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Easy Cabbage Soup

Easy Cabbage Soup

My cabbage soup is so easy to make, absolutely anyone can make this healthy, beneficial, cancer-protecting soup. Start-to-finish: less than 20 minutes!

Quick & Easy Chocolate Cake

Quick & Easy Chocolate Cake

👍 This is the easiest cake recipe ever! 👍 One bowl. No mixer. No eggs, and only butter in the frosting. For a butter-free glaze, see Baking Without Butter.

One Bowl Lemon Brownies

One Bowl Lemon Brownies

Everyone is loving this easy recipe. One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Use all-purpose or whole wheat pastry flour – it’s a super easy recipe with minimal cleanup. 🍋🍋

Easy One Bowl Yellow Cake

Easy One Bowl Yellow Cake

With this simple recipe everything goes in one bowl for a faster, healthier cake. It’s low in sugar and made without butter. Try it with my 2-minute frosting.

Easy Salmon Patties

Salmon Patties

Canned salmon makes a quick and healthy dinner. I make patties with red pepper, parsley, onion, and fresh whole wheat bread crumbs. (15 MINUTES)

Fast Pizza Dough

20-Minute Pizza Dough

Want delicious homemade pizza? 🍕 Want it fast? ⏰ This quick and easy pizza dough, made from scratch, is ready to use in less than (20 MINUTES).

Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes

Spaghetti With Cherry Tomatoes

It takes less than 20 minutes to make this simple vegetarian dinner with fresh tomatoes 🍅 & broccoli 🥦 and it all (including the spaghetti) cooks in one pan. (18 MINUTES)

Quick & Easy Cucumber Salad

Quick & Easy Cucumber Salad

This cool, refreshing salad is as easy as it gets. It’s just cucumbers and onion, with vinegar, sugar, and salt. It’s best with unpeeled organic Persian cucumbers.

Easy Whole Wheat Apple Cake

Simple Apple Cake

One bowl. No mixer. No butter. Super Easy. Anyone can make this easy light cake, made with 3 cups of apples! 🍏🍏🍏 It’s not too sweet, perfect as an apple coffee cake.

Crispy Top Oatmeal Bars

Crispy Top Oatmeal Bars

These oatmeal bars have dark chocolate chunks inside with a crispy broiled coconut pecan topping. Make it with all purpose or whole wheat pastry flour.

Quick & Easy Vanilla Cake

Quick & Easy Vanilla Cake

This simple one bowl cake uses no eggs and takes just 5 minute to put together. It’s moist & light and so easy, anyone can make it. It’s super easy. 😋

2-Minute Vanilla Frosting

2-Minute Vanilla Frosting

NEW: Make the easiest and fastest vanilla frosting ever with this easy recipe. I only use 2 tablespoons of butter for the fastest possible delicious homemade frosting.

Haluski Cabbage & Noodles

Haluski Cabbage & Noodles

This is simple Polish comfort food you can make in 20 minutes. Cabbage and onions are fried and mixed with egg noodles. Try my sauerkraut version. (20 MINUTES)

Rice with Brussels Sprouts

Rice with Brussels Sprouts

Rice makes a good vehicle for adding healthy Brussels sprouts to your diet in this simple side dish that’s ready in 30 minutes.

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars

Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Bars

These chewy bars are full of dark chocolate, toasted pecans, oats and whole wheat pastry flour – no white flour, no butter. Gotta love that!

Plain & Simple Roast Chicken

Plain & Simple Roast Chicken

They call it Blasted Chicken because you roast it at very high heat for a short time and the result is foolproof – tender and moist chicken every time.

Easy Christmas Pecan Balls

Easy Christmas Pecan Balls (Snowballs)

This recipe is so easy, anyone can make homemade snowball cookies. Everything in one bowl, mix, refrigerate, shape, and bake. Everyone will ask for the recipe! 🎄

Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies

Dark Chocolate Fudge Brownies

This is intense. You start with a 70% cacao dark chocolate bar and add even more cocoa for a moist & fudgy brownie made without butter. It’s a really easy recipe.

Angel Hair Casserole

Angel Hair Casserole

So simple. You’ll need only seven ingredients to make this easy casserole with lean ground beef, mushrooms, and cheddar cheese. It’s the perfect family dinner.

Easy One Bowl Coconut Cake

Easy One Bowl Coconut Cake

This variation on my easy yellow cake is just as simple. It’s a coconut lover’s dream, topped with a coconut cream cheese frosting and it’s all made without butter.

5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo

5-Minute Fettuccini Alfredo

There is no heavy cream or butter in my smooth and rich-tasting Alfredo sauce. Start your pasta first because this easy recipe takes only (5 MINUTES).

