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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...


Big Italian salad
Italians love salads almost as much as pasta, which may be why they have the lowest obesity rate in Western Europe. While salads have...


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 Paris. Her most popular cookbooks are about baking delectable French cookies and cakes, which amazes me because Dorie says she eats what she bakes, and here's what she looks like: She must have a faster metabolism than me. Lucky Dorie. But I digress: this sheet pan Balsamic chicken is from Everyday Dorie, The Way I Cook. , and it's a winner!


Roast Salmon Glazed with Brown Sugar and Mustard
I am not a salmon lover. In fact, I wouldn't even call myself a salmon liker. This bothers me a lot because most of the people I know...


Roast Chicken Provencal
Although I live in the American Midwest, I subscribe to the Sunday New York Times. It’s not that I crave “all the news that fit to...


Eat-the-Rainbow Salad
Chopped salads are a convenient way to add lots of vegetables to your meals. You don't even need to use a knife to eat them. In fact, a...


Sheet Pan Greek Chicken with Roasted Potatoes
Southern Living Magazine has been a reliable recipe source for Southern cooks since 1966 when it was introduced by the publishers of...


Smashed Pea and Barley Soup
One of the most popular items on the menu at California Pizza Kitchen, besides the obvious plethora of pizzas, is their Smashed Pea and...


Creamy Tomato-Basil Soup
Valentine's Day traditionally involves a gift from Mr. Russell Stover that comes in a red heart-shaped box and contains about a zillion...


White Chicken Chili with Salsa Verde
Note: I first posted this recipe from the Weight Watchers website just before the 2022 Super Bowl. It's long been a favorite of Weight...
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