Recipe of the Week- Chef Jesse's Pumpkin Bisque
Perfect for a Halloween and Thanksgiving this Pumpkin Bisque is filled with flavor, but not fat. No cream in this bisque!
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Recipe of the Week- Basil-Zucchini-Potato Frittata
Make your mom happy this Sunday, make her a delicious brunch. A frittata is almost as quick to make as scrambled eggs and you can use leftover vegetables that you have on hand.
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Watermelon and Goat Cheese Salad
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Bob Greene's Rotisserie Chicken Salad with Oranges and Pistachios
Tired of having rotisserie chicken with the standard sides? Try this
fuss-free recipe, which is both flavorful and unique. Courtesy of Bob
Greene- Best Life Diet Cookbook.
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Little Tomato-Pesto
These intensely flavored layers of vegetables stack up a rainbow of
benefits: antioxidant, antiviral, antimicrobial-but certainly not
antigastronomadic (gastronomadic is a word invented by the
French chef Careme to describe tourists who are lovers of regional food
specialties). Bake these in custard cups and think of Provence.
Delicious hot, cold, or in between.
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French String Beans with Sweet Garlic Sauce
"Frenching," or splitting beans lengthwise, adds a refined touch to a
rather common vegetables; you can make this dish doubly elegant by
using a combination of fresh green and yellow (wax) beans. Roasted
garlic melts into a sweet, flavorful sauce enriched with the
heart-healthy properties, and flavor, of extra-virgin olive oil.
Happily the sauce can be made ahead of time, reheated briefly, and
tossed with the beans.
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Bulghur with Morels and Dried Cherries
Bulghur is wheat thatýs been steamed, dried, and cracked. "Fine"
bulghur is used in tabbouleh; the coarser variety goes into pilafs such
as this. Ancient Chinese doctors believed the woodsy morel was a tonic
to the stomach and regulated gi, the flow of vital energy.
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Red Lentil Soup
Red Lentil Soup is the perfect thing after being out in the cold all day. It's easy to make and very healthy to eat.
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Shrimp Stuffed Mushrooms
Fresh shrimp stuffed into mushrooms. It tastes as good as it sounds.
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Cucumber and Feta Bites
This is a quickly assembled side dish or snack to put together. It is also healthy and serves a decent amount of people.
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Warm Frisee Salad with Pine Nuts and Pomegranates
An easily prepared dish with extraordinary flavor and not many calories to go along with it.
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Mediterranean Chopped Salad
Easy to make and about as low calorie as a full meal gets.
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Greek Shrimp Salad
A delicious Greek-style salad topped with shrimp for an excellent mix of flavor with very few calories.
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Fennel and Pear with Parmigiano Reggiano and Balsamic Glaze
Though it sounds like it's difficult to prepare and delicious the fact is that it is only the latter.
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Chicken Velvet Salad
A unique dish featuring the use of Japanese soy sauce and rice-wine vinegar on top of chicken and salad.
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Chicken Salad with Macadamia Nuts and Avocado
A chicken salad with very well complimented toppings of avocado and macadamia nuts.
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Balsamic Chicken Salad
Easy to prepare, easy to cook, quick to make, AND healthy? What more could one ask?
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Turkey salad with grape tomatoes and zucchini, zucchini coulis
A vibrantly colored still-life: plump white chunks of succulent turkey,
the reddest grape tomatoes, and a vivid green sauce fashioned from
simply cooked fresh zucchini. Careful poaching and impeccable
ingredients are integral to this dish's success.
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Spiced lamb with ginger and cilantro
Geographically speaking, this dish could come from Southeast Asia or
from the Middle East. But in truth it tastes only like itself, because
the cooking process melds these 3 distinct ingredients into a new
flavor dimension.
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Shrimp in Coconut Tomato Sauce
When it works, "fusion cuisine" means taking ingredients from
disparate parts of the world and combining them in new and exciting
ways. Here's a surprising dish with elements from Italy and Southeast
Asia that tastes like it came from neither place, but whose flavors
coalesce wondrously.
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Salmon steaks with cornichon vinaigrette
If you've read about "warm vinaigrette" dressing and wondering how
to make them, here's the answer. In no time at all, you get crispy
salmon in a heady, sweet-and-briny sauce and next-to-zero carbs.
Cornichons, tiny French pickled cucumbers, are available in most
supermarkets and fancy food stores.
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Salmon demi-cut, sauce moutarde
A 20 minute meal with virtually no prep time needed.
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Salmon arrosto with rosemary
Few things are better than a side of salmon roasting in a mound of
rosemary. Salmon is rich in EPA and DHA, two omega-3 fatty acids, known
for their beneficial effect on the heart and immune system. Pinelike
rosemary, rarely used with fish, complements salmon's rich flavor, and
is especially appropriate since the word rosemary means "dew of the
sea" (ros = dew, marinus = of the sea).
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Red Curry Coconut Chicken Breasts
You can catch the wave of incendiary Thai cuisine with a quick trip
to your supermarket's Asian food section, where you'll probably find
two of the ingredients required for this recipe. The red curry paste
has lots of heat, which is tempered into a creamy sauce by the light
coconut milk.
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Poached salmon with fennel relish
A diet meal without the diet flavor!
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Pan fried chicken with balsamic shallots
A chicken dish so delicious you won't believe that it's good for you!