2-Minute Chocolate Frosting

It only takes two tablespoons of butter and two minutes to make this impossibly easy and delicious chocolate frosting. Try it on my easy yellow cake.

Quick Mac & Cheese

Quick Mac & Cheese

Twenty minutes! Four ingredients! That’s all it takes to make this creamy, delicious, low-fat mac & cheese made with 1% milk and reduced fat cheddar. Yummm! (20 MINUTES)

Easy Meat Sauce

Simple Meat Sauce

You’ll barely have time to cook some spaghetti and make a salad with this quick and easy meat sauce using lean ground beef and canned tomatoes. (30 MINUTES)

Fast Rice & Beans

Fast Rice & Beans

All you need is two cans and a box of rice, some onions and garlic, and you have a quick and healthy dinner with rice, beans and fire-roasted chiles. (25 MINUTES)

Easy Peanut Butter Cookies

GF – Here’s why you will LOVE this easy recipe: One bowl. No flour. No butter. No mixer. No shaping. It’s the easiest cookies you will ever make. And they’re gluten free.

Whole Wheat Brownies

Whole Wheat Brownies

These healthier chocolate brownies have no butter! My quick & easy recipe uses olive oil, yogurt, whole wheat flour, toasted nuts & dark chocolate chunks.

simple broiled salmon

Simple Broiled Salmon

All you need is a lemon, some oil, and salt & pepper to make this delicious salmon – and there’s no cleanup! It’s the easiest, healthiest dinner you can make. (15 MINUTES)

Lemon Herb Chicken Breast

Lemon Herb Chicken Breast

This is the easiest and tastiest way I know to cook boneless, skinless chicken breasts. I baste them with a sauce of fresh lemon juice, olive oil, garlic & herbs. (35 MINUTES)

Easy Home made Granola

Easy Homemade Granola

My simple granola recipe is hugely popular, probably because it’s so easy. Combine everything right in the pan and bake. Done.

Fresh Tomato Salsa

You’ll never have enough of this authentic Mexican pico de gallo. It takes just ten minutes to make this fresh salsa and that’s about how long it’ll last!

Salmon Sandwich

This whole grain salmon sandwich is healthy enough to have for dinner, and may be the easiest one you’ll ever make. It’s just salmon & light mayo. (10 MINUTES)

Turkey Breakfast Patties

It only takes four ingredients to make these easy turkey breakfast patties. My simple recipe uses ground turkey, apple, sage, and thyme and takes just minutes to make.

Homemade croutons

How To Make Croutons

Simple recipe for fresh homemade croutons made with chunks of ciabatta bread, olive oil, salt & pepper. Start-to-finish: 25 minutes. So easy!

Simple Egg Salad

It’s my simple, low fat egg salad but you can start with mine add more stuff if you like. Try an egg salad sandwich on whole grain bread with lettuce & tomato for breakfast. Yum!

15 Minute Veggie Pasta

15 Minute Veggie Pasta

Make your pasta count! By adding superfoods like broccoli and spinach, your pasta is now full of anti-aging health benefits. Make it all in one pan. (15 MINUTES)

Easy Custard Pudding

Custard Pudding

This simple 4-ingredient recipe makes creamy, delicious custard – it’s one of my favorite desserts. Make this easy pudding from scratch in 15 minutes.

3-Hour Bread & Butter Pickles

Easy Bread & Butter Pickles

Ready to eat in 3 hours! Crisp & tangy, sweet & salty, super easy refrigerator pickles. Everything in one pot, marinate, eat.

Quick & Easy Spaghetti Sauce

Only 5 ingredients make a fast & delicious sauce for your spaghetti & meatballs or chicken parm. Super easy with canned tomatoes and fresh basil. (20 MINUTES)

Easy Coconut Macaroons

Easy Coconut Macaroons

GF – With only 4 ingredients, anyone can make these easy, chewy cookies. You don’t need a mixer – just 2 forks. (It’s my choc-dipped macaroons without the chocolate.)

Simple Garlic Bread

It’s easy to make fresh garlic bread at home in less than 10 minutes. Bake under a broiler or in a toaster oven for a delicious golden top and crispy edges.

Black Bean Quesadilla

This healthy quesadilla takes just minutes to make, uses reduced fat cheese, calcium-rich black beans, and healthier, whole wheat tortillas. (15 MINUTES)

Roasted Vegetables

Roasted Vegetables

Even amateur cooks can’t mess up this easy recipe. Step 1 – Put vegetables on pan. Step 2 – Add oil, salt & pepper. Step 3 – Put in oven. That’s it! Done… and Delicious!

Easy Recipe Rice Pudding

Rice Pudding

My homemade rice pudding recipe uses just 5 ingredients and cooks in 30 minutes. Make it with short or long grain rice.

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