soft and spreadable.
Italian Sub Pinwheel Sandwiches
Easy make-ahead sandwiches for parties and snacks made lighter and healthier using whole grain lavash bread, light mayo and nitrate-free meats.
Granola Bars
Learn how to make your own granola bars. My easy recipe has lots of protein and fiber plus dried cherries and chocolate chips.
Greek Spinach Pie (Spanakopita)
There’s an easier way to make traditional Greek spanakopita with just a few ingredients. I use fresh baby spinach & feta cheese inside layers of flaky phyllo pastry.
Chocolate Almond Clusters
Two ingredients. Fifteen minutes. And you’ll never want a candy bar again. Heart-healthy dark chocolate with protein-rich almonds makes a healthy, crunchy, sweet treat.
Fresh Tomato Salsa
You’ll never have enough of this authentic Mexican pico de gallo. It takes just ten minutes to make this fresh salsa and that’s about how long it’ll last!
Salmon Sandwich
This whole grain salmon sandwich is healthy enough to have for dinner, and may be the easiest one you’ll ever make. It’s just salmon & light mayo. (10 MINUTES)
Homemade Apple Sauce
Got 20 minutes? Make your own apple sauce. It’s so easy and so good! My apple sauce has only one ingredient: apples. There’s no sugar added or needed.
How To Make Croutons
Simple recipe for fresh homemade croutons made with chunks of ciabatta bread, olive oil, salt & pepper. Start-to-finish: 25 minutes. So easy!
Easy Bread & Butter Pickles
Ready to eat in 3 hours! Crisp & tangy, sweet & salty, super easy refrigerator pickles. Everything in one pot, marinate, eat.
Hard Boiled Eggs
See how easy it is to make foolproof, hard boiled eggs every time that are easy to peel with no green ring. Eggs will give you shiny hair, strong nails, and glowing skin.
Easy Stewed Prunes
Stewed, moist prunes are great for constipation, but they also have antioxidants to prevent premature aging, protect the heart, and reduce the risk of cancer & osteoporosis.
Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce
Only 5 ingredients make a fast & delicious sauce for your spaghetti & meatballs or chicken parm. Super easy with canned tomatoes and fresh basil. (20 MINUTES)
Caramelized Onion-Red Pepper Dip
This low-fat, healthy dip uses fresh onions with bottled roasted pepper and it’s really easy to make… and the taste? Amazing! Serve it and everyone will ask for the recipe.
Quick & Easy Kettle Corn
Got a sudden craving for kettle corn? You can make it yourself in less than five minutes and save money too. Lighly sweet or sweet & salty, it’s a quick & easy healthy snack.
Homemade Bread Crumbs
They’re healthier, they taste better, and they’re 100% whole wheat. See how to make your own bread crumbs, both dry and fresh, and seasoned ones, too. It’s quick and easy.
Mango Salsa
Sweet and spicy, this easy salsa is full of immune-boosting superfoods like mango, red onion, and jalapeño pepper. Make it milder using Anaheim pepper or even bell pepper.
Paper Bag Popcorn
It’s the fastest, easiest, fluffiest, healthiest, lowest-fat popcorn you can make because there is only one ingredient: popping corn.
Spinach-Walnut Pesto
This may be the healthiest pesto in the world with lots of baby spinach, basil, and heart healthy olive oil and walnuts. And it takes five minutes to make.
3-Hour Dill Pickles
This easy recipe makes a crisp & tangy dill pickle in just 3 hours! Ftrsh dill is the key to these simple homemade pickles.
Deviled Eggs
What a simple, easy recipe. My basic deviled eggs couldn’t be any easier. It’s just mayo and mustard – that’s is. Oh… add salt & pepper.
Sesame Seed Breadsticks
If you like crunchy food like I do, you will love these crispy breadsticks coated with sesame seeds. Make with all purpose or bread flour or add whole wheat flour for fiber.
Nachos from Scratch
Nachos can be healthy… if you make them with the right ingredients. My recipe uses lots of fresh veggies, homemade refried beans, and seasoned ground sirloin.
Holiday
Easy Christmas Pecan Balls (Snowballs)
This recipe is so easy, anyone can make homemade snowball cookies. Everything in one bowl, mix, refrigerate, shape, and bake. Everyone will ask for the recipe! 🎄
Polish Doughnuts – Pączki
Traditional Polish pączki are fried but with my healthy recipe they are oven-baked, then filled with jam. Try my other recipe with homemade custard filling. Both are smaczny! 😋
Easter Bunny Buns
Too cute! My bunny buns will make any meal a special event. They’re soft, fragrant, and delicious. Make them white or whole wheat. 🐇🐇🐇
Polish Chrusciki – Angel Wings
My mother, Zosia, taught me to make these delicate Polish Christmas cookies. They simply melt in your mouth and make a stunning presentation.
Easy Pecan Pie Bars
With my easy oil crust and no pre-baking, you can make these delicious gooey bars in 45 minutes, start to finish.
Simple Bread Stuffing
My easy turkey dressing is soft and moist and the best part is you can make it in advance and just reheat before serving.
Braided Cinnamon Raisin Bread
I make this every Easter. I call it “Tunnels of Cinnamon” bread because the braids are filled with delicious tunnels of brown sugar & cinnamon. It’s a show stopper!
Healthier Christmas Sugar Cookies
My sugar cookies have half the saturated fat, less sugar and you can make them whole wheat. Cut into holiday shapes or use a cookie press.
Simple Easter Bread
With only one rise, my soft and sweet Easter bread is full of golden raisins and you can make it in just over 2 hours. It’s a show stopper.
Healthier Easier Pumpkin Pie
You can make a delicious pumpkin pie with low fat ingredients and no cream or butter anywhere. Mine has an easy oil crust and the filling is a breeze.
Christmas Wreath Bread
My show-stopping Christmas bread is a soft, slightly sweet egg bread filled with golden raisins and decorated with a light glaze and sprinkles. And it’s all made without butter!
Poppy Seed Roll (Polish Makowiec)
A traditional sweet Polish holiday bread filled with poppy seeds, citrus peel, and almonds. The recipe is easier than you think. Make it once and you’ll be addicted!
Lightened Up Pumpkin Cheesecake
Light as a cloud, my ricotta and cream cheese pumpkin cheesecake uses all reduced fat ingredients for a healthier but rich tasting holiday dessert.
Christmas Caramel Corn
I give homemade caramel corn for Christmas every year and everyone goes crazy for it. It’s light and crispy and delicious. Nothing store-bought even comes close.
Chocolate Cinnamon Christmas Bread
This is fabulous! It’s an easy one rise recipe. Inside are two kinds of dark chocolate, golden raisins, brown sugar & cinnamon, and outside… a light sweet glaze.
Fresh Cranberries
With a simple, easy recipe like this, there’s no reason to ever use canned cranberries. And cranberries are loaded with antioxidants – five times as much a broccoli!
Easy Pecan Pie
No fancy ingredients needed. My simple pecan pie is made with an easy, healthier, oil crust and the filling all goes into one bowl for a quick stir.
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