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Moroccan Beef Kabobs
Moroccan Beef Kabobs are an easy to make and fun to eat dinner for a meat loving family.
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Miso chicken with fresh ginger
This simple chicken dish is amazing because miso, fermented soybean
paste, is a great carrier of flavors. Miso can be found in the
refrigerated section in health food stores and Asian markets. You can
make this dish with fresh ginger or prepare it with garlic cloves
pushed through a press. I really can't decide which I like better-so
sometimes I make a platter of each for parties. In that case, do
chicken breasts with ginger and thighs with garlic. If using garlic,
push 4 large cloves through a garlic press and add to the miso-water
mixture.
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Macadamia coconut salmon
A quickly prepared seafood dish that's low in fat and calories.
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Lettuce-wrapped cod with herb oil
Years before the low-carb movement, this dish was fashionable among
obsessive calorie-counters who frequented fancy French restaurants. It
looks and taste great, and the edible green wrapper of lettuce not only
seals in the juices but also adds to its healthful presentation.
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Lemon-thyme roast chicken with pan juices
Perfect roast chicken often tests a great chef's mettle, since we all
know that "simple" is hard to do well. Some of the success is up to the
chicken, so buy one that's kosher, organic, or free-range. The rest is
up to you. Thyme's invigorating aroma not only perfumes the chicken but
also your kitchen
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Lemon Cilantro Roasted Chicken
A delicious chicken dinner guaranteed to satisfy the whole family.
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Lacquered Salmon, Pinapple-soy Reduction
A reduction of pineapple juice and Japanese soy sauce (shoyu) becomes a
magical glaze for strong-flavored fish. The first forkful paints your
palate with sweet, salty, and acidic notes. Pineapple's potassium
balances the sodium in shoyu. This is also an excellent preparation
with fresh tuna.
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Halibut Dijon
A healthy and delicious halibut dinner.
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David Feder's Tahini Chicken
David Feder, a former Middle Eastern archaeologist and food editor
at Better Homes & Gardens for years, is also an exceptional chef.
He makes this Levantine-inspired dish every Friday night for his
family. Be certain to use pure tahini, which you can get at Middle
Eastern and health food stores.
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Cold poached chicken, avocado and mango mousseline
Whip together juicy, mango and fleshly avocado and you get a beautiful
sauce with intriguing flavor and mousselike texture; you also get
antioxidant vitamins C and E, and beta-carotene. Avocados, once a no-no
on many diets, are full of beneficial monounsaturated fat.
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Chilean Sea Bass On Braised Savoy Cabbage
In this recipe a little bacon goes a long way in flavoring gently
braised savoy cabbage. Savoy, with its crinkly leaves, leads all other
cabbages in its concentration of phytonutrients, like beta-sitosterol
and pheuphytin-A- which is more than you'll ever want to know about a
vegetable, except that cabbage was once called "the medicine of the
poor." Chemistry aside, this is a delicious preparation for a mild,
sweet-fleshed fish previously known as Patagonian toothfish and renamed
for obvious reasons.
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Braised Pork Roast with Olives
A healthy dish for those who like meat for dinner, namely pork.
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Bay Steamed Halibut with Lemon Oil
Trendy chefs are using the cooking technique of this recipe-gently
cooking fish (or meat) with its seasoning in a tightly sealed wrapper.
The flavors fuse together in a unique way and the fish cooks in its own
juices. Be careful not to marinate the fish too long or it will taste
"perfume-y." Bay leaves impart great flavor, but avoid eating them
because the leaf or its stem could get stuck in your throat.
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Basil and Chevre Stuffed Chicken
This is a show-off dish that results in an extraordinarily plump bird.
Forcing the basil-speckled cheese mixture under the skin takes a bit of
patience, but it infuses the flesh with enormous flavor and keeps it
ultra juicy.
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Baked Wild Salmon
A baked salmon dish that is delicious and nutritious, not to mention a good source of protein.
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Baked Sole with Pesto
An easy to cook dish that is also quick to make. Perfect for those nights when you're coming home late and need a quick bite.
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The Greek Omelette
Omelette fans rejoice! There is no need to sacrifice your favorite breakfast on a diet if you follow this healthy omelette recipe.
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Scrambled Eggs, with Buchwheat Groats, Wild Mushrooms, and Mediterranean Herbs
Another great recipe for scrambled eggs....this time with mushrooms and an assortment of spices and flavors.
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Scrambled Eggs with Bell Peppers
If you can get your day started without the incredible edible egg then this is a great recipe for you. Scrambled eggs cooked with bell peppers.
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Cantaloupe With Cottage Cheese and Seasonal Berries
Get your day off to a good start with a simple breakfast of fruit with some cottage cheese. It's a great way to energize yourself to get through the day.
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Hummus
Hummus is very easy to make and very tasty for the little effort it takes to make. It's perfect for dipping flat pretzels or crackers in to make a delicious snack with little calories.
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Black and White Chili
A tasty chili dish with only 237 calories per serving and 7 grams of fat. It also prides 25 grams of protein along with its astounding flavor.
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Big White Beans In Pesto
Look for the largest white beans (such as gigantes) you can find or, in a pinch, use cannellini (also known as white kidney beans). Health magazine dubbed beans one of their "top ten anticancer foods"- so make...
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