Air-Fried Chicken Tenders
I've tried several recipes for healthy-ish chicken fingers, trying to avoid ones cooked in lots of fat. Most recipes were roasted in a...
Chicken Avgolemono Soup
What, you may ask, is Avgolemono? It's a classic Greek sauce made by combining raw egg and lemon juice and slowly adding them to hot...
Butternut-Sage Pizza
Pizza has never been considered to be acceptable diet fare. In 1971, when I lost 50 pounds on Weight Watchers, pizza was an "illegal"...
Vegetarian Taco Casserole
This veggie-filled spicy casserole was last week's recipe handout at Weight Watchers workshops. Immediately after the workshop I made a...
Tuscan Pasta With White Beans
Earlier this month I visited my best and oldest friend Michael in Lucca, Italy. ( He retired and moved there 6 years ago.) Michael showed...
Baked Eggplant with Three Cheeses
Eggplant aficionados will love this healthful Weight Watchers recipe, which layers broiled eggplant slices with cheesy goodness, aka: ...
Instant Pot Turkey-Vegetable Chili
This last weekend, in anticipation of the Kansas City Chiefs' first game of the season, I made chili in my Instant Pot. The recipe,...
One-Pot Pasta with Tomatoes and Spinach
You won't find an easier pasta main dish than this one. Why? Because everything cooks together in one pot. It's ready in less than 20...
Instant Pot Chicken Vegetable Soup
Even though summer isn't quite done with us, I am just about done with salads. There's only so much roughage I can tolerate night after...
Sheet Pan Chicken with Zucchini
I'm going to say right off the bat that this isn't a glamorous recipe. Chicken thighs and summer squash aren't fancy. But when roasted...
Quinoa with Black Beans
You know that quinoa has gone mainstream when you can find it at Costco. Quinoa has become very popular as a healthful, meat-free source...
Slow-Roasted Salmon
I've cooked salmon every which way -- baked, broiled, grilled, and air-fried. Recently Champ and I had salmon at a wedding reception that...
Summer Farro Salad
This salad is the epitome of healthy summer cooking. All of the ingredients (besides the farro) can be added straight from the fridge and...
Minestrone Salad
This summery pasta salad is inspired by one of my wintertime favorites: minestrone soup. You get all the vegetables, pasta and beans in...
Cobb Salad with Shrimp, Avocado & Bacon
Bacon and avocados used to be off-limits for those of us watching our weight due to their high fat content. Thankfully, times have...
Sheet Pan Chicken with Potatoes, Carrots and Asparagus
Sheet pan dinners are popular for a good reason: everything cooks together in one pan at the same time. Clean-up is a breeze. About the...
Strawberry-Chicken Salad with Pecans and Feta Cheese
Even though the summer heat hasn't quite set in, I'm already in my no-cook mode. To me, summer means casual, easy-to-assemble dinners...
Italian-Style Turkey Meatballs
This recipe for turkey meatballs is a sacrilege to traditional Italian cooks because the meatballs are not fried in lots of oil before...
Sheet Pan Chicken with Baby Potatoes and Mushrooms
This wonderful, one-pan dinner was created by Dorie Greenspan, an award-winning American cookbook author who lives half of the year in...
One-Pot Pasta Primavera with Shrimp
If you think that pasta is off limits when you’re trying to lose weight, think again. Italians eat pasta nearly every day, yet the...