American recipes with 300 or fewer calories costing less than $3.0 per serving added by professional chefs

Pineapple Rice with Green Soybeans

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

Banana Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Mini Cakes

Mini-cakes with oatmeal, buttermilk, bananas and mini-chocolate chips......what’s not to like here? These make…

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…

Crunchy Jelly-Stuffed French-Toast

French Toast is actually better if you use slightly dry or stale bread, as it soaks up the flavorful egg batter…

Chocolate Dreams

Applesauce Raisin Cookies

Ranch Beer Cheese Dip

Make a day ahead for best flavor and serve with bagel chips, melba toast, or pretzels.

Layered Pumpkin Pudding Pie (easily converts to a lighter version)

A change-of-pace pumpkin pie recipe for the holidays with the bonus - it…

American Chicken Salad

Chocolate Butter Pecans

Kale with Kalamata Olives

Kale is hearty and healthy, and often teams in winter soups with potatoes and beans. But in this recipe, based on Deborah Madison’s Vegetarian…

Buttermilk Pancakes with Whole Wheat & Orange

This recipe uses half all purpose and half whole grain flour - my choice for the whole grain is white whole…

S’mores Snowballs (a no-cook confection)

This is a variation of Graham Cracker Snowballs and one way to get your “s’mores fix” any time of the year!…

Banana and Granola Muffins

You can have breakfast in a muffin with your choice of ingredients. Make these with walnuts, almonds or pecans; select raisins, dried cranberries or…

FRYING BACON THE BEST WAY

I KNOW I PUT THIS ONE ON BEFORE BUT I DIDN'T EXPLAIN IT VERY WELL.SOME PEOPLE PUT THEM IN DRINKS SOME PUT CHO. OR KIDS LOVE IT THAT WAY.