Smashed chickpea salad made with chickpeas, avocado, cilantro, green onion, and lime juice. This quick, easy, and healthy salad makes a great sandwich or dip.
We both love chow fun, but rarely order it at restaurants because it's just too damn oily. Prepared with fresh ingredients, minimal oil and Chinese broccoli, dare I say that chow fun can be a healthy, balanced meal.
I know that substituting spaghetti squash for spaghetti is a healthy thing to do, but I find that it often comes out too watery. Also, um, I like spaghetti.
Packaged broccoli slaw is a healthy convenience food. Packed with fiber and vitamins, it can be used instead of cabbage to make a great slaw or tossed into green salads for added crunch. But did you know you can cook
My friend Paul turned me on to this recipe from Confections of a Foodie Bride and many future ideas for savory monkey bread yesterday. I am inspiRED. Pepperoni Pizza Monkeybread 2 cloves of garlic, thinly sliced 4 Tbsp butter 2...
This soup, alive with probiotics and enzymes from cultured dairy kefir, creates a lovely cooling meal alongside something slightly filling like crackers and cheese or a thin-crusted homemade pizza topped with summer vegetables.
Here's a guilt-free main dish or side that's packed with fresh green spinach, avocado, bright red strawberries, heart-healthy pecans, olive oil, goat cheese and quinoa for a boost of essential amino acids.
My whole journey with Spenda Recipes began with a disastrous Brownie experiment. I have now spent several years learning how to cook and bake with Splenda. I have experimented with and slowly modified all my favorite recipes into delicious and healthy Sple...
Light and delicious waffles made from sweet potatoes? Wait until you try these! Delicious sweet potato taste – healthy, fluffy and easy with simple ingredients!
This recipe was inspired by a similar salad at Caffe Falai, a little skinny restaurant downtown in Soho. When we ate it, we knew it was a great healthy, hearty dish that would be perfect for lunch or dinner. We couldn't believe how easy (and, to be honest, better) our at-home version turned out.
A light salmon tacos with lime crema, avocado and mango salsa! Fast enough for a weeknight dinner, fancy enough for a dinner party! Healthy, delicious & fast!
Black bean brownies have made their rounds in the diet circuit for years and more recently have popped up on vegan blogs. I'd never been much attracted to them but then my good friend Tara insisted I try my hand at a healthy vegan version. Oh, my! Why didn't I ...
This tuna salad served atop toasted sourdough bread makes a satisfying lunch or dinner. The beans, tuna and walnuts offer interesting contrasts in texture, while providing fiber, protein and healthy fat.
I love peppers and I love nothing more than a simple, healthy, hearty meal. Peppers are such a versatile vegetable. They can be eaten raw, roasted, added to salads, sandwiches the possibilities are endless…. ...
Rich, creamy sauce, abundant spinach, cheese so copious it threatens to run off of the edges of the bread, pool, and bubble to brown in places -and does, in some cases- as it melts, and long strips of salty prosciutto. Now that's a French bread pizza.
Kids will love to help you make this healthy snack since it's fun to spread the nut butter and sprinkle the chocolate chips. No corer in the kitchen drawer? Slice the apples into rounds first then use a small cookie cutter to remove the core from the center of each slice.
When basil is in season, I can't make enough pesto. The classic Italian sauce native to Genoa tastes delicious on everything from pasta to pizza to grilled fish. It's excellent stirred into salads or slathered on sandwich bread. Although store-made pesto
Macadamia nut clusters with healthy caramel sauce covered in a homemade dark chocolate... dairy free, gluten free, refined sugar free and paleo... Ok so I made these last night and I covered each o...
Who says you have to ditch the sushi rolls to be healthy? Crowd pleasing, mouth watering and super fun to make sushi rolls sans rice, sans fish and full of living nutrients.
