Quick and easy boil recipes with 400 or fewer calories

Creamy Curried Sweet Potato Soup

This delicious and easy recipe comes from The Essential New York Times Cookbook by Amanda Hesser. A good…

Potato Salad

This salad was delicious! She cooked it yesterday and made a big bowl that could feed over 6 people but because it was so good we (my dad and I)…

Chunky Rhubarb Applesauce

Rhubarb is tart like cranberries and I love adding cranberries to my applesauce. So I thought, why not add rhubarb? I like mine tart, but you can…

Pineapple Rice with Green Soybeans

This colorful rice side or vegetarian entrée is a healthy and novel departure from same-old, same-old steamed…

Lemon~Dill and Capers Rice Side Dish

Works so well with Baked Chicken,

Warm cream of cucumber soup

Cucumbers are wonderfully pureed into a silken-textured soup that’s good warm or cold.

Basic Pickling Brine

I think pickling is the easiest preservation method for saving your garden harvest. I learned a simple recipe for brine this weekend at a…

Sausage, Spinach & Tomato Soup

Super quick and easy soup! Hearty with a great flavor. Perfect when you are short on time and want a warm comforting hearty soup!

Corn and Summer Squash Chowder

I enjoyed the fresh taste of this summer vegetable chowder. You can leave out the bacon to keep it truly vegetarian, or add the bacon in as I did…

Healthy and Easy Vegan beet salad with prunes!

Beets are like Cinderella, we think that they are not as delish as they are, we rarely cook them and…

Spicy & Smokey Tomato Lobster Soup

Tomato soup happens to be one of my favorites soups. The addition of smoke, pancetta and lobster takes this…

Peppermint Marshmallow Hot Cocoa

Perfect wintertime beverage!

Baby Back Ribs With Fruity Marinade

Mustard seed cucumbers

This is a novel way of making pickled cucumbers. The recipe originates in Germany where it is called Senfgurken.

Home Made Pancake Syrup

My mom taught me how to make this recipe when I was about 10 yrs. old. I've always enjoyed making it for my kids when they were still at home. We…