Quick and easy boil main dish recipes with 400 or fewer calories

Top SF Chronicle Recipe: Pasta with Broccoli and Spicy Sausage

Our good friend Linda Hansen saved this top recipe from the SF Chronicle in 2004 and it has become one of her…

Yellow Split Peas with Vegetables (Dal Takari)

Wow, this is such a wonderful dish and so easy to cook! The keys to this dish are the yellow lentils, fried…

Green Chicken Chili

This isn't your thick beans and meat sort of chili, but it is absolutely delicious. Think a cross between a soup and a traditional chili. It's…

Pork and Hominy Chili

Chicken Soup to Live For!

Common, nourishing, fast & easy - unbelievably fragrant, a dish anyone can make and serve. This is a soup, "to live for"! A perfect 'comfort food'.…

Dreamy Linguini

I actually dreamt this recipe one night. I have very vivid and often lucid dreams and this isn't the first time something like this came to me in a…

Broccoli Rabe Garlic Pasta

The garlic flavored oil makes the broccoli rabe less bitter, and with toasted garlic, it's a great dish.

Homemade Amish Pot Pie Squares (noodles)

Everytime I'm in Lancaster,PA I look forward to Bott Boi (chicken Pot Pie). Its not pot pie in a pie shell its…

Tomato Vodka Sauce

Creamy & as spicy as you want it to be! (Just adjust ground red pepper to taste)

Pasta with Greens and Feta Cheese

Simple, tasty recipe that the whole family will like. Instead of spinach, greens could include arugula,…

Gnocchi and Peas with Pesto

I opened my freezer this morning and saw peas, some left over uncooked gnocchi and a small container of pesto. Let me show you a little of this and…

Chicken Stir Fry Soup

After a busy day whip up this soup that is inspired from a classic with same great flavors but healthier than any takeout. This soup is made quick…

Pillows ( Pasta)

My wife called this creation Pillows. They are a square type of pasta, very tasty and chewy. Can be used in soups, sauces, etc. Try adding 1…

Meatball Stew

Simple quick, weeknight supper.

Creamy Zucchini, Ham & Pasta

Low calorie, low fat - this saucy one dish meal is a comfort food unto its own yet one which won’t break your New Year’s resolution goals! Each…