Summer recipes with 500 or fewer calories

Marinated Roasted Pepper Canape

The pepper mixture can be made ahead of time.

Sausage-Bacon-Apricot Kabobs

Seafood Canape

Tzatziki

Tzatziki is traditionally served as an appetizer and can be left on the table as an accompaniment to foods throughout the meal. The key to great…

Brownies to Die For

Rich, gooey and totally yummy!

Vanilla Tea Cake… the name says it all!

I had to make a smaller cake, I decided to use the recipe of ‘Classic Yellow Cake’, which I have borrowed from…

Strawberry Almond Foldovers

Strawberry Almond Foldovers is an interesting recipe, just as its name suggests, in that the dough of these foldovers is salty while the filling is…

Butter Cookies

A few months back, I saw butter cookies recipe on my favorite blog and when I went through it, the recipe looked quite simple. And since I truly…

Pan Bagnat

Literally translated to "Bathed Bread"

Macadamia and Semi-Dried Tomato Pesto - "The Australian Macadamia Society"

It doesn’t get much easier than this delicious pesto. This version from…

Gluten Free Pumpkin Cornbread

I modified my mother-in-law’s beloved cornbread recipe to create this. The pumpkin gives the gluten free-flours a moisture and spring, and the lemon…

Cream Cheese Raspberry Muffins

Carrot Cake Sandwich Cookies

*Using shortening instead of butter produces a thicker more ‘cake-like’ cookie. Don’t use margarine or butter substitutes!

Greek Lasagna

One of our favorites

Steamed Longevity Butterfly Prawns

I found these beautiful butterfly prawns at a coffee shop & went home to experiment cutting & decorating it